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Article: OBITUARIES: Dona Lee Brandon
- Article from:
- The American Organist
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright American Guild of Organists Sep 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Dona Lee Brandon, 81 years old, June 16, 2009, in Davis, Calif. Dona Brandon had her first piano lesson at age four, and began studying organ in high school. She graduated from Park College in Missouri with a bachelor's de- gree in music, focusing on both organ and voice, and went on to earn a master of sacred music de- gree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she studied organ with Robert Baker. At UTS she met George Brandon, a fellow student originally from Stockton, Calif., whom she married in 1954. The Brandons taught at Eureka Col- lege in Illinois and William Perm College in Iowa. Their daughter, Barbara Anne (named for J.S. Bach's wives, Maria Barbara and Anna ...