Geraldine Downing

July 2, 1922 - December 8, 2014

Funeral services for GERALDINE DOWNING, 92 will be held at 2pm Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at the First Baptist Church with Reverend Rick Cederholm officiating. Burial will follow in the Valley View Cemetery. Geraldine died December 8, 2014 at the Residency in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Memorials may be made to either Prairie Haven Hospice or the First Baptist Church. Visitation will be Monday from 3pm to 5pm and the casket will be open briefly prior to the service at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Geraldine was born July 2, 1922 in Minatare, Nebraska the daughter of Walter and Ada (Jones) Morris. The family moved to Torrington, Wyoming and she graduated from Torrington High School. She married Drexel "Rex" Downing on October 3, 1940. They lived in Torrington and she was a homemaker raising her family. After Rex died she started working as a secretary for Public Health. In 2004 she moved to the Village at Regional West in Scottsbluff, Nebraska and then in 2014 she moved to the Residency. Geraldine enjoyed gardening, playing Bingo and working puzzles. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Ladies Auxiliary with the American Legion Travis Snow Post #5, and worked with the Green Thumb Program. Geraldine is survived by two daughters Carol Hort and her husband Gene and Jennifer Arntt and her husband Rick all of Torrington, Wyoming; three grandchildren; ten great grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Rex; five sisters Mary Denton, Helen Ashburn, Alice McConnell, Leona Edwards, and Francis Morris; one brother Walter Morris; and an infant brother Harold Morris.