ROYAL VIVIAN NORQUIST
Oct. 27, 1919 - Nov. 15, 2010
SALEM - Salem resident Royal Norquist passed away on November 15th in the Manor Care wing of Capital Manor, her retirement community. A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 11 at Capital Manor for the many friends whose lives she touched with her musical talent and community contributions. A second memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, December 17 in Anchorage, Alaska at Central Lutheran Church. Royal was born October 27, 1919, in Decatur, Illinois, to Roy and June Henderson. She completed her bachelor's degree in music from Carthage College in three years at the age of 19 and began her teaching career soon after at a high school in West Point, Illinois, where some of the students were only a year younger than she. On Saturday nights she waved a baton at a little concert band she had formed, conducting with her left hand and playing a trumpet with her right. A few years later, when her professor at Northwestern University asked if anyone would "take music to the hinterlands", she raised her hand. After completing post-graduate work at University of Washington she accepted a job offer to become coordinator of music education for the Anchorage School District. She moved north in 1950, not knowing a single person in Anchorage and over the next 27 years taught music in public schools from elementary to university level and at her own piano studio, in addition to working at Northwest Airlines for most of the '50s. She was a director of the Anchorage Community Chorus, choir director and organist at Central Lutheran Church and involved in virtually every facet of music in Alaska - the Anchorage Civic Opera, Anchorage Symphony, serving on the board of directors of the Alaska Festival of Music and the Kings Lake Fine Arts Camp and involved with other organizations and productions too numerous to mention. In 1951 she was interviewed on KFQD radio's "person of the week" segment. The radio announcer was Roy Norquist, a handsome fellow who shared her deep love of music. They were married in January 1952 and made beautiful music together until Roy's death in 2006. In 1977 Roy retired from his position in Anchorage as Chief US Probation Officer for Alaska and the duo moved to Salem, adopting Oregon as their home for the remainder of their lives. Changing locations did little to slow down her civic and musical involvements. Among the organizations she was involved with in Oregon were the Salem Master's Chorus, the board of the local YMCA and accompanist on piano at local schools. For the last 14 years she lived at Capital Manor, a retirement facility in Salem, where her appetite for community involvement remained unabated. With her numerous connections, she coordinated weekly programs bringing all manner of music and informational speakers for the residents' enjoyment. In her later years she directed CAMROS, the Capitol Manor Readers On Stage. She directed her final program on Oct. 26, 2010, the night before her 91st birthday. She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Imogene and Don Ridge of Sarasota, Florida; sons and daughter-in-laws, Mark and Christi and Brent and Carol; and grandchildren, Kathy and Brandon and his wife Jordan, all of Anchorage. Interment will be in the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon next to her husband. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Capital Manor Foundation, 1955 Dallas Highway NW, Salem, OR 97304-4470. Arrangements by Howell-Edwards-Doerksen Funeral Home.
Published in StatesmanJournal on November 30, 2010
Oct. 27, 1919 - Nov. 15, 2010
SALEM - Salem resident Royal Norquist passed away on November 15th in the Manor Care wing of Capital Manor, her retirement community. A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 11 at Capital Manor for the many friends whose lives she touched with her musical talent and community contributions. A second memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, December 17 in Anchorage, Alaska at Central Lutheran Church. Royal was born October 27, 1919, in Decatur, Illinois, to Roy and June Henderson. She completed her bachelor's degree in music from Carthage College in three years at the age of 19 and began her teaching career soon after at a high school in West Point, Illinois, where some of the students were only a year younger than she. On Saturday nights she waved a baton at a little concert band she had formed, conducting with her left hand and playing a trumpet with her right. A few years later, when her professor at Northwestern University asked if anyone would "take music to the hinterlands", she raised her hand. After completing post-graduate work at University of Washington she accepted a job offer to become coordinator of music education for the Anchorage School District. She moved north in 1950, not knowing a single person in Anchorage and over the next 27 years taught music in public schools from elementary to university level and at her own piano studio, in addition to working at Northwest Airlines for most of the '50s. She was a director of the Anchorage Community Chorus, choir director and organist at Central Lutheran Church and involved in virtually every facet of music in Alaska - the Anchorage Civic Opera, Anchorage Symphony, serving on the board of directors of the Alaska Festival of Music and the Kings Lake Fine Arts Camp and involved with other organizations and productions too numerous to mention. In 1951 she was interviewed on KFQD radio's "person of the week" segment. The radio announcer was Roy Norquist, a handsome fellow who shared her deep love of music. They were married in January 1952 and made beautiful music together until Roy's death in 2006. In 1977 Roy retired from his position in Anchorage as Chief US Probation Officer for Alaska and the duo moved to Salem, adopting Oregon as their home for the remainder of their lives. Changing locations did little to slow down her civic and musical involvements. Among the organizations she was involved with in Oregon were the Salem Master's Chorus, the board of the local YMCA and accompanist on piano at local schools. For the last 14 years she lived at Capital Manor, a retirement facility in Salem, where her appetite for community involvement remained unabated. With her numerous connections, she coordinated weekly programs bringing all manner of music and informational speakers for the residents' enjoyment. In her later years she directed CAMROS, the Capitol Manor Readers On Stage. She directed her final program on Oct. 26, 2010, the night before her 91st birthday. She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Imogene and Don Ridge of Sarasota, Florida; sons and daughter-in-laws, Mark and Christi and Brent and Carol; and grandchildren, Kathy and Brandon and his wife Jordan, all of Anchorage. Interment will be in the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon next to her husband. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Capital Manor Foundation, 1955 Dallas Highway NW, Salem, OR 97304-4470. Arrangements by Howell-Edwards-Doerksen Funeral Home.
