Just a note to say how sorry I was to read about Peggy in the Estevan Mercury and I wanted to extend my sympathy to all of the family. My fondest memory of Peggy is when were were both in St. Joseph’s at the same time—she was having her last child and I was having my first. I was always then phoning Peggy instead of the doctor (Dr. Inglis) about what should I be doing,. I would not have survived without Peggy’s advice. Then when Rachel started school at Westview and had to take her lunch, which was not favored by the staff, she took her lunch over to the Outhwaite’s house. Perhaps some of you would even remember that as well.
Yesterday afternoon on my way home from Regina, I stopped in Weyburn to visit my sister, Vivian Vinge, who lived in Oxbow and knew both Peggy and Bill. She then showed me a photo of Peggy that was taken when they were now living here in Estevan, but came to Oxbow when the Lion’s Club was receiving its charter. She also remembered the occasion when a man from Bobby’s Company in Calgary helped her and her husband with some tire problems on the way home from the Lake one day.
When Sharron was old enough to drive, she was the first babysitter for me who could come out here to the farm on her own. I have not forgotten this as I now try and help my son and his family, who live in the same yard here with their four children.
Now we have come to the end of an era—–please accept my sympathy and understanding at this time.
Sincerely,
Shirley Andrist and Family
