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Word received of death Dec. 10, 2000, of F. Marian Walker, former St. Olaf music professor

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January 22, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? Word has been received of the death of F. Marian Walker, St. Olaf College music professor emerita, in St. Louis, Mo., on Dec. 10, 2000.

Services were Dec. 13, 2000, in St. Louis. Arrangements were by Hutchens Mortuary of St. Louis.

Walker joined the St. Olaf music faculty in 1948 and retired in 1981, teaching music theory, history of music and other courses and conducting the Repertory Singers and the Manitou Singers. Before coming to St. Olaf she taught music theory at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., and mathematics and choral arts at Princeville (Ill.) Community High School. She also served as choral director at St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chicago and Swedish Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. During World War II she worked for the Chemical Warfare Project at Northwestern University.

She was born Dec. 26, 1915, and grew up in Galesburg, Ill. She graduated from Galesburg High School and Knox College in Galesburg. She earned bachelor?s and master?s degrees in music from Northwestern University and a Ph.D in music theory from Eastman School of Music.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.