Archie Lewis

Peel Jr., 88

NEWARK - Archie Lewis Peel Jr. of Newark passed away on Monday, May 21, 2007, in the Heartland Hospice House, Pike Creek. He was 88.

Mr. Peel was a loving father, grandfather and husband of 53 years to the late Mary Frances Peel, who died in 1993.

He is survived by four children, Archie D. of Newark, Alvira Colbert and her husband, Bob, of McHenry, Ill., Sandra Czerner and her husband, Richard, of Asheville, N.C. and Cheryl Mitchell and her husband, Phillip, of Baton Rouge, La.; nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; one brother, Adelbert; and one sister, Ruth.

Graveside services will be held today at 10 a.m. at Bethel Cemetery on Bethel Cemetery Rd., near Chesapeake City, Md.

A visitation was held Thursday evening at the Daniels & Hutchinson Funeral Home, 212 N. Broad St., Middletown.