CAMPBELL, Mo. -- Peggy Louise Polsgrove, 88 of Dexter, formerly of Campbell, passed away Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017 in Cape Girardeau, surrounded by her husband and three children. Peggy, daughter of Fred and Sola Rosenbaum Froman and was born Wednesday, Jan. 30, 1929 in Flint, Mich.
Mrs. Polsgrove was a homemaker, painter, and community volunteer. She was a 50 years member of the Cotton Boll Girl Scout Council, a member of the Council's Board of Directors and a recipient of the Thanks Badge. She was a member of the Chalk Bluff Chapter of the DAR, and founding member of the Missouri Peach Fair and the Bootheel Youth Museum in Malden. She continues to be a member of the Presbyterian Trinity Church in Columbia, Mo. She attended the United Methodist Church in Campbell from 1968 to 2010 and also attended the First United Methodist Church in Dexter. She was insurance broker and later on was owner of Peach Tree Flower Shop.
On Oct. 1, 1949, in Campbell, she was united in marriage to Floyd Polsgrove, who she lived with and loved for 68 years. He survives of the home in Dexter.
She is the mother of three children: one son, Kent Polsgrove (Ann), and two daughters: Karen Lane, and Kay Stevenson, all of Dexter. Additional survivors include seven grandchildren: Marianna Lane, Sarah Jarrell (Brad), Nicole Rudisill (Josh), Martha Kolker (Justin), Michelle Lane, Kendra Stevenson (Jordan Noyes), and Tyler Stevenson along with five great-grandchildren: Brandon, Emily, Walker, Weston, and Brock.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, George Albert Patrick and one sister, Thelma Inez Wilson.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017 at the Landess Funeral Home in Campbell with funeral services beginning at noon, with Ron Beaton from the First United Methodist Church in Dexter, officiating. Burial will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery in Campbell.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Bootheel Youth Museum or the charity of your choice.
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