Evalyce "Peggy" Hoffman, 100, passed away Oct. 28, 2016, at her home of natural causes. She was born Nov. 21, 1915, in Canadian, Texas; the daughter of Ralph D. and Susan M. (Tubb) Rhea. She was named after her two grandmothers Eva Rhea and Alice Tubb, but her dad called her "Peggy Jane," and she was known as Peggy throughout her life. The Rhea and Tubb families lived in Canadian, Texas until Ralph came to Montana on a cattle drive, and filed on a homestead at Sayle, in the Powder River County, and then returned to the Texas Panhandle, bringing Sue back to Montana as his bride. This is where Peg grew up, the youngest of three children Robert, Pauline (Pat), and Evalyce. She attended the Indian Creek School at Sayle through her elementary years, and then High School in Sheridan, Wyo. After Graduation in 1932, at the age of 16, she completed another year as a postgraduate, taking Normal Training, to qualify her for a teacher's certificate, which she decided was to be her career, when she was in the third grade. She taught two years at Wheden School near Clearmont, Wyo., and three years at the Wakeley School near Sheridan, Wyo. During the summer, after her third year teaching at Wakeley she went to work as an Agent/ Telegrapher for the CB&Q RR, working up and down the line on the Sheridan Division. She really enjoyed teaching, but the railroad was better pay, and better retirement, so she ended up working for the CB&Q and BN after the merger for 32 ½ years. She was one of the few people that lived long enough to draw her retirement pay more years than she spent working.
Peg and Richard (Dick) Shatzer were married in Broadus, on April 18, 1935 until their divorce in 1939. They were parents of two sons, Richard Gale (Dusty), and Jerry Rhea, both of whom are deceased, Dusty in an airplane accident in 1974, and Jerry of a heart attack in 2008. One does not expect to outlive your children, whom she treasured with all her heart. The only thing that sustained her through the years was her loving relationship and joyful times spent with her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, her sister, Pat, and Peggy and Joe Malloy, as well as many other close lifelong friends.
After Peg's retirement from the railroad, she and George Hoffman, a track engineer with the BN RR, were married on Nov. 12, 1977, in Gillette, Wyo., and made their home in Billings.
Peg Really enjoyed reading and especially writing. She wrote poetry and enjoyed writing for the monthly square dance magazine, where they spent many years square dancing and forming many special friendships there. A sequel to "Echoing Footstep" published in 1967, covering the people and history of Powder River County, (Beyond Echoing Footsteps), was published in 2009, and features an article of the Rhea family history written by her.
Peg also especially enjoyed making pies and cookies and coffee for George's many woodturning and fishing friends. They never lacked for company, and she really knew the meaning of hospitality. Even if she was overwhelmed with guests she made them feel at home even though she might have wished they were.
Peg is preceded in death by her husband George and her two sons Dusty and Jerry.
She is survived by her three grandchildren, Cynthia Sue Shatzer, El Cajon, Calif., Curt (Shanda) Shatzer, Weston, Wyo., Paula Rhea Shatzer, Hulett, Wyo., as well as three great-grandchildren, Cheyna Humphries, Colter and Connor Shatzer and George's children Larry, Bobby, Danny and Pauline.
Service will be 11 a.m., Oct. 1, at Cremation & Funeral Gallery in Billings, with burial in the family plot in Sheridan, Wyo.
Peg and Richard (Dick) Shatzer were married in Broadus, on April 18, 1935 until their divorce in 1939. They were parents of two sons, Richard Gale (Dusty), and Jerry Rhea, both of whom are deceased, Dusty in an airplane accident in 1974, and Jerry of a heart attack in 2008. One does not expect to outlive your children, whom she treasured with all her heart. The only thing that sustained her through the years was her loving relationship and joyful times spent with her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, her sister, Pat, and Peggy and Joe Malloy, as well as many other close lifelong friends.
After Peg's retirement from the railroad, she and George Hoffman, a track engineer with the BN RR, were married on Nov. 12, 1977, in Gillette, Wyo., and made their home in Billings.
Peg Really enjoyed reading and especially writing. She wrote poetry and enjoyed writing for the monthly square dance magazine, where they spent many years square dancing and forming many special friendships there. A sequel to "Echoing Footstep" published in 1967, covering the people and history of Powder River County, (Beyond Echoing Footsteps), was published in 2009, and features an article of the Rhea family history written by her.
Peg also especially enjoyed making pies and cookies and coffee for George's many woodturning and fishing friends. They never lacked for company, and she really knew the meaning of hospitality. Even if she was overwhelmed with guests she made them feel at home even though she might have wished they were.
Peg is preceded in death by her husband George and her two sons Dusty and Jerry.
She is survived by her three grandchildren, Cynthia Sue Shatzer, El Cajon, Calif., Curt (Shanda) Shatzer, Weston, Wyo., Paula Rhea Shatzer, Hulett, Wyo., as well as three great-grandchildren, Cheyna Humphries, Colter and Connor Shatzer and George's children Larry, Bobby, Danny and Pauline.
Service will be 11 a.m., Oct. 1, at Cremation & Funeral Gallery in Billings, with burial in the family plot in Sheridan, Wyo.
