Peggy Strother

Mrs. Peggy Onita Strother, 68, of Pasadena passed away March 5, 2009 in Houston. Funeral services for Mrs. Strother will be 2:00 PM Sunday, March 8, 2009 at First Baptist Church. Rev. Marcus Sheffield will officiate with interment to follow in the Cotton Gin Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 6-8 PM Saturday at Blair Stubbs Funeral Home. Mrs. Strother was born to Olen Payton and Juanita (Ingram) McGowan on December 24, 1940 in Mexia. She was a member of the Mexia High School Class of 1959. After leaving Mexia, she moved to the Houston area where she has remained for over 49 years. Mrs. Strother worked as an X-ray tech in the VA Hospital for many years. She was very devoted to loving and caring of her family. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Joe Lynn Strother; a daughter, Onita Jo Weaver; grandson, Sean Strother; great-granddaughter, Madalyn Williber; a brother and sister. Mrs. Strother is survived by a son, Terry Lynn Strother and wife, Pam of Pasadena; a daughter, Donna Strother Haynes and husband, Curtiss of Pasadena; grandchildren, Keri and Nick Strother, Ashley Hartless, James Weaver, Joe Williber and wife, Jacqueline, Amanda Chesik and husband, Jason; great-grandchildren, Joe and Chance Strother, Tyler Padgett, Brayden Vidaurri, Jessica Chesik; brothers, Danny Dean McGowan and wife, Joyce of Crosby and Freddie Joe McGowan and wife, Terri of Wortham; sisters, Alice Akin and husband, Jim of Mexia, Joan Wright and husband, Danny of Mexia, Susan McGowan of Mexia. Pallbearers will be John Akin, Richard McGowan, Steve McGowan, Travis McGowan, Phil Beatty and Robert York.