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Obituary
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.