Mrs. May Ella Perry

PERRY, Mrs. May Ella - Age 79, passed away Sunday, May 26, 2024 at her residence. Family hour 10:00 AM Saturday, June 8, 2024 from the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, 906 W. Flint Park Blvd., with funeral service commencing at 11:00 AM. Pastor Kevlin Jones, officiating. Interment River Rest Cemetery, G4413 Flushing Road. Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the chapel 10:00 AM Saturday. Mrs. Perry will lie in state in the chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home and may be viewed Friday, June 7, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM. May Ella Perry was born February 11, 1945 in Lake, Mississippi, the daughter of Oscar and Katherine (Goodlow) Jones. They moved to Flint, Michigan in 1948 where she was three years old. May attended Flint Public Schools where she was with the graduation class of 1963. She was enrolled in the Nursing Program at Mott college which she left when she hired into General Motors Corporation. May became a Foster Parent for the State of Michigan in 1991. She was also a Licensed Cosmetologist and owned her own salon. May retired from Ontegra Brighton where they unionized under Local #599. She was the first elected Chairperson of Brighton, a position she was very proud of. May also was the first President of the Seneca Street Block Club. She loved to bring people together, she always said that with her family you have be inclusive because there is no line as to who was related to who or how we are all a blended family. May truly believed if you were not inclusive you are not family oriented. She also kept up with the new births so that everyone knew when there was a new member in the group and who they belonged to. May loved to cook for her family and taught them how to cook from scratch. Her children and nieces even if it were on the phone, she would be talking you through it while she was watching TV. Then she would call you back to see if it turned out right and would tell you what you did wrong and be right. Being the good listener that she was she believed if you had the education and knowledge, you would always use you GOD given sense to do what was the best for you. May was an avid reader, loved sitting on her porch watching her grandchildren play. May Ella Perry leaves to mourn her passing: daughter, Damika Perry; son, Perrin Perry, both of Flint; 4 grandchildren, Monishia Perry, Me’on Perry, Derika Perry and Allen Perry; 4 great-grandchildren, Nakiyah Glover, Jai’Laun Perry, Jahsir Granberry and DaMarcus Guise Jr.; also, her other children, Katherine Miller, Andre (Kelly) Miller, Sherrod Miller, Tauteece Miller, Meon Stubbs, Letisha Miller, Timothy Abdul-Matin, Tamia Farmer, Chauncey and Me’Aira Bryant; 3 sisters, Angela (Carlos) Lindsey of Las Vegas, NV, Dr. Eleshea Gray of Stockbridge, GA and Kamisha (Jerome) Flaggs of Dallas, TX; 4 brothers, Kennedy Wimberly of San Diego, CA, Oscar Thomas Jones, Hameed Jones and Kareem Jones, all of Dallas, TX; uncle, Joe Louis Jones of Flint; aunt, Hilton Gordon of Vicksburg, MS; several nieces and nephews including special niece, Debra Cummings; god-daughter, Dorothy Stubbs; a host of other relatives and friends including dear-friends, Debra LaCour, Ruby Spears and the Perry family. May was preceded in death by her husband, Douglas Perry; son, Derek Garnell Jones; father, Oscar (Hanefah) Jones; mother, Katherine (Edward) Carr; sisters, Gladys (Leon) Stubbs, Delrita Smith and Emma Jones; brothers, AJ “Sonny” Jones, Kevin Rashad, Terry Smith and Kurt Jones; niece, Veronica Miller; nephews, Leon Stubbs III, Dale Miller and Jalen Jones; sister-in-law, Warner Jean (Peter) Leslie. The family would like to express special thanks to The Hospice Care Team, Nurse Ted, Hurley Medical Center Nursing staff, Ronetta Burney, Debra Cummings, Kayla Williams and Meon Stubbs.

Mrs. May Ella Perry

February 11, 1945 - May 26, 2024