Lady Charles Stacy

Graveside services for Lady Charles Caldwell Stacy will be held at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, August 29, 2021 at Chapelwood Memorial Gardens in Vivian, LA under the direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home, Vivian, LA. Lady Charles Caldwell Stacy was born ninety-five years ago, on August 22, 1926 in Wickes, Arkansas to Charles David Caldwell and Lady Boots Kirby Caldwell one year to the date of their marriage, August 22, 1925 in Mena, Arkansas. After moving to Fort Smith, Arkansas at the age of three, Lady began a seventeen-year career of solo tap dancing; her father, Mr. Caldwell, played the drums at the lessons to pay for Lady to take dance. Crying the entire time, she began tap dancing at the Fort Smith Theater at the age of three. She also attended a Catholic School in Fort Smith. Moving to Rodessa in 1935, she began taking lessons from Stella Summeringdyke. Rodessa and Vivian had many musical variety shows directed by Tom Bolick, and she did her solo tap dancing in all of them. In 1939, Rodessa built the new Rodessa Red Bull High School. Lady played first chair trumpet in the first Rodessa band, directed by Mr. Rex Nelson. She also played San Antonio Rose on piano. In 1943, Lady was Homecoming Queen for the Rodessa Red Bulls. After graduation, Lady enrolled in LSU Baton Rouge and joined Beta Sigma sorority. Leaving LSU, she enrolled in Centenary College in Shreveport where she was the girl's school bus driver transporting the girls from Dodd College (now First Baptist Church School) to Centenary. In 1944, Lady was a member of Kollege Kapers at Centenary College, a variety show of talented Centenary students, who toured small towns in North Louisiana. This ended her career of tap dancing, but she later became an accomplished ballroom dancer later in life. In 1946, Lady married CJ Stacy from Atlanta, TX after he returned home from World War II. They were married by Reverend Jack Cooke at Rodessa Methodist Church, where she was also baptized. The couple lived in Atlanta, TX their entire fifteen years of marriage. Lady began her working career at the Bank of Vivian in Vivian, La. She also worked at Standard Oil in Pine Island, LA, and then on to Shreveport with Reese Sullivan of Wickes, Arkansas, Placid Oil in both Shreveport and Dallas. After 60 years of supporting herself, she retired from Steak and Ale restaurant as national Payroll Supervisor. She loved to travel to places such as Acapulco and Honolulu. Her past residences were Dallas, TX, the banks of Caddo Lake on Plum Point Road in Oil City and, also, Bossier City, Louisiana. Her last six years have been spent at Live Oak Retirement Center. As she moved many times in Dallas, her loving family would travel to Dallas to move her. She never forgot every family member's birth, birthdays, etc. She delighted when visiting her family in Louisiana, treating them to dinner at Steak and Ale in Shreveport. Lady also adored her constant companions, her poodles, especially "Fluffy." Even though there were six years between the two sisters, Lady and Clare, the two had a special bond and grew up dancing together, even when Lady didn't always want her little sister tagging along. She even encouraged Clare to choose Furniss Hood as her husband. Early on in Clare and Furniss' marriage, when they couldn't afford to go out, Lady and her husband, Stacy, would often take them as their guests to dinner, wrestling matches and other events. She was a wonderful aunt to her sister's children and grandchildren, often hosting them at her home in Dallas most summers. She is preceded in death by her parents and survived by her only sister, Mrs. Clare Kirby Caldwell Hood, special brother-in-law Furniss Quinn Hood, Sr., nephew Furniss Quinn Hood, Jr., and wife Mrs. Sheri Hood, niece Mrs. Honey Hood Martin and husband, John Martin, niece Mrs. Stacy Hood Weber and husband, Reverend Doctor Rob Weber. She is also survived by great-nieces Mrs. Melissa Clare Chumbley Fisher, husband Josh Fisher, Dr. Mandy Chumbley Crow, and husband Kelley Crow. She is also survived by great-great nieces Mary Clare and Elizabeth Quinn Fisher, Caroline Quinn Crow and great-great nephew Aaden Clinton Crow, beloved and devoted friend, Anita Katzberg, who called her mom. Honorary pallbearer is John Martin.