BROWN, THELMA WAIDE

BROWN, THELMA WAIDE. College professor (1897 in Ashland, Kentucky; 25 August 1975 in Chicago, Illinois). She studied piano as a child with her mother, a teacher in the public schools of Ashland, Kentucky. She obtained her musical education at colleges in Kentucky and at the Chicago [Illinois] Musical College. She settled in Chicago during the late 1920s. Thereafter she was active as a soprano soloist in local productions of operas and oratorios, as a church choir director, and as a studio...