Obituary of Maragret C Carner, Pulaski Co, AR

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Date: September 28, 1997 (date obit appeared)
Arkansas Gazette-Democrat (Pulaski County) ARKANSAS

Margaret Cameron Davies Carner, age 73, a long time resident of Little
Rock, Died Friday in Tallahassee, Florida. Mrs. Carner was  born in Hot
Springs, Arkansas, later moving with her family to Little Rock, graduating
from Little Rock High School, now Little Rock Central High School. She then
attended Little RockJunior College receiving her associate degree before
attending the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her Bachelors
Degree in Fine Arts and later her Masters with emphasis in theatre
directing. Most of her classes were in the Goodman Theatre Department, a
part of the institute.

While her husband, Joseph Norbert Carner, was completing his degree at Yale
Univesity she was assistant manager with the Yale Faculty Club. After
school they both began a career that included several summer stock
productions and theatre performances in several states. Due to a family
illness they came to Little Rock where Mrs. Carner started her teaching
career first as a kindergarten teacher at the Arkansas School for the Blind
where she also began a children's theatre production for the blind children
and later developing into a childrens theatre production that was also
incorporporated into the curriculum of the Univesity. Her career continued
becoming a teacher speach and drama at Little Rock University, the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock and eventually becoming an Associate
Professor Emeritus of Theater Arts for 28 years. In that position she
taught acting, stage diction, directing, and (mime and) stage movement.
Due to her love of the arts and all people she also took time to teach
speech and diction to the inmates of th Wrightsville Corrections Facility.
She was also an honorary member of the Pulaski County Bar Association, a
member of Little Rock Women's Aesthetic Club, Trinity Episcopal Catherdral
and a descendent of an Arkansas Pioneer Family.