Little did she realize but by taking the road less traveled at that time circumstances landed her with two children and single. Although she found companionship that wasn't the equivalent of finding a person to share her children with. In her mind she didn't need anyones input on raising her children and she did a good job on her own. She suffered through our horrifing teen years in a way I only hope to duplicate with my own. She was our everything and when she left this life behind she took with her a part of our heart that nothing may repair or replace. She lived fastly during her youth and was robbed her twilight years. My only peace comes from the two beautiful footprints she left this world with, me and my brother along with our 8 children that she was around just long enough to meet the last of. She deserved to finally get some peace in a country meadow and that's precicely where I hope she is. Under a shade tree with some sweet iced tea and a good book.  Her heaven. 

Born the youngest of six children in the rural town of Palmetto (locally known as Bayou Rouge) Louisiana. Daughter of Vera Arnold Dupre and Korean War veteran Leroy Dupre. It was definitely a simpler time without a lot of money. They lived in a self-described fixer upper shotgun house that never seemed to get completed. It was not even equipped with running water or indoor plumbing. So she was raised in a Time that baths were taken outside in a washtub as well as clothes washed on a washing board. There was an outhouse on the property aswell. The clothes they had were made by my grandmother from different Fabrics that the ladies in the town would share. A member of the Pentecostal Church they always wore dresses and were never allowed to cut their hair. Beings that she grew up with four older brothers and her only sister was 12 years her senior she was definitely a tomboy. But at the age of 9 she began to fill in and it was no longer acceptable for her to play with the boys leading her to a love of reading. She really found that she enjoyed solitude and quiet at that stage in her life and I believe she longed for that same quiet solitude throughout all of her life.