Frances Wilson Hall Sheet Music Collection, 1906-1958 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Adiminsrative/Biographical History: Frances "Fritz" Wilson Hall (1914-2006) was born in Richfield, Idaho. Her family moved to Bakersfield, California in 1917, where she would live for the rest of her life. Hall learned piano at a young age and sang in the Kern County High School glee club. After graduating High School in 1932, she enrolled at Northwest Christian College in Eugene, Oregon and was accepted into the college choir. In 1933, after the untimely death of her father, she returned to Bakersfield and began working for the Bakersfield Californian newspaper. Frances married Milo Hall, a co-worker at the newspaper, in 1946 and the couple were married for sixty years. Throughout her life she remained an avid collector of piano music and active performer within the First Christian Church choir of Bakersfield. Note Author: Barbara Hall, Nolan Vallier

Acquisition Note: Donation.