Peggy Jane (Dinwiddie) Derrington passed away at the age of 90 in Warrensburg, MO on Sunday, May 5, 2024.

She was born March 30, 1934, in Jackson, Tennessee, the daughter of Walter Curtis Dinwiddie, Jr. and Atha Priestly (Carlton) Dinwiddie. Growing up she attended more than nine different schools in five states, including four high schools. She held two degrees from the University of Memphis and a second graduate degree from George Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.

She was married to Horace R. Derrington, a long-time educator in Henry County, TN.

She taught school in the Memphis and Henry County, Tennessee school systems for a total of 42 years, retiring in 1998. She also taught part-time at the University of Tennessee, Martin in their library science program. Over the years she was active in a number of educational organizations, serving on accreditation boards for the Southern Association of College and Schools, and a member of the International Reading Association, the American Library Association, Beta Phi Mu Honorary Library Science organization, Alpha Delta Kappa teachers' sorority, a lifetime member of the National Education Association, and a member of the Tennessee Education Association, Tennessee Retired Teachers, and Johnson County (MO) Retired Teachers.

She was active for many years in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently earning her 50 year membership pin. She was a member of Chapter CB of the International Society of P.E.O, the ABC Club, and the Western Missouri Medical Center Auxiliary. She was a faithful member of the Warrensburg church of Christ.

Her interests included her family, reading, knitting, and crocheting. For many years she was an avid genealogist. She was an excellent crossword and Sudoku puzzle worker. She was a great lover of dogs and was especially devoted to her last two chihuahuas, Chico and Gizmo. She liked other people's cats.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, her brother, Grady Carlton Dinwiddie, and sister-in-law, Adne Stewart Dinwiddie.

She is survived by her sister, Mollie M. Dinwiddie of Warrensburg, nieces, Elise Niemeyer Barry (Willard), Lee's Summit, MO and Erin M. Niemeyer, Lee's Summit, MO, Debra Voss (Fred), Slidell, LA, Anita Dinwiddie, Wylie, Texas, and nephew, Glen Dinwiddie (Debbie), Kenner, LA, great-nieces and great-nephews Lucas and Lance Barry, Victor and Brandi Voss, Ben Aiken, Rebecca Aiken Brunner (Eric), Christina Swicegood (Andrew), and Greg Dinwiddie (Fe) as well as two great-great nieces and one great-great nephew. She is also survived by one stepson, Raymond Derrington, Bell Buckle, TN and two step-grandchildren, John Derrington and Anna Derrington Walker (Will), Nashville, TN.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at Sweeney-Phillips & Holdren Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 10:00 a.m. until service time at the funeral home.

Interment will follow at a later date in Palestine Cemetery, Paris, TN.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Warrensburg Church of Christ or to the Old Drum Animal Shelter and left in care of the funeral home.