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Meet The Members

Joyce Bowlby
President

  • Member since 2012

  • ​Second Soprano

  • Lifetime choir singer

  • Publicist for Music, Karaoke and Idaho Clubs

  • Avid golfer, traveler, and photographer

Judy Couvillion
Vice President

  • Soprano 2, Alto1

  • Member since 2016

  • Lifetime singer in many choral groups

  • Plays piano, clarinet, baritone ukulele

  • Enjoys knitting, bicycling, mahjongg, cards, reading and baking

Lynn Dentel
Sunshine Lady

  • Registered Nurse

  • Alto 2

  • Member since  2015

  • Hails from Iowa

  • Lifetime Church choir singer

  • Plays piano and organ

  • Weekly volunteer for music program at Rock Creek Memory Care

Sheila Dott
Treasurer

  • Soprano 2

  • Member since 2023

Maura Faille

Webmaster & Music Librarian

  • Soprano 1, Member since 2017

  • MBA, B.S. Mensa

  • Major in Biology/Chemistry with

  • minors in art/music (voice)

  • Retired IBM Exec Consultant

  • Lifetime choir singer, high school/college choruses, and a capellla groups

  • Bowler, quilter, crossword puzzle enthusiast

Bobbi Friend

Director At-Large

  • First Soprano, Member since 2007

  • Daughter and family live in Israel

  • Singing since 14 yrs old

  • Milwaukee A Capella Choir

  • Performed at the Worlds Fair 1964

  • Former X-ray Technician

  • Admitting department administrator

Pam Hikinski

General Member

  • Second Alto, Member since 2016

  • Loves singing, travelling,  dancing

  • Married 55 years

  • Has lived all over the world

Terry Johnson

General Member

  • Soprano 2, Alto 1

  • Masters in Elementary Education/Leadership

  • Member since 2017

  • Plays piano

  • Sings with Westernaires of Sun City West

Maureen Madura
General Member

  • Alto 1

  • Member since 2025​

  • Resident of Sun City West since 2022

  • Lifelong singer and choir member

  • Sang with high school chorus and as a 4H leader entered my group into snging and dancing competitions

  • Conducted a girls choir at church

  • Sang with the Fountain Hills Community Church. Travelled with them to Austria to sing at the 50th anniversary of "The Sound o Music"

  • Currently sings with her church choir and Westernaires

Jan Meckley
General Member

  • Alto 1

  • Member since 2025

  • Lifelong choir singer, duets with sister Joyce and trios in high school​

  • Played clarinet and piano

  • BS in business manatement, Unversity of Idaho

  • Worked in bookkeeping and accounting

  • 2 daughters, 2 gramdchildren and 4 great grandkids

  • Enjoys listening to all types of music, singing in choirs, reading, riding e-bikes, traveling, takng fitness classes

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Sharlene MacPhee

General Member

  • Soprano 2, Alto 1

  • Member since 2017

  • Hails from Prince Edward Island, Canada

  • Retired social worker

  • Lifetime choir, glee club singer

  • Sang in operettas and Sweet Adelines

  • Volunteers with Rotary Club

  • Provides pet therapy

  • Hobbies include Sun City Players, travel playing cards, gardening and all aspects of photography

Sally Massen
General Member

  • Soprano 1

  • Member since 2023

Diane Neverman
General Member (Retired)

  • Soprano 1/2

  • Member since 2023

  • Lifetime chuch choir member

  • Sang with

Jr & Sr high school vocal groups, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Platteville Chorale (12Yrs)

Southern Lakes (WI) Masterpiece Chorale (12yrs)

  • Studied piano, clarinet. First love is vocal music

  • Enjoys traveling, hiking, reading 

Grace Nyland
General Member

  • Soprano 1/2

  • Member since 2008

  • Hails from Chicago, Ill.

  • Grew up in a large  musical family and passed this love of music to her own children

  • Plays piano and organ and a variety of brass instruments

Colleen Parrish
General Member

  • Alto1/Alto2/Tenor

  • Member since 2022

  • Hails from Canada

  • Member of Westernaires

  • Lifetime choir singer

  • Career Lawyer

Sue Powell
General Member (Retired)

  • B.S Music, Soprano 1

  • Member since 2018

  • Masters Degree - Religious Education

  • Masters level music courses

  • Former Director of Christian Education & Music Ministry

  • Sang in church/school choirs since age 13

  • Served in churches in LA, TX, PA as Minister of Music and Education

  • Toured as an Ensemble Singer

  • Plays piano and French horn

  • Sings with Westernaires of Sun City West

  • Has traveled extensively with husband of 55 yrs

Susan Pederson
Rehearsal Transcriptionist

  • Soprano 2/Alto 1

  • Member since 2018

  • Hails from Racine, WI

  • Violinist

  • Lifetime choir singer

  • Avid ballroom dancer, traveler

  • Fitness, hiking, walking 

  • 42 years Nuclear Medicine Technologist

  • 2 children/6 granddaughters

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