Georgia Elaine (Billick) Koenig
Georgia Elaine (Billick) Koenig, 89, died July 16, 2008.
She was born July 25, 1919.
Elaine was a farmer’s wife, which meant she was the chef, baker, master gardener, seamstress, laundress, butcher, food preservationist, chicken herder, skunk chaser, etc.
She always knew how to use what she had and make the best of it.
Her first homemaking “luxury” was an electric clothes dryer, which arrived with her twins, who swelled the count of her daughters to five. (The wringer washer was replaced a few years later.) Elaine loved cultivating relationships and all growing things. She found comfort in her faith and relationship with Christ. She was a long-standing member of the United Methodist Church and the Grange. Her hobbies included gardening, crafts, fishing, rock hounding, huckleberrying and camping.
Elaine’s kids and grandkids learned many things by her side including faith, values, cooking, knitting, sewing, gardening, and reading. She always had time for children, grandchildren, and friends.
She was preceded in death by her husbands, Lloyd Cornwell in 1941, and Charles Koenig in 2003; sons-in-law, Curtis Harris and Doug Rutledge.
Survivors include a sister, Lillian Schmidt; and brother, Steven Billick; daughters, Georgia Rutledge, Gloria and Chuck Weedin, Bessie and David Kolva, Laura and Mark Johnson, and Cindy and Warren Pugh Koenig; grandchildren, John, Jim, Gary, Charlie, Kit, Ivan, Sam, Lindsey, Sanan, Sulee, Judah, Chloe, Shelby, and Luke; many great-greats who called her “Grandma”, “Aunt”, and friend.
Memorial services were July 21, at Westpark United Methodist Church.
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