BHS 1941Georgia Atwood
Atwood, Georgia Lindsay, passed away on November 8, 2008. She was born December 7, 1923, in Crosby, Minnesota. In 1926, she settled in Burbank, California with her parents, George and Victoria Lindsay and her sister Virginia. Georgia attended Burbank schools, graduating from Burbank High School in 1941. She attended Los Angeles City College. While in school, she was a dancer with Fanchon and Marco Studio in Hollywood and was a fashion model for designer Don Loper.
During World War II she served in the WAVES and was assigned to the San Pedro Navy Base. She met her husband, Brad Atwood, in Laguna Beach and they married in 1944. They lived in Burbank where she became a member of Alpha Mu Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority and was active with the Burbank Junior Chamber of Commerce wives. When her family, including three children moved to Laguna Beach in 1963, she joined the Rivera Club and worked in Real Estate.
Her interests included golf, painting, home decorating, reading, music, theater and traveling. She and Brad were happily married for 58 years until his death in 2002. Georgia is survived by her daughter, Gale Atwood, and son-in-law, John Lindgren; son, Todd Atwood, and daughter-in-law, Cathy Atwood, and son Mark Atwood. She leaves nieces Carole Collins, Christine Cross, Barbara Soderling, Pat Barron, Rita Lindsay, and nephews George and Fred Lindsay. In lieu of flowers, scholarship gifts may be made to the Burbank High School Foundation, 818-558-4700 x57808. Pacific View Mortuary
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