for the disease. The treatment was thought to have been successful, but in early 1998 Perk and his family learned that the cancer had not only returned but had spread. Perk's children spent a year caring for their father at home. Five days before his death, Perk was admitted to the Corinthian Skilled Nursing Center in Westlake, Ohio. He died there on April 21, 1999. He was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brook Park, Ohio. References External links The Life & Times of Ralph J. Perk, Cleveland Memory Project (Cleveland State University) 1914 births 1999 deaths Mayors of Cleveland American people of Czech descent Republican Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives Cleveland City Council members 20th-century American politicians