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4 unusual facts about Bossier City


Billy the Exterminator

The show follows the professional life of Billy Bretherton, an expert in the field of pest control and the proprietor of Vexcon Animal and Pest Control in Benton, Louisiana, which serves the Shreveport-Bossier metropolitan area.

Blayne Weaver

Blayne Weaver (born April 9, 1976) is an American actor and writer, born in Bossier City, Louisiana.

Jimmy Upton

He was survived by his mother; a son Timothy French "Tim" Upton (born 1971), a New Orleans lawyer, and his wife, Patricia Upton; a daughter, Allison Upton Cooper and husband, Brett Cooper, of Jena in La Salle Parish; sister, Ellen Upton Madden of Bossier City, and one grandchild.

Leonnatus Anteas

The three-year-old colt made his next start in the September 15 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, Louisiana, finishing fourth.


Allen Bares

Such feminist groups such as the National Organization for Women, subsequently headed by the Louisiana native Kim Gandy, formerly of Bossier City, successfully targeted Bares and a pro-life House member, fellow Democrat Carl Newton Gunter, Jr., of Rapides Parish, for defeat.

Carl Gunter, Jr.

The National Organization for Women's national secretary, Kim Gandy, originally from Bossier City, directed a nine-month-long "grassroots organizing and recruiting effort" against the bill.

Frank Fulco

Fulco's colleagues included future U.S. Representative and Governor Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III, then of Bossier City, future U.S. District Judge Tom Stagg of Shreveport, and Robert G. Pugh, a Shreveport lawyer who advised three governors and wrote much of the section on local and state government in the Constitution.

Fred L. Lowery

Fred Lynn Lowery (born March 16, 1943) is the retired former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana, whose Sunday sermons under the title The First Word were broadcast between 1983 and 2013 on KTBS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, and on several cable television outlets.

Grambling, Louisiana

Pinkie C. Wilkerson, African American member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lincoln, Bienville, and Union parishes from 1992 until her death in a six-vehicle accident in Bossier City in 2000.

J. Lomax Jordan

Feminist groups such as the National Organization for Women, subsequently headed by the Louisiana native Kim Gandy, formerly of Bossier City, targeted Bares and a pro-life House member, Democrat Carl Newton Gunter, Jr., of Rapides Parish for defeat.

Max T. Malone

Among those who sought to succeed Malone were outgoing District 9 State Representative Billy Montgomery of Bossier City, who was term-limited himself as a state House member, and Montgomery's former House colleague, B.L. "Buddy" Shaw, a retired Shreveport educator and school board member.

New Orleans Handicap

Due to flooding as a result of Hurricane Katrina, the 2006 edition of the New Orleans Handicap was run at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, Louisiana.

Norby Chabert

On February 2, 2013, the Chaberts, Leonard J., Marty J., and Norbert N., were inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, along with several other individuals, including former Sheriff Leonard R. "Pop" Hataway of Grant Parish, the late State Senator Charles C. Barham, and George Dement, the former mayor of Bossier City.

Walter O. Bigby

Adley returned to the legislature in 2003, when he won the special election held to determine a successor for Foster Campbell of Bossier City, who resigned the position upon election to the Louisiana Public Service Commission.

Wisner, Louisiana

One of Swayzer's descendants, Frances Swayzer Conley, an English professor at Bossier Parish Community College in Bossier City and a resident of Shreveport, has written a pictorial family history entitled Home To Holly Grove: Cherishing Our Rich Heritage.


see also

Bossier

Pierre Bossier, French explorer for whom Bossier City and Parish are named

Dirtfoot

The recording took place at Wade Correctional Facility in Homer, LA and included video shoots at Citizen National Bank in Bossier City, the Bayliss home in Shreveport, the Voodoo Lounge in downtown Shreveport, and the Berry home in Shreveport.

Fred L. Lowery

On the occasion of Lowery's announcement of retirement, Louisiana State Representative Jeff R. Thompson of Bossier City introduced a unanimously-approved House resolution praising Lowery for his 30-year ministry at First Baptist Bossier.

Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker presented Lowery, who in youth had aspirations of flying, with United States Air Force command pilot wings which Walker, a retired Air Force colonel had once worn.

Jeff R. Thompson

Thompson was elected to the House in 2011, when the term-limited incumbent, fellow Republican Jane H. Smith of Bossier City, ran instead, unsuccessfully, for the Louisiana State Senate.