Monday, December 9, 2019 7:30 pm

NASHVILLE - Peggy Ann Edwards Dickens, age 76, passed away on Thursday, December 5, 2019. Born in Halifax County, NC on November 10, 1943, she was the daughter of the late Ernest Shelton Edwards and Mabel Wright Edwards. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Oscar Lewis Edwards.

She is survived by her husband of 56 years, Ronnie Eugene Dickens; children, Nathan Elton Dickens and wife, Mary Sue Dickens, of Sanford, Lisa Ann Dickens Lee and husband, Scott Lee, of Nashville; four grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; four step-great-grandchildren; siblings, Mary Edwards Hammack, Vicki Edwards Anderson, Carlton Shelton Edwards, Frances Ernestine Edwards, Wayne McCoy Edwards; and numerous nieces and nephews.

A funeral service will be held on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 11 a.m. in the Chapel of Wheeler & Woodlief Funeral Home & Cremation Services with Pastor Chris Fowler officiating. Burial will follow the service at Red Oak Baptist Church Cemetery.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be made in Peggy's memory to The American Kidney Fund, 192 Rockville Pike, Suite 300, Rockville, MD, 20852 or Red Oak Baptist Church, PO Box 260, Red Oak, NC 27868.