Louis & Sam Peters

Twins Louis and Sam Peters were the youngest of six children born to Charles H. Peters and his wife, the former Rosa Ginsburg. In 1925, within a year after Rosa died, Charles admitted ten-year-old Louis and Sam to the Home from Beaumont, Texas.

While in the Home, Louis and Sam were active members of the Boy Scouts. Both boys took the stage in performances with the Children’s Theater Guild, including Sam’s 1929 performance as Wilkins in “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” and Louis’s 1928 and 1929 roles as Jim in “Tom Sawyer” and as Friar Tuck in “Robin Hood.” At the Home’s anniversary celebrations, Louis served as emcee in a 1931 program fashioned after a radio show, and as the soldier hero in the 1932 production of Debussy’s “La Boîte a Joujoux.”

In 1932, Louis and Sam were discharged to their father in Houston, Texas.

Sam married Dorothy Gellman and raised two children. He worked as an electrician. He died in 1954 at age 40 and was buried in Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery in Galveston, Texas. 

Louis married Lena Goren and raised two children. He worked as an electrical contractor. He died in 1995 at age 80 and was buried in Emanuel El Memorial Park in Houston, Texas.