Leslie R. Peake 

A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 14, 2002, in St. John's Episcopal 
Church in Milwaukie for Leslie R. "Les" Peake, who died Jan. 8 at age 78. 

Mr. Peake was born Feb. 27, 1923, in Portland. He graduated from 
Milwaukie High School in 1941, and from San Francisco College of 
Mortuary Science, and received a master's degree from the University of 
Portland. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific 
and received a Purple Heart. He owned Peake Memorial Chapel for more 
than 40 years, retiring in 1990. 

He was chairman of Providence Milwaukie Hospital Foundation and was 
Clackamas County medical examiner in the 1950s. In the 1940s, he 
taught judo at Reed College. In 1966, he married Freda Faye Farley Roth. 

Survivors include his son, Ted Downs; daughter, Carolyn Sanden; three 
grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. 

Remembrances to Milwaukie Rotary Foundation. Arrangements by 
Gresham Funeral Chapel. 

Jan 14, 2002
Portland Oregonian