Georgia Rose Boyd Boorman, 91, passed away peacefully during the evening of January 18, 2023.
She is survived by her sons, Paul and (Cathy) Boorman, Sun City West, AZ, Tracy and (Kathy) Boorman, Wooster, OH and Glenn and (Judy) Boorman, Flowery Branch, GA; grandchildren, Tracy Lee and (Ryan) Mathys, Christian and (Anna) Boorman, Ryan Boorman and Julia Boorman; great-grandchildren, Charlotte and Cohen Mathys.
She was preceded in death by her husband Russell Paul Boorman; parents, Emry and Helen (Carter) Boyd; younger sister, Helen Marie; younger brother, Emry Jr.; older sister, Eilda Jean; and older brother, Paul Edwin.
Named after her paternal great-grandfather George Washington Boyd and maternal great-grandmother Rosa Belle Carter (Hamilton), Georgia Rose was born on November 11, 1931 while the family was living in the “river bottoms” along the banks of the Ohio River. When she was a young girl they moved to the house her parents had built and the farm just up from the “river bottoms” and the crop land where her father farmed. This homestead became the center of family gatherings where they were mostly self-sufficient with cattle, horses, pigs, chickens while growing numerous vegetables along with tobacco. She graduated the top of her class of 29 from Rockport High School in 1948. After working as a secretary in a local attorney’s office she enlisted in the USAF whereupon during her first day of assignment in upstate New York she met her husband of 56 years who had enlisted on the very same day. On December 25, 1953 while stationed in Biloxi, MS, they were married in Rockport. After being honorably discharged she and Rus moved to his hometown in New Jersey where after several moves, they settled in Piscataway where they raised their three sons.
She worked for Johnson & Johnson for many years before leaving to focus on raising her boys and working part time as the church secretary. When the boys were older she returned full time to J & J until retiring years later.
She and Rus moved to Danville, KY in 1996 after Rus retired where the two of them actively and lovingly crafted wood projects and toys for the grandchildren, including numerous homes for birds to be hung from trees (one of which overhangs their final resting place).
Georgia was a lifelong Christian raised attending Oak Grove Methodist Church by way of horse and buggy each week. As a teenager she sang in the choir and at different occasions for family and friends. She would later raise her children in the Lutheran Church before returning to the United Methodist Church.
After losing Rus, she and her sister Jean shared their time living together traveling and splitting time between Beaver Dam and Danville until Jean’s passing in 2015. Georgia then moved to Georgia with Glenn and two of her grandchildren for her remaining years while continuing to visit others, especially her other grand- and great-grandchildren. During her last years she lovingly hand made birthday and Christmas cards to send to her loved ones, and were cherish by all who received them.
Services are 1 p.m. Friday, January 27, at Boultinghouse Funeral Home in Rockport. Burial will follow in Shiloh Cemetery in Rockport.
Visitation is from 10 a.m.. until 1 p.m. Friday, January 27, at the funeral home.
Friends may send a condolence to the family at www.BoultinghouseFuneralHome.com.
