CWA Mourns Retired Kentucky Director Peg Stanton

Margaret A. "Peg" Stanton, retired Kentucky director who broke new ground for women on the CWA staff, died Dec. 27 at her home in Largo, Fla. She was 87.

"She was cool and collected and worked hard for everybody - and everybody loved Peg," said friend Nelle Horlander, who succeeded her as Kentucky director."

Stanton, then Peg Kennedy, worked from 1937 to 1956 for AT&T in her hometown of Pittsburgh as an operator, teletype operator, service assistant, instructor and force clerk, and rose to vice president of her local.

Hired as a temporary organizer in October 1950 for a campaign at Northern Telephone, she became a CWA representative in March 1955, working initially in the organizing department in Washington, D.C. The next year she was assigned to the staff office in Louisville, working with locals in the western half of the state. Her title changed to western Kentucky director in November 1959.

In October 1962 she married CWA Representative Merle Stanton. Peg Stanton became eastern Kentucky director in December 1969, and Merle Stanton became western Kentucky director.

She was active in Democratic politics, served on the executive board and as women's activities director of the Kentucky State AFL-CIO, and on the Governor's Committee on Higher Education. Merle, for health reasons, retired in April 1973. Peg retired in November 1973 to care for him.

Predeceased by her husband, she is survived by a niece, Maureen Lynch of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a nephew, Frank Kennedy of Toledo, Ohio.