Avis de décès de Arlene Peters - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

ARLENE PETERS (STRAUSS) _ We are sad to announce the death of ARLENE PETERS (STRAUSS) in California September 18. Arlene grew up in Hepburn, daughter of Fred and Nettie Strauss and sister of Ervin, Evelyn, Gil and Dennis. As a young woman, she was a gifted pianist who studied under Lyle Gustin and brought joy to many with her music. In 1952, she graduated from the School of Nursing at St. Paul's Hospital, winning the award for bedside nursing. After a year nursing at St. Paul's, she went to work in a hospital in Bakersfield, California near where Mother's side of the family had settled. Here she met and married Robert Peters and they raised their children Kendra and Clark. At the time of her death at 75, she was still employed as a nurse at the Shafter Convalescent Home near Bakersfield. Every summer Arlene, Bob and the kids came home for a long visit to her parents' farm. She had the prairies in her bones and wanted her children to absorb their Canadian heritage. Arlene slipped gracefully into each role to unfold before her. She was the kind of mother who lived through her children; no sacrifice was too great. To see her with Katelyn and Korey, you would assume she had been a grandma all her life. She and Bob formed a wonderful partnership for these 48 years. Arlene was the kind of sister who would take her unfocused kid brother in hand, patiently teach him to sing, and coax him to join her in an otherwise all-girl school choir all this before he was old enough to resist. Some years later, she adopted his twenty-year-old bride as a sister and they formed a lifelong bond. She thrived on family get-togethers and gathered our kids into the circle of her affection. When our granddaughters came along she generously drew the circle a little bigger. Looking back on her life, it's no surprise that she chose a nurturing profession. Arlene loved to laugh and to have the last laugh. We sent her a big picture book called Outhouses of the Prairies, wondering where she would hide it. She phoned to let us know it was on her coffee table, a telling comment, she said, on her brother's taste in art. All her adult life, Arlene was a member of the Mennonite Brethren Church. She carried her Christian faith graciously in her heart and proclaimed it with her gentle life and countless acts of love. Judy and Dennis Strauss with David, Wendy, Kristin, Katrina and Rebecca.