On November 15, the life of our dear proud icon in the Shreveport-Bossier City area comes to an end. She was a great lady! Not only was she beautiful and elegant on your first encounter with her, but she was a kind, gracious, and caring individual always willing to lend a helping hand to help guide someone in the right direction for the right reasons and circumstances. She was an only child and grew up very strong and independent. After a failed marriage and a young son to take care of she ventured out to Shreveport to find a job.
She started working at the Telephone Company and continued to work there until her retirement after 31 years and one month. They were married in , started their life together and settled in their new home in Bossier City. Their first and only child, a daughter, was born three years later. The restaurant took off and became a hit. She took on yet another mantle--historical restoration. She acquired several residential homes and began working to transform them into perfect doll houses for rental purposes.
And she even changed their own cottage residence into something unbelievable and reminiscent of a southern plantation home. Her ideas were spectacular and she was told by so many people that she should have been a builder, or at the very least, an interior designer.
After Bill passed away suddenly in Marie kept going with her three positions, Telephone, BBQ and restorations and added another hat as landlady for her rental properties.
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What a business woman she had become They became close friends and companions for forty years. They were both very creative who became "partners in projects"! He helped Marie to complete her dreams of having a beautiful, one of a kind residence, and public areas for people to appreciate and enjoy. Mayor George Dement praised her and said that Bossier deserved many more like her to take care of our city. In the year , the Master Gardeners of Louisiana asked her to be one of the showcase gardens for her beautiful English Garden across the street from her home filled with flowers and fruit trees surrounding giant columns that appeared to look like the ruins of a plantation in South Louisiana.
