William Tullin Peterson

William Tullin Peterson, 90, born on September 21, 1926, in Harvard, Illinois, passed away on October 12, 2016. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, which launched his eventual career in telecommunications with General Telephone Company (later GTE and Verizon). A long-time resident of Santa Monica and later Pasadena, CA, he was active in Santa Monica Little League, Optimists, United Cerebral Palsy, and the Santa Monica-Palisades Chapter of Free and Accepted Masons. A highlight of his career as a traffic engineer and telephone executive was overseeing the initial conversion of mechanical to computerized call routing and switching for the UCLA campus. Remembered as Bill or "Pete" to associates and friends, he was first and foremost devoted to his family as the loving husband of Chanuth Joy Peterson, his late wife of 56 years; the caring father of his four children, Vance, Kathy, Kevin, and Glen; the proud grandfather of Sara, Tess, and Ashley, and great grandfather of Kate and Henry.