Peggy Morgan Priddy

Burial will be at Oakland Community Cemetery in Canton where the family will be receiving friends at 3:00 P.M.

Mrs. Priddy passed away peacefully on Monday, May 30, 2016, at Atria-Copeland.

She was born February 9, 1939, in the Black Jack community, to Jimmie Allen and Vada Sally (Hitt) Morgan, but was raised in the Oakland community, between Canton and Grand Saline.

A 1957 graduate of Grand Saline High School, she was a spelling bee participant, secretary-treasurer of her senior class, on the yearbook staff, and voted Most Friendly. The first in her family to attend college, she was a 1961 graduate of the former Texas Eastern School of Nursing on the Tyler Junior College campus. She worked as a nurse at Tyler Pipe and what was then Mother Frances Hospital before starting a family. As a homemaker, she attended all of her children's school functions, supported her husband's participation in the Boy Scouts of America and a street rod club, and was a member of what was then Dixie Baptist Church.

A loving daughter, wife, mother, grandmother and mother-in-law, she devoted her life to caring for others. She was preceded in death by her grandparents; parents; husband, Owen Priddy; sister, Wynona Poole; brothers, Jimmie, Johnnie, Ernest Ray, Billy, and Ralph Morgan; and son-in-law, Alan David Haynes.

Mrs. Priddy is survived by son and daughter-in-law, Curt and Karen Priddy; daughter, Karla Haynes; and grandchildren, Kaleb Haynes and Cheyenne Priddy, all of Tyler; brother, Bobby Morgan of Oakland community; nieces, nephews, and other relatives.

Honorary pallbearers are Kaleb Haynes, Chris Jerger, Sam Walker, Mike Burton, Tony Morgan and Mike King.

Her family is especially grateful to the staff at Atria-Copeland, who lovingly cared for Mrs. Priddy for the past 6 ½ years.