Janet Hardie Harvey, Irvine Nature Center administrator and advocate for Johnston Square, dies

Janet Hardie Harvey, a former Irvine Nature Center administrator who became an advocate for the Johnston Square neighborhood, died of cervical cancer Saturday at her home in the Woodbrook neighborhood of Towson. She was 66.

Born in Pittsburgh, she was the daughter of James H. Hardie, an attorney, and Frances Curtis, a librarian, author and historian. She was in Shady Side Academy’s first class of women and earned a degree at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

She met her future husband...