Peg Hilgen

Peggy Hilgen PEGGY HILGEN GREW UP IN PASADENA, MET AND MARRIED HER HUSBAND, BOB 29 YEARS AGO. SHE IS EMPLOYED AS SYSTEMS OPERATOR IN THE ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT OF HOUSTON GASKET & PACKING CO.-GHX. PEGGY STARTED BOWLING IN THE EARLY 70S, WAS APPOINTED TO THE PASADENA WOMEN’S BOWLING ASSOCIATION BOARD IN 1976 AND WAS A DIRECTOR FOR FIVE YEARS.

SHE WAS THEN ELECTED AND SERVED AS SERGEANT-AT-ARMS FOR 17 YEARS AND IS PRESENTLY A DIRECTOR. SHE WAS ELECTED MEMBER EMERITUS OF PWBA FOR HAVING RENDERED VALUABLE SERVICE TO THE ASSOCIATION. SHE ALSO QUALIFIED FOR CERTIFIED LANE INSPECTOR IN JULY, 1986.

PEGGY HAS BEEN A DELEGATE TO BOTH THE STATE AND NATIONAL CONVENTIONS MANY TIMES, AND SERVED AS TELLER AT BOTH. SHE ATTENDED SEVERAL CONVENTIONS FOR HER OWN PERSONAL GROWTH EVEN WHEN NOT AN ELECTED DELEGATE.

ALTHOUGH PEGGY HAS NO CHILDREN SHE HAS BEEN VERY DEDICATED TO THE YOUTH. SHE WAS ONE OF THE ORGANIZERS OF THE PASADENA YABA AND SERVED AS SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR FOR MANY YEARS. SHE REPRESENTED OUR YOUTH BOWLERS AS DELEGATE TO THE TEXAS YABA ANNUAL MEETING SEVERAL TIMES, IS A CERTIFIED COACH INSTRUCTOR, YABA COACH INSTRUCTOR AND REGISTERED COACH INSTRUCTOR.

SHE WAS THE TEXAS YABA SCRATCH TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR FOR THREE YEARS. NOT ONLY DID THE PASADENA YABA DEDICATE THEIR “BOWLERS’ RECIPES RIGHT UP YOUR ALLEY” BOOK TO HER IN 1990, THEY HONORED HER WITH THEIR PYABA YOUTH LEADERS SERVICE AWARD.

PEGGY IS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE PASADENA 600 CLUB, AND FOR SIX YEARS HAS BEEN A DIRECTOR OF THE PASADENA 500/600 CLUB. IN ADDITION TO BEING A MEMBER OF PWBA, TWBA, AND WIBC, SHE IS A MEMBER OF THE TEXAS WOMEN BOWLING WRITERS ASSOCIATION AND THE NATIONAL WOMEN BOWLING WRITERS ASSOCIATION.