Margaret “Peggy” Beale Keller, 87, formerly of Littleton, passed away Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, in Tulsa, Okla.
Born June 23, 1923, in Franklin, Va., she was the daughter of Evelyn Causey Lloyd and James Irving Beale. She was a graduate of Franklin High School, St. Mary’s Junior College in Raleigh, N.C., and Katherine Gibbs business school in Boston. During World War II, Peggy worked at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, which developed the proximity fuse, and also worked in the family business, the Franklin Peanut Co.