Tena M. (Abbas) PETERS
PETERS, CHRISTIANS, ABBAS, MILLER, LESTER, SWYTER, VELDHOUSE, TRENARY
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/21/2008 at 10:13:52
Tena M. Peters, 1904-2005
Tena M. Peters, 101, of Kanawha, died on Tuesday, April 19, 2005, at the Kanawha Community Home. Funeral services were held on Saturday, April 23, at the Kanawha Christian Reformed Church. The Rev. Steve Schulz officiated. Music was provided by Marilyn DeKruyff who accompanied soloist, Marvin Engh and congregational hymns. John Eekhoff and Howard Jutting ushered. Casket bearers were Troy Miller, Scott Lester, David Abbas, Larry Abbas, Wayne Abbas and Marvin Trenary. Burial was in the Amsterdam Township Cemetery. The Ewing Dugger Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.
Tena, the daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Christians) Abbas, was born on February 13, 1904, on the family farm near Kanawha. She attended school in Kanawha and graduated from the Kanawha High School in 1922. She attended Normal Training School in Iowa Falls. Tena was employed for three years as a bookkeeper for the Klemme Lumber Company in Kanawha. On February 22, 1925, Tena Abbas was united in marriage with John H. Peters at the Kanawha Christian Reformed Church Parsonage, by Rev. D. L. Plesscher. The couple made their home and farmed near Kanawha until 1951 when they retired and moved into Kanawha. Tena was a member of the Kanawha Christian Reformed Church, where she was a member of the Ladies Aid and a Sunday School Teacher for many years.
Survivors include her son, Harry and his wife, JoAnn of Kanawha; three grandsons, Roger Peters and his wife, Marilyn of Woodbury, Minnesota, Russell Peters and his wife, Julie of Kanawha, Richard Peters and his wife, Margaret of Tampa, Florida; four great-grandchildren, MeLeah Miller and her husband, Troy, Dan, Jonathan and Nathan Peters; great-granddaughter, Jasmine Lester and her husband, Scott; and two great-great-grandchildren. Survivors also include one brother, Clarence Abbas and his wife, Vera of Kanawha; sister-in-law, Alice Abbas of Kanawha; and brother-in-law, Gerald Swyter of Kanawha. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, John in 1992; four brothers, Fred, Chris, Anno and George; three sisters, Grace Veldhouse, Faye Swyter and Bena Trenary.
April 27, 2005
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