Hazel Joann Kolb

By: Allen R. Kolb

JOANN QUILLEN KOLB

6/25/1930 To 6/12/2020

It all started on grandfather’s farm

Where she rode her horse Patsy with grace

Behind was her pet dog named “Knee High”

He had trouble keeping up with the pace

She graduated high school at age 15

Attending Radford College so young was not to her so appealing

But she went on to nursing school at UT

Left early from sickness, she was never engaged in healing

Recovered back home In Gate City, Virginia

Then off to Atlanta she went

Got her first job with Trust Company Bank

Worked later for doctors of considerable rank

Introduced herself to Atlanta’s social scene

By joining the Young Republicans Federation

Was active at several Methodist youth groups

Peachtree Road Methodist was her final place of veneration

Employed by American Management Association for a while

It was then that she met her soul mate

Al, a transplanted Hoosier she did wed

Through 48 years of life they did happily tread

They raised one child named Rick

Of whom they are quite pleased

Maintained contact with kin and their families

In Knoxville, and east Tennessee

Joann was oh so happy

While working in her back yard vegetable garden

She did ceramics for a while

A proud and successful homemaker was her personal style

Joann is home now to be with her Lord

She’s gone now, but we’re not down in the mouth

A woman of strength and fortitude

She was a TRUE Girl Raised In The South