A Visitation will be held from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM with a Rosary Prayer Service at 8:00 PM on Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at the McGilley Antioch Chapel, 3325 NE Vivion Rd, Kansas City, MO 64119.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 12:00 PM at St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church, 6415 NE Antioch Rd, Gladstone, MO 64119. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, Kansas City, MO.
Peggy was born in Kansas City, MO to Jerry and Ruth Ann (Watson) McCulloh on September 22, 1949. She graduated from Oak Park High School in 1967. She married Stewart Rueckert on October 26, 1968 in Kansas City, MO. She worked as a paralegal for Davidson, Deckert, and Glassman and also Franke, Schultz, and Mullen. She was a coach, a den leader, involved in the PTA, bowled in leagues with Stewart, loved going square dancing, watching the Chiefs and Royals, reading and doing things with her family. Peggy was very grounded in her faith and enjoyed reading scripture.
Peggy is preceded in death by her parents, Jerry and Ruth Ann McCulloh;
She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Stewart Rueckert; children, Timothy (Je-anne’) Rueckert, Christina (David) Patton, and Matt (Jennifer) Rueckert, siblings Susan Martin, Jerry ”Mike” McCulloh, Jim (Betty) McCulloh, Joyce (Troy) Tweedy and Kathleen (Eddie) Lewis. Grand kids: Brittany, Kyle (Erika), Julie and Calvin Rueckert, Natalie and Valerie Moore, Josh, Jessica and Colin Patton, Trent and Blake Rueckert. Great-grandkids: Harmony, Faith and Zane Vaughn, Easton and Eleanor Rueckert, Jaxon and Parker Wynn.
Pallbearers will be Jerry “Mike” McCulloh, Jim McCulloh, Brandon McCulloh, Kyle Rueckert, Trent Rueckert, and Blake Rueckert
The family of Margaret “Peggy” Rueckert wishes to extend our sincere thanks to all those that have sent well wishes and condolences.