All About Mama Peggy

(May 11, 1933 – Dec 30, 2011)

This is the web site of Peggy Joyce Chaney, daughter of Rev. Robert Lattie and Winnie Moss Chaney. Peggy was born in 1933 and lived her entire adult life in the Kings Mountain area of North Carolina, where she was best known as the cook for Peggy’s Restaurant (which was in business for over 25 years, owned and operated by her sister, Loretta Chaney). Peggy was one of eleven children, known to some of Kings Mountain’s older residents as one of “those Chaney girls”. She was a member of Eastside Baptist Church in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, which was founded and pastored by her father. She was also a former member of Second Baptist Church, also in Kings Mountain, which her father pastored as well.

Peggy had one son, Kevin Lovelace, with her first husband, Bob Lovelace. She briefly helped operate a restaurant with Bob named “Bob’s Drive-In” in the late 1960’s to early 1970’s (at 509 E. King Street in Kings Mountain).

During Peggy’s later years she lived in the Kings Mountain Manor senior community in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, in an apartment beside her sister, Sherry Chaney Short (who was also a fixture at “the cafe”). She had hoped to publish a cookbook of her favorite recipes, as well as many sought after recipes from Peggy’s Restaurant. She loved to hear from visitors to this web site, and always encouraged the users of MamaPeggy.com to drop her a line from time to time. We still uphold that tradition around here.

Peggy Chaney died on December 30th, 2011. She is greatly missed.

– Kevin Wicasta Lovelace (Peggy’s son)

Links

• Chaney Family