Harmon Perry, 80, former Jet Atlanta Bureau Editor, dies.(Journalism)(Obituary)

From: Jet | Date: December 22, 2003 | Copyright information

Services were held recently in Atlanta for Harmon Perry, award winning photojournalist and former Atlanta Bureau editor for JET Magazine. Perry, 80, succumbed to heart failure at Roswell Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in the city.

Perry served as JET's Atlanta Bureau editor from 1973 to 1981; he directed its editorial coverage in Atlanta and throughout the South.

An alumnus of Morris Brown College, Perry began his career as a photojournalist in 1954 with the Atlanta Daily World newspaper. He served until 1968 when he joined the Atlanta Journal as its first ...

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