George was born into a mining family and studied geology in Upper Michigan. He did work in the mines for a while and lost an eye in a mining blast. He briefly visited a gold mine in Africa and almost died there of cholera.

George and Ruth Potter retired to Lancaster from the East Coast in the mid-1960s. George liked to meet with the local farmers at the Pink Pony and worked as a bailiff at the courthouse. George loved to golf and chose their home on Lincoln Ave so he could walk to the municipal course. George and Ruth kept up with their grandkids birthdays and often hosted their kids on major holidays. They will be remembered for loving to tell stories at the dinner table, most of them humorous. George and Ruth laughed a lot together, traveled together, and loved each other to the end.

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