2019 Area Fall Festivals

Page 4 2019 Area Fall Festivals LINCOLN DAILY NEWS Sept. 18, 2019 In her medical profession, Georgia worked at St. Joseph Hospital for 17 years as a head nurse and Assistant Director of Nursing. She then worked for 15 years as Health Care Administrator at Lincoln Correctional Center as it opened. And then she worked for Correctional Health Care as a Regional Director flying from Philadelphia to Denver bidding on contracts and initiating set up of Correctional Health Care Units for prisons. Georgia and Harold began an embroidery business in 1993. The business has grown with the addition of screen printing, engraving and long arm quilting. Georgia’s true passion and ministry is in sewing and quilting. She is a talented seamstress with wedding gowns and prom dresses as her specialty. She has taught and judged quilting for many years. She taught quilting at New Salem for 10 years and founded local Quilt Guilds. In 2005, St. Mary’s and Friends Quilt Guild was established. A group of ladies have met once a week at Sew Personal Embroidery shop to piece quilts for the veterans in nursing homes and a group called HOOAH from Stanford, IL. HOOAH brings wounded soldier to Central Illinois for turkey and deer hunts, and fishing weekends. Each HOOAH soldier is presented with a quilt. St. Mary’s and Friends make 100 to 150 quilts each year for our veterans. Green says, “It is an honor to give back to those veterans who gave so much defending our ‘Freedom.’ “ [Reprinted with permission of Georgia Green/ LDN]