Margaret (Peggy) Heiniger, 87, died on Saturday, August 19, 2023, at a skilled nursing facility in Littleton, Colorado.

 Margaret (Peggy) Heiniger was born on December 25, 1931, in Topeka, Kansas to Fern (Shipman) Gordon. Peggy attended school in Seneca and graduated from the Seneca Public High School in 1950. After she graduated, she went to Kansas City to go to nursing school. She graduated from Nurses Training from Bethany Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas in 1953.

 Peggy married Keith D. Heiniger on June 7, 1953, at the First Congregational Church in Seneca, Kansas.

 She worked numerous nursing jobs from 1953 thru 1977, while raising a family, during the period Keith was in the United States Air Force. From 1976 thru 1993 she worked as a Recovery Room Nurse, and ultimately became the Head Recovery Room Nurse at DePaul Hospital in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In 1993, she joined the nursing staff at Yellowstone Surgery Center in Cheyenne and retired from that position in 2010.

In her spare time, Peggy was avid golfer. She became a member of the Cheyenne Airport Golf Course, where she joined both Ladies Day Groups and the TWILITE League. She loved to golf and made many close friends, some friendships lasting 30 years plus. Peggy treasured her family, she was a devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was blessed with an amazingly full life filled with family and friends.

 She was preceded in death by her husband, Colonel Keith Heiniger, on January 10, 2015; her daughter, Victoria Carlisle; and two grandchildren, Sean Johnson and Jennifer Starr.

 She is survived by three daughters Christine Johnson of Reno, Nevada, Lauri Heiniger of Parker, Colorado, and Kelli Starr Peters of Las Vegas, Nevada; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

 Memorial Services will be on Thursday October 12 at 10:00 a.m. at Wiederspahn-Radomsky Chapel. Following the service, there will be a reception for friends and family at the Airport Golf Club at 1:30 PM.

 A private burial will be at a later date in the Seneca City Cemetery, Seneca, Kansas.

 In lieu of flowers a donation to Tunnel to Towers in Peggy’s name would be appreciated.

 Lauer Funeral Home is in charge of the Kansas arrangements.