Jack Herman Ossewaarde

15 Nov 1918 Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA - 30 Dec 2004 (aged 86) Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Jack Ossewaarde was the organist of New York City's Calvary Episcopal Church from 1948 (following Harold Friedell when HF went to St. Bartholomew’s) until 1953 when he left for Houston to be Organist and Choirmaster of Christ Church Cathedral and organist and program annotator of the Houston Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stowkowski. When Friedell died in 1958, the Rev. Terence J. Finlay, Rector of St. Bartholomew’s, called Ossewaarde to succeed Friedell again, and he stayed at St. Bartholomew’s for 24 years until he retired in 1982. He lived in Stamford, Conn., and was the conductor of the Greenwich Choral Society for several years early in his New York tenure. In his retirement he substituted for several local churches, including Christ’s Church in Rye, New York, and Saint Luke’s Parish in Darien, Conn., and assisted senior citizens in the preparation of their income tax returns.