Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
A memorial service for Dorothy M. Peacock, 93, former long-time Garfield resident who made her retirement home in Coeur d'Alene, will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, at the Community United Methodist Church 1470 W Hanley Ave, Coeur d'Alene, 83815.
Mrs. Peacock died July 23, 2015, at her home in Coeur d’Alene.
Born in Denton, Mont., to homesteaders Joe and Minette Hill, she came to Coeur d’Alene at nine months of age. She took elocution lessons at age 5 and was known for reciting many poems throughout her life.
Her musical parents and brothers, Ira and Lennis, became a band, with Dorothy playing the violin and the drums. She was also active in the high school band and VFW drum and bugle corps. Due to a lengthy childhood illness, she developed a passion to become a nurse, and received her RN degree in 1944.
She met Billy Peacock, who with three Texas A & M friends came to Coeur d’Alene when they rented a garage apartment from her parents. They got jobs helping to build Farragut Naval Station. Bill then joined the Army, and he and Dorothy were married in Peoria, Ill., where he was stationed, in 1944. The couple eventually moved to Garfield where they lived from 1952 until 1986, and raised their two daughters. Bill worked as a manager of the J.E. Love Co.
Dorothy was very active in the Methodist Church, community projects, typing the local newspaper and helping the townspeople. She often used her nursing skills and eventually became an EMT volunteer on the ambulance and taught CPR classes.
In 1986 they retired to Coeur d’Alene. He died in 1988.
She began weekly visits to shut-ins, became nurse at Twinlow church camp during the summers and also baked multitudes of brownies.
Surviving are two daughters, Karen (Lee) Books and Kathy (Jim) Helgeson; four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Memorials may be sent to Trinity United Methodist Church in Spokane.
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