Margaret "Peg" Roberts Tremmel of Biloxi passed away March 6, 2007.
She was a native of Little Rock, Ark., and a resident of Biloxi for over 75 years. Mrs. Tremmel received her first communion at St. Mary's Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.
She attended Georgetown Visitation High School in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Gulf Park Junior College for Women and taught physical education for four years. There she met and married Louis Tremmel Sr, a union that last over 50 years.
After raising a family she went back to teaching and taught third grade at St. Theresa's in D'Iberville for eight years. She was a member of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral and a member of the Nativity Altar Society.
She was an active volunteer for the Biloxi Regional Memorial Hospital for over 25 years. She was a member of the Azalea Garden Club, The Legion of Mary, a charter member Billikens, and a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Biloxi Chapter 623.
Tremmel was preceded in death by husband Louis August Tremmel Sr., daughter Margaret Cunningham Tremmel Peresich, parents Burdette and Sarah Murphy Roberts, brothers Gus and Burt Roberts, and sister Catherine Roberts. Her mother's family were pioneers in the state of Arkansas.
Tremmel, at her death in 2007, left four children: Louis August Tremmel Jr., Sarah Roberts Pitalo, Mary Ott Davison and Burt August Tremmel Sr., 11 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandson.
Funeral services were conducted at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and burial was at Southern Memorial Park. Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home was in charge of funeral services.
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