People Remembered: Elizabeth (Peggy) Loeb

Elizabeth (Peggy) Loeb

Elizabeth (Peggy) Loeb, 84, wife of Marshall Loeb, OPC president 2006 to 2008, died October 27 in Scarsdale, New York, where they lived. Peggy and Marshall, met in post-WWII Frankfurt, Germany, when he was a United Press correspondent and were married in Frankfurt City Hall in August 1954.

Born in Bad Kissingen, Germany when Nazi power was growing, Peggy spent much of her school years in Vevey, Switzerland, and later studied at Charles University in Prague. Towards the end of WWII, she nursed German soldiers, then fled Czechoslovakia to avoid the advancing Russian army. Walking for three months at night and often hiding in foxholes to avoid rapacious soldiers, she made her way to the Bavarian town of Freising, where an uncle was a city elder. When the U.S. Army arrived, Peggy, who spoke perfect English, was persuaded by her uncle to leave the town. After the war, Peggy’s command of English landed her a secretarial position with the British Counsel General in Frankfurt, and later as a stewardess with Pan American Airlines.

Peggy was described in her death notice as a gourmet cook, animal lover and jewelry designer extraordinaire who impressed friends with her incisive take on events of the day, her candid appraisal of people, her sage advice, puckish humor and cultivated tastes She devoted herself to her family and to guiding the career of her husband, who became managing editor of Money and Fortune magazines, a radio and television commentator and author of more than a dozen books. A memorial service will be held Sunday, November 14, at 5 pm at The Core Club, 66 East 55th Street, New York City. In lieu of flowers, please send donations in her memory to the Humane Society of New York (212) 752-4842.