Peggy Jean Priddy

Peggy Jean (Morgan) Priddy, 77, Tyler, passed away peacefully on Monday, May 30, 2016 at Atria-Copeland in Tyler. She was honored in a service at Lloyd James Funeral Home in Tyler on Saturday, June 4, 2016, with burial at Oakland Community Cemetery, Van Zandt County.
She was born Feb. 9, 1939, in the Black Jack community, to Jimmie Allen and Vada Sally (Hitt) Morgan, but was raised in the Oakland community. She graduated in 1957 from Grand Saline High School, where she was a spelling bee participant, secretary-treasurer of her senior class, on the yearbook staff, and voted Most Friendly.
The first in her family to attend college, she was a 1961 graduate of the former Texas Eastern School of Nursing on the Tyler Junior College campus. She worked as a nurse at Tyler Pipe and what was then Mother Frances Hospital before starting a family. As a homemaker, she attended all of her children’s school functions, supported her husband’s participation in the Boy Scouts of America and a street rod club, and was a member of what was then Dixie Baptist Church.

A loving daughter, wife, mother, and mother-in-law, she devoted her life to caring for others. She was preceded in death by her grandparents; parents; husband, Karl Priddy; sister, Wynona Poole; brothers, Jimmie, Johnnie, Ernest Ray, Billy, and Ralph Morgan; and son-in-law, Alan David Haynes.
Mrs. Priddy is survived by son and daughter-in-law, Curt and Karen Priddy; daughter, Karla Haynes; and grandchildren, Kaleb Haynes and Cheyenne Priddy, all of Tyler; brother, Bobby Morgan of Oakland community; nieces, nephews, and other relatives.