Peggy Frances Hodge Simmons, age 91, passed away on February 10, 2020 in Melbourne, Arkansas. She was born on March 25, 1928 in Ennis, Texas to John William Hodge, Sr. and Alice Hortense Blasingame Hodge. Peggy was raised in Ennis, Texas and graduate from Ennis High School in 1946. She married Fred Melbourne Simmons in 1957 and their family included four children; Patti, Susan, Kay and Greg. She completed vocational training at a secretarial school and became a bookkeeper at Dallas Label and Box Company where she worked for more than twenty years. Her family and friends will always remember Peggy as a loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend. She deeply cared about others, was very sensitive to their needs and loved blessing others. Peggy loved square dancing with her husband, Fred, playing board and card games with family and friends, planning and participating in family events and watching sports events… especially the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers. As a devoted Christian and longtime member of Casa View Baptist Church in Dallas, she invested many years of life, love and laughter singing in the church choir, going on church trips and participating in numerous other church related activities multiple times each week. In journaling about her life achievements, Peggy noted that she was proud to have been named Salutatorian of her graduating high school class, but felt her highest achievement was to have raised children who live out a value of serving others. She blessed others wherever she went, even to her last days and will be deeply missed. She is preceded in death by her husband of over 55 years, Fred M. Simmons; parents, John and Alice Hodge; brother, John Hodge, Jr.; sister, Margaret Groves; daughter, Susan Simmons and grandson, Brian Brock. Peggy is survived by her daughter, Kay Adkins and husband, Carl of Mountain View, Arkansas; son, Greg Simmons and wife, Miriam of Fort Worth, Texas; daughter, Patti Simmons and husband, Karl Brock of Grand Prairie, Texas; grandchildren, Ma’at Crook, Jason Jennette, Isaac Jennette, Janelle Brock, Emily Brock Thorman, Caleb Simmons, Hannah Simmons, Hope Simmons, Lydia Simmons, Luke Simmons, Melissa Adkins Dudding and Tracy Adkins Nicholson; eleven great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held on Saturday, February 22, 2020 from 10:30am to 11:30am at Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church, 9810 La Prada Dr, Dallas, Texas 75228 with services to follow at 11:30am. Interment will follow at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas.
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