Peggy June Young

Peggy was a 17-year resident of Nacogdoches. She was born to Sam Springer Splann and Mabel Ray Brooks on September 12, 1940, in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent her childhood in Corinth, Mississippi. Her family then moved to Grand Prairie, Texas, in 1955 and established their lives there.

Peggy lived and gave birth to three daughters in Carrollton, Texas, before moving to Mt. Pleasant, Texas, with her husband Jerry Young. She and her husband lived in the Blodgett Community for many years, before she moved to Nacogdoches a few years after his death in 1989.

She worked for Boise Cascade in Carrollton, Texas, as an inventory control clerk, then for Pilgrim’s Pride in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, and then at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, where she retired. Since her retirement she volunteered for the gift shop at Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital.

She has been an avid bowler all her life. In Carrollton, Mt. Pleasant, and Nacogdoches, she has been a member of various bowling leagues, from Mixed Bowling Teams to recently being a member of more than one Women's Bowling League.

She has always enjoyed crocheting and blessed her family with many of her creations. She has in the recent years, donated toboggans and blankets for the newborn babies at Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital.

Peggy has been a faithful Christian all her life and has been a member of The Church of Christ Faith. When moving to Nacogdoches, she became a member with Stallings Drive Church of Christ, where she attended services regularly.

Peggy was dearly loved and cherished by her family, friends, community, co-workers, and brothers and sisters in Christ.

Peggy was an especially wonderful, strong and extraordinary mother to her three daughters, raising them for most of their lives, by herself, and providing a warm, loving and very giving home. She will be dearly missed and forever remembered by her daughters, who will carry her legacy of strength, honesty, and love, with them throughout the rest of their lives, to pass on, to their children and many generations.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry W. Young; daughter, Dawn Louise Brown Trippett; and father, Sam Springer Splann.

She is survived in death by her mother, Mabel Ray Splann of Nacogdoches; brother, Sammy Lynn Splann and wife Connie of Nacogdoches; daughters, Pamela Brown of Nacogdoches and Denise Padgett and husband Gene of Moffat, Texas; nephew, Christopher Kyle Splann and wife Marcie and four children of Nacogdoches; niece, Kristi Michelle Splann Blankenship and husband Glenn and three children of Alabama; grandchildren, Brandon Jeremy Trippett and two daughters of Maryland, Mistie Lynn Weaks Erwin and husband Chad and one son and two daughters of Florida, Christian Mace Trippett and one daughter and son of Maryland, Bradley Lough of Nacogdoches, Charlene Denise Trippett Atkins and husband Tom and two daughters of Maryland, and Ryan Lee Weaks and two daughters of Fairfield, Texas. Peggy also has a step-daughter, Reta Owens, and a step-son, Steve Young; along several step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Visitation for Peggy June Splann Young will be held from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Monday, June 22, 2015, at Cason Monk-Metcalf.

Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 23, 2015, at Cason Monk-Metcalf’s Sunset Chapel. Graveside services will also be held at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday Blodgett Church of Christ Cemetery in Blodgett, Texas (Titus County). Directions may be obtained through the family or funeral home.

Proverbs 31:29-31:

29. Many daughters have done well, but you excel them all.

30. Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.

31. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.

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Arrangements are under the direction of Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors, located at 5400 North Street in Nacogdoches, Texas.