David Lester Perrin Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Services for David Lester Perrin, 57, of Lubbock will be at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, October 17, 2015 at Vandelia Church of Christ with Doug Hale officiating. Burial will follow at Peaceful Gardens Memorial Park. David’s family will receive friends from 6:30-8:00 p.m. Friday at Sanders Funeral Home. David completed his journey to healing and met his Lord and Savior on October 12, 2015. David was born in Henrietta, Texas on July 18, 1958 to Lester Ray Perrin and Lois Elaine Wythe Perrin. He moved with his family to Lubbock in 1959 where his parents began teaching at Lubbock Christian College. David was educated in Lubbock Christian Schools, Bowie Elementary and McKenzie Junior High School, and graduated from LCU in 1980. He married his soul mate Dawn Celeste Kelly on December 30, 1978 in La Junta, Colorado at the 10th and Cimarron Church of Christ. After one year working for EDS in Ft. Worth, he moved back to Lubbock and worked at Compu–Share/nQativ for the last 34 years. David attended the Men’s Walk to Emmaus #20 in January 1998 and served as Lay Director of Men’s Walk #53 at Mercy Center in Slaton on April, 2004 one of the 14 walks in which he was directly involved. He was an Elder at Westmont Christian Church from 1998 to 2001. David loved to sing and was a capable worship leader. David prayer-walked the Monterey Park Neighborhood for many years. Loved ones include his wife of 37 years and two sons, Kelly John Perrin and wife, Joy Marie Gregg Perrin and David Eli Perrin, all of Lubbock; siblings, Doug Perrin and wife, Dana, Emily Rider, Tim Perrin and wife, Lucy, Mark Perrin and wife, Becky, one grandson, mother-in-law, Hazel Kelly-LeMond, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and many friends. Memorials are suggested to the David Perrin Memorial Scholarship c/o Lubbock Christian University or to the Pilgrim Scholarship Fund Llano Estacado Emmaus Community P.O. Box 744 Slaton, TX 79364-0744. David shared his faith with everyone he encountered in his life; he believed he was blessed during his illness with very special caregivers in our health care community; David inherited a love for the St. Louis Cardinals from his father, which he enthusiastically passed on to his family.

David Lester Perrin

July 18, 1958 - October 12, 2015