Geraldine Whitley Obituary

November 21, 1920 - December 30, 2008
Geraldine Ruth Whitley left this world on December 30th, 2008 after complications due to a fall she took on December 26th. Geri was born on November 21, 1920 on a farm near Neosho Falls, KS to Edgar Charles Campbell and Estella Mae Hall. After graduating from Leroy High School in 1938, she moved to Snyder, Texas with her family and took a job with JC Penney Company in the accounting department. Later she moved to Lubbock, Texas where she worked at the regional airport. It was there she met her future husband, John, an Army Air Corps pilot. They had a whirlwind romance and were married within three months of meeting, on February 2, 1946. That marriage lasted 62 wonderful years and included life in various places such as post-WWII Germany; Anchorage, Alaska; and many other stops in between. Geri was a homemaker in Colorado Springs until the mid-seventies when she took a job as a paraprofessional in the English Resource Center at Mitchell High School where she worked for many years. Geri was a loving wife, mother and grandmother and was devoted to her family and friends. She was kind to everyone and never met a stranger. Her life was spent "doing for others". Geri was preceded in death by her parents, sisters Bonnie Foree and Joan Maples, and grandson Patrick Niedringhaus. She is survived by her loving husband John; son Rusty (Yvette); daughter Leah Niedringhaus (Dave); and grandsons Andy Niedringhaus and J.T. Whitley. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, January 4th, at 4 p.m at St. Paul's United Methodist Church located at 2111 Carlton Avenue. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations in Geri's memory be made to Cal Farley's Boys Ranch, P.O. Box 1890, Amarillo, TX 79174-0001, or the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region, 610 Abbott Lane, Colorado Springs, CO 80905. A private internment will take place at Fort Logan National Cemetery at a later date.