Virginia Queen

VIRGINIA QUEEN passed away March 29 at Parkway Health Center. She was born Oct. 25, 1921, the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J.F. Queen. She was awarded bachelor's degrees in music from Ouachita Baptist University in 1944 and a master's degree in music from the American Conservatory in Chicago in 1949. After teaching at Prescott High School and the Tennessee College for Women, she joined the Ouachita faculty in 1946 where she was Addie Mae Maddox Professor of Music and taught 40 years before retiring as Professor Emerita and moving 29 years ago to Parkway Village in Little Rock. Virginia served as President of the Arkansas State Music Teachers' Association and was named College Teacher of the Year in 1979. She also served as President of the Arkansas Federation of Music Clubs, was a Life Member of the National Federation of Music Clubs, a Rose Fay Thomas Fellow and a former Founders' Day National Chairman. She served as President of the Arkadelphia Philharmonic Club, a member of the Coterie Piano Rep Group, and Past President of the Little Rock Musical Coterie, which annually awards a scholarship in her name. Miss Queen loved to teach, as an adjudicator of festivals and competitions and served as church organist for many years. Her students have pursued doctoral studies in piano, become college professors, private piano teachers, pubic school music teachers and significant leaders in the arts in America. Memorials may be sent to Ouachita Baptist University and designated for the Queen Award Fund, an award competition established by Miss Queen to encourage piano excellence in Ouachita piano majors. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, April 6, 2017 at the Parkway Village Chapel at 10 a.m. Cremation Arrangements Entrusted to Arkansas Cremation. www.ArkansasCremation.com.