Funeral services for Mrs. Dora Poteet Barclay, 53, of Fort Worth, nationally known organist and Associate Professor of Organ at Southern Methodist University, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday in the First Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth with the Rev. Robert F. Jones and the Rev. Louis F. Martin officiating.
Dallas services will be held at 4:00 p.m. Thursday in the Hillcrest Mausoleum Chapel, 7407 W. Northwest Highway, with Dr. Willis M. Tate officiating. Burial will follow in the family burial plot.
Mrs. Barclay, a former resident of Dallas, died late Tuesday night at home. She had been ill since last fall.
She was the wife of William Barclay, minister of music at the First Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth, where she was a member. Mrs. Barclay was organist-director of St. Andrews Episcopal Church of Fort Worth.
As a student she attended the Conservatoire Americain of Fontainebleau, France, where she studied under Marcel Dupre, and was graduated in 1937 with the highest honors ever given any organist at the conservatory at that time.
In the United States she had played at music centers including Girard College, Philadelphia; Rockerfeller Chapel, University of Chicago; Brown Memorial Church, Baltimore; and Oberlin College, Ohio. Also, she had performed throughout the Southwest.
From 1941 to 1945, Mrs. Barclay was Dean of the Texas Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
A native of Cameron, she was a graduate of Southern Methodist University, where she was a member of Sigma Kappa sorority. She was a resident of Fort Worth for the past fifteen years.
Mrs. Barclay is survived by her husband.
