James Ansorge ---- Jack Peters
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Manning Monitor article------ 1943
Jack Peters at Farragut, Idaho
During the next few weeks he will be taught military discipline, the fundamentals of
seamanship, and will undergo thorough physical training. He will receive actual
experience with boats on beautiful Lake Pend Oreille, beside which Farragut is located. |
Services for John Jack William Peters, 76, Norfolk, will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 31, at the First Presbyterian Church in Norfolk. The Rev. William Nottage-Tacey will officiate. Military rites will be conducted at the church by American Legion Post 16 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1644. Inurnment will be at a later date in the Prospect Hill Cemetery.
Visitation will be 3-7 p.m. Friday at Hawser-Fillmer Mortuary in Norfolk, Nebraska.
He died Wednesday, March 28, 2001, at Immanuel Hospital in Omaha.
He was born March 5, 1925, at Manning, Iowa, to John and Edna (Graves) Peters. He graduated from Manning High School in 1943, and then served in the U.S. Navy from 1943-46. After that, he worked as a salesman for Heinz Co. and Lambert Co. In the 1960s, he moved to Neligh and then returned to Norfolk in 1963.
He married Ellen Strube in 1968 at Yankton, South Dakota. He was employed by Northrup King in Norfolk and then worked for many years with the Floor Maintenance and Supply Co.
Mr. Peters was a Member of the VFW and American Legion. He was also a member of the Elks Lodge and the Norfolk Country Club.
Survivors include his wife; two sons and their wives, Jack and Gail of Washington, D.C.; and Tim and Vicki of Carthage, Missouri; one daughter and her husband, Mary Jo and Gary Erps of Arcadia, Iowa; three stepchildren and their spouses, Larry Strube of Brighton, Colorado; Robert and Kaci Strube of Golden, Colorado; and Bill and Rainie Strube of Lochbuie, Colorado; one sister, LaVaun Werdell of Crystal Lake, Illinois; seven grandchildren; two step-grandchildren and one great-grand-child.
He was preceded in death by one stepson.