Jean Muse

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 13, 1935 to Mae and Robert Lunsford, Jean was an outgoing and vivacious personality from the beginning. Jean was a graduate of Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, AL and a very proud alumna of Auburn University where she made and kept many lifelong friendships. After a short career in the secretarial pool of U.S. Steel, Jean met and married Gus Muse of Albany, GA in 1958 and subsequently supported him during his lifetime career at IBM and followed him to placements in Huntsville, AL; Rockville, MD; Tallahassee, FL and finally to Atlanta, GA, collecting numerous friendships along the way. Jean and Gus raised four children together, threw many parties and took many summer vacations to Jean's favorite place in the world: Panama City Beach. Jean was an avid reader, bridge and scrabble player and an enthusiastic grandmother. For Jean life was a series of family celebrations just waiting to be planned and a stranger was just a future friend in the making.

Jean is survived by her husband of 54 years, Gus, her daughters Sharon Eswine and her husband Bill, Laura Kusumoto and her husband Fred, Mary Gail Muse and her husband Bob Kelly, her son Wynn Muse and his wife Keely; her nine grandchildren Miya, Hana, Augusta, Maud, Wallace, Aya, Tucker, Tuesday and Ramona; her brother Robert "Bubba" Lunsford, and many other extended family and friends.

A memorial service celebrating the life of Jean Muse will be held at Roswell Presbyterian Church on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 11 a.m. with a reception immediately following. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made in Jean's name to the Obama 2012 Re-election Fund or to the Lung Cancer Alliance to support lung cancer screening.Roswell Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.