Lois Rhea

Lois Burford Rhea Land (24 September 1916 – December 2004) was an American composer, music educator, and organist. She taught and published as Lois Rhea and Lois Rhea Land. Rhea was born in Milton, Kansas, to Lela Baker and Melville C. Burford. They had one daughter. Although information on a later marriage is not available, after Raymond’s death in 1970, she changed her name to Lois Rhea Land. Rhea served as an organist for Munger Place and Northaven United Methodist churches in Texas, and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Rockwall, Texas, among others. From 1945 to 1964, she worked as a music teacher in Corpus Christi, Texas, public schools. She was an accompanist for the Texas All-State Choir in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1964, she moved to Southern Methodist University, where she chaired the graduate music education division until 1980. She then became an adjunct professor of music education at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas until 1988. Edwin H. Morris and Company, Elkan-Vogel, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Lawson-Gould Music, Mark Foster Music, Plymouth Music Company Inc., Prentice-Hall, and Southern Music. *A Guide to Student Teaching in Music (with Joan Boney) *The