Harriet Peck

View Funeral WebcastMrs. Harriet Pursley Peck, 98, widow of Myron K. Peck, III, and resident of Barrow Court, died Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at NHC HealthCare, Columbia. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 A.M. Saturday, November 24, 2012 at St. Peter's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Richard Zalesak officiating. Burial will be in St. John's Churchyard, Ashwood. The family will visit with friends Friday, November 23, 2012 from 5:00 - 8:00 P.M. at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to St. John's Episcopal Church, 1116 West Seventh Street, PMB75, Columbia, TN 38401. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. Mrs. Peck was born at Amqui, a suburb of Nashville, on January 6, 1914, to Edward Vance Pursley and Inez Hill Pursley. Her mother died when she was young, and she was reared, in large part, by her aunt and uncle, Alice and Hardin Ragland. She graduated from Nashville's Hume-Fogg High School and attended Middle Tennessee State Teachers' College (now MTSU) in Murfreesboro. On November 5, 1933, she married Myron King Peck, III of Franklin. Mr. & Mrs. Peck started married life in Williamson County and survived the Great Depression by hard work, ingenuity, and family ties. In 1938 they moved to Columbia, where Mr. Peck was employed by Monsanto Company. He died in 1998. Mrs. Peck was an Episcopalian. She will be remembered for her broad range of cultural interests and especially for her devotion to family and friends. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Alice Butcher of Columbia; three sons, Myron K. Peck, IV of St. Louis, MO; Edward V. (Sandra) Peck of Ellensburg, WA; and Matthew J. Peck of Lewisburg; three grandsons, Myron K. (Kristine) Peck, V of St. Louis, MO; Bruce Q. (Michelle) Peck of Sacramento, CA; Hardin T. (Alison) Butcher of Yonkers, NY; and six great-grandchildren, Myron K. Peck VI, Tyler M. Peck, William J. Peck, and Katherine L. Peck, all of St. Louis, MO; Annabelle B. Peck and Olivia Q. Peck, both of Sacramento, CA. Active pallbearers will be Myron K. Peck V, Bruce Q. Peck, Hardin T. Butcher, George D. Rozelle, Carl H. Walker, III, Bob Duncan and John L. Stephens. Honorary pallbearers will be friends and neighbors of Barrow Court.