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This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Peggy Ozol, 51, born on January 9, 1966 and passed away on April 5, 2017. We will remember her forever.

She is survived by her mom and step dad and brother in the bay area, dad and step mom in Las Vegas, and brother in NY. She was loved by her aunt and cousin.

A natural leader, making food and helping others with an eye on the bottom line. She was a great help when she was ill herself helping the mentally retarded and brian damaged people in her area.

She was from Long Island, went to college in San Diego, worked internationally, and Hong Kong, til finding San Francisco. Her trying to find street parking in SF for that Jaguar would have made anyone mad. Haha. She used salsa dancing as an icebreaker when she moved as there was always a dancing community in any city.

She spent a lot of her career in high finance and worked SE asian telecomm mergers and aquistions for AT&T. A whiz bang! finance gal living the dream, making bank, and in Hong Kong had a speedboat.

An amazing chef catering a @tribe.net party and @steven kays Fairfield inventor and other parties. That homemade apple pie, absinthe, wine, and "Peggy chicken" were amazing. "Peggy Stroganoff" was great! She loved mycology and collected wild mushrooms.

She did okay, even paying her rent, selling books. She went on the road as a FEMA contractor after Katrina, Rita, and plenty of Florida hurricanes. She learned the engineering part from her family's construction biz. The social worker side of the job came from understanding the way the system worked and referring people to resources. One smart cookie! A math whiz, good at computers and early with Netscape. Helped out Johnathan Woolf, who was early at Ricochet.

She overcame Dr. House level medical mysteries and so much more than anyone should have to put up with. And personal life too. Once she found out her landlady was on the koolaid drinking Jamestown and they were having a guest from there. Lots of adventures!

She loved her cats! Especially Pilou til that one died. She was a loving foster kitten mom and that made her very happy. She was inventive and creative and tried her hand at making jewelry and designed a trendy bus token fob. She cofounded at free samples dot com when it was one of the first sites to do that.

She was knockdown gorgeous when she was younger. Fresh flowers and offers to dinner. A master in playing in lots of traditionally men's games, like being a real poker and pool shark. The men she dated had high powered careers so she never married. But had lots of admirers and found love along the way. Two suns can't shine in the same sky?

Later in life she enjoyed her family. Babysitting for little ones. Her mom moved to the bay area to help out. She still managed to get out a little wheeling herself down a high San Francisco street to the store.

So many people saying what a surprise, didnt know she was sick, hadn't seen her in 10 years. Peggy was a private person. Never posted about getting out or asking for help.

It's tragic and she'll be missed.

Http://facebook.com/pinkypeglet
Http://linkedin.com/in/peggyozol

Memorial April 22nd in SF.

https://m.facebook.com/events/626786187513955

July 4, 2017
July 4, 2017
This is sad news. I hired Peggy to work in my valuation group at Lazard in NYC back in the late 1980's. I left in 1990 but she stayed on for awhile then I think she went to HK. We were last in touch maybe 5-6 years ago when she contacted me after I provided an online review of a book about Lazard. My deepest condolences to her family and friends. Very sad loss. Ann Minois, Hamilton, Massachusetts.
May 20, 2017
May 20, 2017
Dear Peggy! I am so very sorry... she was a light in our youth as we worked, played and traveled from Hong Kong. Peggy was always fun, lovely, interested, ready to whip up a bowl of lovely flambeed fruit or find the perfect solution in her travel pharmacopoeia if we stepped on glass at the beach. I'll remember forever our mushroom hunt dinner in SF (Nico's one lonely special chanterelle in lemon butter) - loyal, sweet, kind and bright amie, you will be missed & thought of. A flame, a light will burn on in your memory. You were a great warrior in the forces of the good.
April 22, 2017
April 22, 2017
Having known Peggy as her stepfather, I saw her differently than her friends did. She lived life in the fast lane as a successful investment banker and international traveler.

She was very gifted. She was very intelligent and beautiful. She was a fabulous cook who taught her Mom Susan, that is, my wife, how to prepare fabulous dishes like a gourmet chicken dish that she had learned from a French chef, and that we called Peggy Chicken, or Chicken à la Peggy. She made a wicked soufflé; it was the best and only soufflé I've had. Her breakfast specialty was Huevos Rancheros. I still remember that she told us how she found it challenging to buy the Huitlacoche she needed for that recipe. Peggy loved to dress well and she spent much of her money on expensive clothing. We still have an elegant Oriental jacket she left behind. She was also passionate about dancing, and went Salsa dancing when she lived in Los Angeles.

