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Submitted: 1/5/23 • Approved: 1/7/23 • Last Updated: 1/10/23 • R1463973-G1463972-S3
Oct 12, 1920 - Sep 5, 2012
Mrs. Geraldine Waggener Getty, age 91, a long time resident of Little Rock, Arkansas, and a consulting dietitian, died Wednesday, September 5, 2012, in Nashville, Tennessee. She was the widow of Hugh Cecil Getty. Her parents were the late Richard Garnett Waggener and Alma Thompson Waggener of Charleston, Missouri.
Mrs. Getty was a graduate of the University of Missouri and did her dietetic internship at New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center. She was the first dietary consultant with the State Health Department and edited the first edition of the Arkansas Diet Manual for use by Arkansas hospitals, physicians and dietitians. Mrs. Getty was also instrumental in organizing statewide institutes for hospital and nursing home food service supervisors in Arkansas and in helping to organize their statewide organization, for which she served as an advisor. In 1965, she helped organize the first Head Start program in College Station.
Survivors include two sons, Richard H. Getty, and his wife, Julie, of Boulder, Colorado, and Don B. Getty, and his wife, Lisa, of Nashville, Tennessee, Jan G. Burks, and her husband, Wesley, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, two brothers, Marion Waggener, and his wife, Paula, of Charleston, Missouri, and Maj. Gen. Jack Waggener, and his wife, Mary Ella, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and six grandchildren.
Her body will be cremated. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m.on Saturday, September 8, 2012, at Second Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Karen Akin. Memorials may be made to Second Presbyterian Church, Heifer International, or Presbyterian Village in lieu of flowers. www.ruebelfuneralhome.com.
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