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Jerald Hamilton, born March 19, 1927, in Wichita, Kansas, died November 1, 2009, in Albuquerque. A resident of the Albuquerque area since 1988, he is survived by his wife, Phyllis Searle Hamilton, three daughters; Barbara Maxey and her husband Wayne, of Livingston, Texas; Elizabeth Hamilton of Albuquerque; Catharine Roelfs and her husband Greg, of Rantoul, Illinois; a grandson, Joshua Day of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and many nieces and nephews. A graduate of the University of Kansas, Lawrence; he served the faculties of Washburn University of Topeka, Kansas; Ohio University, Athens; the University of Texas, Austin; and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he retired in 1988 as Professor Emeritus of Music. In 1942 he began a long career in church music as organist of the First Presbyterian Church in Wichita and later as organist of the First Methodist Church in Lawrence; Grace Episcopal Cathedral, Topeka; St. David's Episcopal Church, Austin, TX; the Chapel of St. John the Divine, Champaign, Illinois; and the Cathedral Church of St. John, Albuquerque, from which he retired in 1993 as Organist-Choirmaster Emeritus. Post-graduate study was at the Royal School of Church Music, Croydon, England, and the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Organ study in the US was with Susie Ballinger Newman, Laurel Everette Anderson, and Catharine Crozier. Additional study was with Gustav Leonhardt, and as a Fulbright scholar in Paris, with Andre Marchal. While in Paris he was accompanist for the Choeur Philharmonique de Paris, supply organist for the Episcopal Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, the British Embassy Church and the American Church in Paris. He served as member and sometime chairman of diocesan music commissions in the Episcopal Dioceses of Kansas and Illinois, was a long-time member of the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Anglican Musicians, and for thirty years toured as a concert organist first with the Colbert-LaBerge (later the Lilian Murtagh Management), the Karen McFarlane Artists and finally with the Phyllis Stringham Management. Together with his wife, he served in retirement as a reader for disabled students at the University of New Mexico. Cremation has taken place and a memorial Eucharist was celebrated at 2:30 p.m. on November 5, 2009, at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John in Albuquerque, the Reverend Canon Adams Lovekin, Celebrant. Friends may make memorial contributions to the Episcopal Church Foundation at the U of I, 1011 South Wright, Champaign, IL 61820, to the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John, PO Box 1246, Albuquerque, NM 87103 or to the charity of their
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