Georgianna Gourley
September 25, 1930 — November 16, 2025
- Georgianna Gourley, 95, of Webster City died Sunday, November 16, 2025 at Friendship Haven
- in Fort Dodge. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, November 29, 2025 at
- Asbury United Methodist Church with visitation 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, November 28, 2025 at Asbury
- United Methodist Church. A private family burial will be held at Saratoga Cemetery. Foster
- Funeral and Cremation Center is entrusted with caring for Georgianna and her family.
- Georgianna Crystal, daughter of Everett and Bertha Elkin Crystal, was born on September
- 25, 1930 in Blairsburg, Iowa. She attended country school then graduated from Webster City
- Lincoln High School in 1948. She worked at First State Bank until she was united in marriage on
- April 30, 1955 to Gary Gourley. Georgianna then worked for Ames Trust and Savings Bank in
- Ames until the couple moved back to Webster City after Gary graduated from ISU in 1956 and
- started their 70-year farming partnership. They were blessed with five children, Gerald, Gina,
- George, Gene and Gerry. She was active in their church, school, 4-H and FFA activities. She
- worked at Swine Graphics for 8 years before her retirement in 1998. She was president of the
- Hamilton Co. Porkettes and a hospital gift shop volunteer. Georgianna was a member of
- Asbury United Methodist Church where she had taught Sunday school and helped with the Jr.
- and Sr. youth groups and served on several committees.
- She enjoyed vacations around Dubois, Wyoming backpacking with the family, traveling the
- US, Canada and around the world, river cruises, wintering in Mesa, Arizona since 1989 and
- square dancing for 38 years.
- Georgianna is survived by her children, Gerald (Terry) Gourley of Webster City and family
- Sarah Holt, Breanna (Craig) Signorin, Garrett (Desi) Gourley; Gina (Brian) Smith of Ames and
- family Erin Smith (fiancé James Larson), Drew (Hannes) Reinot, Leah Smith; George (Kathy)
- Gourley of Stanhope and family Sawyer (Will) Higgins, Morgan (Dylan) Fielder, Gianna (Caleb)
- Bartling; Gene (Maurita) Gourley of Webster City and family Gabby Gourley, and Chandler
- Gourley (fiancé Jordan Jensen); Gerry (Teresa) Gourley of Webster City and family Teagan
- Gourley and Joslin Gourley; great-grandchildren, Marissa Miller; Nash, Kanon and Ike Holt;
- Charlotte, Grayson and Elianna Signorin; Graham Gourley; Brecken and Berit Higgins; Beau
- and Bodi Fielder; siblings, Evelyn Simpson of Webster City, Elizabeth Norman of Cedar Rapids,
- Dorothy Buchner of Kansas City, MO, Bud (Carol) Crystal of Webster City, Bill (Diane) Crystal of
- Ames, Jean (Jon) Kayser of Webster City and brother-in-law Marvin Boicourt of Kansas
- City, MO.
- She is preceded in death by her husband, Gary; her parents; triplet grandchildren, Ashley,
- Ona and Coulter Gourley; sisters, Viola Short-Barrick, Mary Boicourt and brothers-in-law, Estel
- Short, Harry Barrick, Dean Simpson, Royal Norman and Alfred Buchner.
- Memorials may be made in Georgianna’s honor to Asbury United Methodist Church.
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