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Perry
Funeral Home, Inc.
the funeral home. Roy eventually became
Our History a part owner along with George.
Roy Solace was born in Baggs, Wyoming
Perry Funeral Home was started in 1825 (1938). He had never left his small town in
outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The the middle of nowhere until he joined the
funeral home was started by the Perry US army and ventured away from his rural
Family and as did most funeral homes, community. He ended up at Perry Funeral
really came into use in the 1860’s during Home after becoming a licensed funeral
the Civil War. This is the same time that director and became part owner along with
Americans became familiar with the George Perry. Roy was extremely active in
process of embalming. Embalming was the funeral business and lived above the
used to preserve a soldier’s remains for funeral home for many years.
the journey back to their hometown if they
unfortunately died during the war. George and Roy operated the funeral
home together for many years until as
Eventually Mr. John Perry moved his family they were both getting on in years and
to Lynbrook, NY. He and his wife operated needed to make succession plans for the
the funeral home until their son George future. They had two men working for
L. Perry was born (1930) in the upstairs of them and they asked both of them to buy
the funeral home that served as the Perry into the funeral home. Kenneth Lysak Jr
residence in Lynbrook. George Perry and Philip M. Taglia have been with the
was very involved in the local community, Perry Funeral Home since 1989 serving as
serving in the East Rockaway funeral directors/embalmers. They were
Fire Department, also as basically background staff that really did
East Rockaway most of the running around and all of the
Village Trustee embalming. Ken and Phil were thankful for
and various the opportunity and jumped at their offer.
other civic In 2002 everything was made official and
and religious they began their journey to ownership of
organizations. George Perry Perry Funeral Home. George and Roy both
George served 1930–2017 began to take a backseat and allowed Ken
in the US Army in Korea before
Roy Solace and Phil to become more involved in the
1938–2016
joining his father in the family day to day operations of the funeral home.
business. George operated the funeral
home until he eventually partnered up with Roy Solace remained with the funeral home
his associate Roy Solace an employee of in an advisory capacity until his passing in
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