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George Quarez was born on December, 13, 1927, to Fernand Ernest Gilicien Quarez and Gerda Overin in TeinTsin, China in a British Concession where his Belgian father was a banker. English was his childhood language. The family had a spacious apartment upstairs above the bank. Every three years, the family was allowed a lengthy vacation, by ship, to different parts of the world.
When Japan declared war, George’s father was incarcerated in a Japanese concentration camp. The rest of the family was in Europe. There, George’s paternal grandmother insisted George and his sister, Madeleine, learn French. They did, and very fluently too. George contracted polio at age 10 and was hospitalized in Genoa, Italy for 2 years.
George’s mother, whom they affectionately called, Maminka, was advised to not take the children back to China. Meanwhile, his father was in the concentration camp for the whole war. Communication was only to be had every two years through the Red Cross.
In his teens, George lived in Nice, Menton, and Monte Carlo. When the Nazis advanced up the Italian boot, they came to George’s home and forced the family to pack up but few items, then put them on a train for Leige, Belgium. Fortunately that’s where they ended up with cousins taking them in. They were refugees! The war raged on. On Christmas Eve of 1944, George counted scores of rockets that landed and exploded in Liege.
Meanwhile, the family was hunkered down in a dim candle-lit basement. George faced much privation during the war, standing in many food lines, dodging bombs and strafing planes. The Nazi occupation had indeed taken away their basic freedoms and rights. The Battle of the Bulge was fought very near his Belgian home.
In September of 1944, George, his mother and sister, watched the Americans come through their town and liberated it. Freedom from oppression had brought the down of a new day! After the war, George worked in a rehab hospital for injured coal miners. With his knowledge of physical therapy, the States wanted him it immigrate to America! George had his green card!
They passed through New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty, then on to Salt Lake City, Utah, where Madeleine had already secured an apartment for the family of three. George loved his new country, the United States of America! He always stood up for the US flag and also when the Star Spangled Banner was played or sung. George’s father had already died of a broken heart after his release from the camp.
George then entered the School of Nursing at University of Utah. It was there that he met his sweetheart, Nancy Burns. On January 2, 1961, the couple was married in Huntington Park, California. Later, the marriage was solemnized in the Oakland Temple. After George graduated from the University of Utah, he pursued a Masters degree in psychiatric nursing in San Francisco. That would be his chosen field for the rest of his career.
He worked in hospitals in San Diego, San Francisco, Napa and Sacramento, California. In 1980, George and his family came up to Rexburg, Idaho, where he taught psychiatric nursing at Ricks College (now BYUI) in his chosen career and life’s work, for 22 years before his retirement.
In 1991, tragedy struck when George and Nancy’s youngest son, Matthew, was killed in an accident. Life moved on in unchartered waters; but the now empty nesters have remained in the same home for 40 ½ years.
George, a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has held many callings, including: Sunday School teacher, High Priest Group Leader, serving a mission with Nancy, to France from 2001-2003, a service mission at Deseret Industries, ordinance worker in the Idaho Falls Temple and in the Rexburg Temple. He loved, very much, being a faithful ministering teacher to his assigned families in the Rexburg 14th Ward. He will be deeply missed by his family, many friends and his ward family.
Funeral services will be held Friday, January 8, 2021, starting at Noon. The family will receive friends Thursday, January 7, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Masks are required.
George Quarez was born on December, 13, 1927, to Fernand Ernest Gilicien Quarez and Gerda Overin in TeinTsin, China in a British Concession where his Belgian father was a banker. English was his childhood language. The family had a spacious apartment upstairs above the bank. Every three years, the family was allowed a lengthy vacation, by ship, to different parts of the world.
When Japan declared war, George’s father was incarcerated in a Japanese concentration camp. The rest of the family was in Europe. There, George’s paternal grandmother insisted George and his sister, Madeleine, learn French. They did, and very fluently too. George contracted polio at age 10 and was hospitalized in Genoa, Italy for 2 years.
George’s mother, whom they affectionately called, Maminka, was advised to not take the children back to China. Meanwhile, his father was in the concentration camp for the whole war. Communication was only to be had every two years through the Red Cross.
In his teens, George lived in Nice, Menton, and Monte Carlo. When the Nazis advanced up the Italian boot, they came to George’s home and forced the family to pack up but few items, then put them on a train for Leige, Belgium. Fortunately that’s where they ended up with cousins taking them in. They were refugees! The war raged on. On Christmas Eve of 1944, George counted scores of rockets that landed and exploded in Liege.
