Penelope M. Peter, 71 of Princeton and Southampton, N.Y. died Thursday , February 26, at the University Medical Center at Princeton after a long illness. Born in New York City, she had been a resident of Princeton and Southampton, NY.
Known to her friends and family as “Penny” she was born in New York City to the late Thomas and Sarah Meade McDermott.
She was a graduate of Marymount College (NYC) and an elementary school teacher in Montreal, Que. and New York City.
In 1964 she moved with her husband to Princeton where she began her second career raising her four sons.
Penny was at her best when with her friends and family regaling them with “over the top” stories about recent events in her life and in the lives of others.
She was a past member at Bedens Brook club, Pretty Brook Tennis Club and the Southampton Yacht Club.
She is survived by her husband of 49 years Dr. William J. Peter, four sons and three daughters-in-law: Jonathan T. and Nancy Peter, William J. and Louise Peter, Jr., Christopher E. and Julia Peter, Cornelius M. Peter, her twin sister Patricia M. Carey and eight grandchildren.
A memorial mass was celebrated 10:00 a.m. Tuesday , March 3, 2009 at the Aquinas Institute, 65 Stockton Street, Princeton.