Peggy cared very much for cats and adopted several. She volunteered as a foster mother for kittens with the Humane Society. It must be said that Peggy had a good heart and was generous with her time, abilities and money.

That she fell so far after being so talented and successful, and at such a young age, is one of the greatest tragedies I've known. She was like a shooting star that streaked across the sky in a brief moment and burned out, like Michael Jackson, Prince, Elvis Presley or Mario Lanza. Her loss is a great loss to all of us.
April 17, 2017
April 17, 2017
I met Peggy through the Mycological Society of San Francisco (MSSF) on a morel foray in the Sierra. She was a an inveterate "foodie" and lover of good wines. Mushroom hunting with the MSSF therefore came naturally to her -- the excitement and satisfaction that comes from finding expensive food (wild mushrooms) for free, simply by walking in the woods. Naturally, Peggy was an active and enthusiastic member of the Society's culinary group. 

Unfortunately, I lost contact with her when I moved to the east coast for a several-year work assignment in the early 2000's, and only recently learned of her struggles. The world has lost a shining flame. I send my sincere condolences to her family.
April 16, 2017
April 16, 2017
Met Peggy through a Burning Man camp in the early 2000's and we had many fun adventures in the City before she left for the FEMA job. Loved her sharp wit, self confidence and savoir faire. Besides her good looks she had creativity, ingenuity and unpredictability as part of the Peggy mystique. Too short but at least she lived it on her terms...

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July 4, 2017
July 4, 2017
This is sad news. I hired Peggy to work in my valuation group at Lazard in NYC back in the late 1980's. I left in 1990 but she stayed on for awhile then I think she went to HK. We were last in touch maybe 5-6 years ago when she contacted me after I provided an online review of a book about Lazard. My deepest condolences to her family and friends. Very sad loss. Ann Minois, Hamilton, Massachusetts.
May 20, 2017
May 20, 2017
Dear Peggy! I am so very sorry... she was a light in our youth as we worked, played and traveled from Hong Kong. Peggy was always fun, lovely, interested, ready to whip up a bowl of lovely flambeed fruit or find the perfect solution in her travel pharmacopoeia if we stepped on glass at the beach. I'll remember forever our mushroom hunt dinner in SF (Nico's one lonely special chanterelle in lemon butter) - loyal, sweet, kind and bright amie, you will be missed & thought of. A flame, a light will burn on in your memory. You were a great warrior in the forces of the good.
April 22, 2017
April 22, 2017
Having known Peggy as her stepfather, I saw her differently than her friends did. She lived life in the fast lane as a successful investment banker and international traveler.

She was very gifted. She was very intelligent and beautiful. She was a fabulous cook who taught her Mom Susan, that is, my wife, how to prepare fabulous dishes like a gourmet chicken dish that she had learned from a French chef, and that we called Peggy Chicken, or Chicken à la Peggy. She made a wicked soufflé; it was the best and only soufflé I've had. Her breakfast specialty was Huevos Rancheros. I still remember that she told us how she found it challenging to buy the Huitlacoche she needed for that recipe. Peggy loved to dress well and she spent much of her money on expensive clothing. We still have an elegant Oriental jacket she left behind. She was also passionate about dancing, and went Salsa dancing when she lived in Los Angeles.

Peggy cared very much for cats and adopted several. She volunteered as a foster mother for kittens with the Humane Society. It must be said that Peggy had a good heart and was generous with her time, abilities and money.

That she fell so far after being so talented and successful, and at such a young age, is one of the greatest tragedies I've known. She was like a shooting star that streaked across the sky in a brief moment and burned out, like Michael Jackson, Prince, Elvis Presley or Mario Lanza. Her loss is a great loss to all of us.
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April 16, 2017

Peggy loved to dive. A big underwater sea skate or ray saw her with her hair all flowing out underwater. It wrapped its arms around her a little, which can be a little dangerous as they sting. But she wasn't afraid and just thought it was curious about her and then swam away.

she wanted to plan diving trips for friends to return.

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