Margaret "Peggy" Ann Ayling's Obituary
Margaret “Peggy” Ann Ayling, of Siloam Springs, was born on September 4th, 1952, one of eight children, to parents Jeanne and Henry Hicks Jr., in Ypsilanti, Michigan, near Detroit. She attended public school there until she was 10, when her family moved to Fayetteville, where her father would teach at the University of Arkansas.
Peggy attended Fayetteville public schools through high school, where she earned certification as a cosmologist. She met her future husband, Lewis Ayling, in high school, and after graduation they married and moved to the Siloam Springs, OK area, where Peggy worked in several beauty salons while her husband completed his tour of duty in Vietnam. Prior to and following her husband’s passing, Peggy lived in Broken Arrow, OK for several years before returning to Siloam Springs, where she lived for the remainder of her life. Peggy was a spark of joy and happiness to all who met her, and always had a kind word and an appropriate expression or aphorism for every occasion. As a child, she excelled in sports and would routinely best all her brothers and sisters at games of memorization, that she especially enjoyed.
Peggy was preceded in death by her parents and her husband Louis Jefferson Ayling, Jr. She is survived by her daughter, Pamela Ayling, and by her brothers Andy, Bill & Lloyd in Fayetteville, by her sister Elizabeth in Fayetteville, by her brother John near Los Angeles, CA, and by her sister Nancy in Cottage Grove, OR.
A Visitation will be held on Monday, October 13, from 4:00PM to 6:00PM at Moore’s Chapel in Fayetteville. Funeral Service will be Tuesday, October 14, at 10:30AM at Moore’s Chapel, with graveside to follow at 11:30AM at Fayetteville National Cemetery.
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