 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas
Funeral Services Planned For Club, Music Leader Funeral services for Mrs. Robert E. Chambers, 78, of 5800 Belmont, who was long active in Dallas club and musical circles, will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday in Sparkman-Brand Funeral Chapel, 2115 Ross. Dr. James E. Detweiler, pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Sherman, beside the grave of her husband, the late Robert E. Chambers, a Dallas banker, who died in 1940. Relatives said her death in an Austin hospital Wednesday was hastened by injuries sustained in a fall sometime ago in which she suffered a broken hip. Mrs. Chambers was a charter member and past president of the Schubert Study Club, an associate member of the Melodie Club and a patron of the Texas Chapter, American Guild of Organists. She also belonged to the Schubert Choral Club, the Dallas Federation of Music Clubs and the Dallas Federation of Women's Clubs, She was a member of the First Baptist Church and Mary Nash Alumnae Club. In addition she served as publicity director for many of the clubs. The Dallas Federation of Music Clubs will hold a memorial service for Mrs. Chambers at 10 a.m. Friday at the club's regular meeting in the Whittle Music Store auditorium, 1108 Elm. During her most active period with the Schubert Choral Club, Mrs. Chambers headed the committee for the once-a-month Twilight Musicales which were an integral part of Dallas' music development. Many leading musicians, back from a summer of repertoire study, chose the musicales as a show case for modern European composers. Teachers of music, new to the area, also sought places on the program by way of introducing themselves. Attendance for the musicales, given late Sunday afternoons and usually at the Hotel Adolphus, ranged from 250 to 500, all the hall would hold. Mrs. Chambers, the former Miss Nettie Hudson, was born at Collinsville, Grayson County, As a young girl she moved to Sherman; where she was reared and attended Mary Nash College. In 1896, she was married to Robert E. Chambers and they moved to Dallas in 1918. Mrs. Chambers is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Fred M. Pierce of Dallas and Mrs. R. E. Rustin of Austin, and one grandson. West Hill Cemetery Elaine Nall Bay ©2013 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
