Audrey Beekman Wargo
1915 - 2008
Audrey Wargo, a pianist and music teacher, was born in Washington, D.C. While studying music at Washington Missionary College, now Columbia Union College, in the 1930s, she met and married George Wargo, a former child prodigy on the viola, member of the National Symphony, and a recent convert to the Seventh-day Adventist church. He became chair of the WMC music department in 1942.
During his thirteen-year tenure as chair, Audrey taught piano and was a frequent accompanist for her husband and others. She continued to accompany him while he taught at the University of Virginia From 1955 to 1959 and, when he became chair of the music program at Pacific Union College in 1959, she taught in the department until 1970.
She was residing in Redding, California, at the time of her death.
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