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LaVaughn Beard: [ Age 86 ] She earned a degree after her children were in school and spent 13 years as a city library media specialist.
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Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
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December 13, 2006
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Byline: Frederick N. Rasmussen
Dec. 13--LaVaughn C. Beard, who pursued a college degree while raising four children and became a Baltimore public school library media specialist, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Saturday at a daughter's Pikesville home. She was 86. Born and raised in Chicago, the former LaVaughn C. Hansen met her husband, Clarence E. Beard, at a Christmas party, and married him in 1941. During World War II, she worked in Hyattsville as a Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. operator, and later for companies in Hartford, Conn. In 1949, the couple moved to Pikesville when Mr. Beard joined the faculty of Milford Mill High School as a music ...