LTC Lucie Sherman Petty

Shreveport, LA - Funeral services honoring the life of Lucie Sherman Petty, 78, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, September 20, 2018, at Christ Memorial Episcopal Church in Mansfield, LA with Bishop Charles Jenkins officiating. Burial will follow at Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Keithville, LA. The family will receive 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 4^th Congressional District. Her paternal great grand father was the Hon. Elijah Parson Petty, a Texas lawyer and Confederate Captain in Walker's Greyhounds that fought in the Battle of Mansfield and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Pleasant Hill. Captain Petty's son, Don Green Petty, was a college professor and businessman that settled in Mansfield in 1906. This grandfather of Lt. Colonel Petty constructed the first electrical system in Mansfield and owned the original electric plant. His many business ventures included timber, banking, and oil and gas interests. Her father, Frank Petty also managed the electric company for his family. Lt. Colonel Petty graduated from Mansfield High School and received her B.S. in Nursing from Northwestern State University. As a registered nurse her career included serving the public in hospitals from the east coast to the west coast and everything from public health nursing to running hospital departments in Louisiana, Georgia and Arkansas. She entered the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam era and served until her retirement right after the first Desert Storm conflict. She received multiple rewards in the Army including: the Meritorious Service Medal; the Army Achievement Medal; and the Army Commendation Medal, among others. Ms. Petty attended both the Episcopal Church and her son's church Faith Bible Missionary Church. Ms. Petty's hobbies included gardening and a great love of pets. She was also a major stroke survivor and worked with stroke victims. Those left behind to cherish her memory are: son Al Sale and his wife Elaine of Shreveport, LA; daughter Noel Sale of New York, NY; sister Alannah Smith and her husband Ron of Fairfax, Virginia; grandchildren Henry Allyn "Hank" Sale, Jr, Ellen Sale Dominguez, Emily Sale; and great grandchildren Blaire Sale, Brylee Dominguez, Brenna Dominguez, and Henry Allyn Sale, III.