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By the time she was 20, Georgjean Fells had a hit song and had performed on Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" and at the Apollo Theater.
She could count among her friends other doo-wop performers such as Little Richard and Jerry Butler of The Impressions, said her daughter, Kimberly Boulding of York.
Later in life, however, Fells preferred simple, quiet times, Boulding said. Fells, 69, died Sunday at Colonial Manor Nursing and Rehab Center.
Fells, who was known as Jeanne or Jeannie, was a second soprano in The Quintones, a group whose members hailed from William Penn Senior High School. In 1958, their single "Down the Aisle of Love" peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard charts.
"She was very proud of her singing career," Boulding said.
When The Quintones went on tour in their younger days,
Boulding said, the group's other members had to look after her mother.
"The group would have to shelter her a lot because she was too trusting," Boulding said.
Boulding said her mother loved to travel and made sure her three children went sightseeing during family trips, including a road trip to California.
What Fells enjoyed most was the simple pleasures in life: flowers, gardening, cooking and watching butterflies, her daughter said.
"She had a gentleness to her," Boulding said. "She kept to herself."
FUNERAL SERVICE
Georgjean Fells' funeral service will be noon today at the First Assembly of God, 2270 Susquehanna Trail North in York.
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