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Pegge Smith, Etoile, TX, formerly of Reliance, passed away Monday, Jan. 14, 2008 at Memorial Hospital in Nacogdoches, TX., following complications from a heart attack. She was 64 years old. Pegge was born to Albert and Anna Black-Stallman Jan.27, 1943. She attended Cooper School and Reliance Consolidated before moving to Farmington, NM where she married Marshall W. Smith. They had one son and two daughters.
In 1979, they went to work in the oilfields in Algeria, living at Palma de Mallorca and Bahrain, Spain and Saudi Arabia. They celebrated their 20th anniversary in Paris and their 24th in London before returning to Farmington in 1987.
In 1994, they moved onto their acreage at Etoile and adopted three of their grandchildren. She worked at Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, until developing an eye infection and was legally blind by 1998. A cornea transplant restored her vision by 2003.
Her last blog read, “I had a major heart attack in March of 2007, but recovered quickly. We are looking forward to the last of the kids graduating in 2008 and we can start doing some traveling.”
She is survived by her husband, Fort Worth, TX; two daughters, Marsha Al Sisi, Las Vegas NV and Michele Bradberry, Dallas, TX.; six grandchildren: Marshall Jose, Joseph and Ines Smith, all at Fort Worth; Naquita, Sami and Salmon Al Sisi, all in Bahrain; three sisters: Frances King (OK), Barbara Speck (SD) and Sandy Foxwell (NM), and one brother, Eddie Stallman, TX.
Her son, Marshall W. Jr., and her parents preceded her in death.
Her cremains will be returned to SD at a later date.
Her sudden passing has left horrible holes in our hearts and we miss her everyday.
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Frances Stallman (King) (1957)
My sister Pegge was a wonderful, caring wife, mother, & grandmother. She was a hard working individual, self taught, and determined! She overcame many obsticles in her lifetime, and was 'a hoot'...I miss her dearly..franBarbara Stallman (Speck) (1959)
We spent one winter with Pegge and Marshall on their property in the pines near Etoil. I thank God for spending that time with her and her family. What a remarkable woman she was. I kept telling her I couldn't believe how she looked and acted like her mother. At one point she turned around and told me, "Well, you look and sound just like Victoria!" I loved it! And she's right ... I do and that is good.
Pegge did it all ... travelled the world, ran her own business, raised her grandchildren, managed her home and loved everyone unconditionally. What a grandmother she was to those three children. She had come to Reliance in 2005 for the centennial celebration and got to visit with many of her classmates.
She was a true Stallman in that there was nothing she couldn't do if she put her mind to it. I remember her on her hands and knees planting flowers by feel rather than by sight. As Ed worked out on her acreage she would go to the edge of her deck and call for him until she could zero in on where he was and away she would go. She had stakes with orange flags in her yard where there was a rut, stump, or whatever, to warn her so she wouldn't trip. There never was anything that could stop her.
Pegge has left a major hole in all of us. Thanks for being my sister. I love you.