FAG member #49668557 provided birth location and the 15th as the birth date.
Funeral services are to be held at the Huddle and Bonwell funeral home, 244 Redondo Avenue, Long Beach tomorrow at 2 p.m. for William M. Peek, 82, former resident here and father of Paul Peek, speaker of the assembly. He passed away at his home, 605 Cedar Avenue, Long Beach. Mr. Peek was owner of a funeral chapel in Orange which he sold to C. W. Coffey in 1925.
Mr. Peek was an early day grocer in Long Beach and later owned a mortuary there serving as commissioner of public safety 20 years ago. He was an ardent crusader for moral and temperate issues and was father of a Long Beach ordinance which required bathers to wear bathing suits which covered them from shoulders to knees.
Left to cherish are his widow, Mrs. Mary E. Peek; his son, Paul Peek; a daughter, Mrs. Ida Irnold, Oelwein, Iowa; two grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. C. F. Spencer of Orange.
--Santa Ana Register (Santa Ana, California) April 3, 1939, Monday
Funeral services are to be held at the Huddle and Bonwell funeral home, 244 Redondo Avenue, Long Beach tomorrow at 2 p.m. for William M. Peek, 82, former resident here and father of Paul Peek, speaker of the assembly. He passed away at his home, 605 Cedar Avenue, Long Beach. Mr. Peek was owner of a funeral chapel in Orange which he sold to C. W. Coffey in 1925.
Mr. Peek was an early day grocer in Long Beach and later owned a mortuary there serving as commissioner of public safety 20 years ago. He was an ardent crusader for moral and temperate issues and was father of a Long Beach ordinance which required bathers to wear bathing suits which covered them from shoulders to knees.
Left to cherish are his widow, Mrs. Mary E. Peek; his son, Paul Peek; a daughter, Mrs. Ida Irnold, Oelwein, Iowa; two grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. C. F. Spencer of Orange.
--Santa Ana Register (Santa Ana, California) April 3, 1939, Monday
FAG member #49668557 provided birth location and the 15th as the birth date.
Funeral services are to be held at the Huddle and Bonwell funeral home, 244 Redondo Avenue, Long Beach tomorrow at 2 p.m. for William M. Peek, 82, former resident here and father of Paul Peek, speaker of the assembly. He passed away at his home, 605 Cedar Avenue, Long Beach. Mr. Peek was owner of a funeral chapel in Orange which he sold to C. W. Coffey in 1925.
Mr. Peek was an early day grocer in Long Beach and later owned a mortuary there serving as commissioner of public safety 20 years ago. He was an ardent crusader for moral and temperate issues and was father of a Long Beach ordinance which required bathers to wear bathing suits which covered them from shoulders to knees.
Left to cherish are his widow, Mrs. Mary E. Peek; his son, Paul Peek; a daughter, Mrs. Ida Irnold, Oelwein, Iowa; two grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. C. F. Spencer of Orange.
--Santa Ana Register (Santa Ana, California) April 3, 1939, Monday
Funeral services are to be held at the Huddle and Bonwell funeral home, 244 Redondo Avenue, Long Beach tomorrow at 2 p.m. for William M. Peek, 82, former resident here and father of Paul Peek, speaker of the assembly. He passed away at his home, 605 Cedar Avenue, Long Beach. Mr. Peek was owner of a funeral chapel in Orange which he sold to C. W. Coffey in 1925.
Mr. Peek was an early day grocer in Long Beach and later owned a mortuary there serving as commissioner of public safety 20 years ago. He was an ardent crusader for moral and temperate issues and was father of a Long Beach ordinance which required bathers to wear bathing suits which covered them from shoulders to knees.
Left to cherish are his widow, Mrs. Mary E. Peek; his son, Paul Peek; a daughter, Mrs. Ida Irnold, Oelwein, Iowa; two grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. C. F. Spencer of Orange.
--Santa Ana Register (Santa Ana, California) April 3, 1939, Monday
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