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Petroleum engineer, Mobil Oil Corporation. Beloved father, grandfather and great-grandfather. A 41-year career that took the family across America and around the world.
View ObituaryFaithful wife, loving mother, family historian and keeper of "The Wilson Saga." She knit over 150 Christmas stockings and always said Jesus was her best friend.
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Georgia's passport application filed October 7, 1921, seeking travel to England and West Africa for missionary work. Lists her occupation as teacher, her father as Albert Beven of Escondido, and her departure from New York. Filed seven years before her marriage to Howard Wilson.
View DocumentGeorgia's listing in the USC Liberal Arts yearbook (p. 158) as a member of J.O.C. (motto: "What would Jesus do?"). Officers included President Gertrude Bloomfield and faculty adviser Attorney William M. Bowen. Georgia appears alongside roughly 80 members of the club.
View DocumentGeorgia's senior profile on page 44 of the 1921 USC yearbook. Major: History. Activities listed: Escondido High School, Eucalyptus Literary Society, Friendly Ranch, History and Political Science Club, Class Treasurer, Y.W.C.A. Cabinet.
View DocumentGeorgia's graduation portrait from the 1921 USC yearbook, taken at age 23. One of the earliest known photographs of Georgia, wearing her mortarboard and gown with a lace-collared dress. She would depart for missionary work in West Africa just months after this was taken.
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