Helen Jo Peters

Helen Peters was born to the late Rev. Boyd W. Scott and Jetta M. Scott, A United Methodist Minister and her Mother a homemaker, in Weston, West Virginia, on June 8, 1951.

She was immersed in the Christian community that would be her lifelong Support from an early age. She graduated at the top third of her class from the Connellsville Senior High School in 1969, having written the Senior Class Song and was President of the Year Book Club. She accepted a Clerk position with the FBI Identification Division in Washington, DC, and worked there for 1 year. She worked as a Secretary for the Department of HUD in Washington, DC for 2 years before joining her first husband (Norman Sye Kinley) in Korea, where she bore their daughter (Anita Marie Kinley). Upon completion of her first husband’s 16 month tour of Korea, she served as a Secretary in the Housing Referral Office at McGuire AFB in New Jersey, when her family was transferred to Ft. Lee Virginia where she worked on post as a Secretary for the Officer’s Record Section. They moved to Florida where she worked as a Secretary for Northern Propane for one year. She returned to Washington DC to HUD (upon her divorce after 5 years) where she would work as a Secretary, Management Analysis and finally a Contract Oversight Specialist, completing her government/private industry service for a total of 30 years. 

Helen was blessed with a godly man to help raise her daughter. She married her best Friend and God-given husband and helpmate, Richard E. Peters, Jr., on June 6, 1981 at Akatink Lake in Spring Field, Virginia. Although Helen and Gene experienced a miscarriage of their first child, they together raised their beautiful daughter with patience, discipline and humility, and most of all with the love of the Lord.

Helen and her daughter joined the Grace World Outreach Church in 2008. Her prayers were answered when her husband joined her as a member in 2014. She joined the choir for 4 years; assisted in teaching Spiritual Warfare Classes with her husband and Walking in the Supernatural Power of God Class taught by her daughter Anita. Helen, Gene and Anita have always cooked up to 30 turkeys every Thanksgiving to feed the homeless and less fortunate; plus worked with the 25/35 Project feeding the community. She will be dearly missed by her loved ones.

 Helen is survived by her husband. Gene Peters; her daughter Anita Marie Kinley. She is preceded in death by her parents, and her brothers, Boyd W. Scott, Jr, Lawrence Allen Scott, her Sister, Marie Wingard.

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