There were many sad hearts in the Windermere Methodist Church on
Monday afternoon where -the body of Marie Burt Parr lay surrounded by flowers, and words were said by Dr. Battelle McCarty and Dr. Louis C. Wright of praise for her noble life of service. Her girl students in the Treble Clef Club of Central High School sang from the choir stalls a melody 'that she loved, "The sun is sinking, the work is done" and gave in a beautiful purity of tone that reflected her skilled instruction, Mendelsohn's celestial melody "Lift Thine Eyes," while in the vestibule, of the church fifty boys in the uniform of the National Guard stood at attention as she was taken towards her last resting place. Hundreds of Central High pupils were in the pews, and the friends of many years were gathered together.
Mrs. Parr had been for 18 years director of music in Central High School. Previous to this time she had been Supervisor of Music in the primary schools and had taught music in various high schools, including Lincoln, South, Glenville, Collinwood and Central. For a time she had charge of both the dramatics and music and was always much interested in obtaining the best correlation between the two departments. Always ready to give ,freely of her time and strength to both pupils and teachers, she so weakened herself that she was unable to bear up under the severe strain of a major operation. She was a member of the National Music Supervisors' Conference since its inception. Also of the Fortnightly Club and several organizations of teachers and music supervisors in Cleveland. Her pupils loved and respected her not only for her efficient instruction but for the loving care she exercised in matters of deportment, in the proprieties of social life, and the elevation of high standards in young minds ready to appreciate her scholarship, her general culture, as well as her thorough musical equipment. She organized the Treble Clef Club of girls, she organized and directed the excellent high school orchestra, she took with her to symphony concerts large groups of high school pupils, whom she had inspired with a love for great music. In her early life she had been a resident for one or two years of Christodora House in New York. The social services there begun was continued throughout her life .. She wrote a text book for the use of primary grades. She gave lectures upon Wagnerian operas to large groups of people at the time of the Wagner Centenary. She was at the time of her death Cleveland correspondent for the N. Y. Musical Courier. In manifold connections the inspiration of her presence was felt, and in her death Cleveland music suffers a great loss.
Monday afternoon where -the body of Marie Burt Parr lay surrounded by flowers, and words were said by Dr. Battelle McCarty and Dr. Louis C. Wright of praise for her noble life of service. Her girl students in the Treble Clef Club of Central High School sang from the choir stalls a melody 'that she loved, "The sun is sinking, the work is done" and gave in a beautiful purity of tone that reflected her skilled instruction, Mendelsohn's celestial melody "Lift Thine Eyes," while in the vestibule, of the church fifty boys in the uniform of the National Guard stood at attention as she was taken towards her last resting place. Hundreds of Central High pupils were in the pews, and the friends of many years were gathered together.
Mrs. Parr had been for 18 years director of music in Central High School. Previous to this time she had been Supervisor of Music in the primary schools and had taught music in various high schools, including Lincoln, South, Glenville, Collinwood and Central. For a time she had charge of both the dramatics and music and was always much interested in obtaining the best correlation between the two departments. Always ready to give ,freely of her time and strength to both pupils and teachers, she so weakened herself that she was unable to bear up under the severe strain of a major operation. She was a member of the National Music Supervisors' Conference since its inception. Also of the Fortnightly Club and several organizations of teachers and music supervisors in Cleveland. Her pupils loved and respected her not only for her efficient instruction but for the loving care she exercised in matters of deportment, in the proprieties of social life, and the elevation of high standards in young minds ready to appreciate her scholarship, her general culture, as well as her thorough musical equipment. She organized the Treble Clef Club of girls, she organized and directed the excellent high school orchestra, she took with her to symphony concerts large groups of high school pupils, whom she had inspired with a love for great music. In her early life she had been a resident for one or two years of Christodora House in New York. The social services there begun was continued throughout her life .. She wrote a text book for the use of primary grades. She gave lectures upon Wagnerian operas to large groups of people at the time of the Wagner Centenary. She was at the time of her death Cleveland correspondent for the N. Y. Musical Courier. In manifold connections the inspiration of her presence was felt, and in her death Cleveland music suffers a great loss.
