Robert (Bob) Ward Peters

A memorial service will be held at Sparkman Funeral Home, 1029 South Greenville Avenue, Richardson, Texas at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 30th with Rev. Paul E. Nichols and Jay H. Miller conducting the service. An inurnment ceremony will take place at the DFW National Cemetery at a later date.

Bob was born in Bangor, Maine, on February 11, 1943, the son of Henry M. and Marion Ward Peters. He grew up in Bangor and graduated from Bangor High School in 1961. He attended college in Pennsylvania and later was awarded a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

He became interested in amateur radio as a child and received his HAM license at age 15 as WN1JNN. Because of moves and upgrades, he has also held the call signs K1JNN, N4TRU, KK5FJ and W1PE. He served as Vice President and on the Board of Directors for the Dallas Amateur Radio Club and was a member of the Ham Association of Mesquite. He was well-known for being “Santa on the Air” on Christmas Eve. Bob held an FCC Amateur Radio Extra Class license, an FCC General Radio Telephone license, and a certification from the Society of Broadcast Engineers. For several years he served as the Commercial Exhibits Chairman for HamCom and was active as a mentor in DFW Radio Scouting for Boy Scouts of America.

Bob joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1966 and had control of MARS in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967. He was later stationed with the Defense Intelligence Agency at NATO headquarters in the Netherlands for four years. Before his honorable discharge in 1978, he served on the Presidential Communications Team at SHAPE Belgium for five years and carried a Cosmic Top Secret clearance.

Music was an important part of Bob’s life, and he spent his later years involved in marketing and management in the foreground and background commercial music industry including Music Choice, MUZAK, AEI Music, Yesco, and 3M, and as a commercial satellite television distributor of DirecTV. At the time of his death, he was Vice President and General Manager of Audio Video Media. He served on the Music Choice Advisory Board and the AEI Music Network Dealer Council.

Bob was a member of ARRL, ARRL Diamond Club, Quarter Century Wireless Association, Dallas Amateur Radio Club, Ham Association of Mesquite, Army MARS, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Legion.

Bob is survived by his wife Jane; his son Douwe Peters Iedema of Brunssum, the Netherlands; stepsons David Walker and wife Gera of Lithia Springs, GA, William Walker and wife Victoria of Bremerton, WA, and Michael Walker of Seattle, WA; stepdaughter Reed Walker Haight of Davis, CA; brother Bradley Peters and wife Jan Ross of Erving, MA; step-grandchildren Benjamin Haight, Christopher Walker, and Evan Walker; step-great-granddaughter Lauren Haight; niece Elizabeth Peters; grandnephew Liam Collins and grandniece Maeve Collins.

Memorials may be made to AARL Diamond Club or DFW Radio Scouting for Boy Scouts of America.