Carmi Times
Monday, June 4, 2007
 
FAIRFIELD

Peggy Land of Fairfield died at 2:10 a.m. Friday, June 1, 2007 in Fairfield Memorial Hospital following an extended illness.

She was 83, and had been a resident of Wayfair the past two years.

Peggy was born May 30, 1924 in Parasia, India. Her parents were Leonard and Margaret Haig Newton. The Haig family has been traced back to 1125 and is contained in Burkes Landed Gentry. She had one bother and one half-brother, both deceased.

Peggy is a granddaughter of Sir Wolseley Haig, K.C.I.E. (Knight Commander of Indian Empire) and Lady Haig. Peggy returned to Great Britain with her family in 1928 and lived in Buckley, Flintshire, North Wales.

Following the death of Peggy's father and mother in 1936, she and her brother, James, lived with her grandfather, Sir Wolseley Haig, and her aunt, Helen Haig, on Gledstanes Road in London until 1939, when her grandfather died. Peggy, her brother James and Miss Haig (aunt) then moved to Axminster,  Devonshire, England, which was her home when school and college were not in session, and until she joined the WRNS (Women's Royal Naval Service).
 
Her schooling included Linton House Boarding school in Maidenhead,  Berkshire, England, from 1936 to 1942, and Kings College Hospital, London,  where she studied physio-therapy from 1942 to 1944. In 1945 she joined the WRNS and studied radar.

She and Tom Land were married July 28, 1945 at St. Luke' Church, Hampstead, London. She sailed for America Feb. 22, 1946 on the SS Argentina, and joined her husband in New York.

Peggy was a member of First United Methodist Church of Fairfield.

Peggy has traveled to most U.S. states, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Sicily, Austria, Canada and Mexico and has gone on the Danube and Rhine cruises.

Peggy was vice president, secretary and treasurer of Wayne County Broadcasting and a homemaker. Some of her hobbies were knitting and reading.  She was a member of Exemplar club.

Peggy is survived by her husband, Tom; their three children, Judith Moore (Jim) of Newburgh, Ind., David Land (Kathy) of Fairfield and Cynthia Cummins (Bill) of Belleville; grandchildren Matthew Lamont, Evansville, Ind., Michael Lamont, Milwaukee, Wis., Amanda Walsh, Oconomowoc, Wis., Meredith Kirkpatrick and Morgan Land, Evansville, Ind., Sarah Wilson, Ocala, Fla., and Nancy Moore, Indianapolis, Ind.; and one great-grandchild, Colin Walsh,
Oconomowoc, Wis.