The Columbus Dispatch, (OH)
April 22, 2005PERLEY Ward Barton Perley III, beloved husband, father and grandfather, lost his battle with cancer and departed this earth on April 19, 2005. Born on January 1, 1925 in Detroit, Mich. to Ward Barton and Josephine (Allworth) Perley, he was the first of two sons.
Ward spent his early years in the Dublin area, growing up in the home that had once belonged to his great-grandparents.
He met his wife, Phyllis (Edwards) in the 6th grade and they were married on April 21, 1945. From this marriage were born three children, Ward Barton Perley IV (Chip), Mary Jo and Sandy.
A graduate of Ohio State University and a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, Ward served as State Army MARS (Military Affiliate Radio System) Director for Ohio (call sign AAT5MR) and enjoyed his time on air with his many friends all over the country. Ward loved nature and spending time in his garden, was an avid motorcyclist and bicyclist, and loved to work with his hands.
Those left behind to grieve his passing include his wife, Phyllis (Edwards) Perley; son and daughter-in-law, Chip and Linda (Robinson) Perley, Colfax, Calif.; daughter and son-in-law, Mary Jo Perley and Donald Lehman, Highland Village, Tex.; and daughter, Sandy Perley, Columbia, Mo.; along with grandchildren, Christiana (Michael) Brogan, Boerne, Tex., Sarah Lehman, Christopher Lehman, Lewisville, Tex., Lori (Todd) Stamps, Scott (Gina) Robinson; 6 great-grandchildren; brother, David Perley, Columbus; sister-in-law, Frances Murray, Westerville; along with many nieces and nephews.
74830. George Butler Storer Jr.
The Miami Herald (FL)
July 13, 2007George Butler Storer Jr., the cable-television pioneer and aviation executive whose innovations made it harder to steal cable service and easier to fly from Miami to the Northeast, died of congestive heart failure at Mount Sinai Medical Center Saturday, said his wife, Violet Dunker Storer. He was 81.
As president from 1961-65 of Miami Beach-based Storer Broadcasting Co., he guided the company into the cable age.
An electrical engineer, he invented the first cable anti-theft "trap," the prototype of which remains at the Storers' Surfside apartment.
He was born in Toledo, Ohio, two years before his father, George B. Storer Sr., and his father's brother-in-law, J. Harold Ryan, founded Storer Broadcasting in 1927 with a single radio station.
He later attended the University of Colorado, served in the U.S. Navy and ran Storer stations in Atlanta and San Antonio.
He moved to Miami in 1954 as vice president of the television division.
The company was "always looking for other opportunities" for expansion because one company could own only seven television and seven radio licenses at a time, said Storer's older son, George B. "Hap" Storer III. (One of the latter was Miami's WGBS, George B. Storer's initials.)
The company got into Community Antenna Television (CATV), "with an antenna high on a hill that fed [a signal] through cables to the houses," said Hap, 56, whose mother, Joan Stanton, was his father's first wife.
The company sold for about $2 billion in a 1985 leveraged buyout.
By then it was known as Storer Communications, with 1.5 million subscribers.
Her husband's real love was aviation, said Violet Storer.
After Storer Broadcasting bought the financially troubled Northeast Airlines from Howard Hughes in 1965, Storer became board chairman, moved to Boston and created Northeast's "Yellowbird" campaign: yellow-and-white Boeing 727s, flight attendants in yellow and green hotpants, the "Fly Northeast Yellowbirds To . . ." slogan.
"We were so glad to see him come," recalls Capt. Robert Mudge of Massachusetts, a retired Northeast and Delta pilot whose 1969 book, Adventures of a Yellowbird; The Biography of an Airline (Brandon Press), credits the Storers with modernizing the fleet and expanding the routes.
"George Storer was a blessing," Mudge said. "He saved the airline."
At least for awhile. Northeast merged with Delta in 1972.
During his tenure at Northeast, the airline won the right to compete head-to-head with National and Eastern airlines on the Miami/New York/New England routes.
Northeast had only temporary authorization to fly the routes, said Hap Storer, a Connecticut banker.
It was "turned down time and time again" for full authorization, he said.
"There was a major [lobbying] campaign by Northeast employees," which succeeded.
An open-ocean racer, fisherman and sport shooter, Storer moved to California in the 1970s and founded Storer Yacht, which modified sailing yachts for West Coast racing.
Ted Turner, a business peer and sailing buddy, called him "a great yachtsman and a terrific person" in an e-mail.
