Ocean City Pops to Help Peggy Lloyd Celebrate 100th Birthday

A special Ocean City Pops concert 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the Ocean City Music Pier will celebrate the life and 100th birthday of Ocean City resident Margaret "Peggy" Lloyd.

The concert will feature the Pops orchestra, along with young prodigy violinist Joseph Hsai, soprano Chloe Moore and baritone Steven LaBrie. 

At 8:30 p.m., a birthday cake with 100 candles will be brought to the Music Pier stage, and the audience will join in singing Happy Birthday to Lloyd, who turns 100 that very day.

Lloyd has served on the board of directors for the Ocean City Pops, the Ocean City Arts Center and the Ocean City Aquatics and Fitness Center, and she has been a generous donor to each of the organizations.

In March, Lloyd made the largest donation ever received by the Ocean City Community Center Association. She asked that the exact amount of the contribution not be disclosed, and she asked that the money be dedicated to the pool at the Ocean City Aquatics and Fitness Center.

Born in Atlantic City in 1913, Lloyd is a graduate of Atlantic City High School and the Trenton Teachers College (now The College of New Jersey). After moving to Ocean City, she became active in various community organizations in town.

Lloyd is a former Miss America Pageant chaperone and during War II, she taught skiing and swimming to  to troops on rest and rehabilitation leave. Even at 99, she still attends to her garden and shovels snow. 

In April 2012, she was honored as the Ocean City Exchange Club's Book of Golden Deeds recipient.