[4] From the time of Perry's birth until he was eighteen, his father was bishop of their LDS ward in Logan.

[5] While in training Perry attended church and activities at the Adams Ward in Los Angeles.

While in Nagasaki, Perry coordinated a group of Marines to help rebuild a local Protestant church.

In addition to his mission to the Northern States, Perry served as an LDS group leader while on Saipan.

In early 1963, after moving to Scarsdale, New York, Perry was called simultaneously as a member of the New York Stake's high council, stake mission president, and special assistant to the president of the church's Eastern States Mission.

In these assignments, he worked with Bernard P. Brockbank and Wilburn C. West in overseeing the creation and implementation of the LDS Church's pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

This made Perry one of the most senior officials of the church ever to be stationed away from Salt Lake City.

While serving in this capacity, Perry initiated a more proactive institute program that emphasized meeting the social and intellectual needs of young single adult church members.

In 2015, he met with Barack Obama and other LDS Church leaders at a meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

[19] Perry was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery, next to his first wife, Virginia and his daughter, Barbara.