Person:Margaret Bumbalough (1)

Obituary

Carthage Press. May 24, 1948.

“Death of Mrs. Millie M. Peek. Passes Away at Daughter’s Home in Jasper. She Was the Mother of Mrs. Carl Sanders of Carthage-Funeral To Be Wednesday.”

Mrs Millie Margaret Peek, 72, well-known in this district and mother of Mrs. Carl Sanders, of Grand avenue, passed away at 7:40 o’clock yesterday morning at the home of another daughter, Mrs. Walter Sellers, in Jasper. She had been critically the last two months.

Mrs. Peek, the former Millie Margaret Bumbalough, was born February 22, 1876, in Sparta, Tenn. She was married in White county, Tennessee, in 1895, to James S. Peek. The Peeks came to Missouri in 1901 and settled on a farm in the Duenweg community. In 1904 they moved to a farm a half-mile west of Mt. Hope cemetery.

Mt. Hope cemetery was platted during the time Mr. and Mrs. Peek lived in that vicinity and he assisted in grading iand landscaping the grounds. That was prior to the age of tractors, and farmers of the vicinity used their teams and graders in the work and assisted in other duties necessary to the beautification of the cemetery. Mr. Peek also assisted in opening the first grave in that cemetery.

Later Mr. and Mrs. Peek moved to a farm on the base line, near Jasper, where they made their home until his health failed in 1939. They went to Joplin at that time. Mr. Peek passed away in March, 1940, in Joplin. Mrs. Peek continued to reside there, making her home with her only son, Jesse Peek, until about a year ago, when she went to Jasper to make her home with the daughter, Mrs. Sellers.

In December, near Christmas time, Mrs. Peck’s health failed and she came to the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sanders, to spend the winter. Her condition became more serious and the last two months it had been critical. Mrs. Peek was returned in April to the home where she was passed away.

She was a member of the Webb City Baptist church.

Mrs. Peek was cheerful and winsome and her personality won many friends.

Surviving her are her six children, Mrs. Sanders, of Carthage, Mrs. Joe [Edna] Bundy of Webb City, Mrs. Edward T. [Etner] Pratt, Sr. and Jesse Peek, of Joplin. Mrs. Walter Sellers of Jasper and Mrs. Helen Peek James of Little Rock, Ark., two sisters, Mrs. Viola William and Mrs. Lora Clouse of Nashville, Tenn.; two brothers, Harve and James Bumbalough, both of Sparta, Tenn.; 18 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Ava Pugh of Carthage is a sister-in-law of Mrs. Peek.

Her sisters, Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Clouse, visited Mrs. Peek here recently. A granddaughter, Mrs. Samuel Maddox of Flrence, Ala., also was here on a 10-day visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sanders, and her grandmother, Mrs. Peek. She left last Thursday and will not return for the funeral.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon and burial will be in Mt. Hope cemetery. Other arrangements have not been made.

The body is at Ulmer Funeral Home.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Obituary for Margaret Bumbalough Peek, Carthage Press, May 24, 1948.
2. ↑ Find A Grave
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3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 .

   Death Certificate, Retrived from Missouri State Archives, http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/