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Mary Mccune Molaison

September 8, 1927 — August 23, 2020

Mary McCune Molaison passed away peacefully on Sunday August 23, 2020 short of her 93rd birthday. She was born on September 8, 1927 in New Orleans, LA. Beloved wife for 49 years of the late Louis Joseph Molaison, loving mother of Brian Molaison (Barbara) and David Molaison (Betsy Ann); daughter of the late Emmett David McCune and the late Mary Ellen Branagan McCune; sister of the late Ellen McCune Cartier and the late Kathleen McCune; grandmother of Amy Molaison Adams (Michael), Jason Molaison, Daniel Molaison, and Jonathan Repetz (Diane); great-grandmother of Evelyn Molaison, Madelyn Molaison, Ethan Adams, Dylan Adams, and Margot Repetz. Mary was a resident of Gretna, LA until she moved to New Iberia, LA in 2017. She retired from the New Orleans Parish School Board after serving 25 years as secretary at Belleville Elementary School. She was a member of the Louisiana Retired Teachers Association. A longtime member of the Gretna Sportsman Club, she enjoyed playing cards with the ladies on Monday nights. She was an alumna of St. Mary’s Dominican High School. Special thanks to Garden View Assisted Living Staff in New Iberia and Amadisys Hospice Care staff who lovingly cared for Mary. As a young girl and youth, she proudly worked in her father’s drugstore on Metairie Road. Her father was a pharmacist and she quickly learned the ins and outs of serving customers and ensuring their prescriptions were correctly filled. One of her vivid, although embarrassing memories, was spilling a coke on a secret service agent assigned to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt, who was president at the time, was shuttled into her father’s drugstore when a train crossing Metairie Road impeded his motorcade from continuing. So, he and his secret service agents were invited to wait out the crossing of the train in Pharmacist McCune’s drugstore. After Mary spilled a coke on the secret service agent sitting with President Roosevelt, her father banished her to the backroom. Much to her dismay she never got an autograph from the president. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Mass at Mothe Funeral Home, 2100 Westbank Expressway in Harvey, on Monday, August 31, 2020 at 1:30PM. Interment at Westlawn Memorial Park in Gretna. Visitation will begin on Monday at 12PM until service time. Please follow all COVID 19 mandates and maintain social distancing and all visitors are required to wear their own masks. Please visit WWW.MOTHEFUNERALS.COM to view and sign the online guestbook.
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Monday, August 31, 2020

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