Evalyce "Peggy" Hoffman, 100, passed away Oct. 28, 2016, at her home of natural causes. She was born Nov. 21, 1915, in Canadian, Texas; the daughter of Ralph D. and Susan M. (Tubb) Rhea. She was named after her two grandmothers Eva Rhea and Alice Tubb, but her dad called her "Peggy Jane," and she was known as Peggy throughout her life. The Rhea and Tubb families lived in Canadian, Texas until Ralph came to Montana on a cattle drive, and filed on a homestead at Sayle, in the Powder River County, and then returned to the Texas Panhandle, bringing Sue back to Montana as his bride. This is where Peg grew up, the youngest of three children Robert, Pauline (Pat), and Evalyce. She attended the Indian Creek School at Sayle through her elementary years, and then High School in Sheridan, Wyo. After Graduation in 1932, at the age of 16, she completed another year as a postgraduate, taking Normal Training, to qualify her for a teacher's certificate, which she decided was to be her career, when she was in the third grade. She taught two years at Wheden School near Clearmont, Wyo., and three years at the Wakeley School near Sheridan, Wyo. During the summer, after her third year teaching at Wakeley she went to work as an Agent/ Telegrapher for the CB&Q RR, working up and down the line on the Sheridan Division. She really enjoyed teaching, but the railroad was better pay, and better retirement, so she ended up working for the CB&Q and BN after the merger for 32 ½ years. She was one of the few people that lived long enough to draw her retirement pay more years than she spent working.
Peg and Richard (Dick) Shatzer were married in Broadus, on April 18, 1935 until their divorce in 1939. They were parents of two sons, Richard Gale (Dusty), and Jerry Rhea, both of whom are deceased, Dusty in an airplane accident in 1974, and Jerry of a heart attack in 2008. One does not expect to outlive your children, whom she treasured with all her heart. The only thing that sustained her through the years was her loving relationship and joyful times spent with her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, her sister, Pat, and Peggy and Joe Malloy, as well as many other close lifelong friends.
After Peg's retirement from the railroad, she and George Hoffman, a track engineer with the BN RR, were married on Nov. 12, 1977, in Gillette, Wyo., and made their home in Billings.
Peg Really enjoyed reading and especially writing. She wrote poetry and enjoyed writing for the monthly square dance magazine, where they spent many years square dancing and forming many special friendships there. A sequel to "Echoing Footstep" published in 1967, covering the people and history of Powder River County, (Beyond Echoing Footsteps), was published in 2009, and features an article of the Rhea family history written by her.
Peg also especially enjoyed making pies and cookies and coffee for George's many woodturning and fishing friends. They never lacked for company, and she really knew the meaning of hospitality. Even if she was overwhelmed with guests she made them feel at home even though she might have wished they were.
Peg is preceded in death by her husband George and her two sons Dusty and Jerry.
She is survived by her three grandchildren, Cynthia Sue Shatzer, El Cajon, Calif., Curt (Shanda) Shatzer, Weston, Wyo., Paula Rhea Shatzer, Hulett, Wyo., as well as three great-grandchildren, Cheyna Humphries, Colter and Connor Shatzer and George's children Larry, Bobby, Danny and Pauline.
Service will be 11 a.m., Oct. 1, at Cremation & Funeral Gallery in Billings, with burial in the family plot in Sheridan, Wyo.
Peg and Richard (Dick) Shatzer were married in Broadus, on April 18, 1935 until their divorce in 1939. They were parents of two sons, Richard Gale (Dusty), and Jerry Rhea, both of whom are deceased, Dusty in an airplane accident in 1974, and Jerry of a heart attack in 2008. One does not expect to outlive your children, whom she treasured with all her heart. The only thing that sustained her through the years was her loving relationship and joyful times spent with her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, her sister, Pat, and Peggy and Joe Malloy, as well as many other close lifelong friends.
After Peg's retirement from the railroad, she and George Hoffman, a track engineer with the BN RR, were married on Nov. 12, 1977, in Gillette, Wyo., and made their home in Billings.
Peg Really enjoyed reading and especially writing. She wrote poetry and enjoyed writing for the monthly square dance magazine, where they spent many years square dancing and forming many special friendships there. A sequel to "Echoing Footstep" published in 1967, covering the people and history of Powder River County, (Beyond Echoing Footsteps), was published in 2009, and features an article of the Rhea family history written by her.
Peg also especially enjoyed making pies and cookies and coffee for George's many woodturning and fishing friends. They never lacked for company, and she really knew the meaning of hospitality. Even if she was overwhelmed with guests she made them feel at home even though she might have wished they were.
Peg is preceded in death by her husband George and her two sons Dusty and Jerry.
She is survived by her three grandchildren, Cynthia Sue Shatzer, El Cajon, Calif., Curt (Shanda) Shatzer, Weston, Wyo., Paula Rhea Shatzer, Hulett, Wyo., as well as three great-grandchildren, Cheyna Humphries, Colter and Connor Shatzer and George's children Larry, Bobby, Danny and Pauline.
Service will be 11 a.m., Oct. 1, at Cremation & Funeral Gallery in Billings, with burial in the family plot in Sheridan, Wyo.
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