Remembering Peggy Zimmers (1926-2020)
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra remembers its former violinist Peggy Miller Zimmers, who passed away peacefully at her home in Frisco on January 10, 2020, at the age of 93. She was born October 27, 1926, in Marysville, Kansas, to Joan Marie (Riepen) and Donald Irwin Frager. She started playing the violin at the age of nine, attended The Juilliard School of Music and spent more than 50 years in the music industry. Zimmers was a member of the DSO for 48 years, retiring in 1997. Peggy truly loved life to the fullest through simple pleasures of knitting, crocheting and sewing, traveling to Hawaii and South Padre Island and spending time with her family. She also loved riding merry-go-rounds.
Zimmers is preceded in death by her parents, Joan and Donald Frager, and her sister, Beverly Woolery. She is survived by her husband, Donald Ellis Zimmers, her daughters, Debbie Pickerell (husband Larry) and Pam White (husband Tom) and her seven grandchildren: Ken Gibson (wife Nadiya), Stefanie Floodeen (husband Tommy), Jamie Chandler (husband Kyle), Christine Armstrong (husband Devin), Jeff White (wife Melissa), Tommy Gibson, and Nikki Waring (husband Callum). She had thirty-one great-grandchildren.