After a three-year-long battle with Alzheimer's disease, Corr died in a nursing home in Goosnargh in June 2001, aged 77.
Corr played Gaelic football as a youth for his local club Seán O'Mahony's and his home county of Louth.
At the age of 20 he won a prestigious Leinster Senior Football Championship medal when Louth beat Laois in the 1943 provincial final, scoring 1-08 from his left half-forward position.
His teammates at the club included fellow Irish internationals Peter Farrell, Tommy Eglington and Alex Stevenson, and future Everton manager Harry Catterick.
He then opened Corr's Hardware Shop on Sharoe Green Lane with his wife, Doreen Melling, whom he had married in 1947.
Peter Corr worked as a scout for Everton and in 1967 helped persuade Howard Kendall to move from Preston N.E.