Visitation for Jared will be held Tuesday, July 2, 2024, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Hill Crest Memorial Funeral Home & Park, 601 Highway 80 East, Haughton, Louisiana 71037. Funeral services will occur Wednesday, July 3, 2024, at 10:00 AM at Hill Crest Memorial Funeral Home & Park.
Jared was born on January 31, 1983, to Richard Earl Marlowe, Jr. and Denise Barnard Pritchett in Shreveport, Louisiana.
After Jared graduated from Benton High School in 2002, he began working for his Uncle John Barnard in the construction and HVAC industry. A few years later Jared eventually found his calling when he went to work in the oil field. Jared, better known professionally as “Marlowe”, was a dedicated and hardworking service leader for DOC Energy Services. “Marlowe” cherished being part of a company and work crew that was a second family to him; DOC and the relationships he had with many of his co-workers were some of the most stable and trusting relationships he had in his life.
Even though work often required long hours and travel away from his hometown, Jared always made his way back to Benton to find time to spend with his family. Jared knew he could walk into his momma’s house anytime – day or night. And that was exactly what he did. He knew she would listen, she would be honest with him, and support him. Their mutual unconditional love built a special connection – one that even death cannot break.
It was no secret that “Uncle Jeed” was his favorite role in life. He had a gift of being the “coolest parent” to his nieces and nephews. His sisters adored the love shared between their children and their baby brother; “Uncle Jeed” was the perfect confidant and silliest clown in town for his nieces and nephews. Jared was loved so deeply by his sisters. He often visited unannounced and straight from the DOC yard – he knew in their homes he would be met with love, laughter and a safe place to just be himself. From the day he was born until the day he went to his heavenly home; he will always be their baby brother.
Jared struggled with depression and anxiety for most of his adult life; Severe depression is a cruel, invisible, punishing mental illness that had Jared trapped in a deep dark hell for years. That hell became too heavy, too dark, too much of all things awful – he lost all hope. An unspeakably destructive relationship and its external influences somehow superseded the love and support he had readily available from a multitude of positive, encouraging, stable resources offered by his family and friends. Jared, plagued by his feelings of worthlessness, found solace in Our Heavenly Father and therefore made a desperate decision to end his pain once and for all to go to his heavenly home where he would no longer feel hopeless at the foot of his Lord and Savior.
Mental Illness, the silent epidemic, has catastrophic consequences. Awareness cannot exist if we are not transparent about Jared’s story. Mental illness is real. We must talk about it. Pull the proverbial mask off and expose it. Without judgement or conditions, we must acknowledge it. If you or you know someone struggling, do everything in your power to accept support for yourself and offer support to others. It is too late for Jared. But it is not too late for a change to be made.
Let’s stop putting our loved ones to rest and put the stigma on mental illness to rest.
Jared joins in heaven his father, Richard Earl Marlowe, Jr. He is survived by his mother and dad, Denise and Michael Pritchett, his two sisters, Lindsey Marlowe Rodgers and husband Doug, and Alyssa Marlowe Keith. Nieces, Averie Keith and Greer Fortenberry, nephews, Jackson Kennedy and John-Mark Fortenberry, all of Benton, La, his “other mom”, Dianna Hill and best friend, Josh Phillips, both of Bossier City, and his inspirational mentor, Jayme Taylor of Haughton, La. Jared also leaves behind numerous aunts, uncles and cousins whom he loved dearly.
The family would like to thank Bossier Parish EMS, Willis Knighton Bossier’s nursing staff in the ER and ICU as well as the hospital’s security team, Dr. Tushar Pawar, MD; Keith White, APRN, FNP-C, and the friends and family that came to support Jared in his last hours here on Earth.
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