David Foster Peyton Jr.

David was born in Evanston, Illinois on November 1,1941 and was the only child of Tip and Trudie Peyton. A move to Victoria occurred when Tip began a career at Union Carbide and David developed a lifelong love of Texas. This is story of a boy who became the man who was a son, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.                     

David began his Texas life on Bluebonnet Street which was surrounded by open fields and great opportunities for young boys to develop a love of nature.  He had a paper route by age fourteen and his savings from it helped buy a Hudson car. After high school in 1959 he went to TLC Seguine on a tennis college scholarship then returned to Victoria on another scholarship.    

In 1961 he met Jerry Hall and they married in 1965.David and Jerry’s family grew to include Justin, Lesley and later four grandchildren, Jessica, Ryan, Shane, Journey and great-grandchild Levi. He was especially blessed to love a son-in-law Michael Sallee. Ally was a bright spot in his life also.  David entered the banking world at Victoria Bank and Trust where I’m he worked for 25 years, but his last employment with the Texas Boll Weeville was his most enjoyable.  This is the time period in which for the next two decades he battled five different types of cancer.  Those began with lung then kidney, then throat, then colon then Desmoid tumors.  MD Anderson called him The Miracle Man.  David was the man who loved spending time with Lesley  sitting in his truck in a deer blind, talking cars with Justin, or fishing and hunting with Michael He was my husband for sixty years and the love of my life.  He was a man for all seasons with the courage of a lion who loved his god, country, and family above all. David’s was a life well spent and his footsteps will remain in our memories always.  

On the morning of August the tenth, after being surrounded by all of his family and laughing and talking with them night before,  he simply closed his eyes, gave up the good fight and slipped away
There were many things David accomplished in his life.  He was proud of graduating from UH Houston, an LSU degree and numerous civic awards.  Golf and tennis were his go -twos but football was in the running.  However when asked what he was waiting on.  He had a simple answer.  “I’m waiting on hunting season to start.”  So the young boy growing up on Bluebonnet Street became the man sitting in his truck, with his daughter doing a crossword puzzle, watching the deer and enjoying nature was still the same young  boy from Bluebonnet Street.

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