Alice Carey Inskeep (1875-1942)

INSKEEP

Posted By: John Davis (email)
Date: 10/26/2019 at 18:18:10

Obit posted in Ottumwa Courier February 23, 1942
Photo posted with obit
Alice Inskeep, Noted Music Teacher, Dies
Held Cedar Rapids Position 37 Years
Miss Alice Carey Inskeep, 67, died at 11:25 p.m. Monday at the Ottumwa hospital after several months illness. She was born April 1, 1875, in Ottumwa the daughter of Carey and Alice Inskeep. She was music supervisor of the Cedar Rapids public schools 37 years and taught beginners' music in Coe College. She was graduated from Ottumwa high school and taught in the Ottumwa public schools immediately after her graduation. She went to Keokuk in 1907 with the Ottumwa school music supervisor to attend the meeting at which the Music Educators' National conference developed. She was one of the founders of this conference and was one of the original members of the Music Education Research council for more than 10 years. It was while she served on this council that the first national course of music study was compiled by the council. She went from Ottumwa to Cedar Rapids and has been there ever since. She retired last spring because of ill health. She taught thousands of music teachers in Coe college and in the American Institute of Normal Methods.
Funeral Thursday
The American Institute classes were summer sessions for teachers and were conducted at Evanston, Illinois and Boston, Mass. Miss Inskeep is survived by two sisters; Miss Maria E. Inskeep and Miss Lou Inskeep, and a brother T.J. Inskeep all of Ottumwa. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Lester Jay funeral home, in charge of the Rev. John R. Estes, pastor of the First Baptist church. Burial will be in the Ottumwa cemetery.