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The Connie Bilyeu Memorial Concert is free and open to the public. A fundraiser is also being held to raise money for scholarships.

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, gr...