Pearl Alice Terry

Pearl Alice (McCoy) Bacon Terry, 88, of La Grande, died Jan. 10 at Wildflower Lodge.

A funeral service will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at Bollman Funeral Home in Enterprise. Burial will follow at the Enterprise Cemetery.

Pearl was born July 29, 1920, to Austin Nelson and Ada Lois (Hamilton) McCoy. She attended grade school at the Chapman School in the Leap area, near the family farm. She graduated from Enterprise High School in 1938.

In 1940, she married Louis Bacon and moved to Walla Walla. In April 1944, shortly after her son, Gerald Bacon, was born, her husband died. During the war Pearl worked for the phone company in Walla Walla. Pearl later returned to Wallowa County and bought a farm in the Leap area.

Pearl married Wallace S. Terry in February 1948 in Enterprise. The couple had three sons. After their divorce, Pearl stayed at the ranch home where she lived until health problems forced her to move to Enterprise in the mid-1990s.

She also lived in Wallowa for a few years before moving into Wildflower Lodge in La Grande, where she spent the remaining years of her life.

She was a lifelong member of the South Fork Grange. She loved growing a garden and flowers and was an avid reader.

Pearl loved the ranch life and for years raised cattle, wheat and her boys.

Survivors include her sons, Gerald Bacon and his wife Lois, of Asotin, Wash., Doug Terry and his wife, Carol, of Enterprise, Glen Terry and his wife, Glenda, of Newman Lake, Wash., and Stan Terry and his wife, Vicki, of La Grande. She had nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her first husband, Louis Bacon; infant daughter, Marilyn Terry; six brothers, John, Willis, Lawrence, Elmer, Orrin "Jake", and Edwin McCoy; and a sister, Ada Faye Schaures.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to the South Fork Grange.

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