Funeral Services for Ken will be held at Hill Crest Memorial Funeral Home in Haughton on January 03, 2022 at 2:00 pm, with appropriate military honors. Visitation will be from 1:00 to 2:00 pm prior to the service. Interment will follow at Hill Crest Memorial Park.
Ken was born on May 18, 1934 in Rochester, New York. He retired from active military service (USAF) in 1972, and again from Federal Civil Service in 1995.
He is preceded in death by his father, Robert Piddington; his mother and step-father, Ann and Tony Stefandes; wife, Molly Hartnell Peddington; daughter, Kathy A. Holmes; sister, Edna Johnson; brother, Donald W. Piddington; and son-in-laws, Tiny Taniguchi and Carl Benedict.
He is survived by his son, Kevin Peddington, (wife Tina); daughters, Mary Benedict, Denise Davis (husband Gary), Teresa Taniguchi and Deborah Peddington; step-daughter, Catherine Lotowski; step-son, Mark Lotowski (wife Susie) and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
A graduate of both Georgia Military College and Louisiana Tech University, Ken was an avid student of history, with a keen appreciation of fine art and poetic verse. Ken’s final words of departure are from the poem “Crossing the Bar” by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892):
“Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.”
