Georgia Ann Pineda

She grew up with older brother Wayne, her two older sisters Anita and Dorothy as well as a younger brother, Burt. They grew up with very little, but you would hear Georgia say, that despite whatever hardships the family faced, she still grew up with a lot of love and laughter. Georgia would meet her future husband, Seferino, right out of high school. They would marry that same year and start a family. She would spend the next few years staying at home raising her young children, a daughter and two sons.

It was the 70’s and despite the mixture of her Native-American heritage and Seferino’s Hispanic background, she would exemplify the all-American housewife by participating in PTO, Jaycee Janes, a bowling league and volunteering for various organizations.This fed a desire to continue learning and passing that knowledge on in the form of teaching. Even as she raised her family, she would begin working on obtaining a teaching degree while working as what was called a teacher’s aide, at the time. She would eventually not only obtain a teaching degree but a master’s degree also, allowing her to advance from teaching to administration positions. Georgia would find her niche in working in neighborhood schools that often had a large enrollment of at-risk children. Her passion and dedication drove her desire to guide these young souls from backgrounds, not unlike hers as a child. She would retire from education and spend her final years beside her husband of 55 years.

Seferino preceded her in death by two years. She lost her youngest son “Tony” and niece Kristie, that she raised as his own daughter, in 1999.

She is survived by her daughter Michele of Oklahoma, her son Sean, her granddaughters Alma and Nikie including her grandson-in-law, Thomas, as well as her great granddaughter Harper J. all from the Wichita area. Her surviving siblings in Oklahoma are her older sister Anita Chisholm and brother Burt Patadal.