PECK, Morris Earl 1918-1952

PECK, GRELL, STRAYER

Posted By: Merikay Mestad (email)
Date: 8/21/2009 at 09:42:29

Morris Earl Peck, 33, of 313 Polk street, was pronounced dead upon arrival at Schoitz Memorial hospital at 9:45 p.m. Friday. Death was caused by a heart disease.
He was born Dec. 5, 1918, in Waterloo, the son of Ray [sic] and Ethel Peck. He married Charlotte M. Grell in Missouri in 1945.
Mr. Peck had been employed as a route man for the Johnson Farms dairy.
Except for service in the navy during World war II and short employment in Ft. Dodge, ia., and Vancouver, B. C., he had made his home in Waterloo all his life.
Surviving are his wife, at home; mother, Mrs. Ethel Strayer, 940 Burton avenue; two sons, Jerry Melvin and Ben Francis; two daughters, Linda Moureen and Jacqueline Roberta, and one brother, Harold, Vancouver.
He was preceded in death by one son, father and step-father.
The body was taken to Kearns Garden chapel where funeral arrangements are pending.
-- “Morris Earl Peck,” Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa (Sunday 6 Jan 1952