Memorial service for Claudia Ann Peck, 43, was Sunday at Hamblen Park Presbyterian Church. Burial in Tennessee will be at a later date.
Mrs. Peck, who was born in Maryville, Tenn., died Thursday.
She graduated from the University of Tennessee, taught elementary school and worked as a technical writer for the Tennessee Valley Authority. She was the founder of a small-press science fiction/fantasy magazine.
She received a master's degree in English from the University of Colorado. She did editorial work and grant writing for Winds of Change, the magazine of American Indian Science and Engineering Society.
She moved to Moscow, Idaho, in 1989, to teach at Washington State University. She taught composition, technical and professional writing, creative writing, mythology and African-American studies. She also served as an area director with Very Special Arts of Idaho. She did editorial work for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News and for the agricultural extension at the University of Idaho.
She moved to Spokane in 1995 to teach English at Eastern Washington University.
She published a novel, "Spirit Crossings," in 1991, and had published several short stories and professional articles about the writing process.
She is survived by her husband, James Stripes, and a son, Reuben Peck Stripes, both of Spokane; two stepsons, Caleb and Samuel Stripes, both of Seattle; her mother, Carolyn Peck of Lenoir City, Tenn.; two brothers, Chris Peck of Atlanta and Craig Peck of Gloucester, Va., and a sister, Cynthia Peck Morin of Acworth, Ga.
—From The Spokesman-Review; Tuesday, August 6, 1996
Memorial service for Claudia Ann Peck, 43, was Sunday at Hamblen Park Presbyterian Church. Burial in Tennessee will be at a later date.
Mrs. Peck, who was born in Maryville, Tenn., died Thursday.
She graduated from the University of Tennessee, taught elementary school and worked as a technical writer for the Tennessee Valley Authority. She was the founder of a small-press science fiction/fantasy magazine.
She received a master's degree in English from the University of Colorado. She did editorial work and grant writing for Winds of Change, the magazine of American Indian Science and Engineering Society.
She moved to Moscow, Idaho, in 1989, to teach at Washington State University. She taught composition, technical and professional writing, creative writing, mythology and African-American studies. She also served as an area director with Very Special Arts of Idaho. She did editorial work for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News and for the agricultural extension at the University of Idaho.
She moved to Spokane in 1995 to teach English at Eastern Washington University.
She published a novel, "Spirit Crossings," in 1991, and had published several short stories and professional articles about the writing process.
She is survived by her husband, James Stripes, and a son, Reuben Peck Stripes, both of Spokane; two stepsons, Caleb and Samuel Stripes, both of Seattle; her mother, Carolyn Peck of Lenoir City, Tenn.; two brothers, Chris Peck of Atlanta and Craig Peck of Gloucester, Va., and a sister, Cynthia Peck Morin of Acworth, Ga.
—From The Spokesman-Review; Tuesday, August 6, 1996
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