Helen Randall Bivings (1910-2005) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Dr. William Troy Bivings (1875-1960) and Helen Randall Bivings (1876-1969). Bivings attended Spring Street Elementary School, North Avenue Presbyterian School, and graduated from Washington Seminary in 1929 where she was a member of the Pi Pi Club and the Colony Club. She continued her education at Mason Junior College and School for Girls in Tarrytown, New York, from 1929-1930 and then attended Oglethorpe University in 1931 in Atlanta. In 1931 Bivings was a debutante, and in 1935 she married Augustus "Gus" Shaw Loyless (1907-1964). They had two daughters, Helen Bivings and Betsy Seymour. Bivings and Loyless later divorced; Bivings married Dr. Clyde Livingston Crawford (1904-1988) in 1956, whom she also divorced. Bivings volunteered at many organizations including the Junior League of Atlanta, the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School guild, the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, and the Pro-Mozart Society. She served on the Board of the National English-Speaking Union and as chairman of the Atlanta and National Patrons Committee. In addition, Bivings was the president of the Alumni Association of Oglethorpe for two terms and the president of the Planters Garden Club of Atlanta for two terms.