Lewis, Georgia, 1930-1993

Georgia Lewis was a Las Vegas, Nevada writer, journalist, and historian who published Las Vegas, The Way It Was: Diary Of A Pioneer Las Vegas Woman in 1979. Lewis was born 1930 in Jamaica, grew up in Bristol, England, and was one of the first women in Great Britain to earn a master's degree in journalism. She met Raymond Cohen in Las Vegas, Nevada, later marrying him in 1960 and had two children. Lewis divoced Cohen in 1967, married another man between 1968 and 1971, and remarried Cohen in 1975 until Cohen's death in 1981. She later traveled Southern Nevada interviewing early Las Vegas residents for the Las Vegas Review-Journal's former Sunday magazine, The Nevadan, under her own name and the pen names Dustin George and Joyce Cohen.

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"Burial Scheduled at LV Cemetery for Writer Georgia Lewis." Las Vegas Review-Journal. August 25, 1993. Accessed June 17, 2020. http://files.usgwarchives.net/nv/clark/obits/lewisg.txt