{"id":2347,"date":"2007-12-05T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2018-07-25T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T19:30:04","slug":"kennamer-rexford-1920-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"KELLING, FURN L., 1914-2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher, writer. Born&#8211; Sept. 1, 1914, Shawnee, Okla. Parents&#8211; William E. and Grace L. (Craig) Kelling. Education&#8211; Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, certificate in elementary education, 1949; George Peabody College for Teachers, 1949-1950. Owner\/operator of beauty shops in St. Louis, Mo., 1933-1947; kindergarten teacher, Knoxville, Tenn., 1950-1952; director of children&#8217;s work, Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., 1952-1955, and similar work for the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, Phoenix, 1955-1957; director of children&#8217;s activities, Southern Baptist Convention of California, 1957-1960; similar positions in Oklahoma, California, Alabama and at the\u00a0University of Nevada in Reno. Wrote for Baptist publications. Member; National Association for Nursery Education; National Education Association. Her children&#8217;s book, Listen to the Night, was included in a U.S. Cultural exhibit in Moscow in 1958. Died April 28, 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the Night. Nashville; Broadman, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer is &#8230;. Nashville; Broadman, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>This is My Family. Nashville; Broadman, 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher, writer. Born&#8211; Sept. 1, 1914, Shawnee, Okla. Parents&#8211; William E. and Grace L. (Craig) Kelling. Education&#8211; Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, certificate in elementary education, 1949; George Peabody College for Teachers, 1949-1950. Owner\/operator of beauty shops in St. Louis, Mo., 1933-1947; kindergarten teacher, Knoxville, Tenn., 1950-1952; director of children&#8217;s work, Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8475,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/8475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}