CHARLES PENDLETON

Funeral service for Charles A. Pendleton of Tacoma, Wash., will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Tuell-McKee Funeral Home in Tacoma.

Pendleton, 69, died Friday, June 20, 1997, at Highland Nursing Home in Tacoma.

He was born June 10, 1928, in Tulsa, Okla., son of Walter and Mona Sanders Pendleton.

Pendleton lived in Cape Girardeau from 1933-52. He was a 1945 graduate of Central High School, attended Southeast Missouri State University, received a master of arts degree in music education from San Francisco State College in 1962, and received a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Oregon-Eugene in 1974.

When he was 17 years old he arranged music and played trombone for the Leo Pieper Dance Band. He later played in other dance bands and broadway shows, and with the San Francisco State College Symphony, University of Oregon Symphony, and Tacoma Symphony.

Pendleton taught classroom music in the San Francisco Bay area, taught music education and instrumental music at the University of Puget Sound, Wash., and taught in the Bethel School District in the state of Washington. He retired in 1988.

He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War.

Survivors include his wife, Jacqueline; a son, Matthew Pendleton of the home; and a brother, Walter Pendleton of Andover, Kan.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister.