Roy Ward was born 1922, reared and attended school in Watkinsville, Georgia. University of Georgia graduate 1943; Medical College of Georgia, 1947. He worked as a physician in Athens, Georgia, Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, DC, and Atlanta, Georgia. He was in private practice as a family physician in Watkinsville, Oconee County, Georgia, from 1957 to gradual retirement after 50 years. His print-work and photography has been exhibited in Macon Georgia Museum of Arts and Sciences and in the Birmingham Alabama Art Museum.