<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/obituaries/margaret-peggy-ladenberger.html" dsn="news"><item_date>09/14/2021 03:02:00 PM</item_date><category_header>Obituary</category_header><image><img src="" alt=""/></image><firstname>Margaret</firstname><middlename>"Peggy"</middlename><maidenname/><lastname>Ladenberger</lastname><suffix/><graduation-Year>'61 M.Ed., '70 Ph.D.</graduation-Year><relationship-to-university>Alumni</relationship-to-university><degree-program-completed/><position-held-at-the-university/><title>Margaret "Peggy" Ladenberger</title><author/><type>obituary</type><categories/><relationships><relationship>Alumni</relationship></relationships><main-content>
    
      Margaret “Peggy” Ladenberger (’61 M.Ed., ’70 Ph.D.), Dallas. She established The Merl Bonney Endowed Visiting Chair in Psychology at UNT and was a member of the Matthews Society. She had a lifelong passion for mental health, earning her doctorate in guidance and counseling from UNT and running her own psychology practice. She co-authored a weekly parenting column for The Dallas Morning News and taught a women’s empowerment class at Southern Methodist University’s School of Continuing Education. She also helped establish Suicide Prevention of Dallas in 1967. She enjoyed flying airplanes, hiking and dancing.
    

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