Carl A. Hillyer [1889 - 1967]

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1889 – 1967

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Historical person, early resident of Grand Junction, CO. Music director at the Grand Junction Junior College in 1932. 

According to census records, Carl A. Hillyer was born in 1889 in Hiawatha, Kansas. He married Della M. Hillyer in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1912. In 1914 when his son George F. Hillyer was born, the family was living in Colorado. He attended the Tella College in Iowa, and a music conservatory in Athens, Georgia. He started the music program and worked as a professor at Mesa College, originally known as Grand Junction Junior college. Additionally, he worked as a private piano teacher and directed community musicals and productions and conducted the Grand Junction Civic Orchestra. He was a resident of Grand Junction, Colorado, for 30 years before moving to San Diego, California, where he lived for 20 years before his death. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and directed the choir of the First United Presbyterian Church from 1929 to 1941. In California, he continued to teach piano lessons in his retirement. 

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