Peter Alexander Stransky

Our cherished son, Peter, died in his sleep on June 1, 2025, in Nashua, New Hampshire at the age of 48.

Peter was born at Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 29, 1977.  He graduated from Judge Memorial High in 1995. He worked for American Express in Salt Lake City, moved to Portland, Oregon and continued his career working for Wells Fargo.  He completed his degree in Graphic Design while continuing to work.  He returned to Salt Lake City and began a new career as a supervisor for the USPS.  He moved to New Hampshire in 2020 and continued serving in the USPS until his death.

Peter loved acting in plays, singing in choirs, writing poetry, and drawing. Music interests ranged from Bob Dylon, Oingo Boingo, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd to Nathaniel Ratliff.  Favorite movies included Monte Python from whom he often quoted one liners, Reservoir Dogs,  Aliens and Brave Heart.   For reading he stretched from John Steinbeck to Annie Jacobsen, who he really loved to hear in her audio books.  

Peter loved the outdoors, mostly hiking by himself so he could collect his thoughts and record them in his diaries through poetry.  Peter wrote in notebooks, filling them with his private thoughts—curious, unsettled, always reaching for something deeper.  His mind wandered, and he followed it onto the page.  It may have helped him make sense of things.

Peter knew how to turn the mundane into a masterpiece.  Whether it was his art, his paintings and drawings that adorned his walls and ours or simply how he told a story.  Pete often repeated these stories and, as a result, earned the nick name “RePete.”   Peter was an artist, not just in talent, but in spirit.  His paintings and drawings were windows into the parts of him he didn’t always talk about.  He was a private man, often reserved, but if you caught him in the right moment, if you really asked and were willing to listen, he’d share something that would stay with you.  His words, like his art, always had layers.

Peter was complicated, private, thoughtful and funny.  He was hard to define, impossible to sum up. The three siblings, Joseph, Alyssa, and Peter were three different people with different paths and views.  But when they were together, it worked.  They shared a bond, a sense of humor that bounced off each other and memories that pulled them close.

In a family ZOOM last year, a very tough year for Peter, he asked all of us to listen to the song, “Stand by Me.”  Peter, we will continue to do this for you.

He leaves behind his heartbroken family, parents;  Michael and Carolyn Stransky, SLC, UT, brother; Joseph (Kari) Stransky, Mesa, AZ,  sister; Alyssa (Daniel) Hershkowitz, San Francisco, CA,  nephew; Alex (Kelsey) Stransky, SLC, UT, and numerous uncles, aunts, and cousins.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated at the Cathedral of the Madeleine at 11:00 AM, August 8, 331 East South Temple.  Burial at Mount Calvary Cemetery with family members only.  A celebration of Peter’s life will be at Starks Funeral Parlor the same day from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, 3651 South 900 East, Millcreek, UT.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Starks Funeral Parlor.  Please visit www.starksfuneral.com to share photos and memories.

Special thanks and in lieu of flowers contribute to Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of Utah https://uofuhealth.org/peteralexanderstransky or a charity of your choice.