{"id":2240,"date":"2020-10-02T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2020-10-02T16:45:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T21:45:23","slug":"judith-gilmore-kirby-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2020\/10\/02\/judith-gilmore-kirby-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Judith (Gilmore) Kirby \u201962"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":9xj\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Judith (Gilmore) Kirby \u201962 of Frankfort, Illinois, died Aug. 7, 2020. She was 80. Judy earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in music education at Illinois Wesleyan, where she was also active in Sigma Kappa, Delta Omicron and other musical groups. She went on to a 35-year career as a music teacher at Western Avenue Elementary School in Flossmoor, Illinois, where she led musicals, Christmas concerts and variety shows. She also directed choir at Flossmoor Community Church. In her final days at a care facility, her former students sang for her \u2014 mostly through virtual means, over cell phones and laptop computers \u2014 from outside her window. Judy\u2019s former students\u2019 tribute to their elementary school teacher was featured in a segment on Chicago\u2019s WGN Evening News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith (Gilmore) Kirby \u201962 of Frankfort, Illinois, died Aug. 7, 2020. She was 80. Judy earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in music education at Illinois Wesleyan, where she was also active in Sigma Kappa, Delta Omicron and other musical groups. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2020\/10\/02\/judith-gilmore-kirby-62\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}