Peggy Wamble Hawkins, age 79, went home to be with the Lord on January 12th, 2021 at 3:30 in the morning, in Columbus, GA. She was born on October 11th, 1941, in Geneva County, Alabama to Bessie George Wamble and Oris Wamble.
Peggy leaves behind a legacy of love – love for her family and friends, that can never be replaced or forgotten. If you were to ask her to name a few things in this world she loved more than anything, she would tell you Jesus, her husband, and her girls. At a young age, Peggy found Christ and created a foundation of her strong faith for her family to follow on. There was never a moment she was not leading her family in prayer, around the dining room table or pursuing the Lord with us, as we found Christ for ourselves.
Being married to her surviving husband, Ronald Hawkins, for 61 years set an example of life and love to everyone that surrounded them. To know her was to know what it truly felt like to be loved whole-heartedly.
She spent her early adult years raising her two daughters, Cathy Hawkins Epperly (David Epperly) and Rhonda Hawkins Pierce (Jonathan Pierce), who later gave her three beautiful grandchildren – Lindsey Epperly Sulek (Jeremy Sulek), Lauren Pierce, and Allison Pierce – who she adored more than anything in this world and from that point on, she was better known as “Nana”. There was never a sporting event, school function, or family gathering that she missed. Nana was, and always will be, our biggest supporter. 2020 brought a lot of confusion and hard times to this world, but the one thing it brought Nana was the gift of being a great-grandmother to a beautiful baby girl, Mila Sulek, which was something she always longed to be.
In her 79 years, she poured love into each and every person she knew, lived life to the fullest, and gave us memories to hold onto, until we all meet again, at the pearly gates of Heaven.
Proverbs 31:31 – “Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.” (NIV)
