The Sidney herald., 1957-07-04

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Olga Kindley, the daughter o
Christian O.. and Maja Lee Kind
ley, was born April II, 1881 il
Chicago, where her father had ;
tailor shop and a mems veal
store.
She attended school in Chicago
and later in Red Wing, MINI.
where the family moved. After hel
high school graduation she attend.
ed the Lutheran Ladies' Seminary
in Red Wing, where she graduated
from the School Of Music with 6
| teachers certificate. Following hel
| graduation she remained at the
seminary as a music instructor.
She later attended the Pacific
School of Music in Tacoma, Wash
ington; the Oslo College of Music
in Oslo, Norway, where she was
instructed by Valley Hunsen. the
first pupil of the famous Leoche-
tizky, a world famous pianist. She
also visited music academies in
England, France and Italy and
other places abroad, where she
took short courses to broaden her
musical knowledge.
She spent two years abroad and
after returning to the United
States her ambition to perfect her
musical education to the highest
degree resulted in her attending
many of our own famous schools
for short courses during her vaca-
ton or to take a few lessons from
some noted musician who happen
ed to be offering a short course
at some special school for a limit
ed period. Among these schools
were Sherwood's Musical School
in Chicago; Oberlin College of
Music in Oberlin, Ohio; Julliard
School of Music in New York City;
and Peabody School of Music in
Baltimore, Md, from which she
acquired a diploma.
On her return from Europe af-
ter two years of study there, she
became music instructor at the
Lutheran Seminary in Tacoma,
Washington. Her health became
impaired by the damp climate of
that coastal area and on the adj
vice of her doctors she moved
back west and became a member
of the music faculty at the State
Normal School in Dickinson, N.
Oak. She moved from Dickinson
to Sidney in the late 1905 to
give private music lessons and
had continued her class here up
to the time of her last brief ILL
ness. She acquired a large class
and many of the fine young mu-
sicians of this community receiv-
ed their instruction from her.
Miss Kindley was considered by
the old timers as a Pioneer of the
West" as she spent much time
with her mother on a homestead
near Killdeer, N. Oak, from 1900
to 1907. Due to shortage of teach
ers she also taught a country
school there one winter.
She passed away at the Com
nunity Memorial Hospital in Sid
ley Friday morning, June 81,
where she had been under care
Tor a few days for a hip injury re-
in a fall on the street.
Death vas due to shock and COM
.olications.
Miss Kindley's only close sur
relatives is a sister, Miss
dulda Kindley of Sidney. She also
S survived by two distant cousins,
Mrs. A. c. Elliott of Western
Springs, Ill, and Mrs. Frank Dahl
of Snohomish, Washington, and
host of friends.
Funeral services were held Mon
lay afternoon, June "a at the Con-
.regational church in Sidney with
he Rev. Bernard McLain Off
iating. During the service Mrs.
II Lund sang, Lead Kindly
and "Come Unto Me and
Mrs. Harold Rounce was
organ accompanist.
Pallbearers were Milton Ander-
on, Bailey Fisher, Orbert Simard,
i Lund, Harold Frandsen and
Lalonde.
Miss Hulda Kindley accompan-
I'd her sisters remains to Red
ling, Mimi, where burial was
in the family plot where
er parents and a sister, who pre-
aded her in death, had been laid
, rest.
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