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JD Fortenberry and Connie Marie Demarest
"In Remembrance of My Mother"
Greetings,
J.D. Fortenberry
[photo], my step-father who was born and raised in Neshoba County, MS, also
of my mother Connie Marie Demarest/Fortenberry was born in Grand Rapides,
Michigan...she grew up in Baton Rouge, LA. . She died in Leake Co., MS, but made
her home with my step-father in Neshoba Co., MS. Before JD and my Mother
married, JD was married to Imogene Shoffner. I am attaching the
photo. Also, I
have listed below a poem, written by me for my Mother about a week before she
died of which I had someone read at her funeral.
J.D. Fortenberry - 25 Jan 1940 - 03 Nov 1998 (son of William Henry Fortenberry
and Martha Elizabeth Mixon)
Connie Marie Demarest - 07 Jan 1945 - 08 Oct 2004 (daughter of Rudd Warren
Demarest and Audie Ruth Hoffpauir)
J.D. and my mother Connie married on 27 Jun 1987 in Laurel, MS.
Connie Marie Demarest was born in Grand Rapides, Michigan...she grew up in Baton Rouge, LA. She died in Leake Co., MS in
Madden at Hospice In His Hands.
J.D. Fortenberry was born in Neshoba Co., MS and died in Neshoba Co., MS in
Union at Laird Hospital.
J.D. Fortenberry was a truck driver most of his life. Before my Mother and J.D.
married, she was a waitress in Tickfaw, Tangipahoa Parish, LA.
"Standing Beside Her"
As a little girl with pigtails
I stood by my mother's side,
Hanging onto her skirt tail
With all my little might.
As a teenager with blue jeans
My stubbornness stood strong against her,
Standing strong and defiant,
Wanting to do what I'd rather.
As a young woman newly married,
Wanting advice of life and love,
She stood before me, answered me truthfully,
And for me that was enough.
As a lady with my husband and children
I stood at my mother's bedside as she slept,
Taking care of her as if she were my own child,
And making sure her health was kept.
Today I feel the kind of pain
that my own heart cannot stand,
And that's why God makes only one mother
for every child to tend.
For now I'll tell my mother goodbye,
As I stand beside her grave,
Knowing tomorrow will be better,
Since God has her with him
Within the heavens that he made.
"In Remembrance of My Mother"
By:
Shelly Collins - Belk
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![J.D. Fortenberry [photo]](images/JD_Fortenberry_and_Connie_Marie_Demarest.JPG){kind=link}