Brigadier General George Baker Price (US Army, Ret.) was born August 28, 1929, in Laurel, Mississippi to James and Katherine Price; his sister Leontyne was born two years earlier. He attended Oak Park Vocational High School and South Carolina State College (SCSU now University), graduating in 1951 with a Bachelor of Science in Education. He was a distinguished military graduate commissioned in the Regular Army as a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry Branch of Service.

In 1954, he married Georgianna (née Hunter) who became a devoted army wife. They shared 51 years of marriage before she died in 2006. Together they had four children: Katherine (Benny Dukes), James (Donna), William (Soney), and Robert (Barbara). In 2009, he married Dr. Laura Kafka, a performing artist, musician, and language educator. They delighted in 15 years of marriage before his peaceful passing at home in Columbia, Maryland on Sunday morning, November 17, 2024, of cancer that presented one month before his death. The large family includes twelve grandchildren, sixteen great-grandchildren, sister Leontyne Price, nephews Joe and George Hunter III, niece Terri Hunter Royster, and brother-in-law Leonard Kafka (Sharon). He was predeceased by George Hunter, Jr. and survived by many close relatives, colleagues, and friends.

General Price’s military career spanned over twenty-seven years of dedicated service to our nation until his retirement in 1978. He attended the Infantry Officers Basic Course of Instruction at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was assigned to Company L, 179th Infantry Regiment in Korea. He was wounded and evacuated in the Battle for Old Baldy. He was subsequently assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment at Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. He was then assigned to the Specialist Training Regiment at Fort Dix, New Jersey. His next assignment was attending the Infantry Officers Advanced Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. It is noteworthy that General Price also attended Airborne (Parachutist) and Ranger Schools where he was awarded the coveted Parachutist Badge and Ranger Tab.

After completing the Infantry Officers Advanced Course, General Price was assigned to the 15th Ordinance Battalion (a Nuclear Weapons Depot Battalion). He was then assigned to the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas followed by an assignment to Vietnam where he served with the 1st Infantry Division of the Vietnamese Army.

After Vietnam, he was selected to attend the Army Command and General Staff College followed by an assignment to the Office of the Chief of Reserve Components at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. General Price also served as a Force Analyst in the Office of the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Army.

General Price was assigned from the Pentagon to command the 4th Battalion (Mechanized), 20th Infantry, 193rd Brigade in the Panama Canal Zone. He was later assigned as the Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Southern Command, Fort Amador, Canal Zone. While he was assigned to Panama he was selected to attend the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

While attending the Army War College, Price attended graduate school at Shippensburg State College (now university) in Pennsylvania. After completing the Course of Instruction at the Army War College, he earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Shippensburg.

From Pennsylvania, General Price was assigned as Commander 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division in Aschaffenburg, Germany. His next assignment was as Chief of Staff, 8th Infantry Division, Bad Kreuznach, Germany. It was while he was on this assignment that he was selected for promotion to Brigadier General with an assignment as Assistant Division Commander of 1st Armored Division in Nuremberg, Germany. General Price served concurrently as Military Community Commander in both Aschaffenburg and Nuremberg, Germany. General Price’s last active-duty assignment was as Chief of Staff, First US Army, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. General Price’s career spanned over twenty-seven years of dedicated service to our nation until his retirement in 1978. His decorations included the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Air Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Purple Heart, Parachutist Badge, Ranger Tab, and Combat Infantryman Badge with Star.

After he retired from active duty, General Price worked in the telecommunications industry, technical engineering, and as a sought-after consultant. He was affiliated with many civic organizations including the Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF), Retired Military Officers Association (Founding Member), The Rocks, Inc. (founding member/past president/Rock of the Year), Board of Visitors at the US Military Academy at West Point, Minority Veterans Advisory Committee to Secretary of the VA (past chairman), Vietnam Veterans Memorial board of advisors, Women’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial board of advisors, Howard County Police Foundation board of directors, and the National Urban League’s Military and Veterans Advisory Committee.

General Price was a 76-year member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled Veterans of America, Vietnam Veterans of America, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Women’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, NAACP, South Carolina State University Alumni Association, Buffalo Soldiers Association, Association of the United States Army, and Army War College Alumni.

In 2018, the Board of Trustees of the Army War College Foundation selected him as an “Outstanding Alumnus of the Year of the Army War College” for his “… incredible contributions to our nation following his military retirement.” He was extremely proud of his association with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (“The Wall”) in Washington, DC. In 2023, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (builders of “The Wall”) honored General Price with a “Lifetime Service Award” for his more than 40 years of dedicated advocacy which resulted in building the memorial. For the past 42 years, including Veterans Day 2024, he attended every Veterans Day ceremony at “The Wall” except two. He delivered remarks at “The Wall” and other VVMF events on several occasions. General Price and his wife, Dr. Laura Kafka-Price, had the pleasure of appearing on two programs together.

After his sister, the legendary Leontyne Price, retired from singing on the opera stage in 1985, her brother became her manager. He traveled with her throughout the country as she maintained her recital career until she retired from active singing in 1997. He continued to manage all aspects of her career.