" Dear Mary, I would appreciate knowing if you receive this. Tim and I were friends in High School. I visited your home on several occasions and remember you and your Mother. I know she accomplished many things in her life and hope her last few years were not too difficult. I always wondered about the circumstances of Tim's death. So tragic. May God bless you and your family during this time. Gary Hudnall"
In loving memory of
Marie Elizabeth Peck
November 17, 1914 - April 2, 2001
Marie Peck CHICAGO, Illinois. #45;- Marie Elizabeth Peck, 86, formerly of Muscatine, died Monday, April 2, 2001, at the Imperial Nursing Home where she was residing. Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. The Rev. James Trosen of the Faith United Church of Christ will officiate. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. on Friday at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Macular Degeneration Foundation or the Timothy O. Peck Memorial Award Fund at the University of Iowa, which benefits students of Bettendorf High School. Mrs. Peck was born on Nov. 17, 1914, in Muscatine, the daughter of Dr. Martin and Ella Schwalm Bomke. She married Roy Peck of Muscatine in 1938. She graduated from Muscatine High School in 1932, and attended Ward Belmont College in Nashville, Tenn.; the University of Chicago; and she graduated from the Louisiana State University in 1936. From 1950 to 1959, they owned Peck Ford Sales in Muscatine. In 1962, Mrs. Peck received her master's in guidance and counseling from the University of Iowa while at the same time teaching English, journalism and social studies at the Nichols High School and later at Louisa-Muscatine High School. In 1963, she became a guidance counselor at Bettendorf High School, retiring in 1980. She was a founding member of the Muscatine General Hospital Auxiliary, a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, the King's Daughters and the Faith United Church of Christ in Muscatine. Following her retirement, she served on the board of directors for the Muscatine Art Center and the American Cancer Society. Survivors include her daughter, Mary Page and her husband, Chris, of Chicago, and two step-grandchildren, Michael Page and his wife, Barbara, and Christopher Page. She was preceded in death by her parents and one son, Timothy Otis Peck.