Margaret Tremmel

Margaret "Peg" Roberts Tremmel, 100, of Biloxi, MS, passed away March 6, 2007. She was a native of Little Rock, Arkansas and a resident of Biloxi for over seventy-five years. Mrs. Tremmel received her First Communion at St. Mary's Notre Dame in South Bend, IN. She attended Georgetown Visitation High School in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Gulf Park Junior College for Women and taught Physical Education for four years. There she met and married Louis Tremmel, Sr., a union that lasted over 50 years. After raising a family she went back to teaching and taught third grade at St. Theresa's in D'Iberville for eight years. She was a member of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral and a member of the Nativity Altar Society. She was an active volunteer for the Biloxi Regional Memorial Hospital for over twenty-five years. She was also a member of the Azalea Garden Club, The Legion of Mary, a charter member Billikens, and a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Biloxi Chapter 623. Mrs. Tremmel was preceded in death by her husband, Louis August Tremmel, Sr. and her daughter, Margaret Cunningham Tremmel Peresich, her parents, Mr. Burdette and Sarah Murphy Roberts, two brothers, Gus and Burt Roberts and a sister, Catherine Roberts. Her mother's family were pioneers in the state of Arkansas. She leaves four children: Louis August Tremmel, Jr. Sarah Roberts Pitalo, Mary Ott Davidson, and Burt August Tremmel, Sr., eleven grandchildren, sixteen great - grandchildren and one great - great grandson. Visitation will be Saturday, March 10, 2007, 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m., one hour before the Mass of Resurrection at 10:00 a.m. at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and buiral will be in Southern Memorial Park. View and sign register book at www.bradfordokeefe.co