Georgia Lee Powers

Georgia Lee Powers is the first child born to George Wesley Powers and Nita Viola Bates on July 18, 1921, in Davidson, Tillman County, Oklahoma.  She enlisted in the United States Marine Corp where she was part of the Aviation Women’s Reserve Squadron-1 at USMC Air Station, Mojave, California. 
​She married Ken Jennings on March 23, 1945, in Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico.  Georgia and Ken had three children.

Name: Georgia Lee Powers
Birth: July 18, 1921 Davidson, Tillman, Oklahoma USA
Death: July 15, 2013 Orem, Utah USA
Buried: Fir Grove Cemetery
Cottage Grove, Oregon USA

Military:
Military: US Marine Corps World War II
Aviation Women’s Reserve Squadron – 1
USMC Air Station, Mojave, California USA
 
Father:  George Wesley Powers
Mother:  Nita Viola Bates

Notes:
Married: March 23, 1945. Clovis, Curry, New Mexico USA
 

Spouse: Kenneth Wayne Jennings
Birth: July 30, 1917. Crosby, Texas USA
Death: March 17, 1999
Buried: Fir Grove Cemetery
Cottage Grove, Oregon USA

Military:
Military: US Army. World War II

Father: Gardner Othneil Jennings
Mother: Irene Flinn

Notes:
 

Children: Jo Lynn Jennings (1946 -    ); Cheryl Ann Jennings (1947 -     );  Kenneth Wayne Jennings, Jr. (1949 -     )

GEORGIA LEE POWERS (by Georgia)
            Although I was born in Davidson, Oklahoma, and lived a few months in Sand Springs when I was a baby, my family moved on to Tipton, Oklahoma when I was about six and I started to school and graduated from high school there in 1938.  I attended college at Texas Technologies College in Lubbock, Texas and graduated with a BA degree in journalism in 1943.  World War II was in full swing so I enlisted in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve and went on active duty in August of that year.  I served a few months over two years of active duty and was discharged in the fall of 1945.
 
            My family moved to Muleshoe, Texas while I was attending college. Kenneth Jennings and I met there and later married while we were both home on furlough.  We lived in Muleshoe when we were discharged and our two daughters, Jo Lynn and Cheryl were born there.  We moved to Richland, Washington in 1948 where Kenneth went to work at the Atomic Energy Plant.  Our son, Kenneth, Jr. was born there.
 
            I have been asked how and why I got interested in genealogy.  It happened when we joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Richland.  I had always been interested in religion and as a child in a Methodist Sunday School I learned that we have a Father in Heaven and that his Son, Jesus Christ, came to earth, lived, taught and died on the cross for the sins of all mankind, including mine.  As well as a child can understand, I knew that salvation comes by grace and through Christ by our faith in him and by living his commandments.  We went to church, but I didn’t belong to one.
 
            When our children were born we wanted the best for them and began looking for a church. No one was more surprised than we were to find where we needed to be and wanted to be was the LDS Church.  It was the best thing that ever happened to us.  We learned to turn to prayer and the scriptures for help with our personal and family problems.  We have had opportunity to gain much knowledge, develop our talents, and learn to love and serve our neighbors.  It has made for a life of happiness and contentment, in spite of mistakes and bumps, for us, for our children, for our grandchildren and now are great grandchildren are being taught the same principles.
 
            As for genealogy, we also learned that Heavenly Father loves all his children and will judge none of them at the final judgement until they have heard and understood the gospel of Jesus Christ, and accepted it to eternal life or rejected it. If they do not have a chance to hear it in this life, they will be taught in the spirit world after death and make their choice.
 
            Since the saving ordinances of baptism, eternal marriage, and sealing of families are earthly ordinance, He has provided that those of us who are living ca go into His temples and stand as proxies for our dead relatives having these ordinances performed.  I have searched out our dead to do this.  I went from searching living relatives since I have a love for family, living or dead.
 
            We moved to Seattle, Washington area in 1950 because Jo Lynn needed to be near the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital as she was born with a dislocated hip and had to have treatment to grow it in.  We lived several places, Bothell, Lynnwood, and Edmonds, Washington.  When the children started going to school, I began teaching elementary school and taught until I retied in 1984.  We had moved to small acreage in Creswell, Oregon in 1976 so I retired from the school system there after 30 years of teaching.
 
            Now retired, I work on my genealogy, served in church positions and do all the reading I always wanted to do.  I solved word puzzles, mainly cryptograms and cross words, to see if I have systems working.  To help compile the Powers Book has been the desire of a lifetime.  My life has been full and good.
(From Powers Family Book compiled by Georgia Powers Jennings)