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In Memory Of Our Poets

James T. "Pie Boy Perry" Fowler (1920-2006) - Class Of 1940

FOWLER, James T. “Pie Boy Per­ry”, 86, a resident of Montgom­ery, AL, died Saturday, Decem­ber 17, 2006. Graveside serv­ices will be Tuesday, Decem­ber 19, 2006 at 11:00 AM in Greenwood Cemetery with Reverend Neal Hughes, Reve­rend Greg Murks and Dr. Pad­gett C. Cope officiating. A Cel­ebration of Life service will fol­low at 12:00 PM at McGehee Road Baptist Church. Mr. Fowl­er was owner of Perry & Williams Plumb­ing Company from 1972 until 1998. He was a Deacon at McGehee Road Baptist Church and he played football at Lan­ier from 1937 until 1940. He also managed and played with Montgomery city wide baseball and softball leagues. He is preceded in death by his wife Ruth Cope Fowler, his mother Mary John Sealy Fowler Perry, father John William Fowl­er, step-father Joseph N. Perry, daughter Lillian F. Bankston, sis­ters Dora F. Persons, Catherine F. Pinson, Mary Bell Perry and Maggie P. Bird and brother John W. Fowler. He is survived by two daughters, Barbara Hop­kins and Mary Eleanor Jefcoat, grandchildren Jamie A. Taylor (Earl), Seth H. Albritton, Jr “Han­k” (Lisa), William C. Jefcoat, Jr. “Will” (Sherry), Julie Anne Jef­coat, Barbara E, Hopkins “Bab­s” and Jason Lee Hopkins and great grandchildren Skylar and Celeigh Albritton, Chad and Michael Jefcoat, Brooklyn and Isaiah Hopkins and Breanna Kelsoe. Active pallbearers will be Seth H. Albritton, Jr. “Hank”, William C. Jefcoat, Jr “Will”, Ja­son Lee Hopkins, Earl Taylor, Rueben Cope, Jimmy Ray Cope, Rick Young and Fred Williamson. Honorary pallbear­ers will be the Deacons of McGehee Road Baptist Church, Former teammates of Lanier High school and the City baseball and Softball teams.  In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Boys and Girls Ranch, Montgomery Food Bank and McGehee Road Bap­tist Church. Visitation will be Tuesday morning at Leak-Memory Chapel from 10:00 AM until 11:00 AM.  Leak-Memory Chapel Directing
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Funeral Home: LEAK MEMORY CHAPEL
Publication Date: 12/19/2006