In memory of Peggy Dyer Brock

Dear Don:

I’m somewhere between “chargrined” and “embarrassed” that I’m over one year delinquent in acknowledging Peggy Dyer Brock’s obituary that was published in Sonoran News, July 20, 2016 edition. Peggy was my enjoyed friend and colleage at your newspaper… She is missed by all persons whose lives were touched by her generous friendship. The “Triple C Corral” can never be reopened. You know me to be a storyteller, the truer the better: I’ve not forgotten the story that follows.

Some 40 years ago, I attended in my native Montgomery, Alabama a funeral service at which I was expected by the family to be one of the eulogists. I was grieving so, that I feared I’d be unable to speak. After a gospel hymn had been gloriously sung by the church choir, the senior pastor, an imposing figure, rose and powerfully proclaimed, “Our sister departed wrote her own eulogy by the kind of person she was and the life she lived. Amen!” I’m thinking that the same tribute could be paid Peggy.

After rising from the dead, Jesus said to his disciple Thomas, “Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed.” (John 20:20) Peggy’s greatest blessing was her belief in Jesus Christ, a faith she joyously witnessed to others.

From I Corinthians 15:57: “But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” I celebrate that Peggy’s faithful spirit has been received into the peace, the perfection and the glory of Heaven.

Pete Mohr

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