Early Life
Derrell grew up in this Utah town that will always be home
What is “Vernal, Utah”?
What animal dragged grandpa across the pasture in Bacus?
What is a cow?
Derrell served his mission in this mission area headquartered in Minneapolis.
What is the North Central States Mission?
Derrell graduated from Uintah High School in this year.
What is 1954
His lifelong friend and Army buddy.
Who is George Alexander?
Derrell was born in this relative’s white-framed house on West Main Street.
Who is Aunt Zina Searl?
As a boy, he broke his arm when a cousin cranked him up on one of these in the slaughterhouse.
What is a gambrel (meat hoist)?
His mission included parts of these U.S. states and one Canadian province.
What are Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Manitoba?
After his mission, he attended these three Utah colleges before transferring to BYU.
What are Carbon College, the University of Utah, and Utah State University?
The names of his parents.
Who are Myron Duncan Perry and Mary Belle Batty Perry?
He was the youngest of five children and known in his family by this nickname.
What is “babe”?
His dad fixed his broken arm with these simple materials instead of a doctor’s visit.
What are two boards and cloth strips?
His bishop encouraged him—twice!—to make this his goal.
What is to serve a mission?
He earned his degree in this field at BYU in 1965.
What is industrial arts education?
He was stationed in Berlin, Germany, with this branch of the military.
What is the United States Army
His father, Myron, earned extra money by selling this dairy product.
What is “Milk”?
He once got “peeled off” his horse by this painful obstacle.
What is a barbed wire fence?
He became known as the perfect example of this type of church service companion.
What is a home teacher?
His first major construction job was helping build this Utah dam.
What is Flaming Gorge Dam?
He was this age when he joined the military.
What is 19 years old?
As a boy, Derrell learned this messy skill—though sometimes the cows kicked or stepped in the bucket.
What is “milking cows by hand”?
After falling from a front-end loader bucket, this part of his body had to be reset by the doctor.
What is his nose?
Derrell was this age when he left to serve his mission.
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He worked as a skilled carpenter on these types of large-scale projects in Arizona.
What are airports, schools, and freeway bridges (like Sky Harbor and Mountain View High)?
He was this age when he got married
What is 33 years old?