Freestone County, Texas Obituaries Teague Chronicle October ?? edition PEGGY J. (HARDIE) HAHN Graveside services for Peggy J. Hahn, 80, of Portales, New Mexico, were held on Thursday, September 27, 2007, at the Portales Cemetery with Rev. Terry Townsend officiating. All former students and teaching colleagues were honorary pallbearers. Peggy Joyce Hahn was born on September 2, 1927, in Grand Prairie, Texas to Bessie and Jessie Hardie and died early Monday morning, September 24, 2007, at Retirement Ranch in Clovis, New Mexico where she had been living for the past two years. Peggy attended elementary school in Arlington, Texas and graduated from high school in Teague, Texas in 1946. She went on to earn a degree in Elementary Education from T.C.U. in 1950. She came from a very musical family and had begun performing as a vocalist and tap dancer as a child in 1938. After graduating from college, she began working for the Shermer Music Co. in New York City, performing with what had originally been the Glen Miller Orchestra, and was known as the “Texas Songbird.” She was well known for her performance of “Stormy Weather,” which was also her favorite song. After a year and a half, she left New York and performed in several cities. From 1956 until 1959, she taught in Houston, Texas and worked as a performer at the Shamrock Hotel with the Hal Pruten Orchestra along with such notables as Dennis Day and Billy D. Wolf. During part of this time she worked with Mrs. John Wayne and on at least one occasion Mr. Wayne flew both ladies to his filming location for The Alamo. On June 11, 1960, in Teague, Texas, she was married to Henry H. Hahn, and the couple made their home in Portales. In 1961 she began teaching second grade at Steiner Elementary and later taught at Brown Elementary in Portales. Mrs. Hahn retired in 1986. During her years of teaching, she was chosen as Teacher of the Year for the Portales Public Schools on two occasions and for the state of New Mexico on another. For several years she and her husband were Co-Curators of the Roosevelt County Museum on the campus of ENMU. She was a member of the Baptist church but attended the First Presbyterian Church in Portales with her husband. Peggy was a member of the Retired Teachers as well as Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law Richard and Nicole Hahn of Clovis, New Mexico, her grandchildren Ethan, Dalton and Abigail Hahn, her brothers Alvis Hardie and wife Gwen of Ft. Worth, Texas and Jess Hardie and wife DeAnna of Glen Rose, Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister Vivian Drennon and by her husband Henry H. Hahn who died on November 18, 2006. Services are under the direction of Wheeler Mortuary in Portales, New Mexico.