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Thursday, June 1, 1978,
Page 24, The Express
Hazel Moser Kleckner, 82, Organist in Easton Area
Mrs. Hazel Moser Kleckner, 82 of 153 W. Berwick St. Easton, an area
piano teacher and organist for many years, died yesterday in Easton
Hospital where she was admitted April 28.
She began her career at age 16 at the South Presbyterian Church, Easton.
She was an active church organist for 25 years, serving St. Paul's
Lutheran Church, on both North Fourth Street and in South Side, and
the First Presbyterian Church, Phillipsburg. She was organist and choir
director at the former Christ Evangelical United Brethren Church and
St. Mark's Reformed Church.
She was also organist at Second Methodist Church, which is now the
Christ United Methodist Church, where she was a member.
In 1940, she received a position at the Hagerty Colonial Home, and
retired as church organist, to devote her time to teaching and recital
work.
She was well known for entertaining at various social functions in
the area.
She received her music teacher's certificate and diploma from the
Sherwood Music School, Chicago, Ill. and studied at Franklin and Marshall
College and choir conducting under the direction of Fred Waring.
She studied piano and organ with Mark Davis and Thomas Yerger both
of Easton, Hans Barth of New York, and Harry Campbell, who was organist
for Radio City Music Hall and the Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra.
Born in Phillipsburg on Jan. 12, 1896, she was a daughter of the late
Forrest and Elizabeth Amey Moser.
Her husband, Howard E. Kleckner, died in February 1967.
Surviving are cousins.
Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Strunk Funeral Home,
Easton. Interment will be in Hay's Cemetery. |
