Dr. Iris Gray Scarborough

Dr. Iris Gray Scarborough
MOUNT GILEAD -- Dr. Iris Gray Scarborough, 82, of Mount Gilead, passed away Thursday morning, March 8, 2012 in Smithfield, NC.
A funeral service will be held at 2:00PM on Sunday, March 11, 2012, at First United Methodist Church of Mount Gilead. Rev. Jim Harris will officiate and interment will follow in Sharon Cemetery. Friends are invited to greet the family in the social hall of the church from 1:00 until 2:00PM, prior to the service. A visitation will be held at Minshew Funeral Home, 5820 US Hwy 301, Four Oaks, NC, Saturday, March 10, from 2:00 until 4:00PM.
Dr. Scarborough was born August 9, 1929, in Mount Gilead, NC. She was the daughter of Oliver McKinley Scarborough and Alice Freeman Scarborough. She attended Mount Gilead School, graduating in 1945, and Meredith College, graduating in 1949 with a BA degree in Music Education with an applied major in piano performance. In 1951-53, she spent summers at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, TN, completing a MA degree in Music Education. From 1976-1977, she was given an Emmons-Flinton Scholarship for advanced study by Delta Kappa Gamma, of which she was a member, and completed her PhD in 1979 in Music Education at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University.
Miss Scarborough taught public school music, grades 1-12, at Four Oaks School for twenty years, (1949-1969), and joined the faculty of Campbell University Department of Music, teaching voice and public school music for 29 years (1969-1998). She chaired the Fine Arts Department for five years and was chair of the Division of Fine Arts for three years, receiving the Dean's Award for Excellence in teaching from the School of Religion in 1988. Her span of teaching included 49 years and was truly the joy of her life. She sang beautifully and was very active in church music, including organ and piano performance.
Survivors include her sister, Leah Scarborough Barton of Mount Gilead; three nephews (whom she loved as her own) George Edward Barton, Jr. of Somerville, MA, Alan Scarborough Barton and wife, Cynthia of Whispering Pines, NC and John Bruce Barton and wife, Lynn of Mount Gilead; two grand-nephews, McKinley Barton and John Bruce Barton, II and one grand-niece, Michelle Barton.
The family requests memorials made to: First United Methodist Church-Music Fund, P.O. Box 176, Mount Gilead, NC 27306 or Campbell University Music Department, P.O. Box 567, Buies Creek, NC 27506.
Online condolences: edwardsfuneralhomes.com.