BOONE, Iowa—Funeral arrangements are set for 79 year old Peggy Ione (Hopkins) Jack. She passed away on Friday, April 30, 2021 in Bastrop, Texas.
Peggy Ione (Hopkins) Jack was born on October 13, 1941 in Boone, Iowa, to Harriet Hopkins Geisler (Lamphere) and Lowell Hopkins. On December 24, 1957, she married the love of her life, Fred Jack and had five wonderful children, Dottie, Benny, Jimmy, Laurie, and Joni. Peggy loved the simple life pleasures of gardening, canning, crocheting, and quilting. She served in women’s ministry as well as multiple children’s ministries. The children in the ministries have fond memories of the bag of candies she always had in her purse.
Peggy was preceded in death by her parents, Harriet and Lowell Hopkins; her two sons, Benny and Jimmy Jack; her grandson, Tyrel Jack; and her granddaughter, Melissa Howell Johnson.
She is survived by her husband, Fred; three children, Dottie Howell of Elgin, Laurie and husband, Barry Weathers of Bay City and Joni and husband, Aleph Yonker of Elgin; 12 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren and a great-great granddaughter; sisters, Joyce Keith of Colorado and Lola Sorensen of Iowa; and brother, Jim Hopkins of Iowa.
A Celebration of Peggy’s Life will be held beginning at 1:00 P.M. on Saturday, June 19, 2021 at the Boone Pioneer Senior Center, 1112 Story Street, Boone, IA, 50036. Memorial contributions can be made in Peggy’s memory to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
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