Margaret “Peggy” Wilds Hume, 91, of Coppell, Texas, went home to be with Jesus on April 26, 2018. She was born in Meridian, Mississippi on June 19, 1926 and moved to Decatur, Alabama at the age of two. She grew up in the First Presbyterian Church of Decatur and became a Christian during her school years. She attended Agnes Scott College for one year, returned to work in Decatur for a year, and then attended Tulsa University for one year.
At Tulsa she met Lin, the older brother of a sorority sister, and they fell in love and married in Jan. 1947. They lived in west Texas until he rejoined the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. The army assigned them to Anchorage, Alaska and Lin, Peggy, and infant son, David, moved to a base outside that city. The family returned to Decatur after he resigned his commission at the end of the Conflict.
Peggy settled into life raising her children and playing bridge with friends. God began to shake up her life when Lin accepted Jesus as his Savior and Lord in 1959. He pursued his relationship with the Lord passionately and Peggy eventually moved her focus to serving the Lord as well. In 1969, God called them into full-time Christian ministry. They served with Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) for eight years in San Bernardino, California and Dallas, Texas. Peggy spent her remaining years doing all she could to encourage and promote others’ spiritual and physical health.
She is survived by her children, David Lindsay Hume Jr. (Cheryl), Ellison Hume Widener (Steve), Margaret Madlin Manos (Michael); grandchildren, Catherine Hume Harris (Chance), Elizabeth Hume Weinkauf (Ryan), Daniel Boyd Hume; many nieces and nephews; and countless loving friends.
Donations to be made to EvanTellevantell.org or Indian Nation Inland Mission – inlandmission.org.
