"Final rites for Mrs. Addie Walling Forman, 82, musician and composer, were conducted by the rev. Walter T. Nickless, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Monday afternoon at the home of G. Franklin Eldridge, 402 South Main Street. Interment was in Cedar Hill cemetery under the direction of William S. Heyer.
Mrs. Forman died early Friday morning at the home of Miss Jennie A. Howell, Second Avenue, with whom she had resided for several years. She was the widow of R. R. Forman, who died in 1926.
Mrs. Forman, a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., at an early age developed an unusual musical talent. She was organist of the local Methodist Church when she was in her teens.
During her long career as a musician and composer she gained considerable fame. It was not until a prominent music publication revealed the wide scope of her musical work did her home town residents become acquainted with her activities.
Her first piece of music was composed when she was 13 years of age. It was accepted and published by a nationally known publishing house and still is being widely sold and played.
Altogether the compositions accepted by music publishing firms total over 300. Her published music includes large groups of piano pieces, anthems, songs, sacred solos and choruses.
Mrs. Forman composed five operettas, one of which, "A Rose Dream" has been widely used throughout the country by young people. Christmas cantatas were another of her specialties, as were Easter pieces. A cantata of Easter music was finished just before her 80th birthday.
She studied organ and harmony under J. N. Brown, who many years ago was organist at the First Presbyterian Church, in Trenton, later a music publisher in Chicago. She continued her studies under Samuel P. Warren, of New York, and the later Dr. Adam Geibel, celebrated blind organist.
Much of her work went out under the pen name of R. R. Forman, and few besides her publishers even knew that she was a woman. Later she added the "Mrs." to her efforts.
[Hightstown Gazette (New Jersey), Thurs., 16 Dec 1937, pg. 1] " contributed by Linda Applegate Brown (46791676)
Mrs. Forman died early Friday morning at the home of Miss Jennie A. Howell, Second Avenue, with whom she had resided for several years. She was the widow of R. R. Forman, who died in 1926.
Mrs. Forman, a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., at an early age developed an unusual musical talent. She was organist of the local Methodist Church when she was in her teens.
During her long career as a musician and composer she gained considerable fame. It was not until a prominent music publication revealed the wide scope of her musical work did her home town residents become acquainted with her activities.
Her first piece of music was composed when she was 13 years of age. It was accepted and published by a nationally known publishing house and still is being widely sold and played.
Altogether the compositions accepted by music publishing firms total over 300. Her published music includes large groups of piano pieces, anthems, songs, sacred solos and choruses.
Mrs. Forman composed five operettas, one of which, "A Rose Dream" has been widely used throughout the country by young people. Christmas cantatas were another of her specialties, as were Easter pieces. A cantata of Easter music was finished just before her 80th birthday.
She studied organ and harmony under J. N. Brown, who many years ago was organist at the First Presbyterian Church, in Trenton, later a music publisher in Chicago. She continued her studies under Samuel P. Warren, of New York, and the later Dr. Adam Geibel, celebrated blind organist.
Much of her work went out under the pen name of R. R. Forman, and few besides her publishers even knew that she was a woman. Later she added the "Mrs." to her efforts.
[Hightstown Gazette (New Jersey), Thurs., 16 Dec 1937, pg. 1] " contributed by Linda Applegate Brown (46791676)
"Final rites for Mrs. Addie Walling Forman, 82, musician and composer, were conducted by the rev. Walter T. Nickless, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Monday afternoon at the home of G. Franklin Eldridge, 402 South Main Street. Interment was in Cedar Hill cemetery under the direction of William S. Heyer.
Mrs. Forman died early Friday morning at the home of Miss Jennie A. Howell, Second Avenue, with whom she had resided for several years. She was the widow of R. R. Forman, who died in 1926.
Mrs. Forman, a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., at an early age developed an unusual musical talent. She was organist of the local Methodist Church when she was in her teens.
During her long career as a musician and composer she gained considerable fame. It was not until a prominent music publication revealed the wide scope of her musical work did her home town residents become acquainted with her activities.
Her first piece of music was composed when she was 13 years of age. It was accepted and published by a nationally known publishing house and still is being widely sold and played.
Altogether the compositions accepted by music publishing firms total over 300. Her published music includes large groups of piano pieces, anthems, songs, sacred solos and choruses.
Mrs. Forman composed five operettas, one of which, "A Rose Dream" has been widely used throughout the country by young people. Christmas cantatas were another of her specialties, as were Easter pieces. A cantata of Easter music was finished just before her 80th birthday.
She studied organ and harmony under J. N. Brown, who many years ago was organist at the First Presbyterian Church, in Trenton, later a music publisher in Chicago. She continued her studies under Samuel P. Warren, of New York, and the later Dr. Adam Geibel, celebrated blind organist.
Much of her work went out under the pen name of R. R. Forman, and few besides her publishers even knew that she was a woman. Later she added the "Mrs." to her efforts.
[Hightstown Gazette (New Jersey), Thurs., 16 Dec 1937, pg. 1] " contributed by Linda Applegate Brown (46791676)
Mrs. Forman died early Friday morning at the home of Miss Jennie A. Howell, Second Avenue, with whom she had resided for several years. She was the widow of R. R. Forman, who died in 1926.
Mrs. Forman, a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., at an early age developed an unusual musical talent. She was organist of the local Methodist Church when she was in her teens.
During her long career as a musician and composer she gained considerable fame. It was not until a prominent music publication revealed the wide scope of her musical work did her home town residents become acquainted with her activities.
Her first piece of music was composed when she was 13 years of age. It was accepted and published by a nationally known publishing house and still is being widely sold and played.
Altogether the compositions accepted by music publishing firms total over 300. Her published music includes large groups of piano pieces, anthems, songs, sacred solos and choruses.
Mrs. Forman composed five operettas, one of which, "A Rose Dream" has been widely used throughout the country by young people. Christmas cantatas were another of her specialties, as were Easter pieces. A cantata of Easter music was finished just before her 80th birthday.
She studied organ and harmony under J. N. Brown, who many years ago was organist at the First Presbyterian Church, in Trenton, later a music publisher in Chicago. She continued her studies under Samuel P. Warren, of New York, and the later Dr. Adam Geibel, celebrated blind organist.
Much of her work went out under the pen name of R. R. Forman, and few besides her publishers even knew that she was a woman. Later she added the "Mrs." to her efforts.
[Hightstown Gazette (New Jersey), Thurs., 16 Dec 1937, pg. 1] " contributed by Linda Applegate Brown (46791676)
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