Eva Schreiber

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, thou he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believeth thou this She saith unto him, Yea Lord: I believe....John 11:2527.A resident of Baton Rouge for fortythree years, Georgine was born in Fresno, California lived her first ten years in Coalinga, California and returned to Fresno where she lived until her marriage to Martin Edwin Schreiber, her beloved husband for sixtysix years. She is survived by her four children: Martin Charles Schreiber of Santa Cruz, California, his wife, Susan and their daughters, Marissa and Morgan, his daughter from his first marriage, Cleo Helmsworth and stepson, Jeffery Siracusa son, Loren Philip Schreiber of San Diego, Califronia, his wife, Kathryn Tara son, Paul Clifton Schreiber of Stockholm, Sweden, his wife, Birgit and their children, Andreas, Jonah and Marina and his daughter from his first marriage, Arwen Lothlorien Kashyap and daughter, Romona Kathleen Mayer of Baton Rouge and her husband, Steven Louis Mayer. She is preceded in death by her parents, Lucille Shelbourne Partee and Leslie Ward Partee and beloved grandmother, Jennie Mimi Blair Atkisson. Georgine graduated from Pasadena College now Point Loma Nazarene University with a degree in elementary education and a minor in religion. She taught in Azusa, California and in Ghana, West Africa where she and her engineer husband lived from 1967 to 1969 when they moved to Baton Rouge. A fiercely independent and courageous woman, she learned to fly during WWII with the intention of joining the Women Airforce Service Pilots WASPs to ferry combat aircraft to Europe. She was invited to join by Jacqueline Cochran, but ultimately decline given the adamant objections of her grandmother, Mimi and her fiance, Martin. It was one of the few regrets in her life. She wrote on the bottom of the Cochran letter, Ten years later she still wishes she had gone. But she did instill the love of flying in her children and all but one became pilots and skydivers. She was a talented artist and an accomplished pianist. She sang beautifully, and even now her children need only close their eyes to hear the high and lonesome songs they listened to while cradled in her arms. Although born in the west, her roots were deep in the South. When her great aunt Maggie was five years old, her brothers taught her to cuss at the Union soldiers passing by the Blair farm in Arkansas shortly after the Civil War. Georgine was a true southern gentlewoman of understated elegance, who graciously put the needs of others before her own. The hospitality she offered to guests and visitors to Shadows on Letitia, her stately home in the Garden District, was always impeccable, including the traditional midnight party following Piping in the New Year, by her bagpiper husband, Martin. At the tender age of eight, she dedicated her life to God and Christ and her faith sustained her throughout her life. She imbued her children with the same love and they came to count on her steadfast moral compass that never once wavered. Her children thought of her, affectionately, as Gods battle axed although she would have preferred sword. She now rests in God loving arms. Visiting at Resthaven Funeral Home, 11817 Jefferson Hwy., Baton Rouge, LA. 70816 on Thursday, February 2, 2012 from 6pm until memorial service at 7pm.

Visitation

Resthaven Funeral Home
11817 Jefferson Highway
Baton Rouge, LA  70816
Thursday, February 2, 2012
6pm7pm

Service

Memorial Service

Resthaven Funeral Home
11817 Jefferson Highway
Baton Rouge, LA  70816
Thursday, February 2, 2012
7pm