Address at about 1971 per Phyllis Lomicka:
Grace Evyln Ethington Harpin
51 Grape
Denver CO
BURIAL: PLAC Grove Hill Cemetery,Shelbyville,Shelby,KY
BURIAL: PLAC Grove Hill Cemetery,Shelbyville,Shelby,KY
Letter to Pat Beadle dated 14 Mar 1972:
"We are Mormons, and our son just returned on Jan 27 of this year from a mission in Dusseldorf, Germany (Central German Mission). I met and married my husband, Herbert Holtzer in 1964. He was a convert to Mormonism from Judaism. Then two years later the three of us joined and Denise was added to our family. An exciting year!"
address:
1827 Jose Ave
Camarillo CA 93010Sources: George Jesse Ethington/Judy Eck/Georgia Holtzer
See also Calvin Dale Ethington-3239, identified by Georgia as a cousin, but relationship not outlined. Calvin Dale is not tied to the descendants of James as of yet.
- HE Sept 1990.Letter from Georgia Elizabeth Ethington Holtzer dated 19 Mar 1972 to Pat Beadle in possession of HE:
"My husband was working for Sperry Gyroscope and was transferred from his New York base to Salt Lake City. He's always taken religino seriously and so attended the Jewish Synagogue upon his arrival there. At work he met mayny Mormons who impressed him greatly. So, he started going to church on Sunday in addition to attending the Synagogue on Saturday. He had a difficult time converting, praying and fasting for a period of three months, reading and studying also during that time. His parents were very upset with him when he did convert, at first telling him he could never come home agin, later letting him come home upon the condition that he would not discuss religion. "In April of 1964 he was transferred to Oklahoma and I met him in August and married him in October ( a rather fast courtship) but he is a very wonderful person and I probably should have married him sooner than October. I wanted to but just kept telling myself that I was being very foolish to marry him soquickly as it was. As far as religion we had decided to visit both my church and his and then decide. He was a very smooth proselyter, just as he had been suitor. It was the children who loved the Mormon church right from the start. We went to Germany in January of 1965 and a Mormon Church was 3 blocks from our apartment so we walked there many times. We all had a set of missionary lessons but did not accept the church then. We came back to the United States in July of 1965 and spent 2 months in New York, not going to church at all, then we went to Las Cruces, New Mexico for four years. We took another set of missionary lessons in 1965-66, meanwhile attending church regularly, Ray and Karen loved the church and never missed MIA or the parties, Seminary, etc. In April the three of us were baptised ( I was 7 months pregnant with Denise) so in a way she was baptised also. I have had a great deal of trouble understanding the woman's position in the church, having been all of my life somewhat of a Women's Lib person. Karen, who is almost 20 has no problems along this line at all and I tell myself what I don't understand in this world, hopefully I will understand in the next.
In the meantime, we enjoy the church very much and I find it a great source of spiritual strength. It's a wonderful place for children to be raised in this day and age. And this is my greatest
concern, that my children and grandchildren have a strong faith to gird them throughout this life. There is no substitute for it."Georgia Elizabeth Ethington died of cancer.
Additional marriage date for marriage to Holtzer: 2 Nov 1964.
Photo in file of George Dewey Llewellyn and Georgia Elizabeth Ethington at marriage. From Karen Klingler. Also, photo of Georgia and Herbert Holtzer.