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Inez Mae Peters Viers
© Enid News and Eagle
12-12-2013
Submitted by: Ann Weber

© Enid News and Eagle

© Glenn

Inez M. and Walter E. VIERS

Covington Cemetery


Memorial service for Inez Mae Peters Viers will be 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, at Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Tom Pullin will officiate. A private burial of her cremains will follow in Covington Cemetery.

Inez was born Nov. 9, 1920, in Covington, Okla., at the home of her parents, C.D. and Inez Peters. She died in Enid, Okla., Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013, at the age of 93.

Inez Mae Peters grew up in Covington, where she attended elementary school and graduated from Covington High School in 1938.

Inez Mae joined Covington Free Methodist Church as a young child. She was quite active and played the piano, taught Sunday school and was a member of the Women’s Missionary Society.

After high school, Inez Mae went to Central College in McPherson, Kan. She majored in education and teaching. She attended for two years.

After two years, she came home to be with her mother who was then alone with the death of her father in 1940.

Inez Mae took a secretarial job with local realtor and auctioneer, William “Bill” Perrin. She was a receptionist and did regular office work.

While working for Bill Perrin, Inez Mae met a young man, Walter Emerson Viers, seven years her senior who had been born in Hayward and raised on the family farm about three miles east of Covington. Walter had graduated from nearby Hayward High School in 1933.

After dating for one year, they were married Sept. 4, 1945, at her parents’ Covington home living room. After a honeymoon in Florida, she moved to the Viers family farm east of Covington and began life as a farmer’s wife.

On Jan. 3, 1950, Inez Mae gave birth to Cynthia Joy Viers in Enid, Okla. Young doctor Newell delivered her.

Cynthia loved life on the farm and enjoyed playing outdoors, and the animals on the farm. At the age of 18, Cynthia moved to Billings, where she met a life-long friend, Mildred McCellen Copeland, who was her friend for almost 40 years. Cynthia passed away after a short illness on March 6, 2008, at the age of 58.

In 1989, Inez Mae moved to Enid. After several years she and Walter bought a lovely home on the tree lined Kiowa Street in south Enid not far from Vance Air Force Base.

After 60 years of marriage, Walter passed away at the age of 91 on May 21, 2005.

She is survived by two nieces, Dixie Peters Bradshaw of Spokane, Wash., Kathy Peters Johnson of Pearland, Texas, and two nephews, Dr. Dave Peters of La Mirada, Calif., and Mike Peters of Baton Rouge, La.

During her years in Enid, Inez Mae Peters Viers enjoyed living in a large enough city, where she could meet new neighbors, friends and the many activities of a larger metropolitan setting.

Inez Mae, who enjoyed discovering a wide range of places to eat as well as being a lifellong lover of music, became a 10-year member of the Enid Symphony Association. She enjoyed traveling and was a lifetime collector of plates, stamps, glasses, salt and pepper shakers, cats, records, angels, plants, lamps, owls and music boxes. She also enjoyed gardening and cooking.

While living in Enid, she became a member of Cedar Ridge Wesleyan Church.

Inez Mae Peters Viers always had a youthful outlook and perspective and was generous to her family and friends with what ever she had. She had a host of friends wherever she lived her life.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to East Maine Lutheran Church through Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home.

Condolences may be made to the family online at www.enidwecare.com.

(Submitted by family)

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