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Connie Bilyeu, beloved Springfield music teacher, remembered as a mentor, friend Claudette Riley, Springfield News-Leader © Submitted photo Connie Bilyeu
Tributes filled social media Monday following the death of a beloved Springfield music teacher and the revered matriarch of a musically gifted Ozarks family.
Consuelo Lane Bilyeu, known to friends and family as Connie, was 78. She died shortly before 2 a.m. Monday of complications from COVID-19.
Bilyeu, a gifted singer, grew up performing in church and with the gospel group called the Waymakers.
She taught vocal music for more than 30 years in Springfield, starting at Pipkin Middle School. She taught at Central High School through the 1970s, moving to Kickapoo High School in 1980.