Edith Aurelia Killgore Kirkpatrick (November 14, 1918 – April 15, 2014) was an American music educator and politician who served on the Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education from 1977 to 1989.
Biography Born in Lisbon, Louisiana, she studied at Louisiana College (where she graduated as the Class of 1938 Valedictorian and with a Bachelor of Arts), Juilliard School, and Louisiana State University and was a music teacher at McNeese State University and a Baptist choir director.Who's Who Among American Women, 2008–2009, 27th edition, P.O. Box 44, New Providence, New Jersey 07974
She was appointed to the newly created Louisiana Board of Regents by Governor Edwin Washington Edwards and served until 1990.
She had four children with her husband, state representative Claude Kirkpatrick."State official, civic leader Claude Kirkpatrick dies at 79", Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, January 15, 1997, p. 7A Their daughter-in-law, Sandra Futrell, is the daughter of the Mayor of Pineville, Louisiana, P. Elmo Futrell Jr."Services set for former Pineville Mayor Futrell", Alexandria Daily Town Talk, December 6, 1993, p. D-3 She published a songbook, Louisiana Let's Sing, during her husband's 1963 gubernatorial campaign.Edith Killgore Kilpatrick, Louisiana Let's Sing, 1963:http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/gaq/028504.shtml
Her alma mater, LSU, awarded Kirkpatrick a Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary doctorate, and along with LSU offers an endowed music professorship named after her.Louisiana College Directory, 2006:
She died on April 18, 2014.
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