Berneta Peeples News Today

Longtime Belton journalist and historian Berneta Peeples died Sunday at a Belton nursing home at age 103. A July 29, 2001, Telegram story described how Peeples, then 83, was named the Central Texas Workforce Area’s 2001 Outstanding Older Worker for a seven-county area and honored by the Bell County Commissioners Court. “Our 27-member board gave her a standing ovation,” said Susan Kamas, executive director for the Central Texas Workforce Development Board. Peeples began working at...