Peggy Fay Montgomery

Peggy Fay (Johnson) Montgomery, age 72, passed away Thursday evening, November 13, 2025, in Plano, Texas with her husband Danny, her son Justin, and daughter-in-law Angela by her side.

Peggy was born in Roswell, NM to Henry Oliver and Wilmoth Fay (Newton) Johnson on April 27, 1953. In 1962 at nine years of age, Peggy and her family moved to the family ranch near Pinon, NM. For Peggy, life on the ranch was seventh heaven. She went to school at Penasco School, then Weed High School, graduating in 1971 as class salutatorian.

Peggy met Danny Montgomery in November 1968 when Danny went to the ranch to work for the weekend. Peggy and Danny went to a dance – where she had to teach him how to dance. Even though Danny couldn’t dance, they became steadies and dated for three years before each of them married the love of their lives on Sept. 10, 1971. Together, they shared 54 years of marriage. They lived in Artesia until 1974 when Peggy and Danny returned to the ranch to raise their two sons. Peggy and her family worked the ranch for 15 years before they moved back to Artesia where they resided for the next 10 years. They moved back to the ranch in 1999 where she resided with Danny until her passing on November 13, 2025.

Peggy’s family was the joy of her life. She was a ‘fair mom,’ spending many days at the county and state fairs, watching Earl and Justin show livestock. As a grandma, she welcomed her grandkids, nieces and nephews to decorating

Christmas and Halloween cookies and gingerbread houses. She hosted annual Easter egg hunts for the entire community, hiding as many as 800 eggs. Her love for sewing and crafting was shared with friends and family. She enjoyed her weekly meetings with Pauline and Laverne putting jigsaw puzzles together. She was a sorry speller and cheater at checkers, but she was a great Skip-Bo player and teacher.

Peggy is survived by her husband, Danny of the family home; son Justin Montgomery and wife Angela; granddaughters Kayla Lee and husband Garrett, Tayler Hammack, Alexis Mitchell and husband Jake, Emma Montgomery, Bradie Hammack; and great-granddaughters Tessa and McKenzie Lee. She is also survived by her sister Kelly Hibbard and husband Mitch; sisters-in-law Donna Blevins and Linda Jackson; brothers-in-law Tommy Montgomery and wife Brenda; aunt Marilyn Johnson, cousins Mark Johnson and Michelle Pattison; and many nieces, nephews, and friends who she loved dearly.

Peggy is preceded in death by her beloved son Earl; her parents; her parents-in-law T.W. and Effie Montgomery; brother-in-law Bobby Blevins; niece Callie Callaway; nephew Jerry Coupland; and daughter-in-law Katie (Hight) Hammack.

Services will be held on Nov. 29, 2025, at 10 a.m. at the First Baptist Church in Artesia, N.M.

In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations to ICU delirium research in memory of Peggy Montgomery at https://give.vanderbilthealth.org/give/400895/#!/donation/checkout. More information on ICD can be found at https://www.icudelirium.org/