Avon, Edmond Joseph 18??-1919 France, ? - Isere, Saint-Marcellin
clarinetist, bandmaster, 1903 ex-professor of Conservatoire de Paris, 1903-1910 professor at the College of Saint-Marcellin and bandmaster of Lyre Saint-Marcellinoise, 23.sep.1906 in Roybon at the inauguration of the monument in memory of Henri Saint-Romme 'representant du peuple en 1848' he conducted the combined fanfares of Isere at Place Saint-Romme: Lyre Saint-Marcellinoise, Lyre Delphinale of Saint-Etienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, l'Echo de la Valloire of Beaurepaire, l'Avenir de Chatte, Fanfare de Saint-Antoine, Philharmonique de la Cote-Saint-Andre, l'Union Grand-Serroise, Mutuelle Musicale of Salaise, Trompettes de Sassenage, l'Echo du Bas-Gresivaudan of Saint-Lattier, Fanfare and Les Trompettes de Saint-Jean-de-Bournay and l'Echo des Rives de la Galaure of Roybon, 20.sep.1908 he was commissaire general of the grand festival de musique at the inauguration of the tramway and the new water supply in Saint-Marcellin, b1907 Officier d'Academy, 1909 made Officier de l'Instruction publique ; his wife Marie Josephine Gerin was still living 1948 in Romans-sur-Isere