Ethel McKray (1964)

MCKRAY, HICKMAN

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 10/8/2007 at 13:58:33

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
1964

ETHEL MCKRAY DIES IN NEW JERSEY

Nationally Known Musician Formerly Lived at Earlham

Ethel McKray, a former resident of Earlham, who became nationally known in the field of music education, died Monday Sept. 14 at her home in Ridgewood, N. J. She was 75 years of age.

Born at Marne, Ia., on July 10, 1889, Miss McKray moved to Earlham with her parents and attended the public schools there.

She graduated from Highland Park college in Des Moines and the Chicago Musical college and did post graduate work at the Institute of Musical Art in New York City.

Her first teaching was done privately in the Earlham community. After a career in the public schools of Iowa and Indiana, she joined the faculty of Westminister college at New Wilmington, Pa., later teaching at Mississippi State college for Women at Columbus, Miss., and Mississippi Southern university at Hattiesburg, Miss.

She was a faculty member of the National guild of Piano Teachers and was included in "Who's Who of American Women". She was a member of Kappa Delta Gamma, and the National Music Teachers' association. While living in Philadelphia, she was an assistant editor of Etude music magazine and was first violinist with the Philadelphia Women's symphony orchestra.

For the past two years she had maintained a studio in Ridgewood, N. J., where she lived with her brother and sister.

She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Howard Hickman of Des Moines, a brother, J. Clees McKray and sister Opal McKray both-(missing)