CHATHAM, October B Betty Jean

Betty Jean Chatham was an American pianist, organist, composer, arranger, conductor, and music educator from Kentucky. A graduate of Georgetown College, she later taught at Georgetown and Kentucky Southern College and served for nearly sixty years as pianist and organist at First Baptist Church in Shelbyville.
Her musical output focused especially on sacred and keyboard music. Publications include The Lord Is My Light: Organ-Piano Duets and Praise and Worship Songs for Organ and Piano, and she also composed the music for the stage work Science Hill, 1919. She died on 28 September 2022