Janet Cline's Obituary
Mrs. Janet Kunzelman Cline, age 85, passed away on November 27, 2013 at Wellstar Cobb Tranquility Hospice in Austell, GA.
Janet was born September 6, 1928, in South Pasadena, California, in the home of her parents, John Kunzelman and Anna Hilkerbaumer Kunzelman. She was an only child and had two bull terriers named Topsy and Shirley. She played violin as a child and performed in her elementary and junior high school orchestras. She attended Charles Elliot Jr. High School (grades 9-10) in Pasadena, graduating in 1946, and then Pasadena Jr. College (grades 11-12) and Pasadena City College, where she graduated in 1948. She also went to the Sawyer Business School in Pasadena and worked for Continental Insurance as a bookkeeper for a year. During those years, she enjoyed going with her friends to hear the big bands play at the Pasadena City auditorium every week. She also enjoyed taking the bus to Hollywood, using free tickets from the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, to see stars such as George Sanders, Frank Sinatra, Fanny Brice, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and Dana Andrews.
Janet met Richard Cline at a YMCA dance and they married on July 22, 1950. They had three children, Kenneth, Karen and Ronald. They moved to Savannah, GA, in 1961, where her husband, Dr. Richard Cline, worked as a chemist at the Center for Disease Control, and then to Norcross, GA, in 1973, when Dr. Cline transferred to the CDC facility in Doraville. She enjoyed the years with her children at home. She moved into a nursing home in 2007 and Dr. Cline followed in 2010. He died at Presbyterian Village on May 7, 2012.
Janet is survived by son, Kenneth Cline and his wife, Bina, of Dunwoody; daughter, Karen Cline Ducote, and her husband, Phil, of Buford and son, Ronald Cline and his wife, Peggy, of Rockmart. She is also survived by five grandchildren, four great-grandsons, sister-in-law, Jessie Cline McCardell of Bethesda, MD and two nieces.
Services for Janet Cline will be held at Presbyterian Village, Special Care Unit in Austell, GA on December 5 at 10:30 am. Interment will be at the Georgia National Veterans Cemetery in Canton, GA, alongside her late husband Dr. Richard Emory Cline.
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