Dorothy Geneva Styles

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Dorothy Geneva Styles (December 13, 1922 - February 12, 1984){{Cite web|last=Styles|first=Dorothy Geneva|title=Ancestry® {{!}} Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records|url=https://www.ancestry.com/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-16|website=www.ancestry.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991127091334/http://www.ancestry.com:80/? |archive-date=1999-11-27 }} was an American composer,{{Cite book|last=Hixon|first=Donald L.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28889156|title=Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography|date=1993|publisher=Scarecrow Press|others=Don A. Hennessee|isbn=0-8108-2769-7|edition=2nd|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=28889156}} mathematician,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VJcrAQAAIAAJ&q=Dorothy+Geneva+Styles|title=Directory of Women in Marquis Who's Who Publications, 1984|date=1983|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|isbn=978-0-8379-6401-0|language=en}} organist, and poet.

Styles was born in El Dorado, Arkansas,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C6quo7Weh4AC&dq=Dorothy+Geneva+Styles&pg=PA371|title=Organ and Harpsichord Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog|date=1991|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-26802-1|language=en}} to Minnie A. Shelnut and Alfred Alexander Styles. She demonstrated musical talent as a child, performing on WEXL radio at age 10, and giving music lessons as a teenager. Styles married Dennis Glenn Van Eck in 1941 and divorced him in 1945. She graduated from the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts and received a B.Mus. from the University of Detroit Mercy in 1945, a B.S. from Columbia University in 1954,{{Cite book|last=Regents|first=University of Michigan Board of|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3TcXAQAAMAAJ&dq=dorothy+geneva+styles&pg=PA845|title=Proceedings of the Board of Regents|date=1969|publisher=The University|language=en}} and an M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1970.{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Aaron I.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846|title=International encyclopedia of women composers|date=1987|isbn=0-9617485-2-4|edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged|location=New York|oclc=16714846}}

Styles taught and also worked as an organist at Hazel Park Baptist Tabernacle in Hazel Park, Michigan, and as a choir director at St. Timothy’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wayne, Michigan. Her publications included: