| 4/7/2006
 It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of
Betty Easterday, beloved band member for over 33 years.
Our thoughts and prayers go to all the friends and family of
Malcolm and Betty in this sad time.
Belinda Johnson
Memorial Services were held on
Thursday, April 13 at Rolling Hills Presbyterian Church
in Overland Park, Kansas. In lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions may be made to Hospice Care of Kansas.
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Mary E.
[Betty] Easterday
Born Dec. 6, 1910 in Salina, Kansas to Walter Roy and
Mary Ann Sheneman. passed away April 7, 2006. She attended
public school in Cheyenne Wyoming and the University of
Wyoming. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and Sigma Alpha
Iota, having recently received the seventy-year award. She
was a past president of Cheyenne chapter of Job's daughters
and a fifty-year member of Eastern Star. She married Kenneth
Lee Gottschall and moved to Kansas City in 1937. They had
three children, Kenneth Gottschall Jr. of Belleville, Ill.,
Walter Keith Gottschall of Kansas City, Mo., Maryanne
Woelfer of Ellicott City, Md. and one grandson, Kenneth
Gottschall III of Castaic, Calif. Betty was a member of many
music organizations. Her music career started in Savanna Ga.
where she played piano for a weekly radio program. She
taught and played organ for many churches and music
functions. In 1968 she married Malcolm R. Easterday. They
traveled extensively, visiting many countries, including
some which are now prohibited. She was a member of the
American Legion Band and the Overland Park Civic Band for
thirty-three years, performing at National Conventions and
summer concerts, including a concert tour of England and
Scotland in 1999 with the Columbia, Mo. Community Band. For
many years she taught organ privately and for Jenkins Music
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