He loved family, children, home, music, arts, reading, the ocean, traveling, outings, crossword puzzles, sitting on the porch watching the birds and wildlife in the field. Peter passed away peacefully July 17, 2018 at home in Sanbornville, N.H., with family after prolonged medical problems.

Peter was born August 22, 1941 in Munchen, Germany, at the height of World War II, son of Paul D Schlenker and Barbara E. Schundelmaier, who worked as an interpreter in Germany for several years.

Relocating to the U.S., he attended elementary school in Columbus and Canton, Ohio, and then the family moved to Highland Park, where he graduated in 1959. He attended The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., and Marquette University in Milwaukee, prior to enlisting in the Navy in 1962, training at San Diego and assigned to USS Ranger, Treasure Island, San Francisco. Hisareer included work in industrial equipment sales, engineering, supervisory capacity, consulting, construction in California, New Jersey, New Mexico and New Hampshire. 

Beloved husband, father and grandfather, he will be greatly missed and cherished.

Peter is survived by his wife Cheryl L. (Crawford) Schlenker; son Peter G. Schlenker; grandchildren Kelli A. Schlenker and Michael W. Schlenker and relatives and extended family on both the East and West Coasts. 

Peter’s favorite passage in Th the New Testaments is I Corinthians Chapter 13, starting with “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal” and ends with Verse 13 “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”