Peggy Creasman Day, 86, of North Wilkesboro passed away Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, at Wilkes Senior Village on what would have been her and Frank’s 64th wedding anniversary. Peggy has relocated once again, this time to her eternal home in heaven to be with her Lord and her childhood sweetheart.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, at Reins-Sturdivant Chapel, with Dr. Bert Young and Dr. Dean Simpson officiating. Entombment will be in Scenic Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from noon until 1:30 p.m., prior to the service at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home.
Mrs. Day was born April 8, 1933, in Davidson County to Roy L. and Pauline Kindley Creasman. She was a member of First Baptist Church, where she was in the Euzelian Sunday School class.
When Peggy was a teenager, she worked for Belk’s and Penny’s on holidays and weekends. She graduated from North Wilkesboro High School in 1952 and attended Woman’s College in Greensboro (now UNC-Greensboro) and worked as a secretary in North Wilkesboro at Wilkes Auto Sales from 1953 until 1955, and she also worked at Modern Globe.
Having met while sledding in the eighth grade, Frank and Peggy quickly became an item. They were inseparable for nearly 60 years. She married the love of her life, Frank Day, in 1956. Peggy did everything with Frank, until he predeceased her nearly a decade ago. After she married Frank, she became a mother and homemaker. Then she went back to work at Nancy King Textiles.
Nearly 30 years ago, Frank and Peggy Day took the empty Rose’s building, once the retail hub of the Wilkesboros, and turned it into a Victorian themed mini-mall. It was their hangout and a retirement passion after many decades of manufacturing. The Melody Square Mall became an active second hub of the downtown from its inception.
In the wake of Frank’s death, Peggy kept the mall and her retail store going for many years. For her, the mall and the store were so much more than just a business. Frank and Peggy helped dozens of businesses get their start inside this Victorian village. Most of these new business owners, and their regular customers, became like family to them.
Likewise, they also enjoyed seeing friends and acquaintances drop in. It was like the venerable country store where folks came for more than merely shopping and eating. Many pulled up on a bench to talk or to just sit and watch people go by. Others used the pleasant space to walk laps around the corridors. The mall has changed hands. And now, Peggy has moved on to sled once again with the love of her life.
She loved the Lord, her church and her family with all her heart. She loved and was loved by many friends.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Frank G. Day.
She is survived by a daughter, Melody Lynn Rasmussen and husband, Gerald, of Wilmington; a son, Tim Day and wife, Diana, of Marietta, Ga.; four grandchildren, Davis Day, Cameron Day and wife, Emily, Alexander Lee Rasmussen and wife, Shaina, and Nicholas Paul Rasmussen; and three step-grandchildren, Joanna Toso, Grace Toso and Jared Toso.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Helping Hands Ministries, P.O. Box 5037, Statesville N.C. 28687, online at http://www.hhmworldmissions.com/, or to Samaritan’s Purse, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, N.C. 28607.
Online condolences may be made at www.reinssturdivant.com.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, at Reins-Sturdivant Chapel, with Dr. Bert Young and Dr. Dean Simpson officiating. Entombment will be in Scenic Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from noon until 1:30 p.m., prior to the service at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home.
Mrs. Day was born April 8, 1933, in Davidson County to Roy L. and Pauline Kindley Creasman. She was a member of First Baptist Church, where she was in the Euzelian Sunday School class.
When Peggy was a teenager, she worked for Belk’s and Penny’s on holidays and weekends. She graduated from North Wilkesboro High School in 1952 and attended Woman’s College in Greensboro (now UNC-Greensboro) and worked as a secretary in North Wilkesboro at Wilkes Auto Sales from 1953 until 1955, and she also worked at Modern Globe.
Having met while sledding in the eighth grade, Frank and Peggy quickly became an item. They were inseparable for nearly 60 years. She married the love of her life, Frank Day, in 1956. Peggy did everything with Frank, until he predeceased her nearly a decade ago. After she married Frank, she became a mother and homemaker. Then she went back to work at Nancy King Textiles.
Nearly 30 years ago, Frank and Peggy Day took the empty Rose’s building, once the retail hub of the Wilkesboros, and turned it into a Victorian themed mini-mall. It was their hangout and a retirement passion after many decades of manufacturing. The Melody Square Mall became an active second hub of the downtown from its inception.
In the wake of Frank’s death, Peggy kept the mall and her retail store going for many years. For her, the mall and the store were so much more than just a business. Frank and Peggy helped dozens of businesses get their start inside this Victorian village. Most of these new business owners, and their regular customers, became like family to them.
Likewise, they also enjoyed seeing friends and acquaintances drop in. It was like the venerable country store where folks came for more than merely shopping and eating. Many pulled up on a bench to talk or to just sit and watch people go by. Others used the pleasant space to walk laps around the corridors. The mall has changed hands. And now, Peggy has moved on to sled once again with the love of her life.
She loved the Lord, her church and her family with all her heart. She loved and was loved by many friends.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Frank G. Day.
She is survived by a daughter, Melody Lynn Rasmussen and husband, Gerald, of Wilmington; a son, Tim Day and wife, Diana, of Marietta, Ga.; four grandchildren, Davis Day, Cameron Day and wife, Emily, Alexander Lee Rasmussen and wife, Shaina, and Nicholas Paul Rasmussen; and three step-grandchildren, Joanna Toso, Grace Toso and Jared Toso.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Helping Hands Ministries, P.O. Box 5037, Statesville N.C. 28687, online at http://www.hhmworldmissions.com/, or to Samaritan’s Purse, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, N.C. 28607.
Online condolences may be made at www.reinssturdivant.com.
