Jimmy Holland Peck

A memorial service is scheduled for longtime Roswell resident, Jimmy Janice (Holland) Peck on Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 4:00 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church, 400 West Third, who passed away on Thursday, March 22, 2007 at Eastern New Mexico Medical Center. Rev. Dr. Hugh Burroughs will officiate. Jimmy was born in Paris, Arkansas, July 15, 1921 to Buelah May (Turner) Holland and Jesse Emmit Holland, who preceded her in death. She lived her first thirty years in Oklahoma. Jimmy Holland and Loyd George Peck were married April 19, 1940 and parted May 1971. Jimmy was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Roswell, #10 Order of Eastern Star, Roswell Retired Educational Employees Association, N.M. Association of Education Retirees, National Retired Teachers Association, Masonic Widows, RSVP, and AARP. She graduated from Northeastern State College in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, attended Marymount College in Salina, Kansas, and Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, NM. She taught for thirty-one years, twelve years out of state in Oklahoma, California, Guam, and Kansas. Jimmy taught nineteen years at Flora Vista Elementary (Nancy Lopez Elementary) in Roswell. She is survived by daughters, Jean Patrice Brock and Georgann Peck, and one son, Oliver Turner Peck and his wife Kelley, eight grandchildren, Patrick M. Allen and wife, Cindy, Brandon Shea Tarvin, David M. Johnson and his wife, Kim Silva, Kelly Len Johnson, and his wife, Carmen, MiMi A. Luna, and husband, Lando, Sgt. Steven R. Lloyd and wife, Amanda, Eli Peck, Sara Tulk and husband, Eric, and seven great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister, Hilma Sparks, and husband, Bill, of Stigler, Oklahoma, and sister-in-law, Ruth Holland of Greenville, Texas and several nieces and nephews. Her brother, Richard D. Holland and sister, Patricia Coffman, preceded her in death. The family request that in lieu of flowers, a contribution be made to the Memorial Fund of the First Presbyterian Church, Roswell, or the Roswell Masonic Heritage Trust. To sign the register book online go to www.andersonbethany.com Services are under the direction of Anderson-Bethany Funeral Home and Crematory.

Jimmy Holland Peck

July 15, 1921 - March 22, 2007