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Elsie <I>Barge</I> Hennington

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Elsie Barge Hennington

Birth
Georgia, USA
Death
16 Dec 1962 (aged 64)
Mississippi, USA
Burial
Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 52, Lot 1
Memorial ID
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w/o 1) Gardner Wilson, 2) Dr Morris Cook Hennington Sr

Miss Barge is organist and choir director of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church.

She is beginning her third season as organist for the Eureka Chapter of the Eastern Star, and has arranged many concerts for the tourist societies and the hotels of St. Petersburg.

Her concert career has included engagements in every State in the Union, and she has appeared with world famous soloists. She was for one season coach accompanist with the Chicago Grand Opera Company. She was a member of the faculty of the Chicago Musical College previous to coming to St. Petersburg, FL and has been returned ·as a member of the Summer Musical School faculty.

Miss Barge has a school of music in St. Petersburg in which piano, theory, harmony and history of music, voice, violin, expression and dramatic art are taught. Two music clubs have been established in connection with the school for younger pupils, the Crescendo Club, and one for older students, the Elsie Barge Music Study Club.

The school is located in the Alhambra Arcade, corner of Sixth and First Avenue North. Two of her pupils won first prizes in the State High School contest held in Tampa. Miss Barge gives an hour's radio program each Thursday night over WSUN, St. Petersburg.

Miss Barge is a charter member and the first president of Delta Chapter, Phi Beta sorority, a national oratorical and musical sorority, and an average of 95 percent is necessary to become a member.

Miss Barge, who is Mrs. Gardner F. Wilson in private life, was married to Mr. Wilson in Chicago on January 2, 1924. They have a charming little daughter, Patrycla Barge Wilson.

Published in 1929 by Mr. William Straug, Publisher of the St. Pete Times.
w/o 1) Gardner Wilson, 2) Dr Morris Cook Hennington Sr

Miss Barge is organist and choir director of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church.

She is beginning her third season as organist for the Eureka Chapter of the Eastern Star, and has arranged many concerts for the tourist societies and the hotels of St. Petersburg.

Her concert career has included engagements in every State in the Union, and she has appeared with world famous soloists. She was for one season coach accompanist with the Chicago Grand Opera Company. She was a member of the faculty of the Chicago Musical College previous to coming to St. Petersburg, FL and has been returned ·as a member of the Summer Musical School faculty.

Miss Barge has a school of music in St. Petersburg in which piano, theory, harmony and history of music, voice, violin, expression and dramatic art are taught. Two music clubs have been established in connection with the school for younger pupils, the Crescendo Club, and one for older students, the Elsie Barge Music Study Club.

The school is located in the Alhambra Arcade, corner of Sixth and First Avenue North. Two of her pupils won first prizes in the State High School contest held in Tampa. Miss Barge gives an hour's radio program each Thursday night over WSUN, St. Petersburg.

Miss Barge is a charter member and the first president of Delta Chapter, Phi Beta sorority, a national oratorical and musical sorority, and an average of 95 percent is necessary to become a member.

Miss Barge, who is Mrs. Gardner F. Wilson in private life, was married to Mr. Wilson in Chicago on January 2, 1924. They have a charming little daughter, Patrycla Barge Wilson.

Published in 1929 by Mr. William Straug, Publisher of the St. Pete Times.


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