Peggy Creasman Day, 86, of North Wilkesboro passed away Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, at Wilkes Senior Village on what would have been her and Frank’s 64th wedding anniversary. Peggy has relocated once again, this time to her eternal home in heaven to be with her Lord and her childhood sweetheart.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, at Reins-Sturdivant Chapel, with Dr. Bert Young and Dr. Dean Simpson officiating. Entombment will be in Scenic Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from noon until 1:30 p.m., prior to the service at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home.
Mrs. Day was born April 8, 1933, in Davidson County to Roy L. and Pauline Kindley Creasman. She was a member of First Baptist Church, where she was in the Euzelian Sunday School class.
When Peggy was a teenager, she worked for Belk’s and Penny’s on holidays and weekends. She graduated from North Wilkesboro High School in 1952 and attended Woman’s College in Greensboro (now UNC-Greensboro) and worked as a secretary in North Wilkesboro at Wilkes Auto Sales from 1953 until 1955, and she also worked at Modern Globe.
Having met while sledding in the eighth grade, Frank and Peggy quickly became an item. They were inseparable for nearly 60 years. She married the love of her life, Frank Day, in 1956. Peggy did everything with Frank, until he predeceased her nearly a decade ago. After she married Frank, she became a mother and homemaker. Then she went back to work at Nancy King Textiles.
Nearly 30 years ago, Frank and Peggy Day took the empty Rose’s building, once the retail hub of the Wilkesboros, and turned it into a Victorian themed mini-mall. It was their hangout and a retirement passion after many decades of manufacturing. The Melody Square Mall became an active second hub of the downtown from its inception.
In the wake of Frank’s death, Peggy kept the mall and her retail store going for many years. For her, the mall and the store were so much more than just a business. Frank and Peggy helped dozens of businesses get their start inside this Victorian village. Most of these new business owners, and their regular customers, became like family to them.
Likewise, they also enjoyed seeing friends and acquaintances drop in. It was like the venerable country store where folks came for more than merely shopping and eating. Many pulled up on a bench to talk or to just sit and watch people go by. Others used the pleasant space to walk laps around the corridors. The mall has changed hands. And now, Peggy has moved on to sled once again with the love of her life.
She loved the Lord, her church and her family with all her heart. She loved and was loved by many friends.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Frank G. Day.
She is survived by a daughter, Melody Lynn Rasmussen and husband, Gerald, of Wilmington; a son, Tim Day and wife, Diana, of Marietta, Ga.; four grandchildren, Davis Day, Cameron Day and wife, Emily, Alexander Lee Rasmussen and wife, Shaina, and Nicholas Paul Rasmussen; and three step-grandchildren, Joanna Toso, Grace Toso and Jared Toso.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Helping Hands Ministries, P.O. Box 5037, Statesville N.C. 28687, online at http://www.hhmworldmissions.com/, or to Samaritan’s Purse, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, N.C. 28607.
Online condolences may be made at www.reinssturdivant.com.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, at Reins-Sturdivant Chapel, with Dr. Bert Young and Dr. Dean Simpson officiating. Entombment will be in Scenic Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from noon until 1:30 p.m., prior to the service at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home.
Mrs. Day was born April 8, 1933, in Davidson County to Roy L. and Pauline Kindley Creasman. She was a member of First Baptist Church, where she was in the Euzelian Sunday School class.
When Peggy was a teenager, she worked for Belk’s and Penny’s on holidays and weekends. She graduated from North Wilkesboro High School in 1952 and attended Woman’s College in Greensboro (now UNC-Greensboro) and worked as a secretary in North Wilkesboro at Wilkes Auto Sales from 1953 until 1955, and she also worked at Modern Globe.
Having met while sledding in the eighth grade, Frank and Peggy quickly became an item. They were inseparable for nearly 60 years. She married the love of her life, Frank Day, in 1956. Peggy did everything with Frank, until he predeceased her nearly a decade ago. After she married Frank, she became a mother and homemaker. Then she went back to work at Nancy King Textiles.
Nearly 30 years ago, Frank and Peggy Day took the empty Rose’s building, once the retail hub of the Wilkesboros, and turned it into a Victorian themed mini-mall. It was their hangout and a retirement passion after many decades of manufacturing. The Melody Square Mall became an active second hub of the downtown from its inception.
In the wake of Frank’s death, Peggy kept the mall and her retail store going for many years. For her, the mall and the store were so much more than just a business. Frank and Peggy helped dozens of businesses get their start inside this Victorian village. Most of these new business owners, and their regular customers, became like family to them.
Likewise, they also enjoyed seeing friends and acquaintances drop in. It was like the venerable country store where folks came for more than merely shopping and eating. Many pulled up on a bench to talk or to just sit and watch people go by. Others used the pleasant space to walk laps around the corridors. The mall has changed hands. And now, Peggy has moved on to sled once again with the love of her life.
She loved the Lord, her church and her family with all her heart. She loved and was loved by many friends.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Frank G. Day.
She is survived by a daughter, Melody Lynn Rasmussen and husband, Gerald, of Wilmington; a son, Tim Day and wife, Diana, of Marietta, Ga.; four grandchildren, Davis Day, Cameron Day and wife, Emily, Alexander Lee Rasmussen and wife, Shaina, and Nicholas Paul Rasmussen; and three step-grandchildren, Joanna Toso, Grace Toso and Jared Toso.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Helping Hands Ministries, P.O. Box 5037, Statesville N.C. 28687, online at http://www.hhmworldmissions.com/, or to Samaritan’s Purse, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, N.C. 28607.
Online condolences may be made at www.reinssturdivant.com.
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