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Margaret Vinci Heldt, who fashioned the Beehive for a
magazine cover in 1960, "passed away peacefully" of heart
failure in Elmhurst, Illinois, on Friday, Ahlgrim Funeral Home
in the same city said in a statement.
"She had a zest for life, the most positive attitude," said
daughter Carlene Ziegler, 59. "She was the life of the party
right up to her last days."
From cartoon mom Marge Simpson to 1980s rock band the B-52s -
who took their name from one of the hairdo's nicknames
-generations of pop culture figures have sported the Beehive.
Heldt ran a downtown Chicago salon, called Margaret Vinci
Coiffures, when she dreamed up the famous hairdo. The mannequin
used to create the style is on display at the Chicago History
Museum.
The Chicago-born Heldt wanted to make a hairstyle that could fit
under her favorite style of fez hat, the museum said on its
website.
"She used the hat’s shape as inspiration" for the Beehive.
Heldt is survived by her two children, seven grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren.
(Reporting by Laila Kearney in New York; Editing by Frank
McGurty and Peter Cooney)
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