Margaret Adams, 1937-2015

Published 10:18 am Monday, December 28, 2015

The funeral service for Margaret “Peggy” Leone Adams will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 301 Eighth Avenue NW in Kasson. The Rev. Barbara Streed will officiate. Interment will be in Preston Veteran’s Cemetery in Preston. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Czaplewski Family Funeral Home, 25 South Street SW in Dodge Center, and one hour before the service at the church on Wednesday.

Margaret (Peggy) Leone Adams, 78, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, at Field Crest Care Center in Hayfield.

Margaret Adams

Margaret Adams

Margaret “Peggy” was born on April 21, 1937, the daughter of George O. and (Mary Frances West) Beach in Sioux City, Iowa.

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Peggy graduated from Albert Lea High School. She was an unit secretary at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester for 19 years. Peggy was a member of the Eastern Star, for over 50 years, the Red Hats Society; Daughters of the American Revolution and many other organizations. She enjoyed flowers, ceramics and crafting.

Peggy is survived by her husband, Edgar Adams of Dodge Center; children Steven (Betty) Friedman of Albert Lea, Susan Friedman of Albert Lea and Karen (Gary) Hellmers of West Concord; grandchildren Matthew and Rachel Friedman; and sister, Mary Lou Fitch of Clear Lake, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one infant brother.

Family prefers memorials to St. John’s Lutheran Church or the Rochester Eastern Star.