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==Business success==

==Business success==

Shehee was born in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]],  a descendant of the "OId 300" families who settled [[Texas]] in 1824 with [[Stephen F. Austin]]. She moved to Shreveport during the [[Great Depression]] with her parents, the former Nellie Mae Peters (1901-1971) and Lonnie Benjamin Kilpatrick (1892-1956). Upon her mother's death in an airplane crash, Shehee became president and CEO of Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company and the family-owned Rose-Neath Funeral Homes, founded in 1936 by her father, a personal friend of Louisiana [[Governor]] [[Jimmie Davis]], who often visited in the Kirkpatrick home and took a special interest in Virginia. In lateryears, Shehee was heavily involved in the Davis birthday celebrations, the last of which was held in 2000, when the former two-term governor turned 101.10 When Shehee was a state senator, Davis [[Lobbying|lobbied]] her to make his trademark, "You Are Mu Sunshine," the official state song. 11

Shehee was born in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]],  a descendant of the "OId 300" families who settled [[Texas]] in 1824 with [[Stephen F. Austin]]. She moved to Shreveport during the [[Great Depression]] with her parents, the former Nellie Mae Peters (1901-1971) and Lonnie Benjamin Kilpatrick (1892-1956). Upon her mother's death in an airplane crash, Shehee became president and CEO of Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company and the family-owned Rose-Neath Funeral Homes, founded in 1936 by her father, a personal friend of Louisiana [[Governor]] [[Jimmie Davis]], who often visited in the Kirkpatrick home and took a special interest in Virginia. In later years, Shehee was heavily involved in the Davis birthday celebrations, the last of which was held in 2000, when the former two-term governor turned 101.10 When Shehee was a state senator, Davis [[Lobbying|lobbied]] her to make his trademark, "You Are Mu Sunshine," the official state song.[11]

Under Shehee's leadership, Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company increased in size to ten offices in Louisiana and Texas. Rose-Neath has twelve funeral homes and three Louisiana cemeteries.[11] Sheheewas for a time a partner with the pediatrician, Dr. Thomas E. Strain, Sr., and his son, Jimmy Strain, who served a term in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1968 to 1972, in the development of the Fountain Towers on Fairfield Avenue in Shreveport. [12] Shehee was the chair emeritus of the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana, which was renamed in her honor in 1996. 13] She was a member of the American Council of Life Insurance and chair of the Louisiana Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association.

 

Under Shehee's leadership, Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company increased in size to ten offices in Louisiana and Texas. Rose-Neath has twelve funeral homes and three Louisiana cemeteries.[11] Sheheewas for a time a partner with the pediatrician, Dr. Thomas E. Strain, Sr., and his son, Jimmy Strain, who served a term in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1968 to 1972, in the development of the Fountain Towers on Fairfield Avenue in Shreveport.[12] Shehee was the chair emeritus of the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana, which was renamed in her honor in 1996. [13] She was also a member of the American Council of Life Insurance and chair of the Louisiana Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association.

 

=="First Woman" designations==

=="First Woman" designations==