Peggy Lou (Jolly) Wegener

Born

February 26, 1929

Pocasset, OK

Died

August 11, 2024 – Age 95

Service

August 16, 2024 at Minco First Baptist Church directed by Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home

Peggy Lou (Jolly) Wegener was born to Lawrence and Catherine “Dolly” (Davis) Jolly.

She graduated from Minco High School in 1947. While in High School, she was in numerous clubs, but especially loved cheerleading. Immediately after graduation, she attended Blackwood Business College in OKC. She was very proud of herself, being raised as a farm girl, and now she had gone to college, gotten a job with an oil company, rented an apartment with a friend, and bought her first car, a green 1949 ford.

She married the love of her life, Raymond “Chick” Wegener, on March 30, 1951, and they were married 63 years until his death in 2014. After they got married, they moved to the farm five miles northwest of town and remodeled a home that had not been lived in for several years, and began dairying, where they raised their three children, Debbie, Denise, and Rodney. They were in the dairy business for 45 years.

They traveled many places with the dairy industry and Peggy really enjoyed that. They were the WKY Farmer-Rancher family of the month in May 1970. Chick never wanted Peggy to milk the cows or drive a tractor, but she was a great home maker. Peggy was a wonderful cook and seamstress and loved crocheting and all kinds of decorating. She was a very good artist and looked forward to her art lessons every week with several of her very good friends. She was also an avid reader until her eyesight began to fail. She read her Bible through several times.

Chick and Peggy had the privilege of traveling all over the United States and several times overseas and tried to take family vacations each year. But probably their favorite thing to do as a couple and with the family was attend OSU sporting events. They had season tickets to football and basketball games for many years and loved tailgating with the family.

Most importantly, Peggy accepted the Lord as her Savior at the age of nine in 1938, at Harold Baptist Church. She joined the First Baptist Church in Minco in 1946, where she was still a member. She loved her church and taught the Beginner (4 & 5 yrs old) for approximately 25 years. She loved teaching these kids. We’re not sure if it was because of the love of the children or because they told her all their family “happenings/secrets”. For many years, she helped every Wednesday after school cooking for the kids’ program. Peggy served on the funeral dinner committee for years. She felt like this was truly a ministry, and it is. She and her very good friend, Connie Fitzgerald, took one day a week and visited the shut-in women, not only in the church, but in the community. They really enjoyed these times as much as the people they were visiting did.

When Chick passed away in 2014, Peggy broke her back six months later and moved to Weatherwood (now Homestead) Assisted Living Center in Weatherford to be near her daughter. This was going to be a temporary move until she recovered, but she loved it there and lived there until her death. While there, for 9 ½ years, she made many wonderful friends in the residents and staff.

She is survived by two daughters, Debbie Hasse and husband, Jan, of Sarasota, FL; Denise Wieland and husband, Charlie, of Hydro; one son, Rodney Wegener and wife, Leslie, of Minco

ten grandchildren; Lauren Clippard and husband, Matt, of Sarasota, FL; Jon Hasse and wife, Jen, of Parker, CO; Rebekah Morris and husband, Matt, of Sarasota, FL; Gretchen Cannon and husband, Brian, of Choctaw, OK; Heidi Wilburn of Aledo, TX; Katy Major and husband, Phillip, of Calumet; Blake Wieland and wife, Emmy, of Edmond; Chad Pinkerton and wife, Jenny, of Edmond; Wes Wegener and wife, Eileen, of Wellesley, MA; and Austin Wegener of Yukon; and 23 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond “Chick” Wegener; her parents, Lawrence and Dolly Jolly; brother, Jack Jolly; great granddaughter, Payton Pinkerton; and many other friends and family members.