Profile Accuracy Theme of the Week: Music

Question

This week's theme: Music.

To participate, simply:

1. Choose a profile that fits this week's theme.
2. Review and improve the accuracy of the profile.
3. Reply with an answer below to let us know which profile you chose.

Also see: Photo Sharing Theme of the Week: Masculine

Comments

This week I will work on the accuracy of Eddy Arnold, country musician

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I will attempt to post photo here on Eddy Arnold and if I do another as well. Still learning how to add photos to this page.

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Ya know now would be a good time to post the WikiTree playlist on Spotify. Just saying: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/26VNy0fwtDvE3Ft4oDKzT1?si=RnXoZREqTu-ESpf74Ys77w

Answer 1

I updated my great grandfather [[Heskett-122|John Walter (Heskett) Ryan (abt.1878-1943)]] who was a member of a vaudville act 'One Arm Trio' under the Ryan name.  All three men had lost an arm and played various instruments like the violin as pairs or modified solos. 

There is a picture of their poster on his page.

Answer 2

This week I will work on my father-in-laws profile, Robert Theodore Linn. He was a modern classical composer and chair of the school of music's, music theory and composition department at the University of Southern California (USC).

Answer 3

For this weeks challenge, I followed the music theme with a story of my grandfather  Lester-3854, who combined his medical practice with his love of music in small town Minnesota during the early 1900's.

Answer 4

I'm working this week on improving the profile of jazz and pop musician Louis Daniel "Satchmo" Armstrong. I adopted his orphaned profile and have been cleaning it up over the last year. It still needs work but it's coming along!

Answer 5

I grew up as a preacher's kid, in a small Presbyterian church. Its members were loyal to my dad, and supported and loved my family through some lean years. This year, I've been working on honoring some of them who have passed away by creating profiles and family trees for them. They were like extra grandparents, aunts and uncles to me, and I'm only now realizing how fortunate I was to have them.

In my middle school and high school years (early 80's), I sang in the church choir. Here are some of the dear people who sang with me, who are now singing in the heavenly choir. (I have connected most to the big tree as part of the connectors challenge, but a few need to be worked on still. I couldn't just pick one of them for this week!)

• Jim Bruder - a tenor, he had grown up as a preacher's kid so we had that in common, and he used to tease me about how "you have to keep your eye on preacher's kids!" He was a math teacher and an elder in our church. When I was a student in our church's tiny Christian school and I wanted to learn Latin, he found some old textbooks from a fellow teacher that my mom used to design the course for me. I never intended to become a Latin teacher myself, but I did and it's due in part to him giving me those books. (He gave me a calculus textbook too, but that didn't take).
• Edana (Leach) Bruder - his wife, an alto. But she was usually needed at the piano, since our director, the church's primary pianist, couldn't be both places at once. She was also a Sunday School and Bible School teacher, a fabulous cook, and a kind, generous woman. The last time I visited that church she was the only one from that era still there, a frail old lady who recognized me immediately and gave me a hug. I'm tearing up just remembering it.
• George Caler - a tenor (I think, it's been a long time), he was also an elder and a good friend of my dad's. Because he died relatively recently, it was hard to find sources for him, but I really enjoyed exploring his ancestors, especially since his mother was also a sweet woman who left money to the church that helped start the school I attended. I wasn't able to find the 1940 census for him or his parents, so I may need to do some research using my husband's ancestry account.
• Carolyn (Stuver) Mealy - a soprano, and one of the earliest church ladies I remember, because she used to lead the preschool singing time at Sunday School when I was very young. Our church came out of a split with a larger, mainline congregation in the 70's, and I remember my first question to my mother when she told me we would be leaving the manse and going to a new church, was whether Mrs. Mealy would be coming with us. When she said yes, I knew it would be all right. I really loved her. She was a gushy, grandmotherly lady and my last memory of her is when she was tooling through the halls of her nursing home in her wheelchair at high speed, greeting everyone with a beaming smile. Looking at her life story and family history though, she had a lot of tragedy in her life, yet she exuded joy in everything she did.
• Joyce (Diehl) Oldaker - the choir director's wife (he is still living, and still playing the piano). She sang alto with me, was a nurse, and one time I remember her having her baby grandson with her during practice, patting him to sleep in time to the music. People would often ask her for a nurse's opinion about health issues that came up, so she functioned as a parish nurse as well. I have only a basic profile for her and haven't started working on her ancestors yet.
• Ken Sullivan - I think he sang bass. He was a jokester and always had a witty remark to liven up practice. He also made sure the sound system was up and running, the mikes were adjusted properly, and if there is an old cassette tape of us singing somewhere, it's because of him. He worked for Montgomery Wards, I think, as an appliance repairman. His was the family tree I've been working on most recently, and I really enjoyed it.

Comments

What a wonderful answer. Thank you. (I have already given a Best Answer for this question. Can I give you a Next-to-the-best answer?)

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Thanks so much!

Answer 6

I always try to find unsourced orphaned profiles to work on as part of 52_accuracy, and had to draw some long bows to find one this month! After trying various words as surnames, eventually I got to Music / fan / Bernard Fanning - musician!  So searched on Fanning surname, and found https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fanning-1119 to improve, and his 10 children, from Orange New South Wales.

Answer 7

I hope the Black Heritage Project isn't mad at me that I used one of the profiles they manage to improve the biography. It was - for my taste - horribly neglected, although it has a "Nieeds Biography" category. I also added a basic profile for Nat's brother Eddie. If someone wants to take over the management of that profile, please drop me a line. It cannot be orphaned because there are still unlisted profiles connected in the nuclear family.

Comments

How funny. I looked at the profile of Nat King Cole recently. I had with much difficulty created a profile for the Countess of Lanesborough. I thought her husband was a Count, but he was an Earl; I thought her married name was Countess of Lanesborough, but it was Butler. Then I looked at some Americans: Nat King Cole, Earl Warren, and Count Basie. I improved the profile of Count Basie's wife.

Answer 8

This week I improved my grandfather’s profile  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Morgan-10630by adding a picture of him in his band uniform.  

Answer 9

I wrote about my Great-Grandfather Billie Stevens and cleaned up his profile.

https://rhymeschemesanddaydreams.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/52ancestors-in-52-weeks-music/

Answer 10

My BIL, Robert Dill , was born in EL Dorado Kansas in 1940. He played first chair French horn in the high school band and also filled in for a local university. He then attended the University of Michigan and played French horn in the Symphony Band.The band spent a semester touring Russia and then playing at Carnegie Hall. When Bob graduated from college, he entered the Army and did his tour of duty Germany where he played french horn in the army band.

Answer 11

Redwine-71. Robert Redwine was my grandfather his preferred instrument was the spoons. My gramma Clara played the piano and mountain dulcimer, and my aunts and Uncle also played instuments. Folk music and modern music was always a feature of family time, and many many friends joined us for jamming or just listening.