Margaret "Peggy" Fischbach

Margaret "Peggy" Fischbach, 77, of Warner, SD, passed away Tuesday, October 29, 2024, at Avera Mother Joseph Manor.

A Funeral Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, November 4, 2024, at Schriver's Memorial Chapel, with Pastor Bret Bierman officiating.

Private Interment will be following the service.

A time of fellowship and luncheon will be at Schriver’s Memorial Fellowship Center after the burial. All are welcome.

Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 3, at Schriver's Memorial Chapel. Visitation will continue one hour before the service at the mortuary.

Schriver’s Memorial Mortuary and Crematory, 414 5th Avenue NW, Aberdeen, is in charge of arrangements. Family and friends may sign the online guestbook at www.schriversmemorial.com. Services will be recorded and posted on Schriver’s website following the service.

Margaret “Peggy” Jean McComsey was born on August 28, 1947, to Arthur “Bud” and Beverly (Herr) McComsey in Conde, South Dakota. She had one sister and four brothers: Judy, Dan, Gary, Jim, and LeRoy. She attended school in Brentford, where she was a four-year cheerleader and crowned Miss Northwestern Snow Queen. She graduated in 1965. Peggy then attended Stewart’s School of Hairstyling and enjoyed styling hair for clients for a few years.

On April 28, 1966, she married Lawrence “Larry” Fischbach at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Aberdeen. The couple made their home on a dairy farm in rural Warner. They were blessed with four children, Fredric “Fred”, Owen, Douglas “Doug”, and Joy.

Peggy had a passion for the family dairy, Kota-Crest Holsteins. She named the registered cattle and was a great partner to Larry in all things related to Land O’Lakes and the South Dakota Holstein Association. They took many trips together showing and selling cows.

She kept busy raising the kids, cooking lots of wonderful meals, especially when they were in the fields. We all enjoyed her sweets! Her cheesecakes were often requested, as well as her monster cookies. In her spare time, she participated in the extension club, took trail rides with her horse, Lady, went bowling, and assisted with the local 4-H chapter. She was always up for fishing, too. Peggy loved to feed the birds, especially hummingbirds. She loved to take photographs of all God’s creatures on the farm. Peggy entered many photographs, breads, and other goodies at county and state fairs. When the kids got a little older, she took a part-time role at The Party Shoppe.

In 2001, Peggy got a new title – Grandma. She loved teaching the grandkids about the birds and identifying animal footprints. Peggy loved to bake cookies and made the best skinny pancakes, second to Larry, for and with the kids. Ice cream was often given to the grandkids for breakfast, and she cut their muenster cheese into cow shapes. She loved to draw with them, snuggle in bed watching TV late at night, and share her childhood memories and wisdom. Peggy was proud of all her grandchildren.

Peggy is survived by her husband, Larry; children, Fred Fischbach, Owen (Gwyn) Fischbach, Doug (Michelle) Fischbach, and Joy (Ryan) Wenn; grandchildren, Clara Fischbach, Elizabeth Fischbach, Lydia Fischbach, Ellis Fischbach, Asher Wenn, and Easton Wenn; siblings, Judy McComsey, Dan (Jeanne) McComsey, Gary McComsey, Jim McComsey, and LeRoy (Denise) McComsey; bonus grandchildren, Sara Siefken, Lona Simon, Brian Cotten, their children, and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Bud and Beverly; parents-in-law Frederick and Irene Fischbach; siblings-in-law Sheryl Fischbach, Alvin Simmons, and Richard “Dick” Fischbach, and her daughter-in-law Wendy Fischbach.