Peters services

Graveside services for Tillie Marie Peters, 87, Lawrence, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Peters died Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at her home.

She was born July 9, 1915, in Kanapolis, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (Fait) Zahradnik. She grew up and attended school in Kanapolis.

Mrs. Peters was a practical nurse at Crum Nursing Home and Lawrence Memorial Hospital until she retired in 1980 and became a homemaker.

She married William Oliver Peters on Oct. 19, 1935, in Ellsworth. He died in February 1973.

Survivors include two sons, William “Sonny” Peters and Thomas Peters, both of Lawrence; a daughter, Janice Rogers, West Memphis, Ark.; three grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.

Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to noon Friday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.

The family suggests memorials to the Lawrence Humane Society, sent in care of the funeral home.

Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com..