Gentry county Missouri, Obituaries: Helen Hatheway McPeek Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by: Don Raymond The Stanberry Headlight, Gentry County Missouri, Thursday, June 24, 1976, front page: Mrs. McPeek Dies; Rites Last Friday: Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Hatheway McPeek, 68, of Stanberry who was found dead in her home on Tuesday of last week, were held last Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Stanberry Baptist Church. The service was conducted by the Rev. Eddie Rhymes, pastor of that church, and interment was in the High Ridge cemetery under the direction of the Johnson Funeral Home. Mrs. McPeek was found dead in her home by a neighbor, Mrs. John Petty. Other neighbors of Mrs McPeek's had tried to get in her house but were unable to gain entrance. mrs. Petty has a key. She found Mrs. McPeek lying on the kitchen floor. Dr. A.l. Carlin was called and later Dr. Troy Morgan, county coroner of Albany, and Sheriff Paul Angle went to the McPeek home. The doctors said she had died of natural causes and they believed she had been dead 10 or 12 hours when Mrs. Petty found her. She was born August 31, 1907 in Gordonsville, Minn., the daughter of the late Ella Jane Marshall and Milton Gilmore Bighley. She was married to Tolbert Hatheway on September 7, 1929, in Glennville, Minn. He died in 1962 and she married Ray McPeek, who died in September 1974. Mrs. McPeek was a member of the Baptist Church here. She had been graduated from the high school in Gordonsville, Minn., in the class of 1922. She is survived by three sons, Delbert Hatheway of El Paso, Texas, Alvin Hatheway of Corpus Christi, Texas and Joe Hatheway of Bartlesville, Okla. There are two brothers, Marshall Bighley of Glennville, Minn., and r.L. Bighley of Kahoka, Mo. One sister, Mrs. Pearl Linde, of Mason City, Iowa, 18 grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survive her.