Charles Peitz, 62, of Haddonfield, a career journalist and former editor at the Inquirer, died of complications from lung disease on Wednesday, Aug. 23.
A Haddonfield native, he graduated from Haddonfield Memorial High School in 1973, and then graduated cum laude from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1977 with a degree in English. After college, he returned to the area and embarked on a career as a writer and editor based in Philadelphia, beginning with a 10-year stint at the Farm Journal, where he rose to features editor for one of its national magazines.
