Jimmy Don Perritt

Jimmy Don Perritt
Jimmy Don Perritt, 74, of Port Arthur, Texas, passed away on June 5, 2018, in Beaumont.

Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m., Friday, June 8, 2018, at United Pentecostal Church in Bridge City. Officiating will be Reverend John W. Harrell and Reverend Ted Buxton. Burial will follow at Green Lawn Cemetery in Groves.

Visitation will be at 5:00 p.m., Thursday, June 7, 2018, at United Pentecostal Church in Bridge City.

Born in Port Arthur, Texas, on October 31, 1943, he was the son of Olan Perritt and Ruth O’Neal. Jimmy loved hot rods as a teenager. Jimmy proudly served his country in the Air National Guard beginning in 1965 and later retired from the Coast Guard in 1988. He was a very hard worker. He worked at the Port Arthur Fire Department, went on to work at Jefferson Chemical in 1965, and later retired from Huntsman in 2000. He then started a new career at CBH Marine Services in Orange, where he worked for 10 years. He was a longstanding member of United Pentecostal Church, where he was an usher, and he was dearly loved by his church family. Jimmy was very talented musician, who played piano by ear, played bass guitar at church, and could play any horn instrument. He will be dearly missed by all those who came to know and love him.

He was preceded in death by his father, Olan Perritt; mother and step-father, Ruth and John Broussard; beloved grandparents, Otis and Myrtie O’Neal; niece, Shawn Marie Ramon; father-in-law, Bobby Long; and Pa and Nanny Long.

He is survived by his loving wife, Charlotte Perritt of Port Arthur; mother-in-law, Kathleen Tweedel of Beaumont; son, Glenn Perritt and wife Mellissa of Orange; daughter, Julie Perritt Diakos and husband Paul of Jacksonville, Florida; grandchildren, Frank Salmon, Captain Robert Perritt, Jr. and wife Kelsey, Jacob Perritt and Maddie, Jenna Golden and husband Zachary, Christian Diakos, Kyle Diakos, and Jenna Leonards and husband Blaise; great-grandchildren, Ayden Perritt, Brendan Salmon, Reagan Perritt, Jaydon Perritt, Karsin Hall, Laykin Perritt, Zachary Golden II, Arya Perritt, Leighton Granger, Easton Leonards, and Preston Leonards; sisters, Linda McAdams of Groves, and Debbie Spiris of Channelview; and brother, David Broussard of Nederland.

Serving as pallbearers will be Frank Salmon, Captain Robert Perritt, Jacob Perritt, Christian Diakos, Josh Tweedel, Keith Ainsworth, and Carl Hottendorf. Honorary pallbearers are Randy Holston, Dennis King, and his 11 great-grandchildren.