(Reuters) – The Illinois woman who created the Beehive hairstyle, the cone-shaped coif popularized in the 1960s by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and actress Audrey Hepburn, has died at age 98, the funeral home organizing her burial said on Monday. 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.
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Creator of popular ‘Beehive’ hairdo dies at age 98
