Early Life
He was born Christmas Day 1922 in Augusta, Georgia, the eldest of four children of William Frederick Geer (November 26, 1885 - October 16, 1955) and Ida Gilmore Fuller (September 3, 1892 - January 20, 1981). He attended public school, graduating in 1941 from the Academy of Richmond County. He went on to work for the Citizens & Southern National Bank as a utility clerk, general ledger bookkeeper and teller, before being attached to the 45th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Signal Corps as a code clerk (February 1943 - November 1945) during World War II.
After returning from the war, he received his Bachelor of Science in General Business (1949) and Master of Arts in Economics (1950) from Stetson University, DeLand, Florida and his Doctorate of Business Administration in Finance (1964) from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
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