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Margaret "Peggy" (Keckley) Townsend

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Title

Margaret "Peggy" (Keckley) Townsend

Subject

Townsend, Margaret "Peggy" Ann Keckley (1944-2021)

Description

Photograph of Margaret "Peggy" (Keckley) Townsend as a young girl with curled hair.

She was the daughter of Delford Elwood and Dorothy Marilla (Didawick) Keckley.

She had two husbands. The first was Jesse Lee Steelman whom she married in 1964 when she lived in Manassas, Virginia. The couple had two children before divorcing in 1977.

Her second husband was Charles S. Townsend, III, and she remained with him for over forty years before she died.

The name, "Delford Keckley", is written on the glass plate of this image.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Feb 1946".

Contributor

Identified in 2012 by Patsy Simmons, a niece of the subject.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Identifier

025212

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Margaret "Peggy" (Keckley) Townsend,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/54871.

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