Georgia Marrs Penfield

Background

Penfield, Georgia Marrs was born on October 8, 1917 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Daughter of William Middelton and Blanche (Boak) Marrs.

Education

Student, University Denver, 1937.

Career

Society editor Denver Post, 1937-1941. Technical writer, editor Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, United States Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory, San Diego, 1944-1946. Manager box office Central City Opera House Association, Denver, 1948.

Editor Denver Post, 1949-1951. Publicity director N.A.M., San Francisco, 1951-1954. Assistant exhibits director Seattle Worlds Fair, 1960-1962.

Public relations director Seattle Center, 1962-1964. Freelance public relations Seattle, 1964-1994. Director Pacific Search Press, 1977-1987.

Achievements

• Georgia Marrs Penfield has been listed as a noteworthy public relations, executive, counsel by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Trustee Seattle Symphony Orchestra, 1960-1988, secretary board, 1964-1965, vice president, member executive committee, 1973-1976, 79-83. Director Allied Arts of Seattle, 1960-1990. Director Pottery Northwest Seattle, 1966-1968.

Trustee Seattle Childrens Home, 1954-1961, president, 1959-1961. Trustee Gov's. Mansion Foundation, 1972-1988, member executive committee, 1975-1980, trustee emeritus, since 1992. Associate development counsel to nonprofit organizations Mason J. Blacher & Associates, Seattle, since 1992.

Trustee Seattle Center Foundation, 1984-1994, Willard R. Espy LIt. Found, 1999^. Member Denver Womans Press Club, Seattle Tennis Club, Pi Beta Phi.

Connections

Married Winfield Turrell Barber, January 18, 1941 (deceased May 1948). Married second, Nathan Henry Gellert, March 12, 1954 (deceased November 1959). Married 3d, James Kedzie Penfield, May 19, 1978 (deceased November 2004).

Father:

William Middelton Marrs

Mother:

Blanche (Boak) Marrs

Spouse:

second

Spouse:

Winfield Turrell Barber

Spouse:

James Kedzie Penfield