Wayne Peel 91, of Paris, died Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at Paris Regional Medical Center. A service will be held at 11:00 AM, Saturday, June 6, 2020 in the Open Air Pavilion at Evergreen Cemetery with Rev. Wade White officiating. The family will receive friends prior to the service beginning at 10:00 AM at the cemetery. Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements.
Delma Wayne Peel was born December 3, 1928 in Monkstown, Fannin County, Texas to Sherman and Velma Cates Peel. He graduated from Honey Grove High School and served in the United States Air Force for 21 years retiring as a Chief Master Sergeant. Mr. Peel first married Claudia DeLaughter on April 4, 1953. She died August 9, 2008. He then married Nell Baker Baldwin on May 18, 2009. He worked as a television repairman for Barnes TV and a milkman for Foremost Dairies following his retirement from the Air Force and enjoyed making fiddles. Mr. Peel was a member of First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Nell Peel of Paris; four children, Charlotte Flowers and husband, John of Dallas, Douglas Alan Peel of Emporia, Kansas, Anita Williams and husband, Terry of Paris, and Barry Peel and Cheryl Holsomback of Josephine, Texas; his sister, Joyce McCraw of Arlington, Texas; three step-children, Donna Spencer and husband, Jim of Powderly, Darwin Pynes of Paris, and Lisa Slagle of Paris; five grandchildren, Eric Peel and wife, Brandi of Reno, Lindsey McCormick and husband, Matthew of Reno, Daniel Williams of Frisco, Karen Gilbreath and husband, Colton of Windom, and Natasha Peel and Adrian Basham of Plano; three great-grandchildren, Parker Gilbreath, Jacob Wayne Gilbreath, and Emma Haley McCormick; and numerous extended family. He was also preceded in death by one son, Richard Wayne Peel and his parents.
