Charles Edward Peck

Charles Edward (Ted) Peck passed away on December 26, 2016, at home, surrounded by his loving family. Ted was born on December 1, 1925, in Newark, NJ, and grew up in Lancaster, PA. After graduating in 1943 from Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, he joined the Army Air Corps where he became a navigator. In 1949 he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The same year he married his college classmate Delphine Murphy, with whom he just celebrated their 67 years of marriage. Ted joined Owens Corning Fiberglas where he initially held a series of sales assignments. In 1954, when he was assigned to the OCF headquarters in Toledo, OH, the family made their home in nearby Perrysburg, a small historic town which became the hometown of their four children. At OCF, Ted held a series of managerial positions with increasing responsibilities, and in 1966 he became a vice president. He subsequently held the position of Group Vice-president of the Construction Group and was appointed to the OCF Board of Directors. He concluded his twenty years at OCF in the position of Executive VP. In 1981, at age 55, Ted became CEO of the Ryland Group, a publicly held, Columbia, MD, based home building and Mortgage Company. In addition, to his responsibilities at Ryland he took a leadership role in initiating and supporting many local community activities. He also became a member and Chairman of the University System of Maryland Foundation and was on the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee. In 1995, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Public Service by the University of Maryland University College. In 1990, Ted retired and moved to St. Michaels, MD, where he and Delphine built a new home on property at the confluence of Solitude and Edge Creeks .There they enjoyed summers with many of their eleven grandchildren, whose activities progressed from swimming and sailing lessons and day camps to summer jobs as assistants in these same activities. On the Eastern Shore Ted served on the Visiting Committee of the UM Center for Environmental Science, headquartered at Horn Point, Cambridge and also joined the Memorial Hospital Foundation Board. He also became chairman of a newly organized Advisory Committee of the Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry. Ted and Delphine enjoyed participating in local activities such as the Academy of Lifelong Learning in St. Michaels, and supported the organization of the first Harriet Tubman’s Underground RR conference. Ted found it rewarding to research all branches of his family ancestry, and focused especially on his local ties. His grandmother Sarah Elizabeth Pattison, born in 1866, grew up in Cambridge. Among other findings he found the early history of Thomas Pattison who, in 1671, settled on James Island. After more than twenty years of Ted’s retirement, Ted and Delphine decided it was time to move to a retirement community, and they moved to a new home in the Londonderry Retirement Community in Easton, where they found much to enjoy. Ted is survived by his beloved wife, Delphine Murphy Peck; their four children, Margaret Peck Lovino of Easton, MD, Charles E. Peck, Jr. of Parkville, MD, Katherine Peck Koustmer of Cincinnati, OH, and Perry Peck Flanagan, of Loudon, TN; eleven grandchildren, Joan Iovino, Suzanne Peck Wetzel, Theodore Peck, Stephen Peck, Elizabeth Koustmer Josowitz, Jacqueline Koustmer Hagood, Delphine Koustmer, William Koustmer, James Flanagan, Sarah Flanagan, and Katherine Flanagan; and three great-grandchildren. He is predeceased by his parents, Hubert Raymond “Dutch” Peck and Helen White Peck; his brother, H. Raymond Peck Jr. and is survived by his sister, Joan Peck Arnold, of South Berwick, ME. Interment will be private at Oxford Cemetery. A memorial service is planned for Monday, January 16, at 1:30 PM, at the Third Haven Meeting in Easton. In lieu of flowers, if desired, it is suggested that contributions in Ted’s memory can be made to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Foundation, Attn: David Balcom, PO BOX 775, Cambridge MD 21613 or the National Family Resiliency Center (Formerly Children of Separation and Divorce), 10632 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Suite 121, Columbia, MD 21044.

Charles Edward Peck

December 1, 1925 - December 26, 2016