Donna May Beggs' Obituary
Donna May Beggs, 84, resident of Gainesville, Florida, former resident of Oswego, Illinois, died Thursday, April 23, 2015, in the E. T. York Hospice Care Center, following a long illness.
Mrs. Beggs was born on March 31, 1931 in Bristol, Illinois, to the late Ivan Richard and Alice May Ament Dickson. She lived for many years in Oswego, Illinois where she worked as a manager for Fascure, later Borden. She owned and operated, along with her husband, Poor Richard’s Tavern in Aurora. Mrs. Beggs was an honorary lifetime member of the Illinois Retail Liquor Assoc., a member of the Altrusa Club, and in the Fox Valley Traffic Managers Assoc. She was a gourmet cook, loved gardening and quilting, and had recently taken to making jewelry. She frequently donated her hand-crafted items to benefit organizations in her community. In 2009, she moved to Gainesville, Florida. Donna was preceded in death by her first husband and father of her children, Julius M. Peterson, who died in 1975.
She is survived by two daughters, and their husbands, Peggy A. Peterson and R. David Sturgeon, of Homewood, Illinois, and Nancy J. Peterson and Gerald R. Culen, of Gainesville, Florida; two sisters, Norma Jean Harper, of Wilsonville, Oregon and Doris Fenske, of Phoenix, Arizona; one brother Douglas Dickson, of Yorkville, Illinois; four grandchildren, Cord Sturgeon, Talia Young, Joseph Culen and Kathleen Culen Gallo; five great grandchildren, Kate and Cassidy Sturgeon and Kendall, Lukas and Jack Young.
Private family services will be held at a later date, in lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to the charity of your choice in her memory.
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