Mary Elizabeth Bailey was born on May 28, 1924 to Howard and Loretta Bell, in Colfax Iowa. After graduating from the University of Iowa with honors in Music and English, she came to West Palm Beach in the early 40's to grow her family and career. Through her love of Music and English, Mary Liz began a teaching career spanning more than a decade from local elementary schools to Forest Hill High School. She taught with love, conviction and purpose which her former students still fondly talk about many years later.
Mary Liz was a Past-President in the Junior League of the Palm Beaches helping to create, grow and maintain many local projects which still benefit the community today. With her late husband George, she helped create the Ann E. Stewart Memorial Music Scholarship Fund at Forest Hill High School which is now managed by the Community Foundation. Mary Liz was also very active in P.E.O. with many of her close friends and their daughters.
An accomplished poet, Mary Liz and her children compiled her poetry into a book titled "Bits of Yesterday". Her poems give us a glimpse into her incredible spirit and unconditional love of life. She was passionate about music, reading, flower gardening, traveling and being with friends and family. In fact, holidays with Mary Liz and George were grand events not to be missed.
Mary Liz was preceded in death by her husband of over 40 years George Bailey, a daughter Ann Stewart and a son Jim Stewart. She is survived by son John Stewart and his wife, Sandi, son David Bailey and his spouse, Larry, daughter Barbara Shevory and her husband, Mark, daughter Janice Griesemer and her husband, Larry, grandchildren Michelle Howell, Alexandra Carter, Stephen McKean Jr, Lynn Shevory, Robyn Shevory, Peter Shevory, Eric Griesemer, Brett Griesemer and three great-grandchildren Nicholas Carter, Finnley Howell and Gavin Griesemer, with one more on the way.
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