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Zanice (Ginger) Dantzler Muckler after graduating from Big Creek High School, Ginger attended Wake Forest University earning a B.A. in Music and Indiana University earning her Masters of Music. Ginger moved to Atlanta to sing with Robert Shaw in the Atlanta Chamber Chorus and teach choral music. She met and married Frank Muckler and they have two daughters Elizabeth, an MD, and Suzanne, an Art Historian.

In addition to singing in the Atlanta Chamber Chorus, Ginger performed roles in area Opera and Light Opera companies and sang with regional symphony orchestras. She has toured with the Atlanta Opera Studio and the Young Audiences programs in schools thru out Georgia. She enjoys singing and playing tennis. Presently she is a staff singer at North Avenue Presbyterian Church where she goes by her given name, Zanice, but she has named her little dog Ginger in honor of the "Rocket Girl".