OBIT: Mary (FIKE) PECK, 1941, Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, PA

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MARY PECK

  Mrs. Mary (Fike) Peck, beloved wife of John D. Peck, died at the Peck farm 
home, known as Maplehurst, on Negro Mountain in Elk Lick Township, Tuesday, 
April 8, 1941, at 9:30 p.m., after a lingering illness of several years.  She 
was born March 21, 1899, at Vim, Meyersdale R.D., the daughter of Milton A. and 
Emma (Vought) Fike.  She is survived by her parents, her husband, three 
children, Anna, 14, Audrey, 10, and John L., 8, and these sisters: Grace Fike, 
Stoystown, Margaret Fike (the deceased's twin) Somerset, Mrs. Ellis C. Boose, 
Somerset, and Mrs. Fred W. Bloom, Cumberland.
  Funeral services will be held in the Maple Glen Church of the Brethren of 
which she was a member, Friday afternoon, at 2:30 by Rev. A. Jay Replogle, 
followed by interment in Union Cemetery, Meyersdale, directed by W. C. Price and 
Son, morticians.
  Mrs. Peck, prior to her marriage, was a public school teacher and served for 
three years at the Maple Glen school.  She was very capable and a good writer, 
and even during the years of her illness she assisted her husband with his 
accounts, both for the farm and for the insurance business he conducts.  Mr. 
Peck manages the farm for his aged father, Lewis Peck, venerable sage of the 
Maple Glen district.  Through years of suffering she was patient and cheerful 
and took her greatest pleasure in overseeing the household and the care of the 
children.  Since Christmas, however, she has been confined to her bed and 
gradually grew weaker, though conscious to the very end, finally passing quietly 
from this life while her husband was reading to her the Twenty-Third Psalm 
Tuesday evening.  During her invalidism she was devotedly nursed by Mr. Peck's 
sister, Olive Peck, who also has had the care of the home.

Meyersdale Republican, April 10, 1941