Donald G. Peake

 Donald G.   Peake, age 68, of Lancaster, passed away at Orchard Manor Nursing Home, South Lancaster Township, on Wednesday, December 2, 2009, after a battle with Lymphoma cancer. He was born in Lancaster, on February 19, 1941, the son of Glenn and Bertha (Wieland) Peake. Due to his mothers illness, his grandmother, Martha (Behnke) Wieland helped raise him in childhood. Donald was a 1959 graduate of Lancaster High School. He earned a bachelors degree in secondary education from UW-Platteville in 1963. For thirty-four years, he taught social studies and English at Potosi Community Schools. On October 10, 1986, Donald was united in marriage to Virginia Edge at the First Presbyterian Church in Lancaster. He was a lifelong member of the First Presbyterian Church serving as an usher, greeter, Sunday school teacher, and lay reader. He also freely associated with the congregation of Christ Lutheran Church in Lancaster, serving as an usher, greeter and lay reader. In retirement, he was a member of the  Platteville Area Retired Educators Association, served as a volunteer Bingo caller at Orchard Manor for the Christ Lutheran Church womens group, and was a volunteer at the Passages Thru Time Museum in Potosi. Donald was an avid Packers, Badgers, Brewers and Flying Arrows Football fan.

Survivors include his wife, Virginia Peake, Lancaster; his son, Bryan Peake, Lancaster; his mother-in-law, Carol Edge, Platteville and many cousins.

In addition to his parents, Donald was preceded in death by his father-in-law, John Edge, his brother-in-law, Douglas Edge and aunts, uncles, cousins, including a special aunt, Edna Cummins.

Funeral services were held on Saturday, December 5, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. at Christ Lutheran Church in Lancaster with Reverend David Froemming officiating. Burial was in Hillside Cemetery, Lancaster. Friends called on Friday, December 4, 2009, from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at Martin Funeral Home in Lancaster and from 9:30 a.m. until time of services on Saturday at the church.

The family suggests that in lieu of plants and flowers, memorials be made to the family where a scholarship for Potosi students will be set up at a later time along with other favorite charities of the family.