Georgia Childers

Georgia Anna Polk Childers, age 93 at the time of her death, was born on Mother’s Day, May 11, 1930, to Mary Elizabeth and Thomas Jefferson Polk in Sterling, Illinois. Georgia was the middle of three children; she had an older sister Mary Margaret Polk Glasscock and a younger brother Dr. John Collins Polk. When Georgia was six weeks old, the family moved to Lebanon, Kentucky where she lived for 18 years. Following her graduation from Lebanon High School, Georgia attended Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky for two years, and then attended the State Board of Health School of Laboratory Technology in Louisville, Kentucky.

While working as a Lab Technician at Kentucky Baptist Hospital, Georgia met the love of her life, James “Jim” Childers, who was a University of Louisville dental student, and they were married on July 4, 1953. After a brief time in Columbus, Ohio; Georgia and Jim moved

May 11, 1930 - March 21, 2024

back to Louisville where they lived for 16 years. Jim started a dental practice in Louisville and he and Georgia were the proud parents to four children: Scott, Blake, Derek, and Jamey. In 1971, the Childers family moved to San Antonio, Texas, where Jim was recruited to help establish the Dental School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Texas soon became home to a couple of transplanted Kentuckians.

Georgia was active in the Wives Club at the Health Science Center, and the PTA at Winston Churchill High School. She also took up tennis in San Antonio and spent many years with wonderful friends playing a game she grew to love. Her tennis group made a couple of trips to New York for the US Open, which was a highlight for her. Many of Georgia’s best friends were cultivated through Bible Study and other activities at University Methodist Church. She participated in the Walk to

Emmaus which impacted her profoundly.

Georgia loved life and lived it to the fullest! She never met a stranger, always had a quick comeback, and was always the life of the party. Family was everything to Georgia – the happiest moments of her life was when she could get as many family members as possible together and have a party! She was a wonderful mother, a wonderful Monie (her handpicked Grandmother name), and an even better GreatMonie to four beautiful great-grandchildren:

Tripp, Jacob, Madeline, and Logan. She will be missed so very much by everyone who loved her.

Georgia is preceded in death by her mother, father, sister, brother, husband, and son

Derek. She is survived by her son Scott Childers (wife Juliet Childers), grandchildren Walker Childers and Jacqueline Childers Crutcher (husband Clifford Crutcher), great-grandchildren Tripp and Madeline Crutcher; son Blake Childers (wife