Quinton J. Peele

Quinton Jackson “Jack” Peele, Jr., passed away in the early morning hours of January 3, 2014, after several years of declining health. A private graveside service will be held on Sunday, January 5, 2014, at Westminster Memorial Gardens in Peachtree City. A man of quiet and discerning humor, he was always a friend and a great conversationalist to all that he met. All of his friends and peers considered him a man of great integrity, one they could easily talk to about any issue. A firm believer in the Christian faith, he trusted in the birth, death, and resurrection of his Savior Jesus Christ for the sins of His people and as the hope of the world, and in the sure hope of the bodily resurrection from the dead to new life at the end of this present age. Jack was an Atlanta native, born October 4, 1920, and graduated from Boys High School in 1939 and Asbury College in Wilmore, KY in 1946. Jack, as did many of his generation, took time off from college during World War II, where he served in the Army Air Corps (predecessor of the U. S. Air Force), as a Link Trainer instructor. Link Trainers were the first Flight Simulators, developed for the Army Air Corp in WWII. He did post-graduate work at the Northern Illinois College of Optometry, obtaining his O.D. degree in 1948. He practiced Optometry in Hapeville, GA, for some 3 decades, and he was a member of the Georgia Optometric Association and the American Optometric Association for many years. He served as the president of the Fifth District of Optometry – Metro Atlanta, as president of a Credit Union, and as president of the Hapeville Chamber of Commerce. He was married to Adrienne Andrews Peele for 63 years. He was preceded in death by his parents, Quinton J. Peele, Sr. and Eloise Cannon Peele, and his brother, Lt. Robbie C. Peele, who was a bomber pilot killed in action in the Pacific during WWII. He is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Janet and Wayne Westmoreland of Hampton, GA, and a son and daughter-in-law, Robbie C. Peele II and Pamela Peele of Roswell, GA, and grandchildren Deborah, Christine, Matthew and spouse Beth, and great-grandson Smith. Jack was a member of Southwest Christian Church, in East Point, and before that was a long-time member of First Baptist Church of Atlanta. Parrott Funeral Home and Crematory, 770-964-4800.

Quinton J. Peele

October 4, 1920 - January 3, 2014