McNone Nelson Perry, 90-year-old Provo resident, passed away September 2, 1991 at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center of a heart condition and related causes.

She recently celebrated her 90th birthday and her marriage of 69 years. She was born in Cedar City on September 21, 1901, the sixth daughter and seventh child of Bengt and Sarah Catherine Hunter Nelson, Jr. She grew up in Cedar City, attending local schools and graduated from the Branch Agricultural College (BAC).

She married Leland M. Perry, also born in Cedar City, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on September 7, 1922. She taught school in Parowan and was a substitute teacher in the Provo City School District.

McNone's father was a farmer, rancher and school teacher. He operated a farm in Cedar Valley and a ranch on the west slopes of the Black Hill on Cedar Mountain. With a scarcity of boys in the family, the girls had to don bib overalls and do the work. She loved to ride horses and was good at it.

She was an artist and did some commendable work in water color and oils. She loved to sing and was active with her husband and singing groups in school and all of her life.

She was a charter member of the Chauntenetts, a popular women's chorus which was organized and directed by her husband for many years. In Cedar City and later, she enjoyed the annual presentation of Handel's MESSIAH, and had much of it memorized.

She served as president of the YESHERAH Woman's Missionary Organization and as president of UTAH SOROSIS.

McNone was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints all her life. She served as Sunday School teacher, as Relief Society president in a large ward in Provo during the War. She served in the BYU Third Stake Relief Society presidency for ten years.

After they had been married three years, and with no children, they were called as missionaries to the Mexican Mission where they served in El Paso and San Antonio, Texas from 1925-27.

They returned in December, 1927 with McNone expecting their first child, who was born April 1, 1928. They had their "Mission Dividend".

Leland was appointed superintendent of Buildings and Grounds and as director of the Physical Plant Department at BYU where he served for 12 years.

In 1958 they were called to preside over a new mission, the West Spanish American Mission, along the Mexican Border.

Survivors include her husband, Leland Perry, Provo; three children, Leland Malin Perry [BYH Class of 1946], Provo; Yolanda Perry Carle, Provo and John Russell Perry, Salt Lake City; 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Services were held in Provo and Cedar City. Interment, Cedar City Cemetery. [Deseret News, Wednesday, December 4, 1991]

Leland Malin Perry passed away Thursday, December 16, 1999, at the age of 98, in Provo, Utah. Leland lived a long and very productive life. He was a lifelong civil engineer and designed and supervised many construction projects for the federal government including roads, water projects, and buildings.

He was City Manager of Cedar City, Utah, when only 27 years old. Soon after World War II began, he was the project engineer as Geneva Steel was being built in Provo.

He also supervised the development of temporary housing on the BYU campus, called Wymount Village, in 1947 using war surplus frame buildings.

Soon afterward he became the superintendent of the physical plant for the school. He took the facilities of a fledgling operation, which had been using part-time students, to a professionally run organization, laying the groundwork for the growth and development that the institution became today.

Through his imagination and knowledge, Leland conceived and supervised the updating of the BYU heating system from inefficient steam to much more cost-effective high temperature water.

His sweetheart, McNone Nelson Perry, preceded him in death in 1991 at the age of 90. They have three children: Malin [BYH Class of 1946], Yolanda, and Russell; 13 grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren.

Leland had many interests. He founded radio station KSUB in Cedar City, Utah, in 1937. He also was in the Civil Air Patrol as a communications officer and taught radio operations.

He was a member of the Provo Lions Club. He organized and then directed the Chantenettes Ladies Chorus for a number of years in Provo.

He was the bishop of the Cedar City Second Ward, served in two stake presidencies and on several high councils for the LDS Church. He was a member and associate conductor of the Mendelssohn Men's Chorus in Provo for many years.

Leland and McNone served LDS missions in Mexico about 1926. In the middle of his 26 years of service in the LDS Church school system, Leland served as the mission president of the Western Spanish American Mission in Los Angeles beginning in the fall of 1957.

Services for Leland were held in Provo on Tuesday, December 21, 1999. A memorial service was also held in Cedar City on Thursday, December 23, 1999. Interment, Cedar City Cemetery. [Deseret News, Monday, December 20, 1999.]