She knew that food made with love and flavor was a joy to the folks around the table and the best remedy for loneliness, grief, and most other human conditions. Peggy was a wonderful cook and people flocked to her table for fried chicken (never mind the messy stove), vegetables drenched in real cream, and a meal complete with conversation. “Have you ordered your seeds yet? What is being planted and where?” As time went on, she was continually interested in everyone’s garden even though she no longer had one of her own. Summer after summer, her hollyhocks brightened the brown and sun-filled landscape. Before that water came, Peggy and Frank and Joy (George’s parents) put cedar trees in the shelter belts and planted and nurtured aisles and aisles of tulips between the rows of trees. What a blessing it was when rural water finally came. If there was a choice between doing the laundry and watering the garden, the garden won. Of course, water was always scarce in the house and outside. One of her favorite stories was about the summer she raised a 27 pound cabbage. These cornerstones included her family, her gardens, cooking, and enjoying kids, especially her grandkids. There were four cornerstones to Peggy’s Life. To this union four sons were born: David, Douglas, Wendel “Dan”, and Duane. Peggy married George Hauk on June 7, 1950. After getting her teaching certificate from Black Hills Teacher College, she taught at the Plainview School northeast of Quinn. She attended Wall Schools, graduating in 1949. She lived on the family farm southwest of Wall until they moved to Wall in 1936. Margaret Louise (Clark) Hauk, better known as Peggy, was born to William and Myrtle (Johnson) Clark, on June 3, 1930, in Wall, South Dakota.

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