The story starts with my father, Charles Peters, telling his mother after high school he was not going to slop hogs anymore and be poor. My father’s father died on his 16th birthday. My father told his mother he was going to join the Navy. After he left, Treva sold the farm at 85th and Seneca and joined the war effort. Her husband, Jacob Peters, was the postmaster in Valley Center, and when he passed, she took over the role. Once she entered the military, she worked in the same capacity out in California, where she was stationed.
My father became a dental corpsman and when the war was over, came back to Wichita College and eventually became a dentist in Valley Center.
After the war my grandmother married James H. Wilson, who survived Pearl Harbor because he traded with a friend to be on the night watch. His barrack was bombed that morning, and my grandfather survived because he was on guard duty.
James Wilson was in the Air Force, ended up at McConnell and finished his military career as recruiter. That is when he met my grandmother, Treva. They married and continued their lives in Valley Center.
Treva became the longest serving postmaster in Valley Center, serving 26 years. She passed away in 1990 at the age of 86.
- Carolyn McGinn, granddaughter
My father became a dental corpsman and when the war was over, came back to Wichita College and eventually became a dentist in Valley Center.
After the war my grandmother married James H. Wilson, who survived Pearl Harbor because he traded with a friend to be on the night watch. His barrack was bombed that morning, and my grandfather survived because he was on guard duty.
James Wilson was in the Air Force, ended up at McConnell and finished his military career as recruiter. That is when he met my grandmother, Treva. They married and continued their lives in Valley Center.
Treva became the longest serving postmaster in Valley Center, serving 26 years. She passed away in 1990 at the age of 86.
- Carolyn McGinn, granddaughter
The story starts with my father, Charles Peters, telling his mother after high school he was not going to slop hogs anymore and be poor. My father’s father died on his 16th birthday. My father told his mother he was going to join the Navy. After he left, Treva sold the farm at 85th and Seneca and joined the war effort. Her husband, Jacob Peters, was the postmaster in Valley Center, and when he passed, she took over the role. Once she entered the military, she worked in the same capacity out in California, where she was stationed.
My father became a dental corpsman and when the war was over, came back to Wichita College and eventually became a dentist in Valley Center.
After the war my grandmother married James H. Wilson, who survived Pearl Harbor because he traded with a friend to be on the night watch. His barrack was bombed that morning, and my grandfather survived because he was on guard duty.
James Wilson was in the Air Force, ended up at McConnell and finished his military career as recruiter. That is when he met my grandmother, Treva. They married and continued their lives in Valley Center.
Treva became the longest serving postmaster in Valley Center, serving 26 years. She passed away in 1990 at the age of 86.
- Carolyn McGinn, granddaughter
My father became a dental corpsman and when the war was over, came back to Wichita College and eventually became a dentist in Valley Center.
After the war my grandmother married James H. Wilson, who survived Pearl Harbor because he traded with a friend to be on the night watch. His barrack was bombed that morning, and my grandfather survived because he was on guard duty.
James Wilson was in the Air Force, ended up at McConnell and finished his military career as recruiter. That is when he met my grandmother, Treva. They married and continued their lives in Valley Center.
Treva became the longest serving postmaster in Valley Center, serving 26 years. She passed away in 1990 at the age of 86.
- Carolyn McGinn, granddaughter
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