Hap said the men had a running gag: exchanging a bottle of scotch that could only be opened by the one who beat the other twice in a row. It never was, he said.
Storer returned to Miami in 1976 with his second wife, now Barbara Storer Rubin, and son David, starting several ventures that includes Miami Voice Corp., which made voicemail equipment.
Father and son developed a passion for radio-controlled model airplanes, which they built by the dozen in a house across the street from the Surfside apartment, said David Storer of Fort Lauderdale.
He now teaches people to fly the planes at Markham Park in Sunrise.
His father made his plane from scratch, in a workshop filled with woodworking and electrical tools, said Storer, 37.
"His mind was a beautiful thing. He was a walking calculator."
He was also a romantic. After an ill-fated two-year marriage to his third wife, Claire Theresa Traendly, Storer met Violet at the Surf Club, where he was a regular at the bridge tables and bar.
On their first date in February 1985, he asked if she'd have time off in April.
While she ducked into the powder room, he had the piano player begin April in Paris, which she realized was an invitation.
They married at the Surf Club, then honeymooned in Paris. In April.
Beside his wife and sons, Storer is survived by brothers James, Peter and Robert Storer, and four grandchildren.
The Blade (Toledo, OH)
November 12, 2009Peter Storer, a onetime executive at WSPD television who became chief executive of the pioneering broadcast firm founded in Toledo by his father, died Sunday in his Saratoga, Wyo., home from complications of cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. He was 81.
A Toledo native, Mr. Storer was appointed managing director of WSPD-TV - now WTVG-TV, Channel 13 - in January, 1959, by station vice president Allen L. Haid.
By then, Mr. Storer had held various jobs for stations in Detroit, New York, Birmingham, Ala., Atlanta, Miami, and Cleveland, all part of Storer Broadcasting Co., headed by his father, George B. Storer. He'd also worked for CBS Radio.
"I remember him well," said Frank Venner, longtime news anchor for WSPD-TV. "I thought he was a very interesting guy. I think he was a good administrator. He was a very, very good manager.
"He had a good presence of mind," said Mr. Venner, who began at WSPD in 1949. "He had learned so much of the broadcasting field from his father, George, Sr., and was a remarkable guy in terms of the open-door policy. Anybody could come in his office and see him. He didn't play high-hat, although he certainly could have because, of course, the Storer name was large."
Wherever he lived or worked, Toledo was his home base, his son, Peter, Jr., said, and he visited the Toledo stations periodically when he ran Storer.
"It's where the company started, and he was born there," his son said. "He always had a fond memory of Toledo and the time we spent there."
Storer Broadcasting - at first, the Fort Industry Co. - grew out of his father's purchase in 1927 of a low-watt radio station, WTAL, which went on the air in 1921. The call letters were changed to WSPD, because the family sold Speedene gasoline at their service stations, and the wattage was boosted.
Storer holdings later included WJBK radio and, later, television, in Detroit and, at the time of the elder Mr. Storer's death in 1975, stations in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Cleveland, San Diego, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami - the firm's headquarters city for years - and New York City.
WSPD-TV went on the air in 1948, the first television station in Toledo.
Mr. Storer spent his earliest years on Robinwood Avenue in the Old West End. The family later moved to Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Because he lived nearby, he attended school at Cranbrook, but not did not board there. He attended the University of Michigan and was a graduate of the University of Miami.
In 1960, Mr. Storer moved to New York and started Storer Television Sales, which worked to persuade national advertisers to buy ads on any combination of Storer stations.
In 1967, he became Storer Broadcasting executive vice president. He was named CEO after his father died and, eventually, chairman. He emphasized expansion, especially into cable television. The firm eventually held cable franchises with more than 500 communities in eight states and became Storer Communications. "He was very proud of the legacy that his father had turned over to him," his son said.
Mr. Storer was a former board member of the National Association of Broadcasters and was in a television management hall of fame. He retired after a leveraged buyout of the firm in 1986 by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Storer then was the nation's fourth-largest multiple system cable operator with stock valued at $2 billion.
He was disappointed that the firm his father founded had been sold. "But he focused his energy in philanthropy," his son said. He became involved in the George B. Storer Foundation, which contributes to the YMCA Storer Camps, named for his grandfather, among other nonprofit causes.
He enjoyed fly-fishing and liked the West and the outdoors. His father had a Wyoming ranch for years, and he was a founding board member of the Wyoming Community Foundation and the Wyoming chapter of the Nature Conservancy. He was on the national board of Trout Unlimited.
