Biography:

Music teacher; composer. Born– June 14, 1938, Coleman, Texas. Parents– Elmer Joe and Edna Erle (McCorkle) Blair. Married– Frank Deaver, August 22, 1957. Children– Two. Education– Sam Houston State University, B.S., 1959; M.A., 1960; University of Alabama, Ed.S., 1974; additional graduate study at the Universities of Oklahoma and Oregon. Taught voice and piano privately in Texas and Alabama; taught in public schools of Texas and Alabama, including Partlow State School and Tuscaloosa City Schools. Hosted a music series on Alabama Education Television, 1971-1972; worked with continuing education at Druid City Hospital.

Source:

Mary Jo Deaver, Northport, Ala.

Publication(s):

From Here to There… and Back; a Sketch of the Ancestory [sic] of Robert Edmund McCorkle and Oma Pearl Owen McCorkle. Northport, Ala.; Deaver, 1976.

In Tune With The Times. University, Ala.; Alabama Educational Television Commission, 1978.

Music Time. Tuscaloosa, 1969.

Rhythms and Rhymes for Remedial Learning. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama State Department of Education, Division of Exceptional Children and Youth, 1973.

Sing a Song of Yesterday. S.l.; Media Consultants, 1980.

Sound and Silence; Developmental Learning for Children Through Music. Pikeville, Ky.; Curriculum Development and Research, Inc., 1975.

Songs:

The Comforter. S.l.; Lorenz Music Publishers.

For Everything, a Season. Oklahoma City, Okla.; Melody House Records, s.d.

I Can Trust His Love. S.l.; Ad Libitum Records, 1977.

I Have Touched the Hand of Jesus. Atlanta, Ga.; LeFevre, s.d.