Peggy Harvey Obituary

Funeral services for lifelong Ardmoreite Peggy Jean Riddle Harvey, 94, will be 10:00 a.m. Monday, February 10, 2025, at the First Methodist Church of Ardmore with Reverend Dr. David Daniel officiating .  Interment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Park with the assistance of Paul Schwab, Travis Shields, Nick Martin, Cory Woods, Larry Stansill, Tim Shields and Gary Yarbrough.

Peggy was born December 11, 1930 to the late Jack Edwin and Beulah LeAnna Chitwood Riddle.  She passed from this life to life eternal on February 5, 2025 in Ardmore  surrounded by her family.

Peggy graduated from Ardmore High School, class of 1949.  She married Cecil M. "Bub" Harvey on August 29, 1952 and together they served the citizens of Ardmore as they owned and operated the Harvey Funeral Home until 1988 when they retired.

Peggy was a member of the Oklahoma Funeral Directors Association, National Funeral Directors Association, Order of the Golden Rule, and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.  She served on several boards including Ardmore Day Nursery, YWCA; and was past president and board member of Cross Timbers Hospice.  She was a member of the First Methodist Church where she shared her love of Jesus as a Sunday School Teacher and attending many bible studies.  She also served on various church committees and church boards.

Left to cherish her memory are her daughters, Merla Jean Harvey; Barbara Lou Shields and husband Tim and Lisa Lynn Stansill and husband Larry; her grandchildren, Paul Schwab and wife Debbie; Travis Shields and wife Megan; Mika Woods and husband Cory; Sarah Shields, Nicholas Martin, and Ashlea Hoffer; her great grandchildren, Ellie Schwab, Jackson Hoffer, Zachary Woods, Andrew Martin, Katelyn Woods, Keller Hoffer, Clare VanVliet, Addison Woods, Tucker Shields and Patrick Martin.  In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her sisters, Betty Terry and Lou Currie and her brother Jack Riddle, Jr.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial donations be made to Cross Timbers Hospice or First Methodist Church Faith Promise.

Services are entrusted to Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home and Crematory where online condolences for the family may be left at www.hdouglasfuneralhome.com.