Katherine Iola Perry-Zirlott

Katherine Iola Perry-Zirlott, passed away on October 26, 2025, from this world to glory at home

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, November 1, 2025, at First Baptist Church in Deweyville, Texas. Officiating will be Reverend Damon Bickham of First Baptist Church in Deweyville. Burial will follow at Deweyville Cemetery.

Visitation will begin prior to the service at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, November 1, 2025, at First Baptist Church in Deweyville, Texas.

Born in Orange, Texas, on December 12, 1932, she was the daughter of Isaac Perry and Alice Eugenia Petry-Perry. Kat worked at Equitable Bag Co. as an operator of bag machines and retired after 20 years. Kat was a believer in Christ and knew her name was in the book of life, she hoped everyone reading has their name in the Book of Life too, so she can reunite with you. Kat loved fireworks and watching them light up the night sky. She enjoyed a good, sweet watermelon, watching the Dallas Cowboys play, and spending her time working on a good puzzle. Kat was deeply loved and will be greatly missed by all those who had the honor of knowing and loving her.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Isaac Perry and Alice Eugenia Perty-Perry; sisters, Margret Peveto, Ruthie Brister, Gracie Bloomingdale, and Mary Morgan; daughters, Ruby Inez Zirlott and Kathy Ann Zirlott; granddaughter, Shan Lorean Zirlott; and great-grandson, Shohn Kenneth Zirlott.

She is survived by her five children, George “Ricky” Fredrick Zirlott, Jr. and wife, Gayla, of Little Cypress, Texas, James “Eddie” Edwin Zirlott and wife, Kathy, of Deweyville, Texas, Marvin “Bubba” Isaac Zirlott of Little Cypress, Sheila Gail Dans of Deweyville, Texas, and Sherlyn Ann Tilley and husband, Ronald Keith, of Atlanta, Texas; 12 grandchildren; 21 great grandchildren with one on the way; along with numerous other loving friends and family.

Serving as pallbearers will be Jeremy Zirlott, Derek Welch, Jeff Ewing, Steve Zani, Kyler Walton, Gavin Dodd, and Brandon Tubbleville. Honorary pallbearers will be Preston Ewing and Camden Walton.