Betty Caldwell Sedgley

Betty Sedgley FAIRHOPE, Ala. - Betty Caldwell Sedgley, 89, of Fairhope, died Friday May 19, 2000, at Eastern Shore nursing home. Memorial services were today at the Wolfe Funeral Home in Fairhope. Mrs. Sedgley was born Sept. 14, 1910, in Lincoln Township in Mahaska County, the daughter of Charles C. and Fannie Jones Caldwell. She married Murray W. Sedgley in 1936. She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. and graduated from William Penn college in Oskaloosa with a degree in speech. After teaching school in Maryville, Tenn., she worked at Marshall FieldÕs in Chicago. She also conducted a radio interview program on KWPC in Muscatine and spent many years training Girl Scout leaders. She continued her work with the Girl Scouts following her retirement to Fairhope in 1972. She was an active supporter and participant with Meals on Wheels, which she and her husband founded in Baldwin County, Ala. She was a member of the Eastern Shore Art Center in Fairhope, the Mobile Chapter of PEO, which she founded, and the Methodist Church, Delta Delta Delta sorority and a founder of the Caldwell Family Association. Survivors include a daughter, Donelle Meyer ...[more]

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of Ames; a son, David C. Sedgley of Apex, N. C.; grandchildren, Demian Bourne of Chicago, Dr. Matthew Sedgley of Minneapolis, Minn., and Kellie Sedgley of Apex, Ala.; a sister, Charlene Moninger of Cedar Rapids.