Georgia B Morris

Lieutenant Commander Georgia B Morris

Born: November 13, 1920
Died: October 6, 2015

Female Veteran | US Navy | Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) | World War II
French Funerals and Cremations. “Obituary for Carmela Blumenthal,” June 21, 2018

Burial Site: SFNC, Section 21, Site 766

Georgia Beidler Morris enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II.1 She served as a nurse, and worked in both the United States and the South Pacific.1 She continued to serve in the Navy for nineteen years.1

Georgia Beidler was born in Fort Wort, Texas on November 13, 1920 to Elizabeth Tatum and Jerry D. Beidler.1 She entered a nurses training program in Fort Worth, Texas after graduating high school from Trinidad, Texas.1 The program ended just prior to the onslaught of World War II.1 Georgia Beidler met her husband, John A. Morris while stationed in Newport Rhode Island.1 They married on October 6, 1962.2 Upon retiring from the Navy, Morris worked for the State of Rhode Island Department of Health.1

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photograph of grave marker of Georgia Beidler Morris

Morris, Georgia Beidler P2

LCP Georgia B Beidler Morris. Find a Grave. Accessed June 25, 2023. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8028739/mary-margaret-walters

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Obituary

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Wedding Announcement

Notes:

  1. “Morris, Georgia Beidler.” The Albuquerque Journal, October 11, 2015. 17. Newspapers.com  
  2. “Miss Georgia Beidler Wed to John Morris in Newport.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, October 8, 1962, 12. Newspapers.com

 

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LCP Georgia B Beidler Morris. Find a Grave. Accessed June 25, 2023. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8028739/mary-margaret-walters

 

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