Peggy O’Neill Soden passed away on Nov. 26, 2020 due to Covid-19.
Peggy was born on June 20, 1922 in Denver, CO to Madlyn and Norbert O’Neill. She moved with her family to Kansas City as a child. She attended Visitation grade school, St. Teresa Academy and Avila College. She met and married her beloved husband Bob Soden in 1944 who passed away in 1982.
Peggy was a cub scout den mother, member of the Rockhurst University Library Guild, St. Thomas More Book Club, and Ladies of Charity. As a member of the St. Joseph Health Center Auxiliary, she and three friends started the hospital gift shop in 1977 when it opened and worked there for many years. Peggy loved playing bridge and never turned down a game. She was a member of the Duplicate Dolls and jokingly said bridge kept her out of the bars!
Peggy was proceded in death by her husband Bob Soden and her parents Maddie and Nor O’Neill. She is survived by her brother Richard O’Neill, Sr. (Margie) of Kansas City, MO; son Jack Soden (Leighanne) of Memphis, TN and his children Stephanie Ward (Jim) and Bobby Soden; son Steve Soden (Mary) of Mission Hills, KS and children Tara Westerhof (Matt), Travis Soden (JoMarie), Elizabeth Bassett (Jared), Tom Keaveny (Emma), Kathleen Keaveny and Joe Keaveny; and many nieces and nephews.
Peggy was dearly loved by her family and friends and will be greatly missed. She was loved for her sincerity, kindness, sense of humor and deep interest in others. A private family Mass and burial will be held. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas, 9720 W. 87th St., Overland Park, KS 66212. Assistance by Funeral Advocates, LLC
Though I did not know Mrs. Soden for long, know that she is in Heaven with her beloved husband and other family members, most likely laughing it up and getting a game or two of Bridge together, no longer in the pain and throws of our world.
She always, from our first meeting at our daughter JoMarie’s, and Steve and step-mom Mary’s son, Travis’s engagement party, treated myself and my wife, Marla, my mother, my brothers’ and their wives, as members of their lovely family.
I believe she was the first person I met at the party and I remember thinking this woman was “class extraordinaire” but, in a simple, beautiful, graceful, motherly manner, that could only make one enjoy and love her.
In the many family events to follow these past 10 years, I always sought her out and always had a wonderful conversation with her. She never wanted to talk about herself, her family, or her many accomplishments throughout her long, wonderful life, but always wanted to talk about me, my family and her love for our daughter, and later our grandchildren, her great – grandchildren. I am positively sure that she had to be truly loved by everyone and anyone that knew her.
I am so very sorry that she had to be taken by this horrible, dreadful plague to strike our world at this time but, rest assured, she was able to live 98 wonderful, beautiful years and raise two very fine, very accomplished sons in their own right, Jack & Steve, and continued through the years to make her mark on the lives of so many others that knew and loved her.
She was a wonderful mother to her two sons, as was exemplified by the love and care shown to her throughout her life and in her final years. Everyone knows that only a truly, loving mother would be able to pass those cherished attributes on to her very fine, loving sons, as she did.
I and my wife, Marla, are so very happy to be able to say we knew her and will never forget the lovely lady that welcomed all of my family into hers, and treated us all as friends and members of her lovely family.
I am, for one, so very proud to say, I hopefully was thought, a friend of hers.
To Steve & Mary, Jack and Leighanne, their families, and all other family members, Marla and I offer our deepest condolences and as you all surely know…
She Will Forever Rest In The Arms Of Our Lord, Jesus Christ & Will Forever, Eternally, Rest In Peace.
Sam & Marla Mirabile
RIP, praying for the Soden family.