Margaret Lemone

Margaret Ann H. LeMone passed away, Saturday, October 29 after a lengthy series of debilitating illnesses and traumas at 89 years of age. Her brother William and her parents, Dr. Lloyd Russell Hirth and his wife Helen Johnson of Utica, Michigan predeceased Margaret Ann, who was affectionately known as Peggy. Peggy was born August 5, 1922 in Detroit and grew up in now suburban Utica where she graduated with the high school class of 1940. She celebrated her 70th Utica high school reunion in 2010. She received her B.S. from Michigan State University in 1944, her M.S. in Institutional Management and Dietetics in 1951 from Kansas State University, and completed her Registered Dietitian internship in 1952. Prior to coming to El Paso Peggy worked either as Chief or Head Dietitian at hospitals in Chicago, Tucson, and Farmington, New Mexico as well as academic institutions in Michigan and New Mexico. Peggy began her academic career as an Assistant Professor teaching dietetics and nutrition at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg (1961-1964). After arriving in El Paso in 1964 she acted as a Therapeutic and Teaching Dietitian at the old Hotel Dieu facility. In 1965 she joined the New Mexico State University faculty where as an Assistant Professor she taught diet therapy and nutrition courses in the College of Agriculture for a period of 18 years. She also taught at UTEP as a non-tenured faculty instructor in the colleges of Education (Physical Education and Health majors) and Nursing (Kinesiology and Nursing majors) for a period of 16 years. She was retired from both the Texas and New Mexico systems. Peggy, a member of the University Presbyterian Church, was an active member of the Womans Club of El Paso, UTEP’s Heritage House, and University Women’s Club, as well as having been active in the past with the American Dietetic Association, American Association of University Women, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Eastern Star. Peggy actively enjoyed the sport of bowling in El Paso from the 1965 faculty league at the old Thunderbird Lanes to 2010 at the modern Fiesta Lanes with her Club 55 team. She was inducted into the USBC El Paso Woman’s Bowling Association’s Hall of Fame in 2006. Peggy was an avid basketball fan from her high school years as a player in the late thirties to being a Miner fan and season ticket holder through 2011. Peggy met David in an extracurricular dancing class at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico. In April 1955 they eloped to El Paso in order to get a license and were married in the Congregational Church in Socorro, Texas, on a Saturday. After a two day honeymoon in El Paso, the couple returned the following Monday to Socorro, New Mexico to embark on 56 years of a new and wonderful life together. Peggy is survived by: her husband, David; the couple’s daughter Kathleen, her husband Owen, and their son, David; the couple’s son Jonathan, his wife Marisol, their daughter, Allison and son Brandon; and her nephew and niece Christopher and Kimberley. Memorial Services will be held Wednesday, November 2nd at 2:00 PM at the University Presbyterian Church, 244 North Resler Avenue. Services entrusted to Sunset Funeral Home-West. Please visit our online register book at www.sunsetfuneralhomes.net