Shreveport, LA – Funeral services honoring the life of Lucie Sherman Petty, 78, was held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, September 20, 2018, at Christ Memorial Episcopal Church in Mansfield, LA with Bishop Charles Jenkins officiating. Burial was followed at Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Keithville, LA. The family received friends at Rose-Neath Mansfield Funeral Home on Wednesday, September 19, from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Lucie was born November 18, 1939, in Mansfield, LA to Frank and Emma Elam Petty, Sr. and entered into rest on September 16, 2018, in Shreveport, LA. Preceding Lucie in death were her parents, sister Charlotte Conradi, and brother Frank Albert Petty, Jr. She is the fifth generation to be born in Mansfield, where her family has lived since 1850. Her great grandfather on the maternal side was the Hon. J.B. Elam, the first Mayor of Mansfield, Speaker of the Confederate House and Congressman from the 4th Congressional District.
