Peggy Lynn Hult (Nehls-Fosberg), 60, of Corwith, passed away Saturday, January
27, 2024 at her home. Services will be held at a later date.
Peggy was born on January 31st 1963 in Columbus Wisconsin to Clifford Nehls and
Doris Nehls (Thompkins). She was one of six siblings and only one of two
sisters. Peggy spent her childhood growing up in Wisconsin where she attended
bible camp in the summers, and where one summer when she was 12 years old, she
gave her life to the lord. This simple decision, she would later tell family,
friends and her children, would help shape her life into what it would later
become.
Peggy graduated high school and with a passion for teaching in her heart and a
love of small children, pursued and graduated with a degree in early education;
which she would then at different points in the future use to home school all
four of her children. But first, she would become a wife to Daryl Fosberg in
1983 and move to the East Coast where she would need to embrace a whole new way
of life being a Navy Wife. Here she would begin working as a Security Guard at a
Nuclear Power Plant, an adventure she loved to share with others, complete with
an attacking bear and of course her using her baton to swipe someone's legs from
out beneath them to put them on their back to stop their attack. Her point was,
God was on her side with the Bear and he was on her side to be able to stop the
attacker until help arrived.
As Peggy's life continued to grow and expand, the birth of a daughter, Ashley
Fosberg in 1991, her faith in God also continued to grow. She faced many
obstacles and trials and losses, many of those losses personal and intimate, her
dream of having many children not meant to be. But Peggy didn't stop. She would
share later on in her life that God placed in her heart that she was meant to
care for children and that she was meant to be a mom to many. So Peggy would
soon move back from the East Coast to Wisconsin to help take care of her
Grandparents, each until their deaths, and then her own mother until her passing
in 2003. Life might have looked bleak and might have sent Peggy down a pathway
of sorrow, but again she leaned on God all the much more to lead her forward on
to where he wanted her to go next.
Working as a Waitress, Peggy met Eric Hult in 2004 and his three children Korrin
Hult (9), Daimon Hult (8), and Aaron Hult (7). A friendship was struck and Peggy
was recruited in homeschooling the three children in a summer program to prepare
them for catching up for the following year, as Eric was then going through a
divorce of his own. Over the next few years, an epic love story bloomed. Peggy
would share often with her children, that even though she was not given the gift
of birthing all four of her beautiful children, God had still chosen to bless
her with four children to claim as hers anyway. She would tell Ashley often,
"God has blessed me."
Peggy's faith and conviction and stance is what drew many people to her in her
lifetime.
If she believed something to be true no matter how impossible it seemed, she
would claim it out loud for all to hear. These last two years of her life are a
testimony for all to know. After suffering a heart attack in December of 2021,
undergoing Triple Bypass in January of 2022 where she also suffered a stroke
with left sided weakness and a completely paralyzed right diaphragm. She was
told she would never walk again, she was told she would never breathe on her own
again and would always be on a ventilator, she was told she would never live at
home again and would be facility bound and she was told she would need dialysis
to live until Christmas. In August of 2024 Peggy returned home to Corwith Iowa
to live with her Daughter Ashley and Sister Lori after nearly two years in
ventilatory facilities. Within weeks she was taking steps with use of a walker
as stand by assistance, transferring to chairs on her own, within months she was
breathing on her own and no longer needing ventilator support. She celebrated
Christmas without needing dialysis. She had her tracheotomy removed due to
non-use. Everything she claimed God was going to do for her, God did do. She
wanted her testimony shared for the world to hear. She overcame what others
could not.
And because she believed with all of her heart, and gave all of herself to a God
who did not fail her even once, he told her 'Well Done' and took her to her
heavenly home where she has been preceded in death by her husband Eric Hult,
Mother Doris Nehls (Thompkins), Brother Greg Nehls, Brother Brad Nehls.
Those who have been left to cherish her memory and share all the funny,
sometimes sad, but mostly goofy stories are her children Ashley Fosberg, Korrin
Taylor (Hult), Daimon Hult (Elizabeth), Aaron Hult (and children Aaron Jr.,
Alice, Waylon, Aliyah). Her Siblings: Sister Lori Nehls (Daughters Stephanie
Manning (Children Brian, Jacob, Alex) Courtney Thorsen) and Brother Kevin Nehls
(Cheryl) (Children Jimmy, Bobby, Josh). As well as good Friends Darwin Nigh
(Diane) and Jody Eliason (Eugene) and other family and close friends too
numerous to mention by name.
Please join us in May (specific date to come) to Celebrate Peggy's Life as well
as the commitment of Eric (2018) and Peggy's ashes.