[14] When she was fifteen years old, her father died by a heart attack and her mother moved her and her younger brother back to Auburn.

Lallah had been homeschooled up to this point but enrolled in Auburn High School and graduated at the age of sixteen.

While he was serving in the Navy during the Second World War, she enrolled at Alabama Polytechnic Institute and graduated at the age of nineteen with a degree in commercial arts.

She married Dick Perry in December 1943 and, after graduation, moved with him to his hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi where they started a family.

She continued painting and began to attend the early days of the Mississippi Art Colony at Allison's Wells.

[2] Artists who trained with Lallah Perry, or who have noted her influence on their work, include Millie Howell,[24] Lurline Eddy Slaughter,[25] Duff Dorrough,[26] and Amy Giust.