Peggy Ann Rodgriguez

Peggy Ann Rodriguez, age 56 of Springville, Utah, passed away at Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah on October 15, 2008. She was born May 28, 1952 in Provo, Utah to Domingo Bosquez and LuDean Butler Rodriguez.



Moving to Springville two years later, Peggy lived the balance of her life there, attending Westside and Grant Elementary Schools, Springville Jr. High and graduating from Springville High School with her diploma in 1971. She briefly attended Utah Technical College, taking clerical courses and later worked as a filing clerk. Most of her working years were spent as a babysitter, loving and caring for others' children, whom she came to consider like her own.



Peggy was an active member of the L.D.S. faith most of her life, serving twenty three years as a Primary Pianist. She always looked forward to visits from her visiting teachers, like Cheryl Huff, home teachers, Morrell and Carma Dean, and Relief Society President, Sarah Anderson, and the support from ward members bringing food whenever she struggled with her health.



She was bitingly funny and always playful; full of long back slapping hugs; a surprisingly good mimic of people; and had a wonderful memory, especially for family events. But for anyone who knew her well, and she grew to trust, she was a marvelous story teller, whose mastery of detail was second to none. Her amazing retelling of nightly dreams in captivating image and word was the best example of this untutored ability.



Peggy kept busy filing weather related newspapers and magazine articles to the point of being profiled for her hobby by the Provo Daily Herald some 15 years ago. Her deep fascination for tornados and lightening was equaled only by her abiding curiosity for drive in theaters, love of cooking home-style meals with family, watching classic movies on TCM while eating fresh popped popcorn, and needing to shop for and buy office supplies for her filing and office organizing needs.



Since March 2002 when Peggy was diagnosed with Kidney Failure, she went to Provo Dialysis Center where Dr. Scott Eppich and his professional and sensitive staff and fellow patients became her community three times a week. Lagoon days each summer, a Christmas dinner at the Provo Marriot, and National Kidney Foundation gift certificates were special offerings from her dialysis community that meant so much to her. This community, with the daily care giving assistance of so many loving workers from Harmony Home Health, gave Peggy a daily emotional boost.



But most of all, Peggy loved her family and always appreciated their efforts to support her. She loved her teasing brothers, she loved watching and going to movies with her family, and she loved family gatherings and holidays spent together. Family was her love, and family was her life.



Peggy is lovingly survived and remembered by her father, Domingo Bosquez Rodriguez (Springville), and her siblings, Mary Lynn (Rodriguez) Lee (Springville), Randy Alexander Rodriguez (St. Paul, MN), Juanita (Rodriguez) Holman (Pleasant Grove), and Rodney Alan Rodriguez (Los Angeles, CA). She was preceded in death by her mother, LuDean (Butler) Rodriguez, and twin brother and sister, Dwaine and Dawn.



Funeral services will be held Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 11 a.m. in the Center Street Chapel at 355 East Center Street, Springville. There will be a viewing held at the church beginning at 10 a.m. Interment will be at the Evergreen Cemetery in Springville.