SPANISH FORT, Ala. — Arthur Perez passed away on November 16, 2019. The 96-year-old resident of Spanish Fort, Alabama, was born June 3, 1923, in New Orleans. Son of the late Adrianna Vallada de Garcia and Antonio (AJ or Tony) Perez, Arthur Perez married Zoanne Hazen, a Detroit native, on April 12, 1950. They were married for 67 years.
He graduated from St. Stanislaus High School in St. Louis in 1942 and briefly attended Tulane University before entering the navy to become a TBM Avenger carrier pilot during the WWII effort. At the end of WWII, he moved to Michigan, where he was employed by Brunswick-Balke-Collender in the refrigeration division in Muskegon.