Barbara Adams Hayman

2008

Barbara Adams Hayman, 81, a retired financial planner and adviser, died June 7 of pulmonary fibrosis at Capital Hospice in Arlington County. She lived in  Alexandria.

Mrs. Hayman began her career in the 1970s, when she was living in Washington. She later worked for T. Rowe Price, H&R Block and Ferris Associates before forming her own financial planning firm. She retired in the late 1980s.

Mrs. Hayman was born in Des Moines and grew up in an Army family all over the  world, including Washington. She was a 1944 graduate of   Woodrow Wilson High School in the District and attended the University of Oklahoma for two  years.

From 1961 to 1984, she lived in Washington, Baltimore and Fairfax County. She  lived in Annapolis from 1984 to 1996.

She was active in the Historic Annapolis Foundation and was a docent at the William Paca House for many years. She enjoyed gardening and was an amateur authority on Civil War battlefields.

Barbara Adams Hayman started her own financial planning firm. (Family Photo)

She settled in Alexandria about three years ago.

Her husband of 48 years, George R. Hayman Jr., died in 1995.

Survivors include four children, George R. 'Putter' ; Hayman III of Madison,  N.J., Richard Perry 'Rip' Hayman of Pomona, N.Y., Margaret 'Mimi' Hayman Demaree  of Friendsville, Md., and Elizabeth 'Boo' Hayman Turner of Seattle; a brother;  and three grandsons.

-- Matt Schudel