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

(1918-11-14)November 14, 1918
Lisbon, Louisiana
DiedApril 15, 2014(2014-04-15) (aged 95)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseClaude 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

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

  1. ^ Her family plantation, the Killgore House, is certified by the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Killgore House: Louisiana Official Tourism and Travel Information". beta.louisianatravel.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved October 16, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "State official, civic leader Claude Kirkpatrick dies at 79", Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, January 15, 1997, p. 7A
  3. ^ a b Who's Who Among American Women, 2008–2009, 27th edition, P.O. Box 44, New Providence, New Jersey 07974
  4. ^ a b "Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick Obituary". The Advocate. April 16, 2014. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
  5. ^ "Services set for former Pineville Mayor Futrell", Alexandria Daily Town Talk, December 6, 1993, p. D-3
  6. ^ Edith Killgore Kilpatrick, Louisiana Let's Sing, 1963:http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/gaq/028504.shtml Archived February 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Louisiana College Directory, 2006:"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 25, 2009. Retrieved September 27, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)