Margaret Daphne Hansen Anderegg

Margaret Daphne Hansen Anderegg, 87, of Odessa went home to Heaven on Tuesday, January 14, 2020.

A memorial service will be held on Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. at Sunset Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home, 6801 E 1-20 Business (6801 E. Highway

80) Odessa, Texas 79762, with Jimmy Braswell officiating.

Margaret was born in Waukenabo Township, Aiken County, Minnesota to Charles George & Henrietta Hansen on March 6, 1932. She was the seventh of ten children raised during the Depression. She went to school in Swatera, Minnesota, & high school in Tillemook, Oregon. She graduated from Mason City Junior College with an Associates of Arts degree. She worked at the newspaper, as a schoolteacher, a homemaker, and in childcare for 65 years.

She was involved in church, Sunday School, Cub Scouts & Boy Scouts, a member of the Permian Basin Poetry Society, and in the lives of all her children & grandchildren.

She received many awards for her poetry, she published two books of poems, and, at the age of 76, she received a scholarship from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, Ray H. (Andy) Anderegg, her parents, and 8 of her siblings.

Margaret was survived by her children: Dennis & Jeneane Anderegg of Andrews, Mark & Cindy Anderegg of Odessa, Tony & Elaine Anderegg of Alexandria, VA, Clare & Leanora Anderegg of Odessa, Lloyd & Gloria (Anderegg) Bluhm of Austin, Mike & Patty (Anderegg) Pfeiffer of Bellevue, NE; 10 grandchildren: Josh Anderegg, William Anderegg, Esteban & Elizabeth (Anderegg) Pulido, James & Ashley Ward, David Anderegg, A.B. & Marie (Anderegg) Renteria, Robert & Brittany Anderegg, Celeste Bluhm, Christina and Trever Pfeiffer; and 11 great-grandchildren: Catherine, Christin, & Kyrian Anderegg, Adell McCrury, Amelia Renteria, Kayden & Ryan Crites, Jackson Drezelo, Chandler & Morgan Pfeiffer, and Eli Anderegg.

We want to thank all the medical professionals who made mom comfortable to the very end.