Earl W. Bohm of St. Louis Park died April 17, 1996 at age 78 of pulmonary fibrosis.

Bohm was a long time public school music educator.  He was also an officer for the Minnesota Music Educators Association (MMEA), past president of the Music Educators National Conference-North Central Division, a member of the MMEA Hall of Fame and a member of the Phi Beta Mu fraternity.  He was also an active member and organist at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in St. Louis Park for 18 years.

He was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where he was graduated in 1940 from what is now St. Cloud State University with degrees in music education and math, and from the MacPhail Center for the Arts in Minneapolis with a master’s degree in music education.

Bohm began his teaching career in 1940 in Pine Island, Minnesota.  During World War II he worked as a math instructor at Yale University and Tennessee Eastman Corp.  He returned to Sauk Rapids, Minnesota in 1945 to teach.  Three years later he accepted a job as the only instrumental music teacher in St. Louis Park schools.

“What instrument did he play?  He played them all,” said his daughter Norma Schuldt of Bloomington.  “But he loved the clarinet and keyboards,” she said.  He eventually became coordinator for the Music Department and retired in 1980.

Bohn and his wife enjoyed traveling and woodcraft.  After his retirement they held an annual craft boutique for 14 years with their daughter Kathy Becker of St. Cloud.

Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Marian; daughters Norma Schuldt and husband, Spencer, and Kathy Becker and husband, Eddie; 10 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; brother Roger and wife, Joan.

Services were April 20 at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church with internment at Lakewood Cemetery.