May 8, 2017
Peggy Blades is dead
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Matriarch of the Blades family and at one time the largest shareholder of Mussons Jamaica Limited, Peggy Blades passed this morning at her Manor Park home. She was 88.
Her corporate titan husband Desmond Blades, to whom she was married for six decades, died on September 11, 2009.She is survived by her daughter Susan Scott, her two grandchildren Paul ‘PB’ Scott and Melanie Subratie and several great grandchildren.Peggy Blades, who was born in Barbados, moved to Jamaica in 1960, the result of her marriage to Desmond.
She served for decades as the President of the Woman’s Club located at Gladstone Drive.