By Guy Leonard
Staff Writer
George Guy, who founded the local beer distributing company that bears his family name decades ago, has died, The County Times has learned.
He was 97.
Guy, known affectionately as Georgie, built Guy Distributing Company in Leonardtown from the success of the locally famous 10 oz. Budweiser Beer can but his reputation was built on his many charitable activities in the community.
Speaking in 2019 Guy said all of the charitable organizations he had joined, all of the donations he gave and all of the activities he had sponsored in the past – a major local softball league tournament is just one – has all been out of love for his home county.
“I feel an obligation to my community,” Guy told The County Times in August of 2019. “Because we’re helping the community.”
Guy was a member of the Leonardtown Lions Club, the Knights of Columbus, the Moose Lodge, the Elks Lodge and the Lexington Park Rotary Club to name a few.
Guy was most closely associated with the Leonardtown Lions Club; he was honored for his service to the club and his perfect attendance to all of its meeting for the past seven decades.
“I’ve had 70 years in the Lions Club, it’s the most important club I’ve been involved in,” Guy told The County Times in 2019.
Visitation is planned for July 6 in Leonardtown at Mattingly Gardiner Funeral Home starting at 5p.m.
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