Colorado Springs Woman Who Inspired 'peanuts' Character Has Died

By Stephanie Earls stephanie.earls@gazette.com -Louanne (Clark) Van Pelt was a new bride when she moved to the Springs with her husband, Philip, after World War II. Philip hadn't known Charles Schulz when they served together in the U.S. Army's 20th Armored Division, but they recognized one another when they crossed paths in the stairwell of a downtown office building, where Schulz had rented space in a bid to overcome writer's block.As it turned out, the men lived a few houses from each other in the Bonneville neighborhood, near the Old North End.

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