Georgia B. Colbert was born October 15, 1932 to Manuel K. and Dovie (Bumpass) Colbert in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. She attented and graduated from Dunbar High School in Broken Bow in May of 1951. She moved to Detroit, Michigan with her older brother Edgar. 1959, she moved to Des Moines, Iowa. She worked very hard and long and put herself through nursing school. She sang in her church choir and they were so good they were asked to sing at "Cobo Hall" in Detroit, Michigan. Georgia led a song that day and her mother Dovie was blessed to have been able to hear her sing. A very high point in her life. Georgia became committed to campaigning for the Reverend Jessie Jackson in his bid for he Democratic Presidential nomination. She proudly displayed a very large photo of the two of them when she welcomed him to Des Moines at the airport. She accepted Christ in her life at an early age, and waas baptized and became a member of Colbert's Chapel C.M.E. Church in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. After moving back to Oklahoma in 1978 she joined The Loving St. James Baptist Church. Georgia worked at Baptist Hospital-Integris in labor and delivery. She retired in February 1991. She could not stay retired though so she started working in home health services April 2002.