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Grove Stafford

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Grove Stafford and his wife, the former Emily Gaiennie (1903-1974), had four children. A son, David Grove "Red" Stafford, Jr. (1928-2017), was a graduate of the [[Tulane University]] Law School in [[New Orleans]] and member of the Alexandria firm Stafford, Stewart & Potter, formerly Stafford & Pitts. He served on the Louisiana Board of Ethics and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, of which he was the president in 1981.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=david-grove-stafford-jr&pid=187482107|title=David Grove Stafford, Jr.|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=December 10, 2017|accessdate=February 6, 2018}}</ref> The three other children were Emily Stafford Brame McNeely (1926-1997); Margaret "Patti" Daniel, and George Mason Graham Stafford (1940-1987).<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=142611245|title=David Grove Stafford, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref>h the Alexandria firm Stafford, Stewart and Potter,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=David&qmi=G&qn=Stafford&qcs=Alexandria%2C+LA&focusfirst=1|title=David G. Stafford|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref> Emily
Emily McNeely was first married to Frank Thebault Brame, Jr. (1919-1992) of Alexandria,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=173922270|title=Frank Thebault Brame, Jr. (son-in-law of Grove Stafford)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref> the nephew of Scott Miller Brame (1881-1947),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Brame&GSfn=Scott&GSmn=M&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=175402612&df=all&|title=Scott Miller Brame|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref> for whom the Scott M. Brame Middle School in Alexandria is named. Frank Brame's younger brother, Scott Overton Brame (c. 1928-2019), was another prominent Alexandrian, who in 1993 retired as the chief executive officer of the Central Louisiana Electric Company, for which he worked for forty-three years. CLECO honored Brame in 2010 by renaming the Rodemacher power station in Boyce in northwestern Rapides Parish as the Brame Energy Center in 2010. CLECO also established the Scott O. Brame/CLECO Endowed Chair in Finance at Louisiana State University at Alexandria.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=scott-overton-brame&pid=192053631&fhid=6588|title=Scott Overton Brame|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=April 3, 2019|accessdate=April 9, 2019}}</ref>
After FrankBrame's death, his widow, Emily, wed the Crowley physician, Thomas Ludlow McNeely, Jr., a native of Colfax in Grant Parish, a graduate of the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and a two-term member of the Crowley City Council, who died on his ninetieth birthday on October 26, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=171891768|title=Thomas Ludlow McNeely, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.co|accessdate=July 15, 2017}}</ref> Stafford's namesake grandson, Grove Stafford Brame, the sixth of seven children of Frank and Emily Brame, was a [[Dr. Pepper|Dr Pepper]] executive in [[Dallas]] and [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], who died in July 2017 at the age of fifty-nine in Boerne, west of [[San Antonio]], Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=grove-brame&pid=186045000|title=Grove Stafford Brame obituary|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=July 12, 2017|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref>
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