Lamar Batts Mrs. Peacock

Mrs. Lamar Batts Peacock, wife of a retired Atlanta physician, died at Brandon Wilde retirement home in Augusta, Georgia.

She was born in 1925 in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Mattie Lee Brim Bonner and James William Bonner, who was studying law at the time. The family subsequently moved to Blakely, Georgia, where Mrs. Peacock attended elementary and high school. She graduated from the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia, where she was a member of Chi Omega Sorority. While there she met her husband who was at the Medical College of Georgia, and they were married in 1947, moving to Atlanta where he began the practice of medicine in 1950. A few years later, while her children were still small, Mrs. Peacock began to edit and write articles for various magazines. Her work was published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, the Atlanta Historical Bulletin, the Atlanta Historical Journal, Georgia Magazine, and Georgia Life Magazine. She wrote biographical sketches for Kenneth Coleman’s Dictionary of Georgia Biography, produced newsletters for several organizations, and edited the 40-year history of the Cherokee Town and Country Club, written by Sharon Donahue. In 1985 she edited a book of letters called A Dynamo Going to Waste: Margaret Mitchell’s Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-1921. (Peachtree Publishers, Ltd.) She wrote connective material and footnoted references for letters written by the youthful Margaret Mitchell to a college boyfriend. The book was also published in Japan and Germany. Mrs. Peacock was a member of the Augusta Town Committee of the National Society of Colonial Dames and of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta where she was an active member of St. Teresa’s Guild.

Her husband, Dr. Lamar Batts Peacock preceded her in death in 2009. She is survived by her children, Helen Peacock Wade and her husband Richard Wade of Louisville, Kentucky, Linda Peacock Gossage and her husband Matthew Gossage of Davidson, N.C., Dr. Lamar Bonner Peacock and his wife Amanda of Augusta, Georgia; grandchildren, Paul Wade and his wife Mary Ann, Katherine Bonner Wade and her husband Joe Babcock, Ryan Gossage and his wife Mary, Lindsay Gossage and her husband Jeff Terrell, Davis Gossage, Grant Gossage, Jane Claire Peacock and Blakely Lamar Peacock; great grandchildren Meredith and Caroline Wade, Whitt, Collier, and William Babcock, Jane and Jack Gossage, and Emma and James Terrell.

A memorial service for family will be held at 2:00 PM on Friday, June 1, 2018 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Ga.

In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 435 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30308.