In Remembrance: Jean E. Roberts ’77MusM Died on August 16 2019

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Jean Elizabeth Roberts died on August 16, 2019.  Jean Roberts completed her master of music in performance degree at the Yale School of Music in 1977.  She also completed a BM degree at the Eastman School of Music and a DMA degree at the University of Texas at Austin.  She served as an assistant professor on the faculty at North Greenville College, Sou Carolina, and as an adjunct music professor at Furman University, South Carolina; the West Australian Conservatorium of Music in Perth; Mercer University, Georgia; Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas; and Concordia College, Minnesota. She particularly enjoyed collaborating with students and faculty members in recitals, performing duo-piano concerts with her husband John Noel Roberts ’81DMA, and serving as organist/choir director in various churches throughout her life.

—Submitted by the family.

A longer obituary appeared in the Rockport Union-Sun & Journal on August 21, 2019.