Services celebrating Anne’s life will be held on November 12th, 2016 at 11:00 am at First Christian Church, 101 N 10th Street, in Columbia. Her ashes will be interred in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis.
Born in Indianapolis, IN on April 29, 1923 of Joseph Peggs and Nola Taylor Peggs, the family moved to University City, MO when Anne was about seven, where she attended school and then received her Associate Degree from Christian College (now Columbia College) in Columbia. Her marriage to Robert Scott ended with his death in an airplane accident, leaving her with three small children, one of whom was severely disabled. A second marriage ended in divorce, with one son. Her more recent marriage to H.B. ”Tommy” Tomlin celebrated 56 years of happy marriage life earlier this year.
Anne was a 70 year member of P.E.O. and was very active until a stroke in the mid-90’s left her with poor balance and dementia. She was President of the Columbia KA chapter more than once and held office in an Indianapolis chapter when she lived there in 1994 and 1995.
Anne spent many years as a nursery school teacher in the Ladue Chapel Nursery School in the St. Louis area and enjoyed watching some of her students grow up and become leaders and politicians in St. Louis and St. Louis County. She was a volunteer for St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis. When she and Tommy moved to Columbia, she served on the Education Committee of the Central Missouri Humane Society and was a volunteer prison visitor in the Missouri Prison System. Moving back to St. Louis, she was recognized for her work teaching intake classes for the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole.
Anne's sister, Mary Eleanor Welch Penney, and two children, Mary Kay Scott and Charles Linwood Tomlin, preceded her in death. She is survived by her husband, “Tommy” Tomlin; two children, Joe Scott and Deborah Scott; two grand-children, Dan Tomlin and Rachel Tomlin; and numerous nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, donations are suggested to Second Chance, Central Missouri Humane Society, or First Christian Church of Missouri.
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