Loraine was the eldest of seven children.
At age 18 she married Albert Brooks in San Angelo, TX. The pair were divorced the following year.
Then, as a young woman she worked at Nazareth Hospital in Mineral Wells, Texas,as part of the NYA (National Youth Association).
Later, while working as a waitress Loraine first saw Horace Bell Peacock and set her sights on him. They married January 3, 1949, with Horace's brother, Howard, a Church of Christ minister, performing the marriage ceremony.
As husband and wife Horace and Loraine owned and operated a honkytonk called "Pat's Place" on a major thoroughfare in Breckenridge, Texas.
Suffering from what was likely Alzheimer's, she died in her sleep at her home in Breckenridge with her grandson Shane and his family caring for her needs.
∼Thelma Loraine Peacock
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Rob Durham
In Loving Memory Of Thelma Loraine Peacock
This is to commemorate the life of a 62-year resident of Breckenridge, who passed away on June 23, 2010. She was born on Oct. 17, 1918, in Denton County.
She was a restaurateur in the early 1960s and 1970s. She had also worked with Texas Employment Commission in the 1980s and a Community Action Program through Green Thumb in the early 1990s.
She attended Bethany Baptist Church.
Loraine was preceded in death by her husband, Horace, and granddaughter, Rachel Dunlap.
Loraine's legacy is her children: Janell Dunlap, Carolyn Peacock and Patricia Ritchie; five grandchildren: Cher Cunningham, Byron Sellers, Heather Hansen, Austin Hansen, April Rosauer; nine great-grandchildren; and three sisters: Dorothy Baber of Breckenridge, Frances Knowles of Mineral Wells and Janie Gardner of Foley, Ala.
At age 18 she married Albert Brooks in San Angelo, TX. The pair were divorced the following year.
Then, as a young woman she worked at Nazareth Hospital in Mineral Wells, Texas,as part of the NYA (National Youth Association).
Later, while working as a waitress Loraine first saw Horace Bell Peacock and set her sights on him. They married January 3, 1949, with Horace's brother, Howard, a Church of Christ minister, performing the marriage ceremony.
As husband and wife Horace and Loraine owned and operated a honkytonk called "Pat's Place" on a major thoroughfare in Breckenridge, Texas.
Suffering from what was likely Alzheimer's, she died in her sleep at her home in Breckenridge with her grandson Shane and his family caring for her needs.
∼Thelma Loraine Peacock
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Rob Durham
In Loving Memory Of Thelma Loraine Peacock
This is to commemorate the life of a 62-year resident of Breckenridge, who passed away on June 23, 2010. She was born on Oct. 17, 1918, in Denton County.
She was a restaurateur in the early 1960s and 1970s. She had also worked with Texas Employment Commission in the 1980s and a Community Action Program through Green Thumb in the early 1990s.
She attended Bethany Baptist Church.
Loraine was preceded in death by her husband, Horace, and granddaughter, Rachel Dunlap.
Loraine's legacy is her children: Janell Dunlap, Carolyn Peacock and Patricia Ritchie; five grandchildren: Cher Cunningham, Byron Sellers, Heather Hansen, Austin Hansen, April Rosauer; nine great-grandchildren; and three sisters: Dorothy Baber of Breckenridge, Frances Knowles of Mineral Wells and Janie Gardner of Foley, Ala.
Loraine was the eldest of seven children.
At age 18 she married Albert Brooks in San Angelo, TX. The pair were divorced the following year.
Then, as a young woman she worked at Nazareth Hospital in Mineral Wells, Texas,as part of the NYA (National Youth Association).
Later, while working as a waitress Loraine first saw Horace Bell Peacock and set her sights on him. They married January 3, 1949, with Horace's brother, Howard, a Church of Christ minister, performing the marriage ceremony.
As husband and wife Horace and Loraine owned and operated a honkytonk called "Pat's Place" on a major thoroughfare in Breckenridge, Texas.
Suffering from what was likely Alzheimer's, she died in her sleep at her home in Breckenridge with her grandson Shane and his family caring for her needs.
∼Thelma Loraine Peacock
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Rob Durham
In Loving Memory Of Thelma Loraine Peacock
This is to commemorate the life of a 62-year resident of Breckenridge, who passed away on June 23, 2010. She was born on Oct. 17, 1918, in Denton County.
She was a restaurateur in the early 1960s and 1970s. She had also worked with Texas Employment Commission in the 1980s and a Community Action Program through Green Thumb in the early 1990s.
She attended Bethany Baptist Church.
Loraine was preceded in death by her husband, Horace, and granddaughter, Rachel Dunlap.
Loraine's legacy is her children: Janell Dunlap, Carolyn Peacock and Patricia Ritchie; five grandchildren: Cher Cunningham, Byron Sellers, Heather Hansen, Austin Hansen, April Rosauer; nine great-grandchildren; and three sisters: Dorothy Baber of Breckenridge, Frances Knowles of Mineral Wells and Janie Gardner of Foley, Ala.
At age 18 she married Albert Brooks in San Angelo, TX. The pair were divorced the following year.
Then, as a young woman she worked at Nazareth Hospital in Mineral Wells, Texas,as part of the NYA (National Youth Association).
Later, while working as a waitress Loraine first saw Horace Bell Peacock and set her sights on him. They married January 3, 1949, with Horace's brother, Howard, a Church of Christ minister, performing the marriage ceremony.
As husband and wife Horace and Loraine owned and operated a honkytonk called "Pat's Place" on a major thoroughfare in Breckenridge, Texas.
Suffering from what was likely Alzheimer's, she died in her sleep at her home in Breckenridge with her grandson Shane and his family caring for her needs.
∼Thelma Loraine Peacock
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Rob Durham
In Loving Memory Of Thelma Loraine Peacock
This is to commemorate the life of a 62-year resident of Breckenridge, who passed away on June 23, 2010. She was born on Oct. 17, 1918, in Denton County.
She was a restaurateur in the early 1960s and 1970s. She had also worked with Texas Employment Commission in the 1980s and a Community Action Program through Green Thumb in the early 1990s.
She attended Bethany Baptist Church.
Loraine was preceded in death by her husband, Horace, and granddaughter, Rachel Dunlap.
Loraine's legacy is her children: Janell Dunlap, Carolyn Peacock and Patricia Ritchie; five grandchildren: Cher Cunningham, Byron Sellers, Heather Hansen, Austin Hansen, April Rosauer; nine great-grandchildren; and three sisters: Dorothy Baber of Breckenridge, Frances Knowles of Mineral Wells and Janie Gardner of Foley, Ala.
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