found: Arizona daily star, July 1, 1996:page 6 (Farmer, Marjorie, née Zimmerman; born Clifton, AZ, died June 30, 1996 in Tucson on her 75th birthday; moved with her family to Tucson as a young girl; graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Arizona in 1941 with major was piano performance; following graduation she went to New York to continue her music studies at the Julliard School; worked as secretary to Ed Lee, then general manager of the Fred Waring organization ; eventually became managing editor of Shawnee Press; served with the American Red Cross during WWII; then she returned to Shawnee Press; in 1948 she married Ernest R. Farmer, who was subsequently also employed by Shawnee Press as its president; the Farmers were instrumental in the development of Shawnee Press into one of America's premier educational music publishing companies; collaborated as an author, composer, and arranger on numerous publications under the pseudonym Joyce Merman; in 1980 the Farmers left Shawnee Press to form their own independent company, Wide World Music, Inc. which they operated successfully until 1994, when they sold the Wide World copyrights to Music Sales Corporation of London and New York, and moved to Tucson)
