Obituary: Peter Winchester Packard
Peter Winchester Packard 1392 - 2021 TOPEKA, Kan. - Peter Winchester Packard, son of Frederick Clifton Packard Jr. and Alice Mansur .
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Peter Winchester Packard
Peter Winchester Packard 1392 – 2021 TOPEKA, Kan. – Peter Winchester Packard, son of Frederick Clifton Packard Jr. and Alice Mansur Packard, was born in Cambridge, Mass. on Dec. 7, 1932. After a long battle with Alzheimer’s, he died in Topeka, Kan. on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. He graduated in 1951 from the Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Mass. and from Dartmouth College in 1955 in Hanover, N.H. He spent eight years serving in the United States Air Force moving his growing family to his assignments in McAllen, Texas; Biloxi, Miss.; then Topeka, Kan. While working full time, he attended the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare graduating in 1964 with a master’s degree in social work. In 1988 he moved with his wife Betsy to their dream home at Bethel Point in Ha