“No matter how temporary you are in a house – put curtains up and make it a home by the first night.” The dust never settled under Doris (Dede) Laferriere - Mousseau’s feet who passed from this life of natural causes on February 1, 2021. Dede was an incredible woman and mother. While traveling in the military with her husband, Paul W. Mousseau for twenty-eight years she raised and educated six children. After her children were grown, she set out to pursue her own lifelong desire of a career in education and earned two Bachelor degrees, two Masters degrees and was close to completing her Doctorate when she passed. She was active in the educational community as a mother and as an educator and taught in both the University and Community College systems after earning her degrees. Her passion until her passing was her family and educating students to enable them to accomplish their highest dreams. Dede encouraged everyone to follow their dreams regardless of age or personal circumstance. She set such an example that many of the people’s lives she touched, including most of her own children, pursued careers in personal fields of interest late in their own careers when the more traditional track would be retirement. It became her ‘raison d’etre’.
Dede is survived by five children, fourteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren who will now no longer have their emails grammatically edited for them and have misplaced modifiers pointed out. But mostly her belief in all of our abilities to achieve whatever we chose to will be missed. She was a lady, an academician and most of all the greatest advocate for anyone needed her. Life has lost out on a tour de force and heaven is now being reorganized by a woman who never said quit and lived out that statement until moments before she passed.
She will be interred in Arlington Cemetery with her husband who predeceased her.
Please direct donations in her honor to the Dede Mousseau Memorial at St. Jude’s Charity. The charity can be found at https://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/GiftFunds/GiftFunds?px=7081912&pg=personal&fr_id=39300
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