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Shirley Alice Blakeley was born 28 July 1929 in Halifax, N.S., the youngest daughter of Cecil and Clara (nee McLearn) Blakeley. She graduated from Acadia University where she received a licentiate in piano and voice in 1949 and a Bachelor of Music in 1950. From 1950 to 1952, Blakeley lived in Newcastle, N.B. where she was organist and choir director of St. James Church, private music teacher, and director of music for the public school board. In June 1952, she returned to Halifax to take the position of music supervisor for the Halifax District School Board where she remained until retirement in 1985. She was a founding member of the Nova Scotia Music Educators' Association and sat on the Provincial Music Curriculum Committee of the Nova Scotia Department of Education in the 1960s and 1970s.