Ruth Peacock

RUTH PEACOCK

Coralville

Ruth Baldon Peacock, 92, a resident of Coralville, died Saturday, May 3, 2014, at her daughter's home in Coralville.

Ruth was born Dec. 9, 1921, in Aurora, Ind. She was the older of two children born to Calber and

Delia Bales Baldon. Her

father was a storekeeper, machinist and ordained Baptist minister. Ruth graduated from Dillsboro (Indiana) High School in 1939. She was the class valedictorian. Ruth was the recipient of a scholarship to Ball State University but decided not to attend college at that time. She worked for several years at a local distillery. Following her 21st birthday, Ruth enlisted in the Women's

Army Corp and was stationed in New York City. Early in her enlistment, she met Jack Peacock, the love of her life. They were married three years later in the Cathedral of the Assumption Rectory in Baltimore, Md., in March 1945.

In 1949, Ruth's husband was killed in an automobile accident while driving home from work. Ruth was left to raise their two young children by herself. She moved from Buffalo, N.Y., to Davenport in 1950 to be near her parents. Ruth attended AIC and worked for Interstate Finance Corporation, Catholic Supply Center and St. Ambrose College for many years.

At age 75, Ruth sold her home in Davenport and moved to Coralville to live with her daughter. She was diagnosed with vascular dementia several years later. In 2003, Ruth started attending Pathways Adult Day Health Center in Iowa City. Her family will be forever grateful to the staff at Pathways for the joy and happiness that participating in the Pathways program brought to their mother and grandmother. They are also grateful to SEATS for picking her up every Monday through Friday morning and bringing her safely home every evening. The quality of Ruth's life was tremendously enhanced through her participation in both these amazing community programs.

One of the recent joys in Ruth's life was being able to participate in an Honor Flight trip to Washington, D.C., in October 2011.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 6, 2014, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 3012 E. Jefferson St., Iowa City. Her cremains will be buried at a later date in Davenport Memorial Park where Ruth's mother,

father, and brother are

buried.

Ruth is survived by her daughter, Anne of Coralville; a son, Jack of Bettendorf; a daughter, Debora of Centerville, Ohio; her daughter-in-law, Jessie of Davenport; and granddaughters, Erin of Austin, Texas, and Kelly of Huntersville, N.C.

She was preceded in death by her husband, an infant son, her parents and a brother.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Pathways Adult Day Health Center, 817 Pepperwood Lane, Iowa City, IA 52240.

Halligan McCabe DeVries Funeral Home,

Davenport, is assisting the family with arrangements.

Online remembrances and condolences may be expressed to the family by visiting Ruth's obituary at www.hmdfuneralhome.

com.