- Date Of Birth: May 13, 1927
- Date Of Death: July 5, 2020
- State: New York
Cold Spring, NY, – Julia Margaret “Peg” (Monroe) Merandy, 93, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 5, 2020 at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Peekskill. One of 10 children of Samuel Monroe and Catherine (Trimble) Monroe, Peg was born on May 13, 1927 at the Butterfield Hospital in Cold Spring. She grew up on Garden Street in Cold Spring. As a teenager Peg worked at National Biscuit Co. in Beacon. Peg’s parents and siblings were a great source of loving support and strength. Growing up she was closest to her older brother Elliot ‘Dick’ Monroe with whom she shared a mischievous sense of humor and youthful capers in and around Cold Spring and Beacon. On April 1, 1951 – after six years of courtship – Peg married her neighbor and great love, Roland ‘Sonny’ Merandy, a WWII veteran. Together they made a home at 10 Whitehill Place and raised four children, Roland, Dave, Cathy and Linda. Peg and Sonny enjoyed forty-five years of marriage until Sonny’s death in 1994.
