Betty June Green Bradshaw was born on May 11, 1932, in Decaturville, Missouri, where her parents, Alvin C. Green and Margie York Green, owned and operated a General Store on Highway 5 between Lebanon and Camdenton. The store was sold in 1941, and the family moved to Camdenton and then Lebanon, Missouri, where she lived across the street from Bud, the boy who would become her husband of 71 years.
On August 17, 1954, Betty June Green married William Brandt Bradshaw in the First Baptist Church, Lebanon, Missouri.
She earned an Associate in Arts from Stephens College, a Bachelor of Journalism from The University of Missouri, Columbia, and a Master of Arts in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, California.
Betty June and Bud, her husband of 71 years, were the parents of four children. Betty June is survived by her children: Elizabeth Ann Bradshaw Gatto, Heidi Bradshaw Shepherd, Rebekah Bradshaw Anderson, and York William Bradshaw; four in-laws: William Patrick Gatto; Scott Paul Shepherd; Trent Wade Anderson; and Alissa McDonnell; ten grandchildren: Ashley Elizabeth McGowan and Nicole Rebekah Cherner, Chrystal Isabelle Bradshaw, Autymn June Elizabeth Bradshaw, and Joshua York Bradshaw, Stephanie Grace Shepherd, William Brandt Shepherd, Catherine Jean Shepherd, and Albert Thomas Shepherd, and Addison Elizabeth Anderson; spouses of the grandchildren: Ryan William McGowan, Joshua Kitt Cherner, Eric Bradly Kline, and Hannah Waldman Shepherd; five great-grandchildren: Ella June McGowan and Maia Ann McGowan, and Teagan Kitt Cherner, Gibson Green Cherner, and Emerson Cherner.
Other living members of Betty June’s family include: Debbie Green (widow of brother Larry Alvin Green) and nieces Rachel Green and Chelsea Lazaridou.
Betty’s parents and brother preceded her in death: Alvin C. Green died in 1995. Margie A. York Green died in 1996. Larry Green died in 2019.
Betty professed her faith in Jesus Christ and joined the Lebanon First Baptist Church in 1945. She grew up in a generation that embodied life with grit, perseverance, self-reliance, and independence. She inherited an ability to see the funny in life situations and passed this wit on to her children.
Betty June died in Kansas City, Kansas, on September 12, 2025.
Betty’s funeral will be at the Holman-Howe Funeral Home on September 20, 2025, at 12:30 pm. Graveside service will follow immediately at Mount Rose Memorial Park.
Arrangements are under the direction of Holman-Howe Funeral Home of Lebanon.
For more information or to visit the website go to www.holmanhowe.com.
