Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick
Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education | |
| In office 1977–1989 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Edith Aurelia Killgore November 14, 1918 Lisbon, Louisiana |
| Died | April 15, 2014 (aged 95) Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Claude Kirkpatrick (1917–1997; married 1938–his death) |
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
[edit]Born in Lisbon, Louisiana,[a] she studied at Louisiana College (where she graduated as the Class of 1938 Valedictorian and with a Bachelor of Arts),[2] Juilliard School, and Louisiana State University and was a music teacher in McNeese State University and was a Baptist choir director.[3]
She was appointed to the newly created Louisiana Board of Regents by Governor Edwin Washington Edwards and served until 1990.[4]
She had four children with her husband, state representative Claude Kirkpatrick.[2] Their daughter-in-law, Sandra Futrell, is a daughter of Mayor of Pineville, Louisiana P. Elmo Futrell Jr.[5] She published a songbook, Louisiana Let's Sing, during her husband's 1963 gubernatorial campaign.[6]
Her alma mater gave Kirkpatrick a Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary doctorate,[3] and along with LSU offers an endowed music professorship named after her.[7]
She died on April 18, 2014.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Her family plantation, the Killgore House, is certified by the National Register of Historic Places.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Killgore House: Louisiana Official Tourism and Travel Information". beta.louisianatravel.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved October 16, 2009.
- ^ 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
- ^ a b "Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick Obituary". The Advocate. April 16, 2014. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
- ^ "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 Archived February 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Louisiana College Directory, 2006:"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 25, 2009. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
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- 1918 births
- Educators from Louisiana
- Politicians from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Louisiana Christian University alumni
- Louisiana State University alumni
- Juilliard School alumni
- McNeese State University faculty
- Baptists from Louisiana
- 2014 deaths
- School board members in Louisiana
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- Women in Louisiana politics
- People from Lisbon, Louisiana
- People from Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana
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- 20th-century Baptists
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