Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick
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Edith Aurelia Killgore Kirkpatrick (November 14, 1918 – April 15, 2014) was an American music educator and politician who served on the Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education from 1977 to 1989.
Biography
Born in Lisbon, Louisiana,Template:Efn she studied at Louisiana College (where she graduated as the Class of 1938 Valedictorian and with a Bachelor of Arts),[1] Juilliard School, and Louisiana State University and was a music teacher in McNeese State University and was a Baptist choir director.[2]
She was appointed to the newly created Louisiana Board of Regents by Governor Edwin Washington Edwards and served until 1990.[3]
She had four children with her husband, state representative Claude Kirkpatrick.[1] Their daughter-in-law, Sandra Futrell, is a daughter of Mayor of Pineville, Louisiana P. Elmo Futrell Jr.[4] She published a songbook, Louisiana Let's Sing, during her husband's 1963 gubernatorial campaign.[5]
Her alma mater gave Kirkpatrick a Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary doctorate,[2] and along with LSU offers an endowed music professorship named after her.[6]
She died on April 18, 2014.[3]
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- ↑ a b "State official, civic leader Claude Kirkpatrick dies at 79", Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, January 15, 1997, p. 7A
- ↑ a b Who's Who Among American Women, 2008–2009, 27th edition, P.O. Box 44, New Providence, New Jersey 07974
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- ↑ "Services set for former Pineville Mayor Futrell", Alexandria Daily Town Talk, December 6, 1993, p. D-3
- ↑ Edith Killgore Kilpatrick, Louisiana Let's Sing, 1963:http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/gaq/028504.shtml Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Louisiana College Directory, 2006:Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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