The Alabama Singing Women and Alabama Singing Men presented the 2018 Paul Stewart Lifetime Service Award to Jane Burdeshaw the evening of Nov. 12.
Burdeshaw is the founding director of the Alabama Baptist Children’s Honor Choir, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. She is also part of Alabama Singing Women and served as its first president.
A graduate of Blue Mountain College in Mississippi, Burdeshaw taught school for 35 years and is a past recipient of Alabama’s Teacher of the Year.
She also is a member of the Alabama State Teacher’s Hall of Fame and wrote character curriculum that has been used in school systems across the state.
Burdeshaw authored a book on praying for children and is a board member at Character at Heart.
Her contribution to music education was recognized by LifeWay Christian Resources. She has been a writer for children’s music curriculum and has taught children’s choir workshops in many states as well as overseas.
She is currently an active member of First Baptist Church, Montgomery, where she sings in the Sanctuary Choir and Ichthus Ensemble.
Burdeshaw and her husband, Ray, married in 1964 and have four children — three living and one in heaven. (TAB)
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