Margaret A. "Peggy" Poitzsch, age 74 of Eau Claire passed away Thursday April 28, 2011 at The Harbor House Memory Care in Eau Claire.
Margaret was born on July 4, 1936 in St. Paul, MN as the daughter of Paul and Buretta Foss. She had three siblings, Richard, Loren and Carolyn.
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She graduated in 1954 from Central High School in St. Paul, and in 1958 from Macalester College, St. Paul, "summa cum laude", with majors in French and in Christian Education. In 1958, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for one year of graduate study at the Faculté de Théologie of the University of Montpellier, France, where she also met her husband, Manfred. They married in 1960 in Berlin, Germany, in the U.S. Army Chapel, where she worked as the Chaplain's Assistant. IN 1961, she returned with her husband to the U.S.A., lived from 1961 in Mankato, MN, and moved in 1964 to Eau Claire, WI. The marriage was blessed with two sons, Martin and Walter. |
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Margaret was very active in her church, from an early age on, first at House of Hope Presbyterian, in St. Paul, MN, then at Macalester College, then at Presbyterian churches at Mankato, and in Eau Claire, in choirs, as a soprano soloist, and as a Sunday School teacher, and, at one time, Director of Christian Education. She worked as a volunteer for her church with migrant workers in Colorado, and as a lay preacher in Vermont. Her academic interest was the History of the Protestant Church in France.
Her life was centered around her husband and his work as a foreign language professor, and the upbringing and schooling of their two sons. She taught them in Sunday School, sang with them in the choir, worked as a volunteer in school libraries and on PTO committees, accompanied her husband on school functions and travels and served as a judge at French high school poetry contests for many years.
She led a happy, productive life, has been loved and appreciated by family and friends and will be greatly missed.
Margaret is preceded in death by her parents, and by her older brother, Richard.
She is survived by her husband, Manfred, son Martin (Sima), their sons, Nima and Alec, and son Walter (Juliette) and their son, Joseph, and numerous relatives.
Services for Margaret will be at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at Fuller-Speckien-Hulke Funeral Home, 3209 Rudolph Road, Eau Claire, WI with Cindy Rasmussen, Chaplain at Northwest Wisconsin Homecare officiating. Private family committal services will take place in Lakeview Cemetery in Eau Claire. Friends may visit from 12:00 p.m. until time of services. Friends and family may offer condolences online at www.fullerspeckienhulke.com.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given in Margaret's name to the Salvation Army or area Humane Societies. Fuller-Speckien-Hulke Funeral Home is assisting the family.
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