Meanwhile, the family was hunkered down in a dim candle-lit basement. George faced much privation during the war, standing in many food lines, dodging bombs and strafing planes. The Nazi occupation had indeed taken away their basic freedoms and rights. The Battle of the Bulge was fought very near his Belgian home.
In September of 1944, George, his mother and sister, watched the Americans come through their town and liberated it. Freedom from oppression had brought the down of a new day! After the war, George worked in a rehab hospital for injured coal miners. With his knowledge of physical therapy, the States wanted him it immigrate to America! George had his green card!
They passed through New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty, then on to Salt Lake City, Utah, where Madeleine had already secured an apartment for the family of three. George loved his new country, the United States of America! He always stood up for the US flag and also when the Star Spangled Banner was played or sung. George’s father had already died of a broken heart after his release from the camp.
George then entered the School of Nursing at University of Utah. It was there that he met his sweetheart, Nancy Burns. On January 2, 1961, the couple was married in Huntington Park, California. Later, the marriage was solemnized in the Oakland Temple. After George graduated from the University of Utah, he pursued a Masters degree in psychiatric nursing in San Francisco. That would be his chosen field for the rest of his career.
He worked in hospitals in San Diego, San Francisco, Napa and Sacramento, California. In 1980, George and his family came up to Rexburg, Idaho, where he taught psychiatric nursing at Ricks College (now BYUI) in his chosen career and life’s work, for 22 years before his retirement.
In 1991, tragedy struck when George and Nancy’s youngest son, Matthew, was killed in an accident. Life moved on in unchartered waters; but the now empty nesters have remained in the same home for 40 ½ years.
George, a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has held many callings, including: Sunday School teacher, High Priest Group Leader, serving a mission with Nancy, to France from 2001-2003, a service mission at Deseret Industries, ordinance worker in the Idaho Falls Temple and in the Rexburg Temple. He loved, very much, being a faithful ministering teacher to his assigned families in the Rexburg 14th Ward. He will be deeply missed by his family, many friends and his ward family.
Funeral services will be held Friday, January 8, 2021, starting at Noon. The family will receive friends Thursday, January 7, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Masks are required.
Obituary from flammfh.com:
George Quarez was born on December, 13, 1927, to Fernand Ernest Gilicien Quarez and Gerda Overin in TeinTsin, China in a British Concession where his Belgian father was a banker. English was his childhood language. The family had a spacious apartment upstairs above the bank. Every three years, the family was allowed a lengthy vacation, by ship, to different parts of the world.
When Japan declared war, George’s father was incarcerated in a Japanese concentration camp. The rest of the family was in Europe. There, George’s paternal grandmother insisted George and his sister, Madeleine, learn French. They did, and very fluently too. George contracted polio at age 10 and was hospitalized in Genoa, Italy for 2 years.
George’s mother, whom they affectionately called, Maminka, was advised to not take the children back to China. Meanwhile, his father was in the concentration camp for the whole war. Communication was only to be had every two years through the Red Cross.
In his teens, George lived in Nice, Menton, and Monte Carlo. When the Nazis advanced up the Italian boot, they came to George’s home and forced the family to pack up but few items, then put them on a train for Leige, Belgium. Fortunately that’s where they ended up with cousins taking them in. They were refugees! The war raged on. On Christmas Eve of 1944, George counted scores of rockets that landed and exploded in Liege.
Meanwhile, the family was hunkered down in a dim candle-lit basement. George faced much privation during the war, standing in many food lines, dodging bombs and strafing planes. The Nazi occupation had indeed taken away their basic freedoms and rights. The Battle of the Bulge was fought very near his Belgian home.
In September of 1944, George, his mother and sister, watched the Americans come through their town and liberated it. Freedom from oppression had brought the down of a new day! After the war, George worked in a rehab hospital for injured coal miners. With his knowledge of physical therapy, the States wanted him it immigrate to America! George had his green card!
They passed through New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty, then on to Salt Lake City, Utah, where Madeleine had already secured an apartment for the family of three. George loved his new country, the United States of America! He always stood up for the US flag and also when the Star Spangled Banner was played or sung. George’s father had already died of a broken heart after his release from the camp.
George then entered the School of Nursing at University of Utah. It was there that he met his sweetheart, Nancy Burns. On January 2, 1961, the couple was married in Huntington Park, California. Later, the marriage was solemnized in the Oakland Temple. After George graduated from the University of Utah, he pursued a Masters degree in psychiatric nursing in San Francisco. That would be his chosen field for the rest of his career.
