Rita Aileen (Kenyon Geuy McKim) Childs was born on November 11, 1933, in Lebanon, Oregon, to Ben Allen and Dorothy Mildred (Shaw) Kenyon. She graduated from Lebanon Union High School in 1952, already a published poet, and attended the University of Oregon, where she majored in English and Spanish and spent one summer studying in Guadalajara.
Soon after graduation, she married Paul DeWayne Geuy of Florence, whom she’d met in Italian class. They moved to…
