A Celebration of Life for Peggy Joyce Minkler, age 82, of Enid, will be Thursday, June 22, 2017, 10:00 AM at the Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home Chapel with Chaplain Steve Samples as celebrant. Cremation was under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.
She was born to Clifford G. and Dorothy M. Merrill Hartness on February 22, 1935 in Oskaloosa, Iowa and passed away Monday, June 19, 2017 in The Commons Nursing Home. Peggy married Marvin Duane Minkler in Dickens, Iowa on February 21, 1954 at the Little Brown Church in the Vale in Nashua, Iowa. They moved to Colorado Springs, CO in March of 1962. In 1962, they adopted a little girl, Linda Sue. On Christmas Eve, 1964, they added to their family by bringing home another adopted child, a little boy, Michael Duane to make the family complete. Peggy was a devoted mother; making her children the number one priority in her life. She served as a den mother for cub scouts and boy scouts, choir mother for the youth choir at her church which her children were members of, and chauffeur to the many piano lessons and dancing lessons that Linda was involved in. Peggy also loved the ocean and had lots and lots of seachells in her collection. She moved to Enid, Oklahoma in 1999 to live closer to her daughter, Linda. She became a foster grandparent and worked with children in the Enid school system. She also volunteered at Bass Hospital; a job she truly loved. While living at Meadows Point Apartments she met Phil Bostick. They became close friends and shared a love of dancing, Sonic strawberry shakes and Braums French fries and cokes.
She moved to The Commons in October of 2014 when her health started to fail. There she met another wonderful person in her life, Wynn Roth, aka, Winny Wynn. Wynn served as her nurse and friend to the very end.

She was preceded in death by her brother, Howard Hartness and wife MaryAnn, a sister, Betty Jane Petersma and husband, Lewis, a baby girl, Barbara, and a brother, Kenny Hartness and wife Ann.

She is survived by her daughter Linda Belknap and husband Chuck, son Michael Minkler, 2 grandchildren, Emilee and Bob, three great-grandchildren, Westyn, Stetson and Chaney Pearl, a brother, Tom Hartness and several nieces and nephews.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice Circle of Love with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home custodian of the funds. Condolences may be made online and the service may be viewed online at www.ladusauevans.com .

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