Violet M. McPeak

Memorial services for Violet M. McPeak, 96, of Rusk, will be at 2 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007, at Thompson Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Rob Godwin and Wilbur Chancey officiating, under the direction of Thompson Funeral Home of Jacksonville.

Violet M. McPeak died Monday, Jan. 15, 2007, in Tyler. She was born Jan. 20, 1910, in Saltsburg, Pa., to the late Calvin M. Miller and Blanche McPhilimey Miller.

Violet received a Bachelor of Science Degree in food and nutrition from Muskingum College in 1931. In 1941, she earned her second Bachelor of Science Degree in household economics from Margaret Morrison Carnegie College. She served in the Armed Forces as a First Lieutenant from 1943-1945, stationed in England as a hospital dietician. Violet attended graduate school in 1946, at Simmons College, where she received her degree in diagnostic laboratory science. In 1947, she received her certification as a registered medical technologist from Faulker Hospital in Boston, Ma.

In 1948, Dr. McPeak and Violet founded South Texas Cardiovascular Clinic in Houston, where she worked as a registered medical technologist and dietician. In 1962, Violet and Dr. McPeak moved to Rusk where they established McPeak Springlake Ranch. She was an original founder of Texas Therapy and Companion Pets and a life member of the Retired Officers Association.

Violet is preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Edgar M. McPeak; brothers, Robert L. Miller and James W. Miller; and sisters, Flora May Miller and Sara Miller Gould.

Survivors include step-daughter, Evelyn McPeak Alvarez of Houston; nieces, Janet Rhoads of Salisbury, Md.; Sally Mason of Salisbury, Md.; Carol Johnson of Grand Haven, Mi.; Marjorie Black of Winterpark, Fla.; nephews, James Miller of Williamsbury, Va.; and Robert Miller of Springfield, Va.; grand-nieces and nephews and a host of friends.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice of East Texas, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler, Texas 75701 or the church of the donor’s choice.

 

Information from the Jacksonville Daily Progress.