A Memorial Service will be held today, Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. at St. James Place in the Duplantier Room in Baton Rouge for Mary Ida Hammond Faulkner, 88, who passed away on September 26, 2017.
Mary was born on September 2, 1929 in Beech Grove, Arkansas in the home of her parents, Buford and Myrtle Hammond. At the age of 17, she married her long time husband, Macon “Duke” Faulkner.
She move to Baton Rouge and has resided there for the last 33 years. She spent the 25 years prior to that in Crowley raising their sons with Duke on the LSU Rice Research Station. The epitome of a Southern Lady, she was a hostess to dignitaries from all over the world. She traveled the world for business and pleasure, including living in India when the boys were toddlers. She wasn’t one to sit idly by. She taught the English language in other countries while Duke was teaching them about rice production and infrastructure. When she saw a need she went after it. Which is why she ran for the Acadia Parish School Board Representative and served several terms working to affect change. She was only 4’11” but she could stand up against giants when she had her mind set on it and make things happen.
Mary is survived by her beloved husband of 71 years, Macon Duke Faulkner; two sons, Bryan and wife Rachel of Baton Rouge and Brett and wife Christy of Eunice; one sister, Phyllis Adams and her husband Glen of Paragould, Arkansas; three grandchildren, Joshua Faulkner and his wife Chen, Jeremy Faulkner and his wife Samantha and Mary Guillory and her husband Sandy; eight great-grandchildren, Mickaila Mier, Nicholas Faulkner, Nathan Guillory, Serenity Lockhart, William Faulkner, Isaac Guillory, Andre Guillory and Maddie Faulkner all of Eunice; and cousins Betty Hicks and Jay Hicks of Beech Grove, Arkansas.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Buford and Myrtle Hammond, daughter-in-law Dorothy Faulkner, and her great-granddaughter Kayleigh Faulkner.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in her memory to the Louisiana United Methodist Children’s Home and Family Services Inc., 904 DeVille Lane, Ruston, LA 71270 or online at donate.lmch.org.