Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 12, 1994 TAG: 9401120293
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: FLOYD LENGTH: Short
OBIT PETERS, BELFORD EURIAH
PETERS, Belford Euriah, 85, of Floyd, passed away Monday, January 10, 1994,
in Skyline Manor Nursing Home. He was a W.W. II Pearl Harbor Volunteer,
serving as Chief Petty Officer. He also served as Medical Officer in the South
Pacific, on the U.S.S. Sandalwood, a submarine net-tender. He was retired from
the Veterans Hospital, Salem, where he had been Chief Laboratory Technician
for 25 years following his Navy discharge. He was preceded in death by a
daughter, Virginia Lee Peters, R.N.; his parents, Charles and Emma Peters; a
brother, Tracy N. Peters; a sister, Mucie Lee Martin. Surviving are his wife,
Dolores S. Peters, Floyd; one son and daughter-in-law, Randolph and Mabel
Caldwell Peters, Ridgeway; two grandchildren, Lewis Peters, Ridgeway, Diane
Peters, London, England; two sons and their families from a former marriage,
all of Alabama; one brother and sister-in-law, B. Lesson and Mary King Peters,
Floyd; one half brother, Everett Peters, Roanoke; several nieces and nephews
also survive. Funeral services will be Thursday, January 13, 1994, 11 a.m., at
Gardner Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. George Bowers officiating.
Interment will be private at the Peters Family Cemetery. Friends may call
after 1 p.m. Thursday at Gardner Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the Disabled American Veterans Association or the organization
of your choice.
by CNB