Peggy Lawton

Peggy Jean Lawton, dear wife, mother, and grandmother, after 76 years of life, lost her courageous battle against a stacked deck of numerous health issues. She began the next journey, from her home, on the morning of March 25, 2025.

While being comforted in the arms of her devoted husband Bruce, she tenderly said "I love you. I am going now" as she slipped into the painless sleep.

Peggy Jean Jenkins was born in 1949, in Salt Lake City, to mother Alice Louise Jenkins Peterson (Biberston) and to father Allen Dale Jenkins. She was raised in and around Salt Lake City with six siblings.

She had been preceded in death by brothers Dale (Buck) Allen Jenkins and Michael Dean Jenkins and by sisters Judith (Bubba) Ann Smith and Vickie Lynn Reno. She is survived by husband Bruce Dendy Lawton, sister Marilyn Louise Barlow and brother Gary Allen Jenkins, children Troy Paul Duehlmeier and Gregory Christopher Duehlmeier, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren, as well as many nieces and nephews who always claimed her as a favorite.

In her final days, Paul H Duehlmeier, the surviving father of her sons, says tenderly, "I have always loved you." Peggy had this attribute. Those who knew her loved her without reservation, forever, whether intimate today or estranged for years.

Peggy's passions were books, needle work, stained glass and road trips. She had an aversion to air travel, but a 12-hour long Sunday drive was always welcome, and in any kind of weather. She preferred the back roads because it was about the journey, not the destination. Her favorite place to visit was the ever-awesome Redwood National Forest, but any destination was good if there were food, shelter, and privacy.

She did appreciate comfort and privacy, despised cooking and cleaning, so camping was not her thing.

A celebration to memorialize the life of this vessel of love, Peggy Jean Lawton, will be held at a venue and date when her scattered tribe can gather and shed tears together. Notifications will be sent to all that knew and loved her.