A Life Story
Vivian Blaylock Jaracz, age 94, died Monday, October 5, 2026. She was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma December 5, 1931, to the late Lelia Francis Blaylock and the late Floyd M. Blaylock. She graduated from Fayetteville High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1945. Vivian was the daughter of a career military man and traveled to Europe after World War II, where she met the love of her life, Joseph J. Jaracz, Jr. They were married in Lintz, Austria in 1949. Joe was a career military man, who took his family to numerous locations in Europe and the United States settling in Clayton County Georgia for the rest of their lives. After rearing their children, she began her own career as a legal secretary; which eventually took her to her position with the Department of the Army at Fort MacPherson, Atlanta, Georgia until 1994. Her hobbies were traveling, fishing, baseball, and the lives of her children and their families. She was proud of her accomplishments and bragged about her children and their families always. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of forty-seven years. She is survived by her children, Mary Brand, David Jaracz and his wife Becky, JJ Jaracz III and his wife Connie, Catherine Jaracz, Theresa Tanner and her husband Randy, and Robert Jaracz, Sr. She was blessed with multitudes of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren.