VIOLET M. MCPEAK

Memorial service for Violet M. McPeak, 96, of Rusk, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, at Thompson Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Rob Godwin and Wilbur Chancey officiating.

Mrs. McPeak died Jan. 15. She was born Jan. 20, 1910, in Saltsburg, Pa. to the late Calvin M. Miller and Blanche McPhilimey Miller. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in food and nutrition from Muskingum College in 1931. In 1941 she earned her second Bachelor of Science degree in household economics from Margaret Morrison Carnegie College. She served in the Armed Forces as a 1st Lieutenant from 1943-45, stationed in England as a hospital dietician. She attended graduate school in 1946 at Simmons College, where she received her degree in diagnostic laboratory science. In 1947 she received her certification as a Registered Medical Technologist from Faulkner Hospital in Boston, Mass.

In 1948 she and her husband, Dr. Edgar M. McPeak, founded South Texas Cardiovascular Clinic in Houston, where she worked as a Registered Medical Technologist and dietician. In 1962 Dr. and Mrs. McPeak moved to Rusk, where they established McPeak Springlake Ranch. She was an original founder of Texas Therapy and Companion Pets and a life member of the Retired Officers Association.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Dr. McPeak; two brothers, Robert L. Miller and James W. Miller; and two sisters, Flora May Miller and Sara Miller Gould.

Survivors are a step-daughter, Evelyn McPeak Alvarez of Houston; four nieces, Janet Rhoads and Sally Mason, both of Salisury, Md., Carol Johnson of Grand Haven, Mich. and Marjorie Black of Winterpark, Fla; two nephews, James Miller of Williamsburg, Va. and Robert Miller of Springfield, Va.; greatnieces and great-nephews and friends.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of East Texas, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler 75701 or church of the donor's choice.