Miriam Grace Hughes Gaylord: The date for graveside services for Miriam Grace Hughes Gaylord, a Baltimore homemaker and supporter of the arts, was reported incorrectly in Wednesday's editions of The Sun. Services will be at 1 p.m. Nov. 16 at Old Spring Hill Cemetery in Easton. The Sun regrets the error.

Miriam Grace Gaylord, 87, homemaker, arts supporter

Miriam Grace Gaylord, a homemaker and supporter of the arts, died Oct. 27 of a stroke at Keswick Multi-Care Center. She was 87.

The former longtime Bolton Hill resident, who moved to Roland Park Place in 1995, was a subscriber to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Baltimore Opera Company.

Born Miriam Hughes in Wheeling, W.Va., she moved to Baltimore and graduated from the old Friends School on Park Avenue. A voice major, she earned a bachelor's degree from Peabody Conservatory of Music.

She was a communicant and choir member of Memorial Episcopal Church in Bolton Hill for many years.

In 1949, she married Sterling O. Gaylord, a Realtor, who died in 1994. The couple had no children.

Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Nov. 15 at Old Spring Hill Cemetery in Easton.

She is survived by two god-daughters, Joanna Darrow of Vermont and Patricia Coffien of California.

Memorial donations may be made to the Baltimore Opera Company, 110 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore 21201.

Pub Date: 11/04/98