Local Peaceheroes

Dayton Peace Hero – 2011 (b.1923 – d.2012) Jeanne M. Comer, née Kuncl, was born August 1, 1923, in Omaha, Nebraska. She met Orville Comer in Collinsville, Illinois, just before World War II. They married there in 1941. After Orville returned from the war and completed his degree, they moved to Dayt

Dayton Peace Hero – 2014 Community leader John E. Moore Sr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on January 11, 1923. He and his family moved to Dayton the following year, and Dayton has been his home ever since. John attended Dayton Public Schools, and then studied business administration at the Unive

Dayton Peace Hero – 2012 “You need to know what people did in the past.” That’s been one of Margaret Evelyn Peters’s maxims for most, if not all, of her life. In an interview with the Peace Museum, Margaret said that by understanding what really happened in the past, we could achieve more in the pr