Dr. Constantine Pereyma Dr. Constantine Pereyma, 92, of Troy, Ohio, passed away at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday, March 21, 2012, at Upper Valley Medical Center, Troy. He was born on July 14, 1919, to the late Timothy and Sophia Kobanyi Pereyma, in his parents' home in the small village of Ropicia Ruska, now Ropicia Polska in the Carpathian Mountains of southern Poland. He was an ethnic Ukrainian from the Lemko region. As a young teenager he was sent away to school in the city and eventually entered the University of Cracow in the School of Physical Education. He was there when the Second World War began. He moved west to Munich in Bavaria, Germany and entered dental school. His name was found on a list in the pocket of a man and he was arrested and imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp. Later while in prison in Munich he was ordered to cut and replace glass shattered by Allied air raids. By the end of the war he was forced to defuse unexploded Allied bombs. After the war he completed his dental training and then enrolled in medical school in Erlangen, Germany, where he met his wife Armenia Aka. After medical school, they emigrated to the United States. He paid for their passage by working as a dentist aboard ship. He worked briefly in Buffalo, N.Y., and then entered medical residency at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. There he worked with Dr. Clarence Dennis on improvements to the heart/lung machine. After he completed a double residency, he worked briefly for the Veterans Administration and then moved to Troy with his wife and three children to join the practice of Dr. Kenneth Lowry. They arrived here in 1959 in a station wagon with little else. When he started practice in Troy, general surgery encompassed almost everything except the heart and brain. He performed many orthopedic surgeries, using some of the first orthopedic rods and nails. He performed many cancer operations. He took particular pride in doing what had not been done here before and in doing what others said could not be done. A barber once came to him with a problem that other doctors said was terminal. Dr. Pereyma told him otherwise, and the barber cut his hair once a week over the next 20 years. He was a 50-year member of the Ohio Medical Association, the Ukrainian Medical Association and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. Dr. Pereyma encouraged and supported his wife in her art. With his son, Marco, he was one of the founding shareholders of Troy Cable Television. He continued performing surgery until his retirement from practice in 1992. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Aka Klym Pereyma; a son and daughter-in-law, Marco and Agnes Pereyma of Binic, France; two daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Scott Farrara of North Haledon, N.J., and Christina and Robert O'Neal of Troy; grandchildren, Pauline, Marie/Anne Louis de Lespinay, Sophie, Constantine, Maximilien, Sophia, Jacqueline, Maire, Timothy and Helen; and great grandchildren Alexander, Irene, Eleanore and Vincent. In addition to his parents, Dr. Pereyma was preceded in death by his brothers, Myroslav and Eugene Pereyma, and his sister, Irene Stelen. A service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 24, 2012, at Baird Funeral Home, Troy, with interment to follow in Riverside Cemetery, Troy. Friends may call from 4-7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.