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Kathleen Thomerson
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'''Kathleen Armstrong Thomerson''' (born February 18, 1934) is an [[United States|American]] organist and [[hymnwriter]].
A native of [[Jackson, Tennessee|Jackson]], [[Tennessee]],<ref>https://ift.tt/2zRXCDi> Thomerson spent portions of her childhood in [[Mississippi]], [[California]], and [[Texas]].<ref>https://ift.tt/2Tfy0cB> She attended the [[University of Texas]], receiving a bachelor's degree in music in 1956 and a master's degree in 1958; she also studied at [[Syracuse University]], with [[Flor Peeters]] at the [[Flemish Royal Conservatory]] in [[Antwerp]], and with [[Jean Langlais]] in [[Paris]]. She worked as the music director of University United Methodist Church in [[St. Louis]], and taught organ at the [[St. Louis Conservatory]] and at [[Southern Illinois University]];<ref>https://ift.tt/2zRXCDi> she has also worked as organist and music director of Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in [[Austin, Texas]].<ref>https://ift.tt/2zYnGwy> She is a Fellow of the [[American Guild of Organists]].<ref>https://ift.tt/2zRXCDi>
As a writer of hymns, Thomerson is best known for the text "I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light", written in 1966 while visiting the Church of the Redeemer in [[Houston]],<ref>https://ift.tt/2Tkp85F> and set to her own tune, ''Houston''.<ref>https://ift.tt/2Tfy0cB> She has composed other hymn tunes as well, including several for publication in the 2005 collection ''A Taste of Heaven's Joys: A Collection of Original Hymns'', written with Patricia B. Clark.<ref>https://ift.tt/2Tkp85F> She published a bio-bibliography of her teacher Langlais in 1989, and a biography of [[Marie-Claire Alain]] in 2002.<ref>https://ift.tt/2zYnI7E>
While at the University of Texas, Homerson met Jamie Edward Thomerson, marrying him on June 1, 1957. He went on to a career as an ichthyologist and professor at Southern Illinois University. The couple had three children, two sons and a daughter, and remained together until his death from [[prostate cancer]] on January 4, 2015.<ref>https://ift.tt/2Titg5O>
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