Margaret E. Rambo

1920 - 2016

Margaret E. Rambo obituary, 1920-2016, Hillsboro, IL

BORN

1920

DIED

2016

FUNERAL HOME

Westminster Memorial Park Mortuary

14801 Beach Blvd

Westminster, California

Margaret Rambo Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Sep. 8, 2016.

BRADLEY-RAMBO, Margaret E. "Peg", passed away peacefully in her residence, on Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Services will be held at Westminster Memorial Park Mortuary, 14801 Beach Blvd. , Westminster, CA 92683
On Friday, September 9, 2016
Visitation will begin at 12:00 in the CAROLINA CHAPEL followed by a Funeral Service also in the Carolina Chapel at 1:45pm
Graveside is immediately following the service at Westminster Memorial Park, 14801 Beach Blvd. Westminster, CA 92683

Margaret E. "Peg" Bradley-Rambo, was born in Bureau Junction, Illinois, to her parents, Earl Nathaniel & Violet Esther (Knudsen) Simpson
She lived in Princeton, Illinois in Bureau County until 1942, then moved to California. She also lived in Arizona before coming to Hillsboro in 1973.
She graduated from Princeton High School, Princeton, Illinois. Margaret worked for the Illinois Consolidated Telephone company in Princeton, Ill., and while in California, she worked for Southern Pacific Railroad, Savon Drug, Inc. in Garden Grove, CA, she worked as the Department Head of Cosmetics and Jewelry Buyer, Retail Store, and worked for Bass Patton Funeral Home in Hillsboro, Ill.

Margaret was a member of First Christian Church, in Hillsboro, Ill. where she married her husband Robert Gray Bradley on January 1, 1942. He husband preceded her in death on May 29, 1965. Margaret re-married on June 18, 1973 in Anaheim, California, to John M. Rambo, who preceded her in death on October 6, 2011.

Margaret is survived by her children; Jeffrey Gray Bradley (wife Nancy), of Nokomis, Ill.: Lynne Lennert (husband James), of Garden Grove, CA; Connie Prosser (husband Creighton) of Anaheim, CA; and Rebecca Julian (husband Ken), of Lincoln, Ill. She was preceded in death by her son Timothy A. Rambo in 1993. She is survived by 9 grandchildren; Shaun Lennert (wife Tyler), Shellese Ash (husband Jeffery), Seth Lennert, Preston Prosser (wife Heidi), Garret Prosser (companion Beth Taylor), Jennifer Violet Neece (husband Damon), Michelle Ravary (husband Jody), Kristel White (husband James), and Lori Thornton, as well as 14 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great grandchildren. She is also preceded in death by her brother Lawrence E. Simpson



Arrangements under the direction of Westminster Memorial Park Mortuary ~FD1030, Westminster, CA.

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