Graveside services for Gerald McKinley Carney, 87, Lawrence, who was a professor emeritus in the music department at Kansas University, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Carney died Monday at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor. He was born Jan. 26, 1904, in Washington, Iowa.
He grew up in Fort Scott and was graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor's degree in music education. He also took advanced classes at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and attended numerous music study camps.
Mr. Carney learned to play several instruments as a child. He directed a church school band while in high school and played in a community band. He taught high school music in Marshalltown, Iowa; Pittsburg; and Overland Park at Shawnee Mission (now Shawnee Mission North).
In 1940, he began teaching at KU. He became professor emeritus in 1975. He helped start the Midwestern Music Camp at KU and was active with the program. He also organized the Light Opera Guild at the university, served as its musical director and conducted many performances. He was inducted into the Kansas Music Educators' Hall of Fame in 1977.
Mr. Carney was choir director for many years at the United Methodist Church, where he was a member.
He called traveling his "only weakness," and had visited England, the Scandanavian countries, Spain, Greece and Japan.
James C. Barnes, associate professor in music and a former student and colleague of Mr. Carney's, said he had been impressed by Mr. Carney's kindness and gentle management style.
"He was about the nicest person I ever knew," Barnes said. ``. . . He had his own way of doing things. You always wanted to do what Mr. Carney said so you wouldn't hurt his feelings."
Mr. Carney married Geneva J. Meese in 1930 at Marshalltown, Iowa. She died July 17, 1974.
Survivors include two brothers, Edward L., Gallup, N.M., and Russell, Tulsa, Okla.; and two sisters, Margaret Crew, Augusta, and Betty Miller, Laramie, Wyo.
Tuesday, April 2, 1991 ljworld
Mr. Carney died Monday at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor. He was born Jan. 26, 1904, in Washington, Iowa.
He grew up in Fort Scott and was graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor's degree in music education. He also took advanced classes at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and attended numerous music study camps.
Mr. Carney learned to play several instruments as a child. He directed a church school band while in high school and played in a community band. He taught high school music in Marshalltown, Iowa; Pittsburg; and Overland Park at Shawnee Mission (now Shawnee Mission North).
In 1940, he began teaching at KU. He became professor emeritus in 1975. He helped start the Midwestern Music Camp at KU and was active with the program. He also organized the Light Opera Guild at the university, served as its musical director and conducted many performances. He was inducted into the Kansas Music Educators' Hall of Fame in 1977.
Mr. Carney was choir director for many years at the United Methodist Church, where he was a member.
He called traveling his "only weakness," and had visited England, the Scandanavian countries, Spain, Greece and Japan.
James C. Barnes, associate professor in music and a former student and colleague of Mr. Carney's, said he had been impressed by Mr. Carney's kindness and gentle management style.
"He was about the nicest person I ever knew," Barnes said. ``. . . He had his own way of doing things. You always wanted to do what Mr. Carney said so you wouldn't hurt his feelings."
Mr. Carney married Geneva J. Meese in 1930 at Marshalltown, Iowa. She died July 17, 1974.
Survivors include two brothers, Edward L., Gallup, N.M., and Russell, Tulsa, Okla.; and two sisters, Margaret Crew, Augusta, and Betty Miller, Laramie, Wyo.
Tuesday, April 2, 1991 ljworld
Graveside services for Gerald McKinley Carney, 87, Lawrence, who was a professor emeritus in the music department at Kansas University, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Carney died Monday at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor. He was born Jan. 26, 1904, in Washington, Iowa.
He grew up in Fort Scott and was graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor's degree in music education. He also took advanced classes at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and attended numerous music study camps.
Mr. Carney learned to play several instruments as a child. He directed a church school band while in high school and played in a community band. He taught high school music in Marshalltown, Iowa; Pittsburg; and Overland Park at Shawnee Mission (now Shawnee Mission North).
In 1940, he began teaching at KU. He became professor emeritus in 1975. He helped start the Midwestern Music Camp at KU and was active with the program. He also organized the Light Opera Guild at the university, served as its musical director and conducted many performances. He was inducted into the Kansas Music Educators' Hall of Fame in 1977.
Mr. Carney was choir director for many years at the United Methodist Church, where he was a member.
He called traveling his "only weakness," and had visited England, the Scandanavian countries, Spain, Greece and Japan.
James C. Barnes, associate professor in music and a former student and colleague of Mr. Carney's, said he had been impressed by Mr. Carney's kindness and gentle management style.
"He was about the nicest person I ever knew," Barnes said. ``. . . He had his own way of doing things. You always wanted to do what Mr. Carney said so you wouldn't hurt his feelings."
Mr. Carney married Geneva J. Meese in 1930 at Marshalltown, Iowa. She died July 17, 1974.
Survivors include two brothers, Edward L., Gallup, N.M., and Russell, Tulsa, Okla.; and two sisters, Margaret Crew, Augusta, and Betty Miller, Laramie, Wyo.
Tuesday, April 2, 1991 ljworld
Mr. Carney died Monday at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor. He was born Jan. 26, 1904, in Washington, Iowa.
He grew up in Fort Scott and was graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor's degree in music education. He also took advanced classes at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and attended numerous music study camps.
Mr. Carney learned to play several instruments as a child. He directed a church school band while in high school and played in a community band. He taught high school music in Marshalltown, Iowa; Pittsburg; and Overland Park at Shawnee Mission (now Shawnee Mission North).
In 1940, he began teaching at KU. He became professor emeritus in 1975. He helped start the Midwestern Music Camp at KU and was active with the program. He also organized the Light Opera Guild at the university, served as its musical director and conducted many performances. He was inducted into the Kansas Music Educators' Hall of Fame in 1977.
Mr. Carney was choir director for many years at the United Methodist Church, where he was a member.
He called traveling his "only weakness," and had visited England, the Scandanavian countries, Spain, Greece and Japan.
James C. Barnes, associate professor in music and a former student and colleague of Mr. Carney's, said he had been impressed by Mr. Carney's kindness and gentle management style.
"He was about the nicest person I ever knew," Barnes said. ``. . . He had his own way of doing things. You always wanted to do what Mr. Carney said so you wouldn't hurt his feelings."
Mr. Carney married Geneva J. Meese in 1930 at Marshalltown, Iowa. She died July 17, 1974.
Survivors include two brothers, Edward L., Gallup, N.M., and Russell, Tulsa, Okla.; and two sisters, Margaret Crew, Augusta, and Betty Miller, Laramie, Wyo.
Tuesday, April 2, 1991 ljworld
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