The former Otago Rebels coach always liked to share recognition and success with those around her.
So it was fitting her family received her posthumous New Zealand Order of Merit for services to netball on her behalf at an investiture ceremony in Wellington on Tuesday.
Salter died in late November last year, aged 67, before she could be recognised in the New Year's honours.
But her daughter, Rihi Salter, said Georgie was told before she died she was going to receive the honour for her lifelong involvement with netball as a player, coach and administrator.
''It wasn't about recognition for her - she was always trying to send off someone else to accept things for her,'' Rihi said.
''But for this, I think she decided it would be really nice for us as a family, maybe because she had that insight she might not be around for it.
''She always liked to share success and recognition - and that's why it was quite fitting that it was all of us there.''
In a convoy of camper vans, they had travelled from Oamaru to Auckland together, sharing their grief and stories and stopping at four marae for kawe mate (carry the dead) ceremonies.
''It's a process of taking your spirit home,'' Rihi said.
A photo of Georgie was hung on a wall of each marae - Te Puke, Kahuranaki, Te Reinga and Maungapohatu.
The final ceremony, at Maungapohatu in Te Urewera National Park, was an ''intense, amazing experience'', she said.
''Not many people get to experience that.
''It was [a marae] none of us had been to, except my nan [Naiomi Bloxham] ... it's our Tuhoe side, which we don't know a lot about because no-one has been back for so long.
''That was a really cool experience, because we know Mum had been there when she was younger [and] we knew we had to make this reconnection.''
It had been an emotional week for the family, but each ceremony was ''really beautiful and fitting'' and it was something Georgie's mokopuna (grandchildren) would treasure for many years to come.
''They were enjoying the moment,'' Rihi said.
''They won't realise how special it was until they're a bit older. It'll be something for them to treasure forever - and us.''
The family will also travel to Invercargill on Sunday to watch the Southern Steel and Northern Mystics contest the inaugural Georgie Salter Memorial Trophy.
''It's a beautiful way to remember her.
''We as a whanau are always going to remember her obviously, but it's nice for her wider netball whanau to have this as well.
''At the same time, she wouldn't want all the fuss.''
