Billie Bradfield

This introduction was written before the October 31, 2024 installation. References to future plans and personal circumstances reflect that time.

I was born into a Masonic Family in Fort Smith, Arkansas and I can remember as a young child waiting for my dad at the lodge with my mom.  We moved from Arkansas during my Junior High School years to Long Beach, California where I joined Rainbow Girls. I enjoyed that membership until I was of the age to join Eastern Star.

I lived in the Los Angeles area until I retired from Pacific Bell.   Then Bob and I moved to Bullhead City, Arizona.  In Arizona I started attending the Eastern Star Chapter and really enjoyed the friends we made in both the Chapter and Lodge.

Bob and I have four children, a son Jim and three daughters Vivian, Jill, and Jennifer.  Who have made us the proud grandparents of eight grandchildren who live around the country: Corey, Benjamin, Jordan, Maddie, Allie, Rick, Ethan, and Luke.  Currently, the most important member of our household is a Shih Tzu named ‘Murphy’.

I was initiated in Eastern Star in 1966 and I am a member of Sunrise Chapter #60, Bullhead City, Kingman Chapter #17, Kingman, and Lake Havasu Chapter #61, all located in Arizona on the Colorado River.  I have held the offices of Worthy Matron in Sunrise Chapter, Grand Representative to Wisconsin. I was appointed to the office of Grand Marshal in the Grand Chapter of Arizona, and was elected Worthy Grand Matron of Arizona to service during the “Journey of Friendship Session 2008-2009”.  I was honored to be elected as a General Grand Chapter Officer at the Forty Eighth Triennium in 2015 to the office of Right Worthy Associate Grand Conductress.  I have travelled through the offices and look forward to being installed on October 31, 2024, as Most Worthy Grand Matron with Brother Mike Berry as Most Worthy Grand Patron.