MARGARET WICKS obituary

Margaret "Peggy" (Anderson) Wicks, 82, a North Joplin farm wife and homemaker, who moved to Rudyard in 1984 and was active at the Rudyard Senior Center, died from cancer on Saturday at the Liberty Medical Center in Chester. Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Rudyard. Following burial at the Rudyard Cemetery, a reception will be held at the church. Arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester. Peggy was preceded in death by her husband, Bertram, and an infant daughter, Norma Jean. Survivors are nine children, Barbara Cady of Joplin, Carlene Mandeville of Bozeman, Norman Wicks of Twin Bridges, Roxy Gillespie of Kevin, Cindy Davis of Morristown, Minn., Susan McDonald of Kalispell, Rhonda Richardson of Belgrade, Sharon Reed of Chinook, and Mark Wicks of Inverness; one sister, Mildred Thompson of Milk River, Alberta; two brothers, Harold Anderson of Milk River, Alberta, and Darrel Anderson of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; 25 grandchildren (including Kelly Wicks, who she raised); and seven greatgrandchildren.