Peters, Victor Dester (1904-1964)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1964 May 28 p. 5

Birth date: 1904

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• Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bachman of Newton were in Tulsa, Okla. last week to attend the funeral of Victor Peters, a cousin of Mrs. Bachman. Peters, 60, died May 18 several hours after undergoing a plastic aorta transplant. A native of Deer Creek, Okla.,he was Tulsa district manager of Phillips Oil Co. His parents are Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Peters of St. Paul, Minn., who formerly served the West Zion Mennonite Church of Moundridge. Mrs. Homer Ruth accompanied the Bachmans to Tulsa.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1964 Jun 11 p. 8

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VICTOR PETERS

Victor Dester Peters, 60, son of Rev. J. C. Peters, former pastor of the West Zion Mennonite Church in Moundridge, Kan., died May 18 in Tulsa, Okla., five hours after undergoing a plastic aorta transplant.

Peters was hospitalized after complaining of backache while working in his yard. The seven-hour aorta transplant appeared successful and death probably was caused by kidney failure, a son, Victor John Peters of Topeka, said.

Peters succeeded Glen R. Ames as manager of Phillips 78-emmployee office in Utica Square, Tulsa, in 1958 after serving as the firm's assistant Tulsa district manager four years. He came to Tulsa in 1932 from Wichita where he had gone to work for Phillips and pumped the first tank of gasoline in the firm's first service station there on Nov. 19, 1927. He had gone to work on his own while attending high school. He was a native of Deer Creek Okla.

Peters was a director of the Arkansas Basin Development Association and a member of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce water port development, area relations and highway committees and the Tulsa YMCA membership committee. He was also a member of the Sales & Marketing Executievs [sic] of Tulsa Oil Marketers Club, Oklahoma Petroleum Council and Arkansas Oil Dealers Executive Committee.

Surviving in addition to the son are his widow, Alferne B.; his parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Peters of St. Paul, Minn.; a brother Milford, stationed in Korea; a sister, Mrs. Edna Hildebrand of Michigan, N. D., and a grandchild. Funeral services were held in Trinity Episcopal Church of Tulsa on May 20.