Ruth Margaret Land

Ruth Margaret Land, a retired Baltimore public schools guidance counselor, died April 26, 2013 of complications from dementia at Union Memorial Hospital. She was 93 years of age.

The daughter of farmers, Ruth Margaret Williams was born and raised in Ocala, Fla.

After graduating in 1935 from Howard Academy in Ocala, she attended Florida A&M University and earned a bachelor's degree in 1939 from West Virginia State University. In 1940, she entered Howard University to study for a master's degree in education, but withdrew on the eve of World War II to take a job as a residence hall director at what is now Hampton University.