Peggy Ann Jackson Lorinc was called home Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at Heritage House. She was 89.

Mrs. Lorinc was born Feb. 2, 1922, the fifth of six children born to Ed and Audrey Birkhead Jackson of Hazen, Ark.

She is survived by her brother, Ted Jackson of Collierville, Tenn.; son, Joseph E. Sr. and daughter-in-law Darlene T. Lorinc of Vicksburg; three grandchildren, Joseph E. Lorinc Jr. of Naples, Fla., Mary Katrina Lorinc Struckman of Fulton, Ark., and Janette L. Lorinc Stoddard of Bulverde, Texas; and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by all of her siblings, save Ted, and her husband of 62 years, Emil F. Lorinc of Stuttgart, Ark.

After graduating from high school in Hazen, she married Emil Lorinc in 1941. While Emil served in the European Theater of Operations in Patton’s III Army as a member of the 505th Heavy Maintenance Company, Peggy worked at an arsenal in Little Rock, Ark., making detonators for bombs and artillery shells. After the war, she worked as an accountant for Riceland Foods and a payroll clerk/radio dispatcher for Arkansas Power and Light in Stuttgart. After retiring in the early 1970s, Peggy and Emil toured the Untied States in a pop-up camper, visiting all but three of the Lower 48. As a consequence of her lifelong love of flowers, she became a Master Gardener and was a key member of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church Altar Society in Stuttgart. Following Emil’s death in 2003, she moved to Vicksburg residing in the Heritage House Retirement Center until her death.

A memorial Mass will be celebrated at St. Paul Catholic Church on Friday, May 27, 2011, at 6 p.m. with Monsignor Patrick Farrell, pastor, as celebrant. Another memorial Mass and interment with her husband will be conducted at Stuttgart, date and time to be determined.

Her family requests, in lieu of fowers, memorial donations to the St. Jude Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.

Riles Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.