Margaret Veir, a longtime local volunteer and fashion designer, died September 15, 2004 after a brief illness.  She was 48.  Maggie was born February 11, 1956, at Huntington Hospital and graduated from South Pasadena High School in 1974.  After high school she moved to New York, where she attended Parson's School of Design and went on to design clothes for Charlotte Ford, Diana Vreeland and Herman Geist. She did costume restoration work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and helped with design and production of shows for the museum's Costume Institute.  At Christmas, she would return to South Pasadena to help decorate floats for the Rose Parade. 

She married Curt Hettinger in 1989, and returned to live in Pasadena in 1993.  She was a founding board member of the Arroyo Heritage Foundation and was on the board of the South Pasadena Preservation Foundation.  Most recently, she was program director of the Children's Center for the Arts in Pasadena. She was an active elder in the Calvary Presbyterian Church in South Pasadena.

She is survived by her husband and her mother, Barbara Veir.

Pasadena Star-News, September 23, 2004