Valeta Jeanette (Hull) PUGH

HULL, PUGH, PETERSON, SHOUP, BIRKENHOLTZ, GRIMES, HERBERT, HAMPTON, GATHERCOLE, WADDAL, COBB

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:54

20 January 1938 ---- 5 January 2018

Valeta Jeanette Pugh, 79, of Chariton, Iowa, passed away peacefully on January 5, 2018 at the Corydon Nursing and Rehab and Specialty Care Center. Valeta was born on January 20, 1938 to Russell and Karna (Peterson) Hull in Hampton, Iowa. She graduated from Derby High School in 1956. She was united in marriage to Junior Pugh on November 23, 1957 in Russell, Iowa. To this union two daughters were born, Diana and Christine.

Valeta and Junior enjoyed traveling to Branson, Missouri. She enjoyed baking goodies and making candies at Christmas time and sharing them with friends and loved ones until she could no longer do it. She cleaned homes and businesses for several years, then working at Hy-Vee for 15 years until she retired in 2003. She also cleaned the church for many years. She was an active member of the Grace Baptist Church. She accepted Christ as her Savior in the early 1960's. She was a Sunday School teacher for many years and enjoyed Ladies Bible Study.

Valeta was preceded in death by her husband, Junior, parents, Russell and Karna Hull, step-mother, LaVeta Hull, parents-in-law, Murl and Lucy Pugh, infant great-grandchildren, Trey, Riley and Reagan Shoup, step-sister and husband, Gay and Irvin Birkenholtz, all of Junior's brothers and sisters and spouses. Valeta is survived by her children, Diana Shoup and Christine (Brian) Grimes, grandchildren, Nicole (Daniel) Herbert, Daniel (Fabalia) Shoup, Logan Grimes and Tiffany Grimes, great-grandchildren, Karna Hampton (Tyler Gathercole), Twila "Peetie" Hampton, MacKenzie, Benny, Danny and Allyssa Shoup, Paige and Sophia Herbert, great-great-grandson, Jordan Waddal, sister-in-law, Barbara Cobb and several nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.