Mrs. Jessamine Hollenbeck Kavanagh died on Thursday last at a nursing home in Mount Vernon, aged 83 years.
Funeral services were conducted at the Reformed Church on Saturday afternoon by Dr. John Henderson Powell, Jr., who delivered an eulogy of the deceased, well known to the older residents of Bronxville and once a prominent part of its social and musical life.
Burial was in Kensico Cemetery.
Mrs Kavanagh was born in Memphis, Tenn., and received a musical education, but this did not content her ambitious nature, so she took a law course at New York University, and gained her degree in that profession.
She was married to Frank Edge Kavanagh, D. D., Ph.D., of the staff of the New York University.
For many years she was a leading soprano in a number of New York churches. She sang under the baton of Edward Grieg, the famed Norwegian composer, during his visit to America. She was the first to sing the songs of Tschaikowski, which she did at a memorial concert held in the Metropolitan Opera House in 1893, shortly after his death.
In Bronxville, Mrs. Kavanagh was one of the leading musical lights of the nineties and the early years of the present century. She sang for a time in the Reformed Church and her voice was frequently in demand for weddings and other social affairs.
She was for many years a soloist at the Christmas festivals that preceded the present-day Christmas Pageant.
Funeral services were conducted at the Reformed Church on Saturday afternoon by Dr. John Henderson Powell, Jr., who delivered an eulogy of the deceased, well known to the older residents of Bronxville and once a prominent part of its social and musical life.
Burial was in Kensico Cemetery.
Mrs Kavanagh was born in Memphis, Tenn., and received a musical education, but this did not content her ambitious nature, so she took a law course at New York University, and gained her degree in that profession.
She was married to Frank Edge Kavanagh, D. D., Ph.D., of the staff of the New York University.
For many years she was a leading soprano in a number of New York churches. She sang under the baton of Edward Grieg, the famed Norwegian composer, during his visit to America. She was the first to sing the songs of Tschaikowski, which she did at a memorial concert held in the Metropolitan Opera House in 1893, shortly after his death.
In Bronxville, Mrs. Kavanagh was one of the leading musical lights of the nineties and the early years of the present century. She sang for a time in the Reformed Church and her voice was frequently in demand for weddings and other social affairs.
She was for many years a soloist at the Christmas festivals that preceded the present-day Christmas Pageant.
Mrs. Jessamine Hollenbeck Kavanagh died on Thursday last at a nursing home in Mount Vernon, aged 83 years.
Funeral services were conducted at the Reformed Church on Saturday afternoon by Dr. John Henderson Powell, Jr., who delivered an eulogy of the deceased, well known to the older residents of Bronxville and once a prominent part of its social and musical life.
Burial was in Kensico Cemetery.
Mrs Kavanagh was born in Memphis, Tenn., and received a musical education, but this did not content her ambitious nature, so she took a law course at New York University, and gained her degree in that profession.
She was married to Frank Edge Kavanagh, D. D., Ph.D., of the staff of the New York University.
For many years she was a leading soprano in a number of New York churches. She sang under the baton of Edward Grieg, the famed Norwegian composer, during his visit to America. She was the first to sing the songs of Tschaikowski, which she did at a memorial concert held in the Metropolitan Opera House in 1893, shortly after his death.
In Bronxville, Mrs. Kavanagh was one of the leading musical lights of the nineties and the early years of the present century. She sang for a time in the Reformed Church and her voice was frequently in demand for weddings and other social affairs.
She was for many years a soloist at the Christmas festivals that preceded the present-day Christmas Pageant.
Funeral services were conducted at the Reformed Church on Saturday afternoon by Dr. John Henderson Powell, Jr., who delivered an eulogy of the deceased, well known to the older residents of Bronxville and once a prominent part of its social and musical life.
Burial was in Kensico Cemetery.
Mrs Kavanagh was born in Memphis, Tenn., and received a musical education, but this did not content her ambitious nature, so she took a law course at New York University, and gained her degree in that profession.
She was married to Frank Edge Kavanagh, D. D., Ph.D., of the staff of the New York University.
For many years she was a leading soprano in a number of New York churches. She sang under the baton of Edward Grieg, the famed Norwegian composer, during his visit to America. She was the first to sing the songs of Tschaikowski, which she did at a memorial concert held in the Metropolitan Opera House in 1893, shortly after his death.
In Bronxville, Mrs. Kavanagh was one of the leading musical lights of the nineties and the early years of the present century. She sang for a time in the Reformed Church and her voice was frequently in demand for weddings and other social affairs.
She was for many years a soloist at the Christmas festivals that preceded the present-day Christmas Pageant.
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