Connie Jan Kendrick

Connie Jan Kendrick, age 61, of Bossier City, LA was born May 12, 1964, in Shreveport to Marvin E. Kendrick, Jr and Wanda Boyd Kendrick. She passed from this life May 17, 2025, in Shreveport, LA.
After graduating Parkway High School in 1982, Connie attended LSUS, then chose a career in the medical field. She joined the U.S.A.F. Reserves and got training as a surgical Technologist, serving six years as a Reservist at Barksdale AFB. For ¾ of a year she studied to become a nurse at Northwestern but due to surgery, was unable to perform clinicals and was dropped from her studies by the school. She then received her civilian surgical technology certificate from Bossier Parish Community College. The next 15 years she was employed by Willis Knighton Medical Center South. In 2003 she remarried and moved to Redmond, Oregon, where she was employed by Central Oregon Radiology Associates for 10 years. In May of 2015 she moved back home and lived with her parents. It was soon apparent that she was in the early stages of Dementia- at age 50! Over time she was finally diagnosed with early onset severe Alzheimer's, as well as frontotemporal dementia. After nine and a half years of in-home care, she resided at Montclair Chateaus (Memory Care), Shreveport, where she was visited almost daily by her Mom. Her sister Karen helped oversee her care there over her six month stay and assisted in doctor's appointments, etc. in a years-long effort to get help for her sister. Daughter Amanda was especially close to her Mom and made numerous trips from Oregon for weeklong visits with her.
Connie loved her work in the operating room and made some lifelong friends there. She enjoyed taking her two daughters on trail rides and rafting on an Arkansas river with friends from work. She liked fishing and could catch fish when no one else could. Travel, elk hunting, boating, and water-skiing with her family on Caddo Lake were among her favorite activities. Music always meant a lot to her. She was in her Junior High and High School bands, playing alto sax, and was a majorette in both. She enjoyed playing softball in High School. Connie owned and loved several dogs over the years, but "sugar" most of all.
Connie's Christian faith helped her through all of the rough patches, disappointments and challenges in her life, including these last 10 or more years. As a girl she accepted Christ as her Savior, was baptized, and joined Waller Baptist Church.
She is preceded in death by her father, Marvin E. Kendrick, Jr., her beloved Mama Boyd and Granny.
Survivors include daughter Amanda Mitchell Janzen (Jason) of Portland, Oregon; daughter Heather Brannan Evans (Matthew) of Santa Maria, CA; grandsons Aiden and Oliver Evans; sisters Cindy French and Karen Richardson; mother Wanda Boyd Kendrick, all of Bossier City as well as a number of much loved nieces and nephews.