Betty Peach
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Betty Peach – San Diego fashion editor
Betty Peach was the longtime fashion editor at the San Diego newspaper – she also covered the city’s zoo. From Peach’s obituary: Longtime San Diego reporter, world traveler and private pilot, Betty Peach-Tschirgi, 99, died peacefully at her home in Pacific Beach on April Fool’s evening, 2016. As an inveterate prankster, she would have applauded the date. Betty Peach was on the staff of the Evening Tribune from 1948 to 1982, covering the San Diego Zoo, New York fashion shows and national presidential conventions, beginning with Eisenhower in 1952. She was the first to sign on for adventurous assignments — flying with the Blue Angels over Miramar; going to sea…