On Sept. 6, 2007, Ronnie Jiles received a phone call that would change his life forever.

It was that morning the burned body of his mother, Peggy Jiles, was found in the carport of her home on Main Street in Ardmore, Tennessee. She was found near a barbecue grill and gasoline can.

Authorities ruled her death a suicide, but lingering doubts remain.

“I don’t believe my mom would have killed herself,” said Peggy’s son, Ronnie Jiles, Thursday. “I just don’t see my mom setting herself on fire.”

The case also doesn’t add up to Mark White, a former Ardmore Police Officer. He’s organized a memorial service Saturday to mark the 10-year anniversary of her death. He hopes the service will also put the case back in the public eye and — hopefully — back on the desk of an investigator willing to give the case a second look.

The service will be 4:30 p.m. at John Hunt Park. The address is 30523 Ardmore Ridge Road in Ardmore, Tennessee.

White said the 45-minute service would include a group prayer and singing. Jiles’ family members will also talk about Peggy and what she meant to them.

Peggy was born in Indiana but spent most of her life in Louisiana. She had three children, and Ronnie was the oldest. He will be among the 10 or so family members making the trip from Louisiana to attend Saturday’s service.

Ronnie was 25 when his mother died. He received the call that morning from the sister of Peggy’s boyfriend. Peggy and her boyfriend shared the home where her body was found.

When asked if his mother had any enemies, he knew of none. He also couldn’t provide any theories of what may have happened.

“She was just a wonderful person,” he said. “I could go on for days about how wonderful she was.”

White became interested in Peggy Jiles’ case after a member of the community asked him about it. He began researching the case on his own and found little to no follow-up about it.

At the time, The News Courier and other media outlets reported the probe into her death was being treated as a homicide investigation.

“I couldn’t find anything about her being sent for an autopsy,” White said. “It was quietly closed out as a suicide.”

In the two years leading up to her death, Jiles had worked in the traffic and production departments at WAAY-TV in Huntsville. Ronnie said she had worked at a couple of bars in the Ardmore area prior to being hired at WAAY. At the time of her death, her co-workers described her as a good person who had just recently been promoted.

“She was very funny and had a good personality,” Ronnie said. “I just miss her.”