Sr. Georgia Marie Messingschlager, CDP died peacefully at Holy Family Home on January 23, 2025 after a brief illness. She was a professed member of the Congregation of Divine Providence for 67 years. Born in Covington, KY in 1938 to William and Georgia Marie Kaub Messingschlager, she made her first profession of vows in 1958 and professed her final vows in 1963.

Sr. Georgia Marie began her ministry of teaching in 1958 at St. Ann Elementary School in West Covington. In 1966 she was transferred to Our Lady of Providence Academy and it was there she began a long tenure as a high school teacher of Latin and history. After eleven years at OLP, an all-girls academy, she went to Covington Catholic High School, an all boys school and was affectionately called “the nun,” being the only sister there. After six years, she left CCH in 1983 and became the first woman religious invited to teach at St. Xavier High School, Cincinnati until she left in 2014.

She continued as a high school substitute teacher and volunteered at St. Bernard Food Pantry in Dayton, KY. In 2018 she began a ministry of visiting and telephoning the elderly at St. Matthew’s Parish in Morningview, KY.

Whether working with students over the years collecting food and clothing for the needy or supervising annual student trips to Indian reservations in the west, her compassion and care for others was a hallmark. She was an avid gardener of vegetables, always creating a space in the yard for planting and cultivating which she also prepared and canned as gifts for others. Her jellies and jams were special. Sr. Georgia never knew a stranger and her smile and interest in others created many long-lasting relationships among former students and faculty and volunteers.

She will be missed by her religious community, the Sisters of Divine Providence, her sisters, Sr. Marie Rose Messingschlager, CDP and Betty Hummel and husband Tom Hummel, her brother Rick and wife Marian Messingschager and her many nieces and nephews. Her brother, Don preceded her in death.

Mass of Christian Burial will be at St. Cecilia Church, Independence, KY on January 29, 2025. Memorials to the Congregation of Divine Providence, 5300 Saint Anne Drive, Melbourne, KY 41059.