PECK, Myron King III, 22 Nov. 1911 - 22 Apr. 1998.
PECK, Harriet Hill Pursley, 6 Jan 1914 - 13 Nov. 2012. (w/o Myron King Peck III.)
Mrs Harriet Pursley Peck, age 98, widow of Myron King Peck III, & resident of Barrow Court, passed away on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at NHC HealthCare, Columbia.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 A.M. Saturday, November 24, 2012 at St. Peter's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Richard Zalesak officiating.
Burial will be in St. John's Churchyard, Ashwood.
The family will visit with friends Friday, November 23, 2012 from 5:00 � 8:00 P.M. at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to St. John's Episcopal Church, 1116 West Seventh Street, PMB75, Columbia, TN 38401.
Mrs. Peck was born at Amqui, a suburb of Nashville, on January 6, 1914, to Edward Vance Pursley and Inez Hill Pursley. Her mother died when she was young, and she was reared, in large part, by her aunt and uncle, Alice and Hardin Ragland.
She graduated from Nashville's Hume-Fogg High School and attended Middle Tennessee State Teachers' College (now MTSU) in Murfreesboro.
On November 5, 1933, she married Myron Peck of Franklin & they started married life in Williamson County, surviving the Great Depression by hard work, ingenuity, and family ties.
In 1938 they moved to Columbia, where Mr Peck was employed by Monsanto Company. He died in 1998.
Mrs Peck was an Episcopalian & will be remembered for her broad range of cultural interests and especially for her devotion to family and friends.
Survivors include one daughter Mrs Alice Butcher of Columbia; three sons Myron K Peck IV of St Louis MO & Edward V (Sandra) Peck of Ellensburg WA, & Matthew J Peck of Lewisburg; 3 grandsons Myron K (Kristine) Peck V of St Louis MO, Bruce Q (Michelle) Peck of Sacramento CA & Hardin T (Alison) Butcher of Yonkers NY; & six great-grandchildren Myron K Peck VI, Tyler M Peck, William J Peck & Katherine L Peck, all of St Louis MO, & Annabelle B Peck & Olivia Q Peck, both of Sacramento CA.
Active pallbearers will be Myron K Peck V, Bruce Q Peck, Hardin T Butcher, George D Rozelle, Carl H Walker III, Bob Duncan and John L Stephens. Honorary pallbearers will be friends and neighbors of Barrow Court.
Obituaries sent by Mary Bob Richardson 28 Jul 2016
