Gertrude Louise Poe (September 21, 1915 – July 13, 2017) was an American journalist, lawyer, real estate agent, insurance agent, and radio broadcaster who served as the editor of Laurel Leader in Laurel, Maryland from 1939 to 1980.
After five years of working as a legal secretary, she matriculated to the Washington College of Law, where she graduated with her J.D.
[5] In 1950 Poe joined McCeney as co-publisher and business partner of The News Leader, while remaining its editor.
For the first two decades of the paper, Poe was forced to perform numerous roles in order to ensure it published on a weekly schedule.
[5] Shortly after G. Bowie McCeney died in 1978, Poe began to consider selling the Leader and retiring.
[5] In the late 1960s Poe delivered a daily, five-minute news report on WLMD, a Laurel radio station.
In 2015, she was the honorary chairwoman of an annual luncheon the state of Maryland holds to honor residents 100 years or older.