Matthew Perkins
August 29, 1977 ~ January 22, 2023
Matthew Robert Perkins, 45, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, graduated this life to enter his heavenly home on January 22, 2023. Family and friends will gather for a Celebration of Life Service at 1 p.m. on Saturday, January 28, 2023, at River of Life Church, Cedar Rapids, with a luncheon following at the church.
Matthew was born on August 29, 1977, the son of William and Pamela (Nemeth) Perkins. Matthew worked in sales at Office Max and volunteered at the food pantry at the River of Life Church with his dad. When he was hired at Office Max, he made sure he would not work on Wednesdays, so he was able to give back to the community. When Matthew was working the food pantry, he would greet everyone with a huge smile. Matthew enjoyed the relationships and conversations he shared with all the families every week.
Matthew was a friend to many who knew him. He was caring, compassionate, funny, talented, optimistic, an inspiration, and an encourager of those hurting.
Survivors include his parents, Bill and Pam; brother, Joshua (Jamie) Perkins; nieces, Sophia and Payton; aunts and uncles, John Nemeth, Michael Chamberlain, Jennifer (Kenneth) Cloud, Barbara Myers, and Richard (Pauline) Perkins; Michelle Green, who was like a sister to Matthew; and many more loving family members.
Matthew was reunited in death with his grandparents, and uncle, Rick Chamberlain.
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Sorry for your loss. Miss all of you and Nicole and I will say a prayer for the family. Matthew is and was a great friend and man.
Love – Chad and Nicole, Jada and Leo Mcclure
i want to tell bill.pam.and josh and rest of the family my heart goes out to you all i will be praying for you
may god keep you all in his loving arms
Matthew’s family,
We want you to know that Matthew will be missed. He was such a positive shining light at the store. He was always positive and had the best attitude. Everyone loved being around him. He was always willing to help out in any way needed. He loved showing us his latest photo work he was creating and telling us about the drone learning he was doing. He loved his family very much. Always telling us stories of his nieces and how he enjoyed spending time with you all! He will be missed tremendously. Your family is in our thoughts and prayers.
Matthew’s Office Max family
Matthew was a pleasure to work with and an inspiration to always be positive. He greeted everyone with a true warmth and caring. He will be very missed at Office Max. Prayers of comfort to Matt’s family & friends that knew him.
We have known Bill and Pam,Matt and his brother Josh, scince they were toddlers, our three boys grew up with them.There were a lot of fun memories .What we will miss about Matt, is his kindness, his laugh, his being there for people,and his love for his family. We will also miss picking him up and going to church with us. He had a great talent with photography and videos,We will miss him showing us his creations that he did.He was a great freind and a Brother in Christ who will be truly missed,Praying for Bill, Pam , and Josh and family.
Love, Geirun and Linda
It said to share “a” memory…..how would I pick out just one? It’s been such a life span of memories from dressing Matt up as a girl when he was little and also chasing him around with snakes we found in the woods at Bali Hai. To hanging out and going to the clubs in our twenties and having a blast to being roommates and fighting and just living life. Matt was a very passionate person. He loved his friends and family and could also be stubborn as a mule. There was never any love loss even in the times of fighting. There are some people you just love unconditionally and even if it’s from afar the love is always there. Just like Gods love for us. Matthew loved the Lord and loved helping people. His laughter was contagious and he loved being a jokester! I’ll always remember how he helped me through my divorce and took me along side of him and introduced me to all of his friends that are still friends and some are still like family to this day! It’s sad to be a human right now, but it’s a good day to be a believer.
Bless those who mourn, eternal God, with the comfort of your love that they may face each new day with hope and the certainty that nothing can destroy the good that has been given. May their memories become joyful, their days enriched with friendship, and their lives encircled by your love.
Bill, Pam, Josh & family,
My heart goes out to you all for the loss of Matt. He was such a fun and caring man. I am grateful to have enjoyed several years of his friendship. Wishing you all comfort and peace during this very difficult time. I will continue to keep each of you in my thoughts and prayers.
My Heart Goes out to Bill, Pam,Josh and his Beautiful family and I am very Glad I was able to be Friends with Matthew from Childhood and still today have Great Memories of Matthew from the time we Rhode Bikes all the way across Cedar Rapids too all the picnics my family would go on with his family and it Just hurts Because You were my Best Childhood Friend and I will Miss you on Line Brother In Christ. GOD Bless the Perkins Family.
Bill and Pam, my heart goes out to you in the loss of Matt, but I know that God will be with you everyday to give you comfort. Please know that I will keep you both and Matt in my prayers,
With love,
Helen (Hurley) Dimmer
Dear Bill and Pam and Josh,
I am so sorry to hear of the loss of your beloved son Matt..
My thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of sorrow….
It has been awhile since we talked but my love is with you now…and always.
Kathi,Kat Anderson Johnson
Mat and I have been friends for a great number of years his loss hits hard and I pray for his family
Bill, Pam, Josh and family,,
I am saddened to hear about Matt. I just stop and think how I had seen him with his brother and Mom out at the Mall when he was young. A child gone before the parents is sad. We don’t have all the answers of why. We have God to turn to in the difficult times. I pray you are comforted in your sadness. May God have mercy on your family and pour out His love to you. My older brother passed away last week.
With love to your family
From the Sun family
Judy
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Anna
Meimee
Matthew was my big brother by 4 years and I always looked up to him at a young age. He always had the cooler older friends and many beautiful girls who I wanted nothing more to do than to hang out with him and his older group of friends. I looked up to him so much. Yes I was that annoying younger brother but as it turned out later in life he admitted that he looked up to me. Matthew had so much potential and was so darn smart when it came to anything electronics or anything that he put his mind too. It killed me not to speak at his celebration of Life because anyone that knows me knows that I love too talk. It’s been very tough on me even though I know that he’s in heaven with our beautiful creator and our Lord God and our Saviour probably having a blast at this very moment. My heart aches while I await mine turn to be called home but until then I will do everything that I can to honor Matthew’s life of 45 years young and all the good that he had done and not ponder about anything of the bad. Only good memories I will hold onto now and how he seemed to love and touch so many lives good or bad but even when bad at times he was still loved by so many who truly understood him and his shock value mouth at times but knew that he was still very much a kid at heart. I was and am so very grateful that our Lord God gave us Matthew back into our lives for the additional 5 to 6 years that was truly a huge blessing from God getting to know the true and sober Matthew. To see Matthew love with his whole heart my wife and I’s beautiful twin daughters whom he adored and spoiled every chance that he got. Anyway, I literally could go on and on but I have in the past but I have to again thank him for introducing me to my gorgeous wife Jamie and for all the good memories and laughter and love that he showed my family especially these last 5 to 6 years. It was the first time that we really ever told each other love you when leaving and it was so awesome getting closer to him the last couple of years. This is not goodbye but rather that I will see you again big brother and that I will always cherish the good times and I love you and I miss you but hopefully you’ll save me a seat up their for when I too graduate this life into my next life. I Love you always Matthew Robert Perkins.
-Your younger brother,
Joshua Michael Perkins