Retirement, Death and Burial
Bishop Peele retired at the 1952 meeting of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference of The Methodist Church. He made his retirement home on X-Way Road near Rockdale in Scotland County, North Carolina.
Bishop William Walter Peele died 1 July 1959 and was buried in his wife's family's Lytch Cemetery in Laurinburg, North Carolina.
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