Peggy Ann Cook

Funeral services for Peggy Cook, 69 of Giddings, are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Monday, April 7, 2025, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Pin Oak, Texas with Father Javier Toscano officiating. She will be laid to rest beside her parents in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Smithville, Texas. Visitation will be held on Sunday, April 6, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. and on Monday, April 7, 2025, from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. at Phillips and Luckey Funeral Home in Giddings. The family will be present Sunday for visitation from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., with a Rosary recited at 6:00 p.m.
Peggy Ann Cook was born on July 12, 1955, in Corpus Christi, Texas, the second of four children born to Braden Meuth Cook and Dorothy Marie (Hatch) Cook. She attended St. Patrick Catholic School for grades 1st-8th. She graduated from Incarnate Word Academy in 1973, followed by attendance at Del Mar College. Her love for nature, the outdoors, camping, traveling, and photography led her to attend Texas A & M University where she received her Bachelor's Degree in Recreation and Parks, '80 and her Master's Degree in Adult Extension Education, '89. Peggy lived in both Florida and North Carolina where she worked in the asbestos removal training industry. She returned to Texas in 2010 to help with the care of her mother. Peggy operated an antique booth at Texas Trails Antiques and Marketplace in Smithville. She was active in the Smithville community and had recently headed up the Living History section of Dickens on Main in Smithville. An avid herb gardener, she had been a member of the North Carolina Unit, Herb Society of America, Inc. and the Herb Society of America: Pioneer Unit at Festival Hill in Round Top, Texas.
Peggy passed away the evening of Monday, March 31, 2025 at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Round Rock with her family by her side.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Braden and Dorothy Cook and her nephew, Nicholas Clayton Falk.
Peggy is survived by her two sisters, Nancy Kay Cook Falk of Smithville and Linda Sue Cook Meuth & her husband, Bobby of Pin Oak; her brother, David Mark Cook of Pin Oak; two nephews and two nieces, Clinton James Meuth & his wife, Kathryn "Katie" Ruth of Pin Oak, Joshua Brandon Meuth & his wife, Mary Pearl of Giddings, Stefanie Faye Meuth Emmons & her husband, Justin Dale of Giddings, and Valarie Lynn Meuth Miller & her husband, Eugene "B.J." Henry of Giddings; ten great nephews and nieces, Anton John Meuth, Norah Ruth Meuth, Levi George Meuth, and Everett Franz Meuth, all of Pin Oak, Braden James Meuth, William Cole Meuth, and Mary Ella Meuth all of Giddings, and Casen Lane Miller, Gage Henry Miller, and Jillian Rose Miller all of Giddings, and her aunt and godmother, Geraldine Hatch Paquette of Ft. Worth.
Serving as pallbearers will be Clinton Meuth, Joshua Meuth, Justin Emmons, B.J. Miller, Gary Paquette, John Nelson, David Cook
A memorial in honor of Peggy may be made to The Herb Society of America: Pioner Unit at Festival Hill in Round Top, Texas, Dickens on Main – Smithville, Texas - Living History Section, (Lori huffman@lori-huffman-4), or to the charity of one's choice.