FRUITLAND -- Peggy Pusey could hardly hold back the tears as she listened to driving instructor and secretary Tammy Wheatley talk about the sad news heard from her boss just a few days ago.

Pusey told her six employees that her business, Peggy Pusey's Driving School, would close its doors forever after almost 45 years this weekend. Wheatley, with misting eyes, had been here for seven years and said that hers was not a "normal job."

"Peggy is like my grandmother and she means so much to me," Wheatley said, her voice breaking.

It seems like just yesterday that Pusey stood in her horse pasture, which also served as a driving range, having her photo taken for a newspaper story in 1966. When she opened, she was the first woman instructor in Wicomico County and the second driving school business in the county at the time. [READ FULL ARTICLE]

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