There were many sad hearts in the Windermere Methodist Church on
Monday afternoon where -the body of Marie Burt Parr lay surrounded by flowers, and words were said by Dr. Battelle McCarty and Dr. Louis C. Wright of praise for her noble life of service. Her girl students in the Treble Clef Club of Central High School sang from the choir stalls a melody 'that she loved, "The sun is sinking, the work is done" and gave in a beautiful purity of tone that reflected her skilled instruction, Mendelsohn's celestial melody "Lift Thine Eyes," while in the vestibule, of the church fifty boys in the uniform of the National Guard stood at attention as she was taken towards her last resting place. Hundreds of Central High pupils were in the pews, and the friends of many years were gathered together.
Mrs. Parr had been for 18 years director of music in Central High School. Previous to this time she had been Supervisor of Music in the primary schools and had taught music in various high schools, including Lincoln, South, Glenville, Collinwood and Central. For a time she had charge of both the dramatics and music and was always much interested in obtaining the best correlation between the two departments. Always ready to give ,freely of her time and strength to both pupils and teachers, she so weakened herself that she was unable to bear up under the severe strain of a major operation. She was a member of the National Music Supervisors' Conference since its inception. Also of the Fortnightly Club and several organizations of teachers and music supervisors in Cleveland. Her pupils loved and respected her not only for her efficient instruction but for the loving care she exercised in matters of deportment, in the proprieties of social life, and the elevation of high standards in young minds ready to appreciate her scholarship, her general culture, as well as her thorough musical equipment. She organized the Treble Clef Club of girls, she organized and directed the excellent high school orchestra, she took with her to symphony concerts large groups of high school pupils, whom she had inspired with a love for great music. In her early life she had been a resident for one or two years of Christodora House in New York. The social services there begun was continued throughout her life .. She wrote a text book for the use of primary grades. She gave lectures upon Wagnerian operas to large groups of people at the time of the Wagner Centenary. She was at the time of her death Cleveland correspondent for the N. Y. Musical Courier. In manifold connections the inspiration of her presence was felt, and in her death Cleveland music suffers a great loss.
Monday afternoon where -the body of Marie Burt Parr lay surrounded by flowers, and words were said by Dr. Battelle McCarty and Dr. Louis C. Wright of praise for her noble life of service. Her girl students in the Treble Clef Club of Central High School sang from the choir stalls a melody 'that she loved, "The sun is sinking, the work is done" and gave in a beautiful purity of tone that reflected her skilled instruction, Mendelsohn's celestial melody "Lift Thine Eyes," while in the vestibule, of the church fifty boys in the uniform of the National Guard stood at attention as she was taken towards her last resting place. Hundreds of Central High pupils were in the pews, and the friends of many years were gathered together.
Mrs. Parr had been for 18 years director of music in Central High School. Previous to this time she had been Supervisor of Music in the primary schools and had taught music in various high schools, including Lincoln, South, Glenville, Collinwood and Central. For a time she had charge of both the dramatics and music and was always much interested in obtaining the best correlation between the two departments. Always ready to give ,freely of her time and strength to both pupils and teachers, she so weakened herself that she was unable to bear up under the severe strain of a major operation. She was a member of the National Music Supervisors' Conference since its inception. Also of the Fortnightly Club and several organizations of teachers and music supervisors in Cleveland. Her pupils loved and respected her not only for her efficient instruction but for the loving care she exercised in matters of deportment, in the proprieties of social life, and the elevation of high standards in young minds ready to appreciate her scholarship, her general culture, as well as her thorough musical equipment. She organized the Treble Clef Club of girls, she organized and directed the excellent high school orchestra, she took with her to symphony concerts large groups of high school pupils, whom she had inspired with a love for great music. In her early life she had been a resident for one or two years of Christodora House in New York. The social services there begun was continued throughout her life .. She wrote a text book for the use of primary grades. She gave lectures upon Wagnerian operas to large groups of people at the time of the Wagner Centenary. She was at the time of her death Cleveland correspondent for the N. Y. Musical Courier. In manifold connections the inspiration of her presence was felt, and in her death Cleveland music suffers a great loss.
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