Virginia Templin Gailey

Family-Placed Death Notice

VIRGINIA TEMPLIN GAILEY Virginia Templin Gailey, 82, jewler, teacher, art educator, humanitarian, dear wife, mother and friend, died August 16 after a brief bout with Leukemia. She attended Atlanta Girls High and Oglethorpe University then graduated from Rhode Island School of Design. She exhibited her paintings and worked as a display designer in Atlanta department stores before marrying James H. Gailey, Jr., professor at Columbia Theological Seminary, and raising a family in Decatur, Georgia. Her passion was art education. She taught at the Atlanta's Westminster Schools and later at Georgia State University. Her greatest pride was in programs she created as an art educator, particulary curricula using art programs to assist in desegregation in Atlanta's public schools. In retirement she and James, her hsuband of 57 years continued teaching and volunteering for numerous organizations, pursing their shared commitment to uplifting people and responsible environmental stewardship. From her new home in Cedar Mountain, NC, and through her involvement with the local mineral club and museum in Hendersonville, she rekindle her interest in jewerly making. Her designs have exhibited in Transylvania County shows and have been featured in Art Jewerly magazines. Virginia will be terribly missed by her family, James, Bryan and Landen Gailey, sons-in-law, David Hart and Benny Elliott, brother, Jim Templin, nieces, nephews, and her vast extended family and many longtime friends and admirers from around the world. A memorial celebration will be held at 3:00 PM on August 27, 2006 at the Robin Hood Barn in Sherwood Forest. Memorial donations may be made to the Mineral & Lapidary Museum of Henderson County, 400 N. Main St., Hendersonville, NC, 28792.