Peggy J. Hetherington, age 78, of Clinton, Missouri, passed away Thursday, March 22, 2012 at The Village Care Center, Lee's Summit, Missouri. Memorial Services will be Sunday, March 25, 2012, 4:00 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Clinton. Private Family inurnment will be Monday at Englewood Cemetery, Clinton. Memorial contributions may be made to the Trinity Lutheran Church and they may be left at Vansant-Mills Funeral Home. Fond memories may be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com.

Peggy Joan Taylor Hall Hetherington was born November 2, 1933 in Osceola, Missouri the daughter of Lafe and Maggie Ethel (Collins) Taylor. She passed away March 22, 2012 at John Knox Village Care Center, Lee's Summit, Missouri.

She moved to Clinton when she was six years old and has lived in the same house since that time. She graduated from Clinton High School in 1951. That same year, on April 21st she married Kenneth Leroy Hall, Jr. in Harrison, Arkansas. She was deputy recorder of deeds for Bill Whitlow and Ray Laberdie. She later ran for the Clinton Township Collector which she served for 14 years. She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Clinton where she served as a Sunday School teacher for many years and was a member of the Women's Lutheran League. She was also a former member of the Business and Professional Women's Club.

She was preceded in death by her parents, eight sibling, Leota Johnson, Lois Harrelson, Dale Taylor, Geraldine Taylor, Lafe Max Taylor, Bill Taylor, Chuck Taylor and Gordon Taylor, her husband, Kenneth Leroy Hall, Jr. who passed away December 1, 1983 and a step daughter, Laura Hetherington Simmons.

She is survived by her husband, T. Richard "Dick" Hetherington of the home; one daughter, Sheila Lynn Hall-Ross and husband, David of Blue Springs, Missouri; one son, Kenneth Leroy Hall, III of Mequite, Nevada; three grandchildren, Lafe Ross and wife, Jacki, Nicholas Hall and wife, Andrea and Michelle Hall; four great grandchildren, Aidan Hall, Tyler Hall, Sarah Hall and Brennon Ross; three step children, Deborah Wolff and husband Steve and their children of Raytown, Missouri, Tom Hetherington and wife, Susan and his children of North Kansas City, Missouri and Maxwell Hetherington of North Kansas City, Missouri and his children of Montrose, Missouri; as well as a number of brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law and many other relatives and friends.

Arrangements entrusted to Vansant-Mills Funeral Home, Clinton.