Georgia Beyard, a retired unemployment counselor who wrote poetry, died of heart failure Monday at the Glen Meadows retirement community. She was 77.
Born Georgia Grabill in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Baltimore, she was a 1947 Eastern High School graduate.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland and a master's degree in liberal arts from the Johns Hopkins University.
Many years ago, she was a medical secretary at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
In 1959 she married Lauren Milford Beyard. He died in 1968.
She then became a counselor for the Maryland Department of Employment Security. Mrs. Beyard was a member of the Wednesday Writers and contributed to one of its publications, Filling in the Dash. Mrs. Beyard published a book of her poetry, Latter Day Parables and Other Revelations, in 2006.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. today at Glen Meadows, 11630 Glen Arm Road, Glen Arm.
Survivors include two sons, Paul Albert Beyard and Andrew Lauren Beyard, both of Catonsville; a sister, Laura Genevieve Grabill of Baltimore; and nieces and nephews.