Anna Marie Gray Land

Mrs. Anna Marie Gray Land passed away early Tuesday morning at the Brookdale facility where she had resided for several years in Bossier City. Family graveside service will be 10 am Friday, February 2nd at Centuries Memorial on Mansfield Road with the Reverend Steve Riall of Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church officiating. A visitation will be held later in the day from 2 to 4 pm Friday at Saint Andrew at 3625 North Market in Shreveport.

Mrs. Land, known as BeBe to her grandchildren and eventually to her whole family, was born in Monroe, LA on February 15th, 1925 to Lola (Just) and Oscar Gray. BeBe had one brother, the late Bill Gray of El Dorado, AR and one sister, the late Martha Davis of Malvern, AR.

Anna Marie married Carl Jack Land in San Diego, CA in 1944, leaving Bossier and riding a train out to the west coast to wed prior to Jack's leaving for the Pacific theater in World War II. Jack survived the war and returned to Anna Marie and the pair were together 63 years until his passing in 2007. They would rear three sons who survive her. Ben and wife Julia Claire of Dixie; Gene and wife Lynda of Bossier City and Joe of Utopia, TX.

While raising her family Anna Marie was primarily a home maker, but worked as a switchboard operator for Lion Oil Company in El Dorado, AR and sold real estate for several firms in and around her Shreveport home. She enjoyed the outdoors, keeping a boat with her husband on Cross Lake while living on Michigan Avenue in the 1950s and later while living on Lake Murval near Carthage TX, following Jack's retirement from Otis and Westinghouse Elevators.

BeBe is survived by six grand children and 13 great-grand children including Clint Land and wife Jennifer parents of Kelly Brock, Sarah Beth and Casey Land of Shreveport, Carol Beth Land Ivory, parent of Ella Ivory of Houston, TX, Shannon Robertson and husband Patrick, parents of Michael and Kate Robertson of Blanchard, and Kendal Land and wife Lauren, parents of Jackson, Carlisle and Evie Land of Longview, TX.

Memorials may be made to Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church, Shreveport.