Peggy Blissett

SIKESTON -- Peggy Lee Blissett, 58, died June 3, 2012, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

Born Feb. 26, 1954, in Dorena, to Louis Van Montjoy Sr. of Sikeston and the late Katherine Dickson-Montjoy, she was a 1972 graduate of Sikeston High School. She worked for 20 years at Sells Nursing Home in Matthews and five years at Tri-County In-Home Service. She was a member of Divine Temple Church of Oran where she was in charge of the Pastors Aide Committee.

On March 23, 1972, she married Ted Blissett who survives of the home.

In addition to her husband and father, she is also survived by: three sons and two daughters-in-law, Courtney and Katrice Blissett and Ted and Carisa Blissett Jr. of Sikeston and Adrian Blissett of Fulton; one stepdaughter, Kardia Pickney of Burbank, Calif.; three brothers, Marshall Montjoy and Kim Montjoy of Sikeston and Frankie "Tony" Montjoy of Huntsville, Texas; five sisters, Shirley Sanders and Karen Montjoy of St. Louis, Cathy Holly of Seattle, Frances Montjoy of Huntsville, Texas, and Monica Jackson on Huntsville, Ala.; and eight grandchildren.

Visitation is scheduled from 11 a.m. until time of services at noon Saturday at the Divine Temple Church in Oran with Michael Blissett, pastor, officiating.

Burial will follow in Divine Temple Memorial Garden Cemetery in Oran with the Williams Funeral Home of Sikeston in charge of arrangements.