Pryde, Margaret Nelson (b. 29 APR 1892, d. 3 APR 1961)

Note: California Death Index indicates her maiden name is Price and her mother's maiden name was Patterson.

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Note: At five years of age she spoke three languages, English, French, and Spanish and was a seasoned traveler around the world.

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Note: George Alexander Bevier was born in Bogota, Columbia and lived in Rio de Janeiro and British Guyana before attending prep school in Connecticut. He earned a BS in Biology from Stanford U. in 1948 and did graduate work in entomology for two years. He met his future wife Coral at Stanford. Corol earned a BA in History in 1951 at Stanford U. She also earned a MLn from Emory U. in Atlanta, GA in 1970. George was drafted and became commissioned officer in the U.S. Army and served in Korea where he worked with a MASH unit. He then joined the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization and served in Guatemala. While there he ventured forth to what was then called British Honduras. His mission was to set up that country's first malaria education program. He worked for the U. S. Agency for International Development in Nicaragua 1960-1964. He was Operations Director of of the World Malaria Program in Atlanta, GA. for the agency now called The Center for Disease control and Prevention.
In October 1971 family moved back to Belize. George and Corol built the Rum Point Inn on the Placencia Peninsula in Belize in 1974 on 24 acres It is located about 60 miles south of Belieze City. They were attracted to the area's ecology, the reef, and the local Mayan culture. They began their adventure with no running water or electricity. The family brought in a generator and spent two years building infrastructure. Until a road was built in the early 1990's, the inn was accessible only by boat. With the addition of utilities, the inn began offering dive center services in 1995. During a period when many dive centers hired Americans already trained as instructors, George Bevier took pride in hiring locals to train as instructors for his operation. The Bevier family helped establish Laughing Bird Caye National Park and marine sanctuary. In the fall of 2002, George and Coral received the Lifetime Achievement Award Tourism, an honor presented by Belieze tourism officials. They also received an award for their "Outstanding Contribution to the Environmental Protection of the Placentia Peninsula and Surrounding Areas." That honor came from Friends of Nature, a conservation group the Beviers helped found a few years ago in the area. The award has been renamed the George and Coral Bevier Conservation (or ecology) Award.
George passed away from complications of cancer in Belize in January 2003. For those interested in further exploration of this fascinating achievement of a Bevier family, the Rum Point Inn has a web site at: www.rumpoint.com

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Note: He was an advertising copy writer.

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Note: He was killed in action serving his country in WW 2.

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Note: She was a school teacher in Lebanon, Missouri and elsewhere. John Beard held the rank of Lt. Colonel during armed forces service.

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