About
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Georgina D. (Brown) Sanford
Born September 8, 1924
Passed December 23, 1995
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Georgina D. Sanford loved her family, flowers, birds, singing in church choirs, clothes, and jewelry. She was a good friend, a good mother, a good mother-in-law, a good employee, a good wife, and a GREAT grandmother. She died of cancer on December 23, 1995. She is and will always be greatly missed by her family and her friends. Her grandchildren were the pride of her life along with her son and they will always feel a void where her presence was in their hearts and their lives.
This foundation is established to honor the quiet, yet extraordinary life of Georgina D. Sanford with all the challenges she faced and overcame. As a foundation, we want to support the interruption of the quiet desperation of so many families in our country. Georgina came to this country as a war bride in 1946 and became a naturalized citizen of this country in 1956. She loved her new country and no matter what life threw at her, she continued to be proud of being an American citizen. She once said she chose to be an American and it was still the choice she would have made forty years later.
We will honor the memory of Georgina by honoring the challenges life bestowed upon her. Many women in her situation would have gone home to Mother but not Georgina. She prevailed through necessity, courage, determination and sheer stubbornness. In her honor we will undertake the support of charities which support families in crisis, children, family life, and church.
She was a war bride in 1946 and came over to this country from Scotland. In later years she remarried, her new husband an ex-paratrooper who participated in D-Day. In honor of Gordan Sanford, we have elected to show our support of our troops by supporting their futures and their families. We wish to support our troops through their efforts in the war on terror and, further, we wish to support our troops through the war after the war where they get their lives back after selflessly putting their own lives on hold or suffering disability to ensure the rest of us enjoy our freedom. Some of our troops face worse challenges when they return home than when they were on active duty. After all, one expects trouble, fear, pain, hardship, and loss of dignity or humanity in a war theater. It’s harder to deal with when you are home and your resources don’t match your challenges. We want to be their solution, their resource for assistance, education and re-training, and for the interruption of stress for their families.