Margaret E. Freed,  72 of Sioux City, passed away Sunday, September 1, 2019 at a local care facility.

Services will be held 11 am Thursday, September 5, 2019 at St. John Lutheran Church with Rev. Jeff Swanson officiating. Burial will be in the Ida Grove Cemetery at a later date. Arrangements are under the direction of Waterbury Funeral Service of Sioux City.

Margaret was born on December 4, 1946 in Holstein, Iowa, the daughter of Harold and Ethel (Tolzin) Breyfogle. She was very proud that it was her older sister Verla who delivered her at birth at their home in Holstein. Margaret was baptized at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Holstein. She graduated from the Holstein High School in 1965. She was married to Harold Petersen and later to Don Freed. She had attended college and had worked at Horn Memorial Hospital in Ida Grove during the late 1970's through the 1980's in the medical records field.

She was a member of the St. John Lutheran Church in Sioux City. Margaret was a master crafter and enjoyed hours sewing, crocheting, quilting, scrapbooking, designing dolls and teddy bears.  She was even published for a crochet pattern which she designed. Her grandchildren were very important to her, and she spent countless hours with them. She especially enjoyed visits from her great-granddaughter Harper and declared at the hospital when she was born that, it was "about time you (Wendy) brought me to hold her!"

Margaret is survived by two daughters, Paige Petersen of Sioux City and Wendy and her husband Brian Jackson of Sioux City; one son, Jeffrey and his wife Tracy Petersen of Conroe, Texas; nine grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren, six brothers and 4 sisters.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Don in 2011, her brother Jack and sister Verla.