Louise "Liz" Irene (Perry) Grayson

Louise (“Liz”) Irene Perry Grayson, 81, died on April 24, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada, during a short hospitalization after a fall in her Desert Shores home. Born in St. Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1944 to Luther Copeland Perry and Eva Ruth Hopkins Perry, she grew up there with her older brother Jerry Copeland Perry (predeceased) and younger sister Carol Sue Perry Blonstein (of Las Vegas). Survivors include her husband, Glenn, her sister, her niece Jennifer Perry of Cabin John, MD, her nephew Bradford Perry of Farmers Branch, Texas, her nephews Jason, Justin and Jordan of Illinois, and their children.

She graduated from St. Louis public schools, then attended and received her teaching certificate as a graduate of Northeast Missouri State Teachers College in Kirksville, Missouri. She lived briefly in Chicago, Illinois and Port Hueneme, California before moving to Dallas, Texas in 1977. There she met and married Glenn Edward Grayson, the City of Richardson’s traffic engineer.

They were secretly married by the Rockwall (TX) County Judge at the courthouse on Nov. 17, 1978 and spent their first married night in Hot Springs, Arkansas. A not-small church wedding in Richardson, Texas followed on July 7, 1979. At her insistence, in order to make the church wedding more special, nearly all persons attending (siblings on both sides included) were kept uninformed about their courthouse marriage 7 months earlier.

She spent many years in the car rental business, even owning a Budget franchise location in Denton, Texas for several years. She and Glenn relocated to Las Vegas in 1990. She held several office manager positions for small businesses, before permanently retiring in 1998.

On a shopping mall trip with a visiting niece in 2002, she stepped into a pet store, saw and immediately fell hard-and-totally in love with their first dog, a Shih Tzu puppy they named Duchess of Perry Glen. Thus began a life-long love affair with, now, their 6th and 7th pups.

The Perry family had a decades-long tradition of a big Christmas gathering at her Mom’s house, and Liz took that over in 1985 when her mother accepted passing the torch. The large, many-days-long annual family gatherings in the Grayson household (first in Texas and then Nevada) have also now come to an end with Liz’s passing, but her loving dedication to family and traditions will live on in the next generation.

A Memorial Service will be held at Palm Mortuary - Cheyenne, 7400 West Cheyenne Avenue, Las Vegas, NV 89129, US, on May 4, 2026, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm.