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Ruth Peak (1982)

PEAK, MCMICHAEL

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 5/2/2006 at 14:05:52

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 29, 1982

RUTH PEAK, Winterset

Services for Ruth Peak, 85, lifetime resident of Madison County who died Dec. 26, 1982, at the Madison County Memorial Hospital, were held Wednesday, Dec. 29, at 1:30 p.m. at the Collins Funeral Home with the Rev. Ray Richardson officiating. Burial was in the Winterset Cemetery.

She was born in Scott township June 15, 1897, the daughter of Elza and Sarah McMichael Peak. She worked in a locker in Macksburg with her brother Hugh and was a cook at the Macksburg School.

She attended the Grace Baptist Church and was a member of the Hawthorne Rebekah Lodge of Macksburg, the Holliwell Happy Hour Club, an honorary member of the Hoosier Prairie Club, and active in the hospital guild, crocheting baby afghans until her illness.

There are no survivors. She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, Frank, Ralph, Bruce and Hugh; a half brother, George A. Breeding; a sister, Martha Peak Perry; and two half-sisters, Lula Breeding James and Eller Breeding Holmes.

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