Schoenstein & Co., Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill

Roger Allen Banks died June 5 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was born October 12, 1940, in Lawrence, Kansas, and grew up in the funeral business in Wichita, Kansas, though developing an interest in music early in life. His first experience maintaining organs was with the theater pipe organ in his uncle’s basement. He attended the University of Kansas, majoring in electrical engineering, but moved with his parents to Oklahoma City in 1960 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree in 1965 from Oklahoma City University.

It was the only paying job I’d ever had.

So said Ralph Vaughan Williams, speaking on the biographical DVD, O Thou Transcendent, as he talked about his first—and only—church organist position.

Piccolo Spoleto festival, Charleston, South Carolina

Lorraine Smith Brugh

Lorraine Smith Brugh, 72, died January 25 in Peoria, Arizona. Born March 20, 1952, in Elmhurst, Illinois, she graduated from West Aurora High School in 1970, where she met her future husband, Gary Brugh; they were married June 16, 1973.