Published in StatesmanJournal on November 30, 2010
ROYAL VIVIAN NORQUIST
Oct. 27, 1919 - Nov. 15, 2010
SALEM - Salem resident Royal Norquist passed away on November 15th in the Manor Care wing of Capital Manor, her retirement community. A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 11 at Capital Manor for the many friends whose lives she touched with her musical talent and community contributions. A second memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, December 17 in Anchorage, Alaska at Central Lutheran Church. Royal was born October 27, 1919, in Decatur, Illinois, to Roy and June Henderson. She completed her bachelor's degree in music from Carthage College in three years at the age of 19 and began her teaching career soon after at a high school in West Point, Illinois, where some of the students were only a year younger than she. On Saturday nights she waved a baton at a little concert band she had formed, conducting with her left hand and playing a trumpet with her right. A few years later, when her professor at Northwestern University asked if anyone would "take music to the hinterlands", she raised her hand. After completing post-graduate work at University of Washington she accepted a job offer to become coordinator of music education for the Anchorage School District. She moved north in 1950, not knowing a single person in Anchorage and over the next 27 years taught music in public schools from elementary to university level and at her own piano studio, in addition to working at Northwest Airlines for most of the '50s. She was a director of the Anchorage Community Chorus, choir director and organist at Central Lutheran Church and involved in virtually every facet of music in Alaska - the Anchorage Civic Opera, Anchorage Symphony, serving on the board of directors of the Alaska Festival of Music and the Kings Lake Fine Arts Camp and involved with other organizations and productions too numerous to mention. In 1951 she was interviewed on KFQD radio's "person of the week" segment. The radio announcer was Roy Norquist, a handsome fellow who shared her deep love of music. They were married in January 1952 and made beautiful music together until Roy's death in 2006. In 1977 Roy retired from his position in Anchorage as Chief US Probation Officer for Alaska and the duo moved to Salem, adopting Oregon as their home for the remainder of their lives. Changing locations did little to slow down her civic and musical involvements. Among the organizations she was involved with in Oregon were the Salem Master's Chorus, the board of the local YMCA and accompanist on piano at local schools. For the last 14 years she lived at Capital Manor, a retirement facility in Salem, where her appetite for community involvement remained unabated. With her numerous connections, she coordinated weekly programs bringing all manner of music and informational speakers for the residents' enjoyment. In her later years she directed CAMROS, the Capitol Manor Readers On Stage. She directed her final program on Oct. 26, 2010, the night before her 91st birthday. She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Imogene and Don Ridge of Sarasota, Florida; sons and daughter-in-laws, Mark and Christi and Brent and Carol; and grandchildren, Kathy and Brandon and his wife Jordan, all of Anchorage. Interment will be in the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon next to her husband. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Capital Manor Foundation, 1955 Dallas Highway NW, Salem, OR 97304-4470. Arrangements by Howell-Edwards-Doerksen Funeral Home.
Published in StatesmanJournal on November 30, 2010
Oct. 27, 1919 - Nov. 15, 2010
SALEM - Salem resident Royal Norquist passed away on November 15th in the Manor Care wing of Capital Manor, her retirement community. A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 11 at Capital Manor for the many friends whose lives she touched with her musical talent and community contributions. A second memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, December 17 in Anchorage, Alaska at Central Lutheran Church. Royal was born October 27, 1919, in Decatur, Illinois, to Roy and June Henderson. She completed her bachelor's degree in music from Carthage College in three years at the age of 19 and began her teaching career soon after at a high school in West Point, Illinois, where some of the students were only a year younger than she. On Saturday nights she waved a baton at a little concert band she had formed, conducting with her left hand and playing a trumpet with her right. A few years later, when her professor at Northwestern University asked if anyone would "take music to the hinterlands", she raised her hand. After completing post-graduate work at University of Washington she accepted a job offer to become coordinator of music education for the Anchorage School District. She moved north in 1950, not knowing a single person in Anchorage and over the next 27 years taught music in public schools from elementary to university level and at her own piano studio, in addition to working at Northwest Airlines for most of the '50s. She was a director of the Anchorage Community Chorus, choir director and organist at Central Lutheran Church and involved in virtually every facet of music in Alaska - the Anchorage Civic Opera, Anchorage Symphony, serving on the board of directors of the Alaska Festival of Music and the Kings Lake Fine Arts Camp and involved with other organizations and productions too numerous to mention. In 1951 she was interviewed on KFQD radio's "person of the week" segment. The radio announcer was Roy Norquist, a handsome fellow who shared her deep love of music. They were married in January 1952 and made beautiful music together until Roy's death in 2006. In 1977 Roy retired from his position in Anchorage as Chief US Probation Officer for Alaska and the duo moved to Salem, adopting Oregon as their home for the remainder of their lives. Changing locations did little to slow down her civic and musical involvements. Among the organizations she was involved with in Oregon were the Salem Master's Chorus, the board of the local YMCA and accompanist on piano at local schools. For the last 14 years she lived at Capital Manor, a retirement facility in Salem, where her appetite for community involvement remained unabated. With her numerous connections, she coordinated weekly programs bringing all manner of music and informational speakers for the residents' enjoyment. In her later years she directed CAMROS, the Capitol Manor Readers On Stage. She directed her final program on Oct. 26, 2010, the night before her 91st birthday. She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Imogene and Don Ridge of Sarasota, Florida; sons and daughter-in-laws, Mark and Christi and Brent and Carol; and grandchildren, Kathy and Brandon and his wife Jordan, all of Anchorage. Interment will be in the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon next to her husband. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Capital Manor Foundation, 1955 Dallas Highway NW, Salem, OR 97304-4470. Arrangements by Howell-Edwards-Doerksen Funeral Home.
Published in StatesmanJournal on November 30, 2010
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