Georgia M. Peters

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Georgia M. Peters, 1943 – 2015, age 71, long-time resident of Philadelphia and a retired intellectual property paralegal, died on February 17, 2015 in Philadelphia. She was a graduate of Hiram College, earned a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Connecticut and completed all of the course work for a PhD from Bryn Mawr College. Early in her career, she had stints teaching English at the City University of New York and as an adjunct professor at the Curtis Institute of Music. She was very pleased that she passed her passion for education on to her children and grandsons. Her daughter, Johanna K.P. Greeson of Philadelphia, is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Her son, David K. Burton of Bronxville, is a partner in the tax and renewable energy practices of the New York office of the international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and his sons, Joshua and Alexander, are freshmen in college and high school at Wake Forest University and Tabor Academy. In addition to her deep love of literature, including Shakespeare, poetry, women writers, trail blazers in history, and social justice, Georgia was known for her gentle spirit, giving heart, and active engagement in her community of Germantown. In addition to David (Tyler Kate) and Johanna (Jeffrey) and her grandsons, Georgia is survived by her sisters Marilyn and Deborah. A memorial service to celebrate her life will be held at 1 pm on Saturday, February 28 at St. Mark’s Church, 1625 Locust Street in Philadelphia. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the influential Friends summer camps that her daughter and grandsons attended: Camp Onas, Camper Aid Fund, 609 Geigel Hill Rd., Ottsville, PA 18942 (or online www.camponas.org) or Camp Dark Waters, Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 263, Medford, NJ 08055-0263. Contributors should include a note or a memo line indicating that the donation is in honor of Georgia Peters.

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