The graveside service for Martha Elizabeth Wright Peek of Tucker, a retired registered nurse, was Tuesday at Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Carroll County.
Mrs. Peek, 86, died Sunday at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon. An Alzheimer's victim, she had been a resident of a Macon nursing home.
She began her career as a public health nurse in Dade County in the 1930s, often riding on horseback to visit patients in rural areas. Mrs. Peek also served as "county nurse" in Polk, Douglas and Gordon counties before retiring in 1972.
A 1933 graduate of Georgia Baptist School of Nursing, she worked during an era when public health nursing duties included "a lot of welfare work, seeing that families had clothing and food," and, occasionally, serving as a midwife, said her daughter, Nancy Peek of Tucker.
The last child she delivered, in 1962 in Douglas County, was perhaps the most memorable, said Miss Peek.
"Mama happened to be out there to take some food to the family. It was in the middle of July and she delivered the woman's 28th baby," she said.
But the daily routine of a public health nurse was more likely to include giving immunizations and vision and hearing tests to schoolchildren.
Her mother had a "real ability" for dealing with people who were being transported to the state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Miss Peek said. And she worked hard to see that tuberculosis patients were placed in care facilities during the time when TB "was rampant."
Surviving in addition to Miss Peek is a son, Earl Thomas Peek of Smyrna; and a sister, Ura Ashmore of Carrollton.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) - Thursday, August 3, 1995
Mrs. Peek, 86, died Sunday at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon. An Alzheimer's victim, she had been a resident of a Macon nursing home.
She began her career as a public health nurse in Dade County in the 1930s, often riding on horseback to visit patients in rural areas. Mrs. Peek also served as "county nurse" in Polk, Douglas and Gordon counties before retiring in 1972.
A 1933 graduate of Georgia Baptist School of Nursing, she worked during an era when public health nursing duties included "a lot of welfare work, seeing that families had clothing and food," and, occasionally, serving as a midwife, said her daughter, Nancy Peek of Tucker.
The last child she delivered, in 1962 in Douglas County, was perhaps the most memorable, said Miss Peek.
"Mama happened to be out there to take some food to the family. It was in the middle of July and she delivered the woman's 28th baby," she said.
But the daily routine of a public health nurse was more likely to include giving immunizations and vision and hearing tests to schoolchildren.
Her mother had a "real ability" for dealing with people who were being transported to the state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Miss Peek said. And she worked hard to see that tuberculosis patients were placed in care facilities during the time when TB "was rampant."
Surviving in addition to Miss Peek is a son, Earl Thomas Peek of Smyrna; and a sister, Ura Ashmore of Carrollton.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) - Thursday, August 3, 1995
The graveside service for Martha Elizabeth Wright Peek of Tucker, a retired registered nurse, was Tuesday at Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Carroll County.
Mrs. Peek, 86, died Sunday at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon. An Alzheimer's victim, she had been a resident of a Macon nursing home.
She began her career as a public health nurse in Dade County in the 1930s, often riding on horseback to visit patients in rural areas. Mrs. Peek also served as "county nurse" in Polk, Douglas and Gordon counties before retiring in 1972.
A 1933 graduate of Georgia Baptist School of Nursing, she worked during an era when public health nursing duties included "a lot of welfare work, seeing that families had clothing and food," and, occasionally, serving as a midwife, said her daughter, Nancy Peek of Tucker.
The last child she delivered, in 1962 in Douglas County, was perhaps the most memorable, said Miss Peek.
"Mama happened to be out there to take some food to the family. It was in the middle of July and she delivered the woman's 28th baby," she said.
But the daily routine of a public health nurse was more likely to include giving immunizations and vision and hearing tests to schoolchildren.
Her mother had a "real ability" for dealing with people who were being transported to the state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Miss Peek said. And she worked hard to see that tuberculosis patients were placed in care facilities during the time when TB "was rampant."
Surviving in addition to Miss Peek is a son, Earl Thomas Peek of Smyrna; and a sister, Ura Ashmore of Carrollton.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) - Thursday, August 3, 1995
Mrs. Peek, 86, died Sunday at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon. An Alzheimer's victim, she had been a resident of a Macon nursing home.
She began her career as a public health nurse in Dade County in the 1930s, often riding on horseback to visit patients in rural areas. Mrs. Peek also served as "county nurse" in Polk, Douglas and Gordon counties before retiring in 1972.
A 1933 graduate of Georgia Baptist School of Nursing, she worked during an era when public health nursing duties included "a lot of welfare work, seeing that families had clothing and food," and, occasionally, serving as a midwife, said her daughter, Nancy Peek of Tucker.
The last child she delivered, in 1962 in Douglas County, was perhaps the most memorable, said Miss Peek.
"Mama happened to be out there to take some food to the family. It was in the middle of July and she delivered the woman's 28th baby," she said.
But the daily routine of a public health nurse was more likely to include giving immunizations and vision and hearing tests to schoolchildren.
Her mother had a "real ability" for dealing with people who were being transported to the state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Miss Peek said. And she worked hard to see that tuberculosis patients were placed in care facilities during the time when TB "was rampant."
Surviving in addition to Miss Peek is a son, Earl Thomas Peek of Smyrna; and a sister, Ura Ashmore of Carrollton.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) - Thursday, August 3, 1995
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