John Newton Perkins

After seven long years of Christmas without his beloved Joane, John was able to once again celebrate Christmas with her. He would have had it no other way.

John spent his early teenage years in Kimberly, Idaho, and then moved for high school to Twin Falls, Idaho. It was in Twin Falls that John and Joane first met.

John experienced WWII as a teenager and recalls vividly the dark days of Pearl Harbor, the fall of Corregidor, and Bataan in the Philippines. He looked to the time of WWII as the time he learned that he was capable of doing a man's work. He said, "the greatest feeling of all was that I was proud to be an American, that we were a free people, and we could do anything if we just put our minds to it."

John was in the Navy, and served on the USS Black during the Korean War. Much of John and Joane's courtship was via letters. They were married when he was on leave on August 27, 1953, in the Idaho Falls, Idaho LDS Temple.

John Newton Perkins always had great reverence in his life for Mothers. He spoke with love and reverence often, of the mother who gave him life, Lola Margarete Henry Perkins, and the grandmother who raised him, Olivette Webb Goe Henry. His great love for the mother of his children, Dorothy Joane Young Perkins, was evidenced in the way he treasured her. He loved his daughter-in-laws dearly and was grateful for the way they raised his grandchildren.

John is survived by his children: Steve, Gloria, Ken, AJ (Kim), David (Joanne), as well as 17 grandchildren and a growing number of great-grandchildren. He is preceded in death by his wife Joane, and son, Gerald (Donna).

A viewing will be held at Myers Mortuary, 250 N. Fairfield Rd, Layton, Utah from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday, December 29, 2015. A graveside service will take place in Twin Falls, Idaho on Saturday, January 2, 2016.