He worked in hospitals in San Diego, San Francisco, Napa and Sacramento, California. In 1980, George and his family came up to Rexburg, Idaho, where he taught psychiatric nursing at Ricks College (now BYUI) in his chosen career and life’s work, for 22 years before his retirement.
In 1991, tragedy struck when George and Nancy’s youngest son, Matthew, was killed in an accident. Life moved on in unchartered waters; but the now empty nesters have remained in the same home for 40 ½ years.
George, a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has held many callings, including: Sunday School teacher, High Priest Group Leader, serving a mission with Nancy, to France from 2001-2003, a service mission at Deseret Industries, ordinance worker in the Idaho Falls Temple and in the Rexburg Temple. He loved, very much, being a faithful ministering teacher to his assigned families in the Rexburg 14th Ward. He will be deeply missed by his family, many friends and his ward family.
Funeral services will be held Friday, January 8, 2021, starting at Noon. The family will receive friends Thursday, January 7, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Masks are required.
George Quarez was born on December, 13, 1927, to Fernand Ernest Gilicien Quarez and Gerda Overin in TeinTsin, China in a British Concession where his Belgian father was a banker. English was his childhood language. The family had a spacious apartment upstairs above the bank. Every three years, the family was allowed a lengthy vacation, by ship, to different parts of the world.
When Japan declared war, George’s father was incarcerated in a Japanese concentration camp. The rest of the family was in Europe. There, George’s paternal grandmother insisted George and his sister, Madeleine, learn French. They did, and very fluently too. George contracted polio at age 10 and was hospitalized in Genoa, Italy for 2 years.
George’s mother, whom they affectionately called, Maminka, was advised to not take the children back to China. Meanwhile, his father was in the concentration camp for the whole war. Communication was only to be had every two years through the Red Cross.
In his teens, George lived in Nice, Menton, and Monte Carlo. When the Nazis advanced up the Italian boot, they came to George’s home and forced the family to pack up but few items, then put them on a train for Leige, Belgium. Fortunately that’s where they ended up with cousins taking them in. They were refugees! The war raged on. On Christmas Eve of 1944, George counted scores of rockets that landed and exploded in Liege.
Meanwhile, the family was hunkered down in a dim candle-lit basement. George faced much privation during the war, standing in many food lines, dodging bombs and strafing planes. The Nazi occupation had indeed taken away their basic freedoms and rights. The Battle of the Bulge was fought very near his Belgian home.
In September of 1944, George, his mother and sister, watched the Americans come through their town and liberated it. Freedom from oppression had brought the down of a new day! After the war, George worked in a rehab hospital for injured coal miners. With his knowledge of physical therapy, the States wanted him it immigrate to America! George had his green card!
They passed through New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty, then on to Salt Lake City, Utah, where Madeleine had already secured an apartment for the family of three. George loved his new country, the United States of America! He always stood up for the US flag and also when the Star Spangled Banner was played or sung. George’s father had already died of a broken heart after his release from the camp.
George then entered the School of Nursing at University of Utah. It was there that he met his sweetheart, Nancy Burns. On January 2, 1961, the couple was married in Huntington Park, California. Later, the marriage was solemnized in the Oakland Temple. After George graduated from the University of Utah, he pursued a Masters degree in psychiatric nursing in San Francisco. That would be his chosen field for the rest of his career.
He worked in hospitals in San Diego, San Francisco, Napa and Sacramento, California. In 1980, George and his family came up to Rexburg, Idaho, where he taught psychiatric nursing at Ricks College (now BYUI) in his chosen career and life’s work, for 22 years before his retirement.
In 1991, tragedy struck when George and Nancy’s youngest son, Matthew, was killed in an accident. Life moved on in unchartered waters; but the now empty nesters have remained in the same home for 40 ½ years.
George, a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has held many callings, including: Sunday School teacher, High Priest Group Leader, serving a mission with Nancy, to France from 2001-2003, a service mission at Deseret Industries, ordinance worker in the Idaho Falls Temple and in the Rexburg Temple. He loved, very much, being a faithful ministering teacher to his assigned families in the Rexburg 14th Ward. He will be deeply missed by his family, many friends and his ward family.
Funeral services will be held Friday, January 8, 2021, starting at Noon. The family will receive friends Thursday, January 7, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Masks are required.
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