Betty Jo Caldwell Feist
Jan. 21, 1936 ~ Oct. 30, 2016
Betty Jo Caldwell Feist, born Jan. 21, 1936, in Pontiac, Michigan to Charlton and Olive Caldwell, died in her sleep on Oct. 30, 2016, in Marble Falls.
Betty Jo, or BJ, loved to laugh and she loved country music. She lived many years in Bakersfield, California during the creation of the Bakersfield sound listening to music of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens as they were first writing the music and shaping the sound that would greatly influence American music. The last songs she requested that her son-in-law, john Arthur martinez play for her on her deathbed were “Silver Wings” and “Swinging Doors” by Haggard.
She was preceded in death by husband Bobbie Drew Feist, and siblings, May Caldwell and Robert Caldwell.
