Georgia Holt

Georgia Holt (born Jackie Jean Crouch; June 9, 1926 – December 10, 2022[1]) was an American singer-songwriter, actress, and model.

[2][3][4][5][1] Holt sang on an Oklahoma City radio station when she was six years old, and by the age of 10, had sung with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

[1] After performing in a singers' workshop (Phil Moore's "Get Your Act Together") in July 1978 at Studio One in Los Angeles, Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin, and Dinah Shore booked Holt to appear on their television talk shows.

[4] Holt also appeared as an audience polling member as part of a group of ten mothers of famous celebrities on the American game show Card Sharks on July 4–8, 1988.

She married Cher's father, Armenian-American truck driver John Paul Sarkisian,[10] on June 22, 1945;[11] they briefly remarried and redivorced about 20 years later.

[1] In the late 1970s, Holt owned and operated a bedding store in Brentwood, California, called Granny's Cabbage Patch.