Margaret "Peggy" Jane Buis

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Sept. 5, 1909-Nov. 5, 2006

Margaret "Peggy" Jane Buis, 97, Stilesville, died Sunday at Putnam County Hospital.

Born in Cloverdale, she was the daughter of Herbert Blue and Emma (Young) Blue Bolton.

She was a homemaker and a member of Tri-County Community Church.

She married Emmett Frank Buis on Jan. 3, 1928. He died June 9, 1990.

Surviving are four daughters, Barbara Jean Reitzel and husband Richard, Janet Fay Stroud and husband Larry, all of Stilesville, Wanda Lou Darby Chandler, Coatesville, and Carolyn Curtis and husband Steve, Indianapolis; two sons, Clyde Alan Buis and wife Carroll, Ozark, Ala., and Gerald Lee Buis and wife Sandra, Cataract; two sisters, Thelma Acord, Corbin, Ky., and Marjorie Grimes, Greencastle; a brother, Glenn Blue and wife Della, Indianapolis; 22 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren and 18 great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, son Norman Wayne Buis, sisters Lois Wilson and Beulah Butler, brother Eugene Blue and three grandchildren.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Whitaker Funeral Home, Cloverdale, with Pastor Everett Barnard officiating. Burial will be in Stilesville Cemetery.

Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Tuesday.