EUGENIA T. PEELE
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 11:05PM March 7, 1924 – October 30, 2011
IVA, SC - Eugenia Thomas Peele, age 87 of Iva, wife of the late Billy Eugene Peele, Sr., passed away on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at the AnMed Health Medical Center.
Born in Bethany, SC on March 7, 1924, she was a daughter of the late George Fredrick Thomas and Kate Bell Brown Thomas. She served in the United States Women’s Army Corps during World II in the Intelligence Division. Mrs. Peele was a former member of the Kings Mountain Chapel United Methodist Church in Filbert, SC where she taught Sunday School. She was a past president of the Junior Womens Club in Fairmont, NC. After moving to Iva, SC, she was a member of the Shamrock Garden Club and the First Baptist Church of Iva.
Survivors include her daughter, Pamela Peele Sauls and her husband Randy of Florence, AL; sons, Joseph Collin Peele and his wife, Jenny of Kingstree, SC, Stuart Rudolph Peele and his wife, Everal of Gainesville, FL and Billy Eugene Peele, Jr., and his wife, Bettie of Iva, SC; sister, Jo Ann Smoak of Little Mountain, SC; brother, Dan T. Thomas of Clover, SC; 12 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband and parents, she was predeceased by a brother, Howard S. Thomas.
The Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 11:00 am at First Baptist Church of Iva, officiated by the Reverend Jerry Gray. Interment will follow with Military Honors at M. J. “Dolly” Cooper Veterans Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at The McDougald Funeral Home on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Mrs. Peele will be placed in the church at 10:00 am on Wednesday.
The family will be at the home of her son, Billy Eugene Peele, Jr., 621 Park Drive, Iva, SC.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made First Baptist Church of Iva, Building Fund, P.O. Box 475, Iva, SC 29655.
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