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Show THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 26 Page Sunday, January 3, 1988 Playing at funerals became lifetime career for woman her to play for a funeral. One funeral has led to at least 10,000, since she averages about 275 funerals a year. When she started, people rarely had funeral sendees in a funeral home. But that's changing, and it's making her job a hectic one. Most of the time she plays at services for people she never knew, and she prefers it that way. Kaylor says it usually doesn't affect her playing, but when she played at the funeral of a close neighbor, she was thinking about more than her is always willing to bend, since the family chooses the music they feel is appropriate. "I'm thinking of pleasing the family most of all," Kaylor says. "I'm trying to play the type of music that will satisfy By DAVE BAKKE The Springfield State Journal-RegistSPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) -Gladys Kaylor has attended more than 10,000 funerals in the last 50 years. It's not that she likes them: it's her job. As the organist at the Bisch & Son Funeral Home, she has played everything from standard hymns to Simon and to "Stardust." She's er them." During the heyday of the Beatles, she got lots of requests for "Let it Be." But she started playing funerals nearly 30 years before anyone had heard of the Beatles. In 1936, Kaylor was organist Gar-funk- el played at funeral services along with violinists, choruses at Grace Lutheran Church, and the Shrine Clown Band. Though 95 percent of the families want hymns, Kaylor where the Bisch family were members. Harold Bisch asked music. others can duplicate. "On occasion," he says, "we have different organists, and we can tell. The love isn't there like it is with Gladys. She plays with a lot of feel- For the prelude, she selects hymns that are favorites of the minister, priest or rabbi conducting the service. Over the past 50 years, she's come to "That was hard," she says. "I'd rather play for people I don't know, but as I get older, it's more people my age, people I've known." By now, there aren't many hymns she doesn't know. Some of the most popular are "How Great Thou Art," "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," "Blessed Assurance" and "lift High the Cross." But if the family asks for something she doesn't know, she may spend much time on the telephone to a music store or organist friends to try to find the sheet music. know most of the clergymen in town and knows which hymns they prefer. Kaylor also has played for the Muni Opera and the Theatre Center, at high school bac- After spending so much time playing at solemn occasions, you might think she would have jumped at the chance to play at a happy occasion, such as the 50th anniversary of her marriage to J. Richard Kaylor. Not so. several at calaureates, ing." churches and at Temple B'rith Sholom for 43 years. Scotty Meredith, an employee of Bisch, says Kaylor has a feel for the organ that few "I took the day off," she says with a laugh. Kudos to woman who helped an old man Dear Ann Landers: I live in a nice neighborhood. A few days ago when I left the house him for two days. The man did indeed have Alzheimer's disease. When his daughters came to get him they thanked me profusely. I gave them the address and telephone number of to go to work I noticed an older man lying on the lawn across the street. He looked as if he might be homeless. My initial reaction was to pretend I hadn't seen him and not get involved. I told myself the Alzheimer's Association and told them how much help the organization had given me. They couldn't have been more grateful. I know this is a long letter, Ann, but I hope you will print it and let your readers know that getting involved can be Los Angeles worth the risk. 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