Paul Perryman

Paul Martin Perryman passed from this life on May 22, 2025, at the age of 100 in Claremore Veterans Center.

Paul was born on September 10, 1924, in Grovespring, Missouri. He was the son of Alfred D. and Dora E. (Dinwiddie) Perryman. Paul grew up and attended school at Pleasant Ridge School, in Lebanon, Missouri. Following his education, Paul enlisted in the Army Air Force in March of 1943, and served until 1946. On August 6, 1944 he was united in marriage to Mary Louise Fink, the love of his life, at Springdale Assembly of God during the Sunday morning worship service.

His honorable discharge shows his date of separation from the service as April 30, 1946. It also shows he received a WWII Victory Ribbon, Good Conduct Ribbon, American Theater Ribbon, EAME (European-African-Middle Eastern) Theater Ribbon with One Bronze Service Star, the Army of Occupation Ribbon (Germany), and the Combat Infantry Badge.

After separating from the US Army Air Force, he worked for the Tulsa Coffee Company, Tulsa Auto Hotel, and Service Pipeline Company. Though he completed only eight years of formal education, while working for Service Pipeline, Paul studied on his own, and passed the necessary qualifications to achieve the classification of First-Class Operating Engineer. He worked up through the ranks until, when he retired, he was the supervisor over all the maintenance workers and operating engineers in three skyscrapers in downtown Tulsa.

Survivors include his two sons, Martin Perryman and his wife Janice of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Donald Perryman and his wife Joyce of Prue, Oklahoma; three grandchildren, Jason Perryman and his wife Kim, Janette Maxwell and her husband Bill, Michelle Rice and her husband Raymond, five great-grandchildren, Shakota Perryman, Crosstyn Rice, Peter, Noah and is wife Anna, and Jonah McCutcheon, and great-great-grandchildren, Aela Taft, Ezekiel Butler, and Claire, David, and Emma McCutcheon, and numerous other relatives and friends.

In addition to his parents, Paul was preceded in death by his wife Mary Perryman, siblings, Glenn Perryman, Freeman Perryman, Richard Perryman, Lucellia J. “Lucy” Eller, and an infant great-granddaughter, Casey Maxwell.

The family wishes to express their appreciation to the staff of the V.A. Center in Claremore, Oklahoma, and the staff of the Rivercross Hospice for their compassionate care of Paul over the last several months.

In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Paul Perryman, to Prue Assembly of God, P.O. Box 220, Prue, Oklahoma 74060, would be appreciated.

Services will be held 10:30 am, at the Prue Assembly of God Church with Curtis Pettyjohn officiating. Burial will follow in the Prue Cemetery at Prue, Oklahoma. Chapman-Black Funeral Home will be handling the arrangements. Friends and family may visit an online guest book and memorial page for Paul at www.chapman-black.com.