Posted on 10/01/2018 2:29:52 PM PDT by Borges
Peggy Sue Gerron was born on June 15, 1940, in Olton, Texas, and grew up in Lubbock, Texas. Sources say she passed away in a Lubbock hospital this morning at the age of 78.
Peggy Sue was a high school senior when she was cast into the international spotlight by Buddy Holly’s release of the namesake song that climbed to the top of 1957 Billboard Charts.
Following her divorce from Jerry Allison, Peggy Sue went to Pasadena Junior College in Pasadena, California, and became a dental assistant. She then married again and had two children, a girl and a boy, and spent the majority of her life caring for her family, according to PeggySueOnline.com.
She helped her new husband establish a successful plumbing business and became the first licensed woman plumber in California.
In 1995 she came back to Lubbock to care for her aging and ill mother and stayed.
Buddy Holly tagged her in the love ballad “Peggy Sue,” but she wasn’t Buddy’s love. She was in a relationship with Jerry Allison, the drummer of the Crickets.
Peggy Sue went to Lubbock High School with Buddy Holly and married Allison after graduation.
Sweet story. RIP
The day the music died.
Very interesting! :)
Texas Ping.
Ping!
My older sister named my paper dolls wrote the names on the back...one girl was called Peggy Sue Holly...
:)
RIP, Peggy Sue. What a crappy song.
Is this the first stalker song?
If you knew Peggy Sue
Then you’d know why I feel blue without Peggy
My Peggy Sue
Oh well, I love you gal, yes, I love you Peggy Sue
Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue
Oh how my heart yearns for you
Oh Peggy, my Peggy Sue
Oh well, I love you gal, yes, I love you Peggy Sue
Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty Peggy Sue
Oh Peggy, my Peggy Sue
Oh well, I love you gal and I need you Peggy Sue
I love you Peggy Sue
With a love so rare and true
Oh Peggy, my Peggy Sue
Well I love you gal, I want you Peggy Sue
Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty Peggy Sue
Oh Peggy, my Peggy Sue
Oh well, I love you gal yes I need you Peggy Sue
I love you Peggy Sue
With a love so rare and true
Oh Peggy, my Peggy Sue
Oh well I love you gal, and I want you Peggy Sue
Oh well, I love you gal and I want you Peggy Sue
Wow, first licensed plumber in California. Oh, Peggy...my Peggy Sue ooh, ooh, ooh!
She was a guest on Coast to Coast with George Noory a few years back.
RIP Peggy Sue . . .
And my grandkids are going.....who???
Not when it is performed by Buddy Holly and the Crickets. It is a rock icon.
There really was a “Peggy Sue”? Cool...very cool indeed!
The B-side Thatll be the Day was the better song on that single.
But until today I didn’t know there was a real-life Peggy Sue.
Will we hear from Keith Richards on this RnR related death?
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