Margaret "Margie" Perkon

Margaret "Margie" Perkon passed away on October 26, 2026 after a brief but intense battle with lung cancer. She was born of her parents Theresa (Hinkle) and John "Jack" Sherman on May 12th, 1952, in Cleveland, Ohio. The fifth child of a large, loud, loving family of thirteen, Margie was strong willed, gregarious, and a natural born leader. After a family move to Jamestown, NY, she graduated high school and moved back to Cleveland with her best friend, worked hard, and met her husband Terry. They married on October 1st, 1983 in Cleveland and welcomed their first daughter, Alison, in February 1986 and second daughter, Jessica, in September 1987. After a move to Canton, MI in the fall of 1989, they completed their family with their third daughter, Kathleen, in May 1993.

Margie was very involved in her children's lives. Throughout their time at St. Raphael School in Garden City, she was head of the PTA, ran multiple fundraisers every year, and developed close friendships with the parents of her children's friends. She loved to play cards, watch movies, play Super Nintendo, and in later years, decorate her Holiday Tree for every new month. She was a formidable woman and raised three strong, independent daughters.

Margie was preceded in death by her father, Jack Sherman, her sister Mary, her brothers Lawrence and Martin, and in-laws Elsie Perkon, John Perkon, Myrna Perkon, Richard Todd, John Carpenter, and John Flynn. She is survived by her husband, Terry, her daughters Alison (Joanne), Jessica, and Kathleen, her son in law Benjamin Grix, her grandchildren, Connor and Stacy Grix, her mother, Theresa Sherman, her siblings Martha Todd, Dennis (Sue) Sherman, Marilyn Sherman, Maureen (Timothy) Alten, Kevin Sherman, Michelle Carpenter Flynn Sherman, and Monica (Dale) Dragony, plus dozens of beloved nieces and nephews, both grand and regular.