Photo gallery: Cele Peterson
Cele Peterson was a successful businesswoman, philanthropist and community leader in Tucson for more than 75 years.
Executive Director of the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, Lance Laber, gets a hug from Tucson icon Cele Peterson after she cut the cake celebrating Tucson's 231st birthday in 2006. Peterson knew Ted DeGrazia when he lived in Bisbee in the mid-1920's. "He was a very nice young man."
- David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Cele Peterston in her store in the Crossroads Festival Shopping center in 2009.
- Benjie Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Cele Peterson greeting customers Elizabeth Kershaw and Franklin Vernon in 2003 in her downtown store, as she had done for 50 years.
- A.E. Araiza/Arizona Daily Star
Cele Peterson in 2006, in her 75th year of selling women's clothing, takes a phone call while working at her store.
- Rich-Joseph Facun/Arizona Daily Star
Executive Director of the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, Lance Laber, gets a hug from Tucson icon Cele Peterson after she cut the cake celebrating Tucson's 231st birthday in 2006. Peterson knew Ted DeGrazia when he lived in Bisbee in the mid-1920's. "He was a very nice young man."
- David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Cele Peterson at five-years-old.
- Courtesy Cele Peterson
A vintage photograph of Cele Peterson.
- Courtesy Cele Peterson
A vintage photograph of Cele Peterson taken in 1936 at her downtown Tucson store.
- Courtesy Cele Peterson
Cele Peterson modeling one of her "Southwest inspired" clothing designs in the 1940s-1950s in Tucson.
- Courtesy Cele Peterson
Cele Peterson in the 1930s.
- Courtesy Cele Peterson
Cele Peterson at her store ca. 1964.
- Courtesy Cele Peterson
Undated photo of Cele Peterson.
- Courtesy Cele Peterson
Cele Peterson sharing a moment with her husband Tom in the late 1940s at her downtown store in Tucson.
- Courtesy Cele Peterson
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Cele Peterson, who for more than 75 years served as Tucson’s arbiter of fashion and grace, died late this morning in Tucson. She was 101 years old.
Cele Peterson, who for more than 75 years served as Tucson's arbiter of fashion and grace, d…
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