Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Peters, Granny Lorraine (DeRossett) 2015
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Lakewood News, 26 Sep 2015

Fenton, MI - Granny Lorraine Peters: On the afternoon of September 21, 2015, Granny
went to be in the arms of Jesus.  She was surrounded by her loved ones in her home
in Fenton.  

Granny was born in Prestonsburg, KY to Taylor and Dixie (Whitaker) DeRossett.  She
helped to raise her younger siblings, Jerry, Dolores, and Rodney.  As a young girl,
she was a bit of a scamp.  She was very smart and graduated at the early age of 17,
although she used those smarts to sneak out of school with the other girls to go see
movies and leave the only boy to explain where they had gone.

She had a few beaus, but married Isaac Clark Peters, Jr. on May 24, 1951.  As their
marriage progressed, they turned to ministry for their lives work.  She loved to
help people and the two started and helped to build churches everywhere that they
went.  Often the parsonage was attached to the church and the torturous smell of
homemade spaghetti and meatballs would tease the church goers throughout the
services.

Lorraine and Zeke (Isaac) had four children, Taylor, Evelyn Delores, Steven Ray, and
adopted daughter, Kathy.  It was during this time that she started being called
Granny, which is what the world would know her as.  Several people were even known
to ask “Her name isn’t Granny?”  With the arrival of her grandkids, her humorous
side emerged full force as she chased them around pulling faces and groaned “raw
eyes and bloody bones” followed by a late night tapping on the window.  Her laughter
would follow soon after, letting the kids know that they were safe.

She was known for her broom flinging if you ran from her, being able to take you
down in the back of the knees across the yard, plate tossing with scary accuracy if
you angered her, and shooting the chickens in the rump with the bb gun to make the
kids laugh when they jumped.

Granny was preceded in death by her loving husband, Zeke; both her parents, Taylor
and Dixie DeRossett; her son, Taylor Peters, daughter-in-law, Marline; and her
sister-in-law, Sarah.

Granny is survived by her daughter, Evelyn and her husband, Roger; her son, Steve
and his wife, Becky; her daughter, Kathy and her husband, Clem; her brother, Jerry;
her sister, Dolores and her husband, Joe; her brother, Rodney and his wife, Brenda;
grandkids, Cherria/Mike (seven kids), Taylora/Ben (two kids), Jonathan/Rikki (four
point five kids), Honesty/Lonny (three kids, one great grandkid), Charity/Kelley
(five kids), Noah, Billy, Stephen/Jessica (six kids, three great grandkids),
Angel/Scott (three kids), Joy/Chris (four kids), Holly/Jerry (three kids),
Candy/Steve (seven kids), Joshua/Sara (six kids, one grandchild), Jeremiah/Lisa
(five kids), Steven/Jessica (six kids), Brittany/Dan (two kids) Betty Jane (two
kids), Daniel/Jennifer (two kids), Jerred/Melinda (five kids, three great grandkids)
and numerous nieces and nephews.

Services were held at Sebewa Church of God in Lake Odessa on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015.
 Interment will take place at Lakeside Cemetery at a later date.  Donations for
memorials can be given to Koops Funeral Chapel, Evelyn Barnum, 8397 Barkwood Circle,
Fenton, MI 48430 or Steven Peters, 725 Harrison Street, Ionia, MI 48846; any
leftover contributions will go the charities of Granny’s choice.


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