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Edith Aurelia Killgore Kirkpatrick (November 14, 1918 – April 15, 2014) was a music educator from Baton Rouge who served on the Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education from 1977 to 1989, the superboard which must approve education budgets presented to the state legislature. She is also a former member of the executive board of the Louisiana Baptist Convention. She is the widow of businessman Claude Kirkpatrick, a former Democratic state representative (1952 to 1960) from Jennings, the seat of Jefferson Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana. Claude Kirkpatrick also ran for governor in the 1963 primary. ==Early years, education, family== Kirkpatrick was born to Thomas Morton Killgore and the former Bess Blanche Melton in Lisbon in Claiborne Parish about halfway between Shreveport and Monroe in North Louisiana. Thomas Killgore was primarily a cotton farmer but also operated a general store with a brother and had in his younger years been a rural mail carrier. African American sharecroppers also lived on the Killgore estate and engaged in truck farming and maintained cows and chickens. Peaches were also grown in the red-clay hills located west of Ruston,〔Statement of Edith Killgore Kilpatrick, September 22, 2008〕 which holds the annual Louisiana "Peach Festival". Kirkpatrick still owns and maintains the family plantation house, the Killgore House, also known as the Rocky Springs Plantation, built in 1859 and included in the National Register of Historic Places. The structure is at the intersection of Louisiana Highway 2 and Highway 518 in Lisbon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Killgore House: Louisiana Official Tourism and Travel Information )〕 Kirkpatrick's middle name "Aurelia" is the same as that of her paternal grandmother, originally Aurelia Williams, the daughter of a Methodist preacher. Kirkpatrick graduated from Lisbon High School in 1934; the formerly all-white school closed in 1970, when the remaining segregated Louisiana public schools underwent the final stages of U.S. District Court-mandated desegregation.〔 Kirkpatrick's paternal uncle, John Killgore, a physician, was a co-founder with Dr. Charles Russell Reynolds (1858–1919), of Minden Medical Center in Minden, the seat of Webster Parish to the west of Lisbon. Her maternal aunt, Eloise Melton Starr (1901–1978), was a long-time educator in the Webster Parish public schools. Lloyd C. Starr (1899–1982),〔Social Security Death Index:http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi〕 Eloise's husband and Kirkpatrick's uncle by marriage, was a former educator who served on the Webster Parish School Board after he embarked on a second career as an investments salesman in Minden. Dr. Reynolds' daughter, Sadie Elouise Reynolds (1903–1997), was another prominent Webster Parish educator and a specialist in Louisiana history.〔Sadie Reynolds, Eloise Starr, and L.C. Starr obituaries, MindenMemories website: http://www.mindenmemories.net/〕 On August 21, 1938, Edith Killgore married Claude Kirkpatrick, whom she had met as a fellow student at Louisiana College in Pineville in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. She graduated as valedictorian in their common 1938 class. The Kirkpatricks had four children: Claude Kent (1942–1945), Thomas Killgore (1944–2009), Edith Kay (born 1946), and Charles Kris (born 1948). In 1957, the Kirkpatricks were named the first "All-American Family" of Louisiana as a result of a search conducted by ''The Book of Knowledge'', the Boys Clubs, and a panel of representatives from service and civic organizations.〔"State official, civic leader Claude Kirkpatrick dies at 79", ''Baton Rouge Morning Advocate'', January 15, 1997, p. 7A〕 Sandra Futrell Kirkpatrick, widow of Thomas Killgore Kirkpatrick, is the daughter of the late P. Elmo Futrell, Jr., the mayor of Pineville during the early 1960s.〔"Services set for former Pineville Mayor Futrell", ''Alexandria Daily Town Talk'', December 6, 1993, p. D-3〕 Shortly after she procured her Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana College in 1938, Kirkpatrick studied for a 10-week summer session at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. She did not receive her master of music degree until 1965, when she completed the requirements from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She was a private voice teacher in Sulphur and then Jennings from 1939-1959. She taught music at McNeese State University in Lake Charles from 1955-1958. She was also the choir director for Baptist churches in Sulphur, Jennings, and Baton Rouge from 1938-1995. She was a visiting assistant professor at LSU for the 1967-1968 academic year.〔''Who's Who Among American Women, 2008-2009'', 27th edition, P.O. Box 44, New Providence, New Jersey 07974〕 She died at the age of 95 on April 18, 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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