Louise Perret

Obituary—Louise H. Perret

Louise H. Perret May 1, 1943 - December 8, 2025

Louise H. Perret, 82, passed away peacefully on December 8, 2025 after courageously battling cancer for over a year.

Born on May 1, 1943, in Miami, Florida to Marie-Louise and Edmund J. Perret, Louise spent her childhood in Miami, New Orleans, Mobile, Alabama, and Rome, New York. She was predeceased by her parents, her brother, Edmund J. Perret II, and her cherished infant, Ashley L. Meikle, who lived for only one week in July, 1980.

A 1965 graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, Louise began her career with Eastern Airlines in Atlanta, a job that fueled her lifelong love of travel. Louise enthusiastically explored the world, and her wanderlust carried her as far as Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, multiple African and South American countries, Japan and much of Europe, until eventually meeting her first husband, John Meikle, while traveling in Austria.

As newlyweds, John and Louise briefly managed an exclusive country club in the Caribbean before eventually planting roots and raising children in Rye, NY, an idyllic enclave and suburb of New York City.

After a short time teaching pre-school, Louise decided to enter the credit union industry, managing branches with such meticulous care that her members frequently singled her out for praise. Amazingly, Louise committed the account numbers for almost all of her members to memory and reveled in helping members finance the things in life that mattered most to them: college tuitions, a child’s first car, or early retirement. Louise worked hard to make her members’ dreams and financial security a reality. It was her way of caring for them.

Whether at work or in her personal time, Louise found meaning and joy in life from connecting with and helping others. Louise gave generously of her time and heart wherever she lived and dedicated much of her personal time to furthering various peace and social justice causes. Louise’s community was always expanding, whether through teaching English as a Second Language, staying active in Al-Anon, volunteering at the library, or attending A Course in Miracles meetings, in which she found great spiritual guidance and inspiration.

In January, 2002, Louise married her wonderful, loving and devoted husband Ted Stock, with whom she would spend the next twenty-three years. They were a team, complementing each other in so many ways, always loving and always caring. In 2019, the couple moved to Easthampton, MA where Louise quickly built a rich circle of friends who enveloped her with love and companionship. She had a beautiful habit of telling everyone she loved them: family, friends, and even strangers with whom she had passing exchanges. Her compassion and love for all inspired countless others to speak those words more freely. Louise believed that the greatest lesson every person has to learn in this life is how to treat all others with loving kindness and she embodied that sentiment in all that she did.

Louise is survived by her devoted husband, Ted Stock, her beloved children, Bradford Meikle, of Amsterdam, Holland, and Sarah Meikle and Alec Meikle of Greenfield, MA. She also is survived by her precious grandchildren: Jack, Nicholas, and Gigi Meikle, of Amsterdam; her much loved stepdaughters, Catherine and Elizabeth Stock; her sister, Yvonne M. Perret, and husband, Louis Van Hollen, of Cumberland, MD, and multiple extended family members who live in New Orleans, LA, Texas, Florida, California, and France.

Louise’s generous spirit, radiant smile, and unwavering commitment to expressing love and cherishing others will be profoundly missed and forever remembered.

A memorial celebration for Louise will be held at the Country Club of Greenfield in Greenfield, Massachusetts on Saturday, December 13 from 12-4 p.m with eulogies and service at 2pm.

There will be no burial ceremony. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Save the Children, 501 Kings Highway East, Suite 400, Fairfield, CT 06825, www.savethechildren.org

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