Service:
No services are planned at this time.
Funeral home:
Quiram-Peasley Funeral Home, Atlanta
Obituary
Gary S. Peifer, 81, of Waynesville,
passed away at his home on July 28, 2025.
Cremation Rites have been accorded. No services are
planned at this time.
Gary S. Peifer was born April 3, 1944, in
Bloomington, the son of Raymond H. and Leona M.
Ruble Peifer. He married Eva Diane Long on May 22,
1965. She survives.
He is also survived by one son, Mike S. Peifer and
one daughter, Jacquiline M. Peifer; three
grandchildren: Tyler (Emily) Peifer, Kayla (Cooper)
Elam, and Dee Peifer; two great-grandsons; one
brother, Ronald (Jolene) Peifer; and one sister,
Marsha (Charles) Runge.
Gary was preceded in death by his parents.
Gary was a 1962 graduate of McLean-Waynesville High
School. He retired from Caterpillar after 38 years
where he had worked as a mechanical and electrical
design engineer. He patented 13 designs. Gary was a
former Mayor of Waynesville and Village Trustee. He
enjoyed ancestral research and mapped cemetery
ancestry in Waynesville and Atlanta, in addition to
mapping the Peifer family tree. |

Gary also enjoyed antique autos and
had recently restored a 1950 Ford pickup truck.
Memorials can be made to the Waynesville Township
Library, 303 2nd St, Waynesville 61778.
Quiram-Peasley Funeral Home of Atlanta is assisting
the family.
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