"His wife, Ginny, was born in Miami and raised on the Keys and was an avid outdoorswoman," their son said. "The two of them, frankly, preferred to be out and about than in a corporate setting. They could have lived anywhere, but they chose to come back to his roots here in Saratoga and also had a house for years at Islamorada in the Keys."
He married the former Virginia "Ginny" Parker Oct. 19, 1951. She died Sept. 2, 2007.
Surviving are his son; Peter, Jr.; daughters, Leslie Smith, Elizabeth Storer, and Linda Anderson; brothers, Jim and Robert Storer; four granddaughters, and four stepgrandchildren.
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (Cheyenne, WY)
September 6, 2007Virginia Parker Storer, 77, of Saratoga died Sept. 2 at her home.
Ginny was born Feb. 14, 1930, in Miami but has been a resident of Wyoming since 1986. She was an avid outdoorswoman, an expert shot and an accomplished fly fisherman. She was a published author of articles on fishing. She was also active in the Saratoga community raising funds for the Saratoga Museum and the Arts Council. Ginny was a member of the Old Baldy Club.
Ginny is survived by her husband, Peter; her four children, Peter Storer Jr., Leslie Smith, Elizabeth Storer, and Linda Anderson, also of Saratoga. She also is survived by six grandchildren, Megan and Lindsay Smith, Kim and Kelly Storer, Jennifer Anderson (resident of Cheyenne) and Adrienne Anderson Reese who has two children, Jonah and Lucas.
Internment at the Saratoga Cemetery.
Wilmette Life (IL)
June 16, 2005Anne H. (nee Hemenway) Dowd, 80, formerly of Evanston and Wilmette, died June 6 in Mercer Island, Wash.
Mrs. Dowd was born July 8, 1924 in Evanston. She graduated from Evanston Township High School and earned a bachelor degree from Wells College in Aurora, N.Y. She attended Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School and worked at Northwestern Technological Institute from 1946 to 1951. She married Merle Dowd in 1949. In 1956 the family moved to Birmingham, Mich. then to Mercer Island, Wash. in 1957.
Survivors include her husband, Merle; four sons, Jerry of Bellevue, Wash., Stephen of Mercer Island, Wash., Richard of Mercer Island, Wash. and Timothy of Seattle, Wash.; four grandchildren, Analeise of Bellevue, Wash., Laura Diane of Mercer Island, Wash., Caitlin of Mercer Island, Wash. and Teal of Seattle of Wash.
December 11, 2010
When Merle Dowd lost his job along with thousands of other workers in the Boeing bust, he reinvented himself, starting a personal-finance column for The Seattle Times in 1970.
Mr. Dowd, who also wrote a string of financial how-to books, practiced what he preached, saving money for the good things in life by doing much of his own car maintenance and home repair and overseeing construction of his family's house on Mercer Island.
He didn't mind it when friends teased him about his frugality, recalled Jim Marich, a friend of 50 years. "I buy a new car every 20 years, whether I need it or not," Mr. Dowd sometimes said.
Mr. Dowd, who authored some 20 books on personal finance and other subjects, died Dec. 1 at the Covenant Shores retirement community on Mercer Island following a prolonged period of declining health. He was 92.
"He showed the way in Seattle for somebody to take questions from investors and provide them answers. He was a local pioneer in doing this," said Richard Buck, a former Seattle Times reporter who wrote an advice column after Mr. Dowd.
Mr. Dowd's "Money Talk" column ran from 1970 to 1991.
His financial-advice books some put out by major publishers, others self-published included "Wall Street Made Simple," "Estate Planning Made Simple" and "How to Live Better and Spend 20% Less."
Steve Dowd, one of his four sons, recalled that when his father once visited his house in Redmond and saw him replacing his car's shock absorbers, Mr. Dowd insisted on replacing his own shocks so they could avoid renting a tool twice.
"He wanted to save money, but not be a tightwad. It was: 'Save your money. Spend it wisely. Do the work you can yourself,' " Steve Dowd said. Mr. Dowd made sure his sons knew how to fix their cars and do home repairs.
Not one to be pigeonholed as strictly a financial guy, Mr. Dowd also co-authored, with Frances Call, "The Practical Book of Bicycling" and, with Archie and Joyce Satterfield, "The Seattle Guidebook."
