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Betty Jean Lathan
Betty Jean Lathan taught in the public school system for thirty-fi ve years and retired as a department
chair of the English and foreign language department at Midland Freshman. Sh...view moreBetty Jean Lathan taught in the public school system for thirty-fi ve years and retired as a department
chair of the English and foreign language department at Midland Freshman. She started teaching at
one of the local Midland Charter Schools for the last four years. Currently she is teaching part time at
Midland Academy Charter School as a speech communication teacher.
She was born in Marlin, Texas and started her early education there until her family moved to the
West Texas area where her father served as a United Methodist pastor.
She is a graduate of West Texas State University in Canyon, Texas where she received her Bachelor
of Science degree in secondary English and Speech in 1972. She received her Master of Education from
Sul Ross State University in Al Pine, Texas in 1997.
She is the daughter of the late Rev. Wilbart Bledsoe and Mrs. Daphinie Bledsoe. She was married
to the late Rev. Robert Earl Lathan for thirty-three years. She has one son, Robert Antoine Lathan and
two grandsons, Raylan Azeem and Braylon Uriah Lathan. Mrs. Lathan believes that students must
follow their dreams and never stop believing in themselves.
Mrs. Lathan is the author of four children books: Sierra, Th e Unwanted Cat; Th e Failed Plans of
Matilda and the Nurse Th at Caused Unhappiness; Are You Sure Th at’s My Child? and Th e Duck Th at
Would Not Quack.view less