University of Georgia Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of David Eugene “Gene” Massey
David Massey, 74, died peacefully on May 23, 2013, at Emory Hospital in Atlanta. Having valiantly battled open heart surgery that had its ups and downs for about two months, he ultimately had to leave his beloved home in Gainesville, his log cabin in Blue Ridge called "Serenity," and his peaceful lake cottage in Canada that he named "Stillwaters" for an even better home in Heaven. David was born in Trion, Ga., on Sept. 3, 1938, and lived in this "ideal little town," as he called it, his whole...