Peck - Lura Fraley
Source: Tri-County News, Waveland, Indiana July 31, 1958
Mrs. Lura PECK who has lived near Waveland 50 years, died Monday July 28 at the home of her daughter, Miss Gertrude Peck, 1125 N. Linewood, Indianapolis. Waveland people indeed remember that Mrs. Peck was always interested in her church and its activities. Mrs. Peck, 86, was born near Linden the daughter of a pioneer Methodist Minister, Henry Clay & Catharine Stanton FRALEY. She attended Linden public schools and DePauw University Music School where she met and married William Edwin Peck of Greencastle. During her childhood college days and busy married life she always had time for active church work, singing in the church choir; accompanying on the church organ or piano, teaching Sunday School classes, planning and directing programs and working in many other church activities. Lura Peck was very active in the Methodist Church at Linden; Bethel south of Greencastle; Russellville and Presbyterian Church in Greencastle, Waveland and Circle A of Tabernacle Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis. During her last illness the TV church services were a great inspiration to her. Mrs. Peck’s most prolonged contribution to Christian service was through the Missionary Society of The Waveland Presbyterian Church and Crawfordsville Presbyterian Synodical where she was treasurer over the home and foreign missionary funds for 12 Indiana counties for 15 years. For this service, the National Board of Foreign Missions gave Mrs. Peck one of her most prized treasurers, an honorary life membership. She always took great pride in the fact that the money for this membership was sent to a Presbyterian Mission in recreational program also is carried on by the campers, Bagdad, Iraq. As the years passed, her missionary work took precedence over the activities in the Russellville chapter of Easter Star and Literary clubs of Waveland. Always as Lura Peck rode through a village or town, she would remark, “There is a fine church,” and of Indianapolis she often said, “Indianapolis is a city of many beautiful churches.” Lura and Edwin Peck, deceased in 1936, had five children: two of whom died in infancy. After the Peck’s bought their Waveland farm at Pine Crossing in 1908, they joined the Presbyterian Church here where Mr. Peck was an elder and clerk of the session for many years. T heir son, the late William F. Peck was born in the Peck homestead October 1908; and the two Peck granddaughters, Lura Ellen and Sara Louise Peck of Seward, Alaska, were also born in the same home. It is the house where Warren Seybold now lives. Lura Peck adjusted to the sudden death of her son, the late William F. Peck by saying, “Christ’s mother lost her son.” She is survived by two daughters, Miss Gertrude Peck, teacher at School 50 and Mrs. Margaret McWilliams, teacher at George Washington HS; and two granddaughters, Lura Ellen and Sara Louise Peck. Pall bearers were George Spencer, Russellville; Frank Durham, Greencastle; Forest Coleman, Forest Crutchfield; Owen Dooley and Warren Seybold, Waveland. Services were held at Flanner & Buchanan Fall Creek Mortuary in Indianapolis at 1 p.m. Wed. with Tabernacle Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial in Forest hill Cemetery, Greencastle. Lura Peck’s 86 years have been happily filled with active Christian Service in God’s beautiful churches.