About Peggy

Margaret Mary (Peggy) Fay was born on February 2, 1940 in Hazleton, PA. She was the eleventh of eleven children to William Fay (1890-1949), a coal miner and Bridget Teresa Fay (1895-1964), an Irish immigrant who was born in Scotland. Peggy had seven older brothers, two of whom died in infancy in the 1930s, and three older sisters, including Alice who was closest in age to Peggy but died tragically at age six in 1943.

Peggy attended a single Catholic school for all twelve years of her education, graduating in 1957 from St. Gabriel’s High School. After high school she entered the Carmelite Monastery in Allentown, PA. After being there for a short time, she was asked if she would consider relocating to a sister-monastery in Asheville, N.C. She readily complied and spent the next of her six years as a nun there. Sadly, before she would take her solemn vows, she had to leave due to serious illness.

In 1966, Peggy married Pat Albano (1936-2012) and together they had a son, Ric (b. 1968) and a daughter, Cindy (b. 1971). Her children became the light of her life.

Throughout her adult life Peggy remained close with her surviving siblings; sisters Mary (1925-2006) and Teresa (b. 1931) and brothers John (1926-1987), Joe (1928-2018), Frank (1929-1992), Paddy (1934-1995) and Mike (b. 1936). In the 1990s she became a grandmother with four grandchildren; Dylan (b. 1991), Erin (b. 1992), Bryen (b. 1997) and Jake (b. 1997). Then in 2022, Peggy became a great grandmother with the birth of Dylan’s daughter Claire.

Through the years, Peggy personally wrote many poems about important world and religious events, personal experiences and the people she’s known and loved.

Today, Peggy Fay Albano resides in Central Pennsylvania and is a member of Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish in Middleton, PA.