Obituary: Nelson, Georgia
Age 94
Memorial Services will be held on Friday, March 20, 2015 at 12:00 noon at the Spokane First Church of the Nazarene.
Georgia was the seventh of eight children.
Her parents had gone from their sod home at their homestead on the South Dakota prairie to McIntosh for her birth.
As she grew up she loved helping her father with his outside farm work.
Her older sister Lorraine was their mother’s helper.
The Presbyterian church was the center for social activities for their family.
In school Georgia was an excellent student.
One year she missed six weeks of school due to an ear infection, and still managed to graduate two years early at the age of sixteen.
Georgia and John Charles Moriarty were married in 1940 in Rapid City, South Dakota where John was an engineering student at the South Dakota School of Mines.
After graduation they moved to Butte, MT and then to Washington State.
John and Georgia were married until his death in 1976.
They had four children: Harvey (Elyse), Diana Wilson (Cliff), Bonnie O’Donnell (deceased), and Jerry (Susan).
They also had nine grandchildren, Errol Moriarty, Shawn Moriarty (deceased), Quinn Moriarty, Kevin Newton, Kathy Dixon (David), J.P. O’Donnell (deceased), Christine Bonn (Ryan), Jennifer Noble (Greg), Jerry Moriarty Jr, and numerous great- and great-great-grandchildren.
Georgia married Ted Nelson in 1980 till his death in 1996.
Her beloved partner Joe Jarvis died in 2004, but we are blessed to still have his wonderful daughters Marla Herbal and Joyce Jarvis Holloway in our family.
After retiring from her career working for the Army and for General Services Administration, Georgia became a snowbird.
She wintered in Sun City, AZ from 1981-2011.
Georgia had many hobbies including golf (until she was 90), sapphire digging and faceting, rock hounding, including gold panning in Alaska, while there on a business trip.
Laprobe crocheting was very important to her, making them for family, friends and for our US Veterans.
She donated many of these to the VA Hospital in Spokane, WA.
Georgia had just started a new one which is unfinished.
This cherished lady will be remembered, and missed by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and dear, dear friends.