Moneveh W. Peters

Moneveh W. Peters, 95, of Danvers, died Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at the Woburn Rehab. and Nursing Center. A native of California, she was born November 8, 1927 to the late Ernest and Dora Weeks and was raised and educated in Bristol, England. Moneveh was married to the late Nicholas Peters in Boston in 1952. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Monever and Norman Chambers of Boxford, grandson Nicholas Chambers and granddaughter Katelyn Chambers. Her overseas family includes her late brother Douglas Weeks, brother Bruce Weeks and niece Christine Sammons of New Zealand and niece Kandi Tchir of Edmonton, Canada. She was predeceased by her sister Carol Weeks and half-brother Derrick Telling. Her working career included staff teacher at Stenotype Institute of Boston, 16 years as engineering secretary at GTE Sylvania, Danvers, concluding with her professional life as a licensed broker and appraiser in Essex and Middlesex Counties. Moneveh was an active member of the Baha’i Faith all her life. She had been an elected member of the Boston and Ipswich Baha’i Assemblies and served as an appointee to the Green Acre Baha’i Council for several years. She pioneered Baha’i children’s classes in Montreal, Canada and at Green Acre Baha’i School in Eliot, ME. She helped organize and teach children and adult Baha’i classes in Boston and on the North Shore for more than sixty years. Funeral services will be conducted on Monday, December 19, 2022 at 11AM in C.R. Lyons & Sons Funeral Directors, 28 Elm St., Danvers. Burial will follow in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Danvers. Relatives and friends are invited. Donations in her memory may be made to MSPCA-Angell, Attn: Donations, 350 South Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02130. For directions or to share a condolence, please visit www.LyonsFuneral.com.