Peg was born in Salina Kansas in 1928, the daughter of Margaret Louella Tedlock and Bruce Hudson Baker. Her father was born in Ellsworth County and his maternal and paternal grandparents emigrated there from the east in the 1870s.

She attended the University of Kansas in 1946 where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority, Mortar Board and received the Lawrence Schmidt senior architectural design award. Following graduation in 1950 with a degree in architecture, she practiced in Kansas City for a short time then married Roy P. Britton and moved to Ellsworth where they continue to live. They have three children and four grandchildren and one dog named Jack.

Previously she served as president of the Kansas Association of School Boards; long time legislative committee member of KASB; member of board member of USD #327; member of the Kansas Professional Teaching Practices Board; executive committee and board of Kansas State High School Activities Association; Director of the Citizens State Bank and Trust Company; director of the Topeka Club; Municipal Court Judge; Board of Directors Central Kansas Council of Girl Scouts.

She has traveled extensively to remote places on the globe. She has flown the Goodyear blimp over Houston, handling the controls herself. She spent a day submerged in the Pacific inside the USS Topeka, a Los Angeles class nuclear submarine. She was allowed to actually drive the thing and up the periscope. (No jokes, please.) She has done many exciting and adventurous things you will probably never read about here, such as the time she went over Niagara Falls in a barrel; the long trek she made through the wilds of the Navasota River bottom; the interminable period during which she braved the loneliness of the barren moors of Northumbria. And, it was a dark and stormy night.

Currently she enjoys her family, friends, travel, working for her friend, Linda at the Ellsworth County Independent/Reporter, a tad of melodrama and a skosh of blogging.

Photo by Allyson Britton Rescue boat on the Niagara River searches for Peg's barrel after her daring shot over the falls.

Photo by Allyson Britton Peg, dry and happy, relaxes after her heroic barrel ride over Niagara Falls. Commenting to local reporters she exclaimed, "I didn't even get wet!"

Photo by N. L. Harris

Like the great survivalist Euell Gibbons, Peg is always prepared, instantaneously, to live off the land.

Photo by Linda Thrush

Peg smiles mischievously as she completes the categorization and naming of a new species of manatee, M R Manatees Endangerodia.

Photo by United States Pacific Fleet Command To the right of the sail you can see semaphore expert Peg Britton, seeking directions to Kansas, frantically signaling the U. S. N. Pacific Fleet's cadre of nuclear submarines prowling the Gulf of Oman. It was a dark and stormy night. Any persons wishing to nominate Peg for a Bulwer-Lytton award, please email her at