Louis Edwin Graff

Visited NOLA last week and took my daughter to Vaughn's. Krenkle and I remembered you, Nancy and Tex playing scrabble at the end of the bar - all now in a better place, still playing scrabble together in the afternoons I imagine. You are much missed Lou - I toasted you with one of your Kickapoo Joy Juices. You were my first friend in New Orleans and I so wish my daughter could have had the joy of knowing you. God Speed Lou. Keep an eye out for us fools down here. XX

Louis's portrait of my wife, Ruby Fay Lyons Parker, 1957, on a visit to New Orleans with two classmates from old Carr Central H.S in Vicksburg. She was 21 and Louis 26 at the time, and I am sure he fell in love with her blue eyes as I did. We were married for 53 years and she bore me four beautiful children, On her passing in March, 2018, I found this portrait and had to look up the artist. Selby Parker Sr.

www.freewebs.com/selbyparker/

Miss you so much. So much.

Lou, you were the old man in this mans youth. You were a good friend in a sea of people that I remember from that time.

30 years later you're still the coolest old man I ever met.

I could use a friend like you now


Look away...
Look away...

Still think of you often. Wish I had found time to visit NO one last time. I can't imagine you're not still hanging out there somewhere.

Your sis from another mother, Dorothy.

Thinking of you brother with sisterly love.

I still think of Lou often and cannot ignore the positive traits he helped solidify within me. Now I am 50, facing the challenge of my lifetime, and I wish I had his company. I was a lost young man and Lou took the time to be an example to me whenever he could. Lou was a first class friend

You were one of the most colorful leaves on our family tree! We all miss you.