Frances Marion Waters Bolen

Feb 6, 1936- July 30, 2025

Wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, aunt, & dear friend.

Frances always joked about her first real job, she told everyone she was a call girl. She actually worked the switch board for the telephone company before marrying her love, Garnet “Bo” Bolen. Frances loved children. After hers were all grown or in school she worked in day cares in the babies room at ABC, Briar Patch & Lil’Rascals for many years.

Her hobbies were sewing canvas tissue boxes & tending to her flowers. In the 60”s she sewed all her daughter’s clothes & made Barbie doll clothes as well. She also loved baking sweet potato bread for her friends that she met almost everyday during the week while walking in the mall.

She is proceeded in death by her husband, Garnet H Bolen (Bo) after 61 years of marriage; adopted daughter, Lou Wanna Faulk Parra; and granddaughter, Elizabeth Dyan Bolen Johnson. Also her parents, Clair Luther & Mable Clare Waters; brothers, Kenneth, Keith, & Allan Waters; sisters, Mable Muhlbach, Lois Seiler, Joyce Downey & Ruth King; & several brothers-in-laws & sisters-in-laws, nieces & nephews.

She is survived by her children: daughters, Dalana Bolen & partner John Manuel of Westlake, La, and Julia Myers & partner Greg Johnson of Leesville, La; son, Jeffrey Bolen & wife Belinda Kay of Westlake, La; grandsons, Charles Myers & wife Hannah of Westlake, La. & Nicholas Myers of New Orleans, La; grandson-in-law, Todd Johnson & partner Jill Fleming-Moore of Westlake, La; great grandsons, Caden Johnson & Walker Tuttle of Westlake, La; great granddaughter, Molly Johnson of Westlake, La; sister, Shirley Trout of Rapid City, South Dakota; brothers, Ev Waters of Mareno Valley Ca & Jerry Waters (Bonnie) of Burlingame Ks; numerous nieces & nephews & adopted daughters, Anne Robichaux, Debbie Richard, Sharon Edwards, Sharon Perrodin, & Vicki Sensat.

There will be no funeral, cremation is entrusted to Johnson Funeral Home.

Family members will gather to rejoin Garnet & Frances’ ashes & spread them in a private ceremony.

In lieu of flowers please donate to your favorite charity or animal shelters.