Timothy Howard Peacock, 70, of Bend, Oregon was undergoing a heart operation when he passed. We know that his spiritual heart did not want to leave us but his physical heart had used up all the fight it had and he flew away from us up to Heaven on June 11th, 2023.
Tim was born in Alameda, California on July 12, 1952, to Howard and Kathryn (Smith) Peacock. He attended Glassbrook Elementary School, LaVista Jr. High, and graduated from Tennyson High School, all in Hayward, California. He did many of the same things that boys did growing up. Having a paper route, joining Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and various sports groups. He and his family were active in camping, boating, water skiing, and building dune buggies, which included traveling to many places on the west coast to do these activities.
In 1972, Tim joined the Navy and was assigned to the USS Claud Jones working as a machinist. The Claud Jones sailed through the South China Sea to various ports and its homeport was Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Coronado, California. Tim enjoyed his time in the Navy and met many people that became lifelong friends that he was still in touch before his passing.
In April of 1974, while stationed in Hawaii, Tim met the love of his life, San Diego native, Linda Chavez. Less than a year later they were married on March 4th, 1975. They decided to move north to Bend, Oregon. In October of 1977, they moved up to the Historic Skyliner Subdivision where life with a family and community began.
In the same year and month they moved to Skyliner, they welcome their first daughter to the world, Julie Michelle Peacock. Three years later they were surprised and blessed to welcome twins to the world, Kathy Jo Peacock and Jill Suzanne Peacock.
Tim was a father with endless energy. There wasn’t a weekend in the summer that you wouldn’t find the family camping and boating at the various lakes around Central Oregon. From dawn to dusk, both the best time for water skiing, Tim had his kids and their friends on the water. There is a handful of adults out there who as kids were taught to waterski and get bounced off an inner tube while being towed by Tim. They loved it and being a kid at heart always, Tim did too.
Winters require a lot of work living in Central Oregon and many the nights after a day of work, Tim would be out with, in the early years in an old red International Scout or until present in the veteran blue Jeep Wagoneer, equipped with a snow plow, keeping the family dug out of the snow. It wasn’t just his driveway that he cleared but neighbors and friends in need as well.
Speaking of neighbors and friends, it was another part of his life that he had endless energy for. The Skyliner Subdivision, in comparison to the growth that has been happening in Bend, has been able to retain the strong sense of community that occurred when Tim and Linda were raising their kids 40-plus years ago to the present. Neighbors and friends loved the company of Tim, be it for a cup of coffee, a question about a vehicle, borrowing a tool, advice or an ear to bend. Tim was a part of this community for over 40 years, so much so that some of his relationships with his neighbors grew and blossomed to such an extent that he no longer thought of them as friends but as family. This included the Walkers, the Andersons, the Arneys, the Storjohanns, Jim, Tarina, Dottie, and many many more.
Upon retirement, Tim turned his passion to hit the road in his mobile home, The Dynasty, which we always giggle, at when daughter Jill misread it and called it the Dee-Nasty. Jokes aside, he loved living part-time in his RV. One would think that with an RV you would hit different destinations each year but that is different from what Tim wanted. They returned year after year to Lake Havasu and you know why? It comes back to that love of people. Tim easily made friends and loved to return to be with these friends.
Lake Havasu wasn’t the only place Tim and Linda traveled to. With three daughters moving around the country and world, they were also able to visit 15 countries and every single state in the US with the last being Alaska in July of 22.
It can’t be forgotten the love Tim had for her fur family. In the early part of his life cats were a constant, Martha, Tigger, Peaches, and most recently Rocky, who was always with Tim and Linda when they traveled stateside in their “Dee-Nasty” RV. But the majority of Tim’s love was directed at his dogs, Nando, Sparky, Max, and Molly, the latter three being Corigies, his favorite bread.
Tim was many things to many people, an adoring husband, a proud father, a little brother, a goofy uncle, an unjudgemental and generous father-in-law, a playful grandfather, a helpful and welcoming neighbor, and a talented mechanic to name a few. He loved the Whoppers, malt balls with chocolate coating, fresh crab, stinky blue cheese and bad Dad jokes. He loved Jeff Gordan and loved watching the endless looping of a good Nascar race. He took his kids to Disneyland when there were growing up so often that they finally pleaded to no longer go, although they are still some of their most fond childhood memories.
Tim is survived by the love of his life, Linda Peacock, Daughter Julie Peacock and her husband, Josh Monschke, and their Daughter, Esmerelda Monschke, Daughter Kathy Peacock and her husband Dan Metcalf, and their sons, Finn Metcalf and Miles Metcalf, Daughter Jill Peacock and her partner Tyler, Brother George Peacock and his wife Jeanne, Sister Kristine (Peacock) Allen and her husband Bob Allen and many many nieces, nephews, and cousins.
A Celebration Of Life will take place July 15th at 1 PM at New Hope Church, 20080 Pinebrook Blvd, Bend, Oregon.