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In Memory
2003
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- Juanita Blakey Vasser, 61, of Stone Mountain, GA, departed this life on Friday, December 5, 2003. She was born January 15, 1942, in Louisville to the late Grandison and Lorraine I. Blakey. She had lived in Atlanta, GA, and Stone Mountain since 1975. She attended elementary and secondary schools in the old Louisville Independent School District, graduating from Shawnee High School in 1960. She earned a bachelor of science degree from Knoxville (TN) College in 1964 and a master of science degree in education from Indiana University Southeast in 1969. Ms. Vasser taught in the Louisville public schools at Omer Carmichael Elementary School, Parkland Junior High (now Lyman T. Johnson Middle School) and duPont Manual Senior High School. She also taught in the Department of Defense Overseas Depended Schools in Darmestadt, West Germany from 1973 to 1975 and was an administrator in the University of Louisville's Upward Bound Program in 1975. More recently, Ms. Vasser was in management and sales with IBM in Louisville and Atlanta and served as the associate director for community affairs at WCLK-FM radio at Clark Atlanta University. She grew up in Smoketown and was raised in Hope Presbyterian Church. At the time of her death, she was a member of Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta. She is survived by her brother, William A. "Buddy" Blakey, and numerous friends in Louisville and Atlanta.--Published in The Courier-Journal on 12/13/2003