In his later years, he turned to writing fiction, self-publishing for friends and family a novel about a transcontinental model-railroad race between two billionaires. "He had a lot of common sense but also a great imagination," Buck said.
Born in Wellington, Kan., in 1918, Mr. Dowd saw his parents grow vegetables and take in boarders as he was growing up during the Great Depression. He sold newspapers and magazines in the train station where his father worked.
He dropped out of Kansas State College in order to support his mother and younger brother after his father died. He later enrolled at Northwestern University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA, and met his future wife, Anne Hemenway.
Mr. Dowd worked for the Ford Motor Co. in Michigan before he was hired by Boeing and the family moved in 1957 to Mercer Island.
Mr. Dowd wrote proposals for projects including the supersonic transport, a program whose cancellation by the federal government threw the company into a tailspin.
He was treasurer for his sons' Boy Scout troop and program chairman for the Rotary Club of Mercer Island, to which he belonged for 38 years.
Travels took Mr. Dowd and his wife to a range of destinations, including Western Europe, Russia, China, Antarctica and the Galápagos Islands.
"He had sort of a gruff exterior," Marich said. "On first meeting him, you might say, "Whoo, I don't know how I would get along with this guy.' But he had a twinkle in his eye, and much of the stuff he was doing was just to pull your chain a little bit. Underneath he was a sweetheart of a guy."
Anne Dowd died in 2005, and their son Richard in 2006. Mr. Dowd is survived by his brother, Verlin, and his wife, Betty, of Federal Way; sons Jerry, of Bellevue, Steve and his wife Debbie, of Cle Elum, and Tim and his wife Janet, of Seattle; daughter-in-law Sue Hall Dowd, of Mercer Island; and four grandchildren.
Warrenville Press (IL)
July 23, 2009Patricia B. Budgell, nee Boardman, age 81, formerly of Danvers, MA, born June 2, 1928, passed away July 20, 2009.
She was a telephone operator with AT&T for over 40 years.
Survivors include her children David T. Budgell, Susan L. Gates, Debra B. Hancock, Jeffrey N.(Susana) Budgell; 8 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; sister Judy Butler.
Preceded in death by her husband Allston Budgell.
Interment Maple Grove Cemetery, Danvers, MA.
The Salem News (Beverly, MA)
June 22, 2015MYRTLE BEACH, SC: Gregory Congley, 87, passed peacefully at his home in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on June 12, 2015. He was a graduate of BHS, a WWII veteran, and was employed at GTE Sylvania for many years. He had lived in Beverly, Mass., with his wife and family, before moving to Myrtle Beach.
He was predeceased by his loving wife of 57 years, Marcia (Fife) Congley.
He leaves behind three children, Gary Congley and his partner, Sarah Murch, Glenn Congley and his wife, Pamela, and Laurie Congley and her partner, Herbie Robinson. He is also survived by several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and a great-great-grandchild. He leave brothers and a sister, Roger Congley, Vincent Congley and Kay Paoletta.
Always caring and asking about others, Greg made a lot of friends and was loved by many.
He enjoyed cheering for his Boston sports teams, playing Bocce, cards, and watching his favorite TV show, "The Voice."
LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT
October-15-1946Hereford Berry, 75 of 3765 Linden Avenue, died yesterday in a local hospital. He was born in Gloucester, MA. He came to Long Beach in 1907. He was a graduate, and a member of the alumni of the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, and was a retired mechanical engineer.
He is survived by a son, Hereford Berry, and a daughter, Mrs. Frances Hoffman of Long Beach.
GILES M. BERRY
(I believe from family naming history that his middle name was Miner after his mother's surname)Notes on Find-a-Grave
Giles (b.14 Mar 1896) North Andover, Essex Co. Massachusetts. was the 1st of 3 children of Hereford Berry and Minnie J. Frances Miner.
Giles was named for his maternal Grandmother Lydia Giles Tucker's family of Gloucester, MA
His sibling were Hereford Berry Jr. b. 1899, NY and Frances Miner Berry b.1908 Long Beach, Los Angeles Co., California.
Giles married in 1928, to Geraldine Louise Larson b. 1909 Cheyenne, Laramie Co. Wyoming
They had two children, Barbara Jean Berry and Gerald Giles Berry both in Los Angeles Co. CA
His death occurred (16 Jun 1935) as a result of an auto accident caused by a drunk driver on Figuroa and 59th place, in Los Angeles.
His wife, Geraldine, remarried and had three additional children.