Mourning the Passing of Friends: Forthcoming Funeral Services

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.  All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~ Helen Keller

Georgia P. Durrant

Georgia P. Durrant, age 83, passed away on September 1, 2017. She was born on October 25, 1934, in Santaquin, Utah to Ruben Joseph and Estella Wilson Peterson.

Georgia grew up in Santaquin, where she spent a lot of family time with her mom and dad along with sisters, Betty and Lorna. She attended school in Santaquin before going to high school in Payson. She was a very proud Santaquin citizen.

She married Thomas Haynes Durrant on December 1, 1951, at the home of her parents in Santaquin.  Their marriage was solemnized in the Manti Temple on June 29,1963. They enjoyed over 50 years of loving and caring for each other before Tom passed in 2003. What a fun couple to be with.  Any time you had the pleasure to be around them, you left with a smile.

Georgia and Tom graduated from Payson High School. They were part of the proud class of 1952 where they made relationships with a number of classmates and friends. Close friendships remained all through their living years, attending class reunions, band concerts, and other

gatherings.

A home was built on the Durrants’ acreage early in their marriage and that is where they would spent the rest of their lives raising, Mike and Ron and living next to her in-laws (Echo, Jim, Klara, and Alta).

She spent a number of years working at the Polar Queen in Payson for Gene and Colleen Thomas. That is where she met their daughter Kathy, with whom she had a very special relationship over the years. She made a number of good friends while at the Polar Queen, both co-workers and patrons. Story after story was told about the Polar Queen.

Early in her marriage she was involved with her card club and a member of a bowling league. During this time she was very active in the Democratic party and attended a number of conventions and worked on a number of campaigns. She made Mike and Ron clothes until they reached the 7th grade.

When she wasn’t chasing Tom around with his fishing and hunting trips (That was a big chore.), she had time to do a number of other things, including planting her flowers around the house, along with the mound that she would plant each year. She was a great cook and could prepare wild game with the best of them. A lot of canning was done around the house, and she had to do it down pat. She was a great quilter and quilts are scattered throughout many houses in the family.

She had weekly trips to visit Carol Pulver to get her hair done and catch up on the gossip.

Georgia and Tom had a small cabin at Strawberry for a number of years. Many summer weekends were spent bonding at the cabin with family and friends.

She enjoyed trips to Disneyland , Yellowstone, going to Log Canyon on hunting trips, family birthday parties, Thanksgivings, and Christmas was as big as it could get in our family. She even organized the neighborhood into having Christmas scenes at each house in the neighborhood during the Christmas season.

In her later years much of her time was spent watching her game shows, many sporting events on TV, cheering for the Jazz and rooting for the Utes any time she could find them on the TV or radio (not BYU--don’t tell Estell).

A special thanks to Ron for the care taking of Mom and Dad over the many years.

Survivors include sons Michael Thomas Durrant, Ronald Joseph Durrant, her only grandson “TJ” Thomas Joseph Durrant.  TJ,  enough said, was the light of her life.

Preceded in death by her husband Tom, mother and father,  sisters Betty Carter  and Lorna,  brothers Morris Ray and Dallas Wilson, both early in life.

A graveside service will be held on Friday, September 8, 2017, at 11 a.m. at the Payson City Cemetery. After the graveside service, Family and friends can visit at Tom and Georgia’s home, 467 North 300 East, Payson, Utah.

In lieu of flowers please donate to help the cure for ALS Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

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