Perry W. Jones, 83, a retired electrical engineer for General Electric Co and a former Lansdale resident, died of a heart attack on Tuesday, June 5, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Savannah, Ga.
Mr. Jones retired in 1994 as manager of the GE Space Division's Satellite Battery Section in Valley Forge. He had lived in Bluffton, S.C., since moving from Lansdale in 2002.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Jones attended Lincoln University and then served in the Navy from 1952 to 1954, using funding from the G.I. Bill to earn a bachelor's degree in physics at what is now La Salle University in 1958.