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Alta Blakely Obituary
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Memories and Condolences
for Alta Blakely
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Luther Snow
January 23, 2012
A wonderful teacher! Your legacy is all over the world Ms. Blakely.
Mary Dunkel
January 20, 2012
Alta Farr Blakely was a substitute teacher in my 8th grade at Fiske Elementary school. We had managed to drive out all other substitutes, but Mrs Farr was the ultimate teacher, who stayed, and followed us (or did we follow her?) to Hyde Park High School. In freshman English, she challenged us to explain the Golden Rule instead of preaching and teaching. Was I glad the bell rang when she called on me! Such are my vivid recollections of a dedicated teacher.
Many years later, she went to court to support Beverley Allen, who had been mugged and her bicycle taken from her. Two strong elderly women won a conviction against the mugger. Such was Alta's dedication as a true Hyde Park neighbor. My parents recalled her canvassing the neighborhood to get out the vote at every election.
The fact that I remember a teacher back 55 years is a testament to Alta as a role model and model teacher.. May she be remembered as such.
RIP, dear teacher,
Mary Tsien Dunkel, Tucson, AZ
Shirley Degen
January 19, 2012
Dover, IL, back in the '50's, the Farr family living in the parsonage, me playing with Rae Linda in a tub of water on a hot summer afternoon; my mother, Myrtle Hassler, waiting for and delighting in the Eckhoff family reunion at the Dover Church during summers. Pleasant memories. Alta Marie, a name and person like no other.
-Shirley Hassler Degen
Ariana Farr Beldoch
January 18, 2012
'Cago Grandma, you've been wanting to be at peace for quite a while, and now you are. Here's hoping you are now in a wonderful place full of quilts, and atlases, and poems, and where everyone uses proper grammar....
Fred Sugimoto
January 17, 2012
Stanley
Sad to hear about your mom she was a great mom and friend to all of us
pamela ames
January 17, 2012
A life of giving, aiding, supporting, and contributing to a better world ... Alta will be remembered fondly by so many people she touched.
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