Longtime Belton journalist Peeples dies at age 103
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 Areaâs 2001 Outstanding Older Worker for a seven-county area and honored by the Bell County Commissioners Court. âOur 27-member board gave her a standing ovation,â said Susan Kamas, executive director for the Central Texas Workforce Development Board. Peeples began working at the Belton Journal as a âcub reporterâ when she was just 13 and on and off continued her ...
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