LACONIA - Christene F. Peebles, 98, of 21 Ledges Drive and formerly of 13 Anthony Drive, Laconia, died on Monday, March 9, 2015 at Taylor Community at Ledgeview. Mrs. Peebles was the widow of Wallace A. Peebles who died in 1976.
Mrs. Peebles was born July 21, 1916, in Laconia, the daughter of Harry M. & Mildred (Stone) Farrar and had lived most of her life in Laconia. She graduated from Laconia High School in 1934 and later attended the Concord Business School. She had been employed at the Sulloway Hosiery Mill in Franklin for twenty –three years, retiring in 1957. In 1958, Mrs. Peebles married Wallace A. Peebles and moved to New York City, returning to Laconia in 1962.
Mrs. Peebles had been a member of the First United Methodist Church of Laconia-Gilford since April 5, 1931. She was a former member of the Rebekah Lodge #24 of Franklin, N.H.
Mrs. Peebles was predeceased by her husband, Wallace A. Peebles in 1976.
At Mrs. Peebles request, there will be no calling hours or funeral service. A private internment service will be conducted at the family lot in Bayside Cemetery in Laconia.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Taylor Home Sunshine Fund, 435 Union Avenue, Laconia, NH 03246 or to the New Hampshire Association for the Blind, McGreal Sight Center, 25 Walker ST., Concord, NH 03301.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is in charge of the arrangements.