Ethel B. Geving Site staff
Sun Prairie – Ethel B. Geving, née Jones, age 94, currently of Sun Prairie, Wis., passed away on Friday, March 5, 2021, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg, Wis.
She was born in New Richmond, Wis. on July 22, 1926, the daughter of Ward B. Jones and Emily née Thomas Jones. She married the love of her life, Gordon C. Geving, on Feb. 18, 1946, in Clear Lake, Wis. They were 10 days short of what would have been their 63rd wedding anniversary at the time Gordon died in February 2009.
Ethel and Gordon moved to St. Paul, Minn., and Ethel attended the Minneapolis School of Art and Design for two years, honing her talent to draw and paint. Her education was interrupted by the birth of their first daughter, Joyce, and it wasn’t until years later when Joyce started college, that Ethel also went back to school. She attended Lakewood Community College (as it was known then) and this time she gravitated towards pottery. She had said that