Visitation, Services Set for Tom Perryman

TYLER — Funeral services for Tom Perryman will be on Saturday, January 20th, at 3:00pm at Stewart Family Funeral Home. Visitation will be just before that, from 1:00 till 3:00. KETK reports Perryman, a legendary East Texas radio personality, died at home Thursday with his wife of 71 years at his side. He was 90 years old. Perryman began his East Texas radio career in Jacksonville in the 1940s, He was responsible for bringing stars like Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Ray Price, and Johnny Cash to East Texas. In 2015, Tyler Mayor Martin Heines declared May 21 “Tom Perryman Day.”