Georgia Arradondo, 85, Middelton, ID, formerly Holdingford, MN

Requiem Mass celebrating the life of Georgia Arradondo, age 85, of Middelton, ID (formerly Holdingford) will be 11:30 AM, Friday, June 1, 2012 at Church of All Saints – St. Hedwig in Holdingford. Father Mark Stang will officiate and burial will take place in the parish cemetery following the service.

Georgia Soltis Arradondo, 85, passed away peacefully on September 7, 2011, in Middleton, Idaho. Georgia was born on March 30, 1926, to George and Cecelia Soltis in Holdingford where she was raised on the family farm. After graduating from Holdingford High School in 1944, she moved to Minneapolis where she worked as a clerk typist at the Veterans Administration. Georgia married Aaron Arradondo in 1948 and had four children. In 1968, she went to work at Honeywell Corp. in Minneapolis and retired in 1988. In 2010 she moved to Idaho near her children.
Georgia enjoyed bowling, reading, sewing, yard work, going to the theater and traveling to visit her children and grandchildren. She also boarded dogs for vacationers and delighted in her own dogs.
She is survived by her children Kathryn (Jeff) Arradondo-Forrest in Teaneck, NJ; Marilynn (Ron) DeBoard of Caldwell, ID; Jacki (Marc) Perry in Portland, OR; and Aaron G. Arradondo in Atlanta, GA; and her grandchildren Celia, Jeffrey, James and Kirsten Forrest and Jennifer (Stewart) Bell, as well as many nieces and nephews, including Mary Soltis, Kathy Waletzko, John Soltis and Nancy Stewart who reside in the Holdingford area.
Georgia was preceded in death by her parents and her two brothers, Arnold Soltis and Laverne (Red) Soltis.
Arrangements are being made with the Miller-Carlin-Brenny Funeral Home in Holdingford.