 1919 - 1999 (80 years)
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| Name |
Theron Wilford Kirk |
| Born |
28 Sep 1919 |
Hidalgo County, Texas, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1 Oct 1999 |
San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| Buried |
Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA |
| Person ID |
I22957 |
Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
3 Apr 2024 |
| Father |
Homer Alexander Kirk, b. 8 Feb 1889, New Albany, Indiana, USA , d. 4 Dec 1954, McAllen, Texas, USA (Age 65 years) |
| Mother |
Hazel Eleanor Tolles, b. 15 Feb 1895, Galesburg, Michigan, USA , d. 27 Jan 1985, San Antonio, Texas, USA (Age 89 years) |
| Married |
23 Jun 1916 |
Galesburg, Michigan, USA |
| Family ID |
F11355 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
June E. ?, b. 1926 |
| Married |
9 Jul 1954 |
| Divorced |
23 May 1988 |
Bexar County, Texas, USA |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
2 Apr 2017 |
| Family ID |
F11357 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Event Map |
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 | Born - 28 Sep 1919 - Hidalgo County, Texas, USA |
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 | Divorced - 23 May 1988 - Bexar County, Texas, USA |
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| Married - 1 Sep 1989 - Bexar County, Texas, USA |
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 | Died - 1 Oct 1999 - San Antonio, Texas, USA |
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 | Buried - - Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA |
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| Headstones |
 | Theron Kirk
Theron W
Kirk
SPW2C
US Navy
World War II
Sep 28 1919
Oct 1 1999 |
| Obituary & Death Notice |
 | Theron Kirk
Theron Kirk was born in 1919 and died October 1999. Theron retired from San Antonio College as Chairman of the Music Department and Director of Choral Organizations. After retirement, he became active as a docent at the San Antonio Museum of Art. His education includes study at Baylor University, Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and the Eastman School of Music.
He is the composer of more than 1,000 published works for chorus, chamber groups, symphony orchestra, vocal solo, organ, carillon, and a one-act opera. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the orchestras of Winnipeg Canada, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Memphis, Detroit, San Antonio and Houston have performed his symphonic works.
Theron Kirk has held the national office of president of the American Choral Directors Association. He has taught as a visiting lecturer in the summer program at the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois, Central Missouri State University College and at the National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, in the University of Michigan Music Division. Theron made significant and lasting contributions to the cause of Music in America and was the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award for teaching excellence in 1975.
Survivors are his wife Carla, three sons Padriac, Kevin, and Sean, two daughters, Laura Reimers and Meaghan Welch, and seven grandchildren. If you so desire, the family has asked that memorials be sent to the Docent Program at the San Antonio Museum of Art. |
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