CLARK NV Archives Obituaries.....[LEWIS, Georgia 8/6/1993]
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 BURIAL SCHEDULED AT LV CEMETERY FOR HISTORY WRITER GEORGIA LEWIS

LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL - 8/25/1993  [picture]

	Georgia Lewis, a writer known for making Nevada's past come alive
 for her readers, died Aug. 6 in Bristol, England.  She was 62.
	Her ashes will be buried at the grave of her husband, Raymond Cohen,
 at 10 a.m. Monday at Bunker Eden Vale Cemetery, 925 Las Vegas Blvd. North.  
A diabetic for many years, she died of a heart attack.
	Born to British parents in Jamaica in 1930, Lewis grew up in Bristol and 
took a journalism degree at its university.  While writing for several London publications, 
she attended London University and became one of the first women in Great Britain to 
complete a master's degree in journalism.
	In 1958, she decided to tour the United States, and for a time lived and wrote 
in New York.
	While visiting a friend in Las Vegas, she met Raymond Cohen, an insurance 
agent.  They married in 1960 and had two children [names omitted]
	[omitted] said the couple were divorced in 1967, and that Lewis was married 
to another Las Vegan, [name omitted] from 1968 to 1971.  In 1975, she moved into the house 
next door to Raymond Cohen and remarried him shortly before his death in 1981.
	"She loved Las Vegas and was fascinated with people who would live out in the 
heat of the desert to look for gold, or any other reason," said [omitted]
	Lewis traveled throughout Southern Nevada interviewing aging pioneers and 
collecting family histories and early photographs.  She retold many of their stories in the 
Review-Journal's former Sunday magazine, The Nevadan, under her own name and the pen 
names Dustin George and Joyce Cohen.  She also published in Nevada Magazine and other 
periodicals.
	"She made a great contribution to the popular history of Las Vegas," said [omitted], 
a University of Nevada, Las Vegas archive employee who himself writes history books.  
"She had a rare talent of successfully combining historic accuracy with popular interest in storytelling.
	"Every historian will be provied wrong in certain details as time uncovers resources 
he or she didn't have.  But she made the very best use possible of the sources available at the time."
	A series of her articles, originally published in the Las Vegas Sun, was republished as 
a book, "The Way it Was:  Diary of A Pioneer Las Vegas Woman."
	She worked for the UNLV Library in 1967 and 1968, and gave some of her rare photos 
to UNLV Special Collections, where they are preserved for researchers.  She later taught journalism 
at Clark County Community College, now the Community College of Southern Nevada, and helped 
produce the student newspaper.
	Lewis returned to England two years after Raymond Cohen's death, and was writing a 
book about Bristol at the time of her death.
	In addition to [survivors omited]