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Fernando Ortega

b. 1957 Hymnal Number: 18 Composer of "ORTEGA" in The Sing! Hymnal

1885 - 1962 Person Name: Lillian Bowles Hymnal Number: 166 Author of "He's Done So Much for Me" in The Sing! Hymnal Lillian M. Bowles was an African American publisher of gospel music. She was born 18 Sept. 1885 in Memphis, TN. She later moved to Chicago, IL, where she established the Bowles Music House, employing composers such as Charles Henry Pace (1886–1963) and Kenneth Morris (1917–1989). In the 1940 U.S. Census, she was recorded as single, head of household, with fellow musician Theodore Frye (1899–1963) as a boarder. On 13 Feb. 1942, she married Thomas Pannell in Chicago. She died of a heart attack on a train, 25 June 1962, near Creston, IA, returning home to Chicago from a National Baptist Convention USA Sunday School and BTU Congress in Denver, CO. Her funeral at Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago, was well attended, as reported in newspapers at the time. —Chris Fenner

Martin Lloyd-Jones

1899 - 1981 Person Name: Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) Hymnal Number: 246 Author of "Examine the Cross" in The Sing! Hymnal

Margaret Becker

b. 1959 Hymnal Number: 626 Author of "Jesus, Draw Me Ever Nearer" in The Sing! Hymnal Margaret Becker is a contemporary Christian music artist. She has won many awards. She has branched out into producing, speaking, and mentoring other artists. Dianne Shapiro, from Margeret Becker's website (accessed 1/26/2020)