Funeral services announced for longtime New Orleans civic activist Barbara Lacen Keller
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Barbara Lacen Keller, left, talks with Ireadia Taylor, center and Monalisa Hunter at the conclusion of a news conference at the City Council Chambers in New Orleans Monday June 19, 2006. Hunter and Taylor both lost children in a weekend shooting that claimed five lives. Mayor Ray Nagin asked the governor Monday to send National Guard troops to patrol his city after a violent weekend in which five teenagers were shot to death and a man was fatally stabbed in argument over beer. Hunter lost two of her four children when sons Arsenio Hunter, 16, and Marquis Hutner, 19 were killed in the shooting. Taylor lost her 19-yera-old son Iruan Taylor. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin hugs Monalisa Hunter at the conclusion of a news conference at the City Council Chambers in New Orleans Monday June 19, 2006. Nagin asked the governor Monday to send National Guard troops to patrol his city after a violent weekend in which five teenagers were shot to death and a man was fatally stabbed in argument over beer. Hunter lost two sons Arsenio Hunter, 16, and Marquis Hunter, 19, in a shooting over the weekend. Joining Hunter and Nagin is Barbara Lacen Keller, Arsenio Hunter's godmother. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
General Daniel R. Hokanson, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, talks to Barbara Lacen-Keller, chairman of the board of the Dryades YMCA, as he tours National Guard operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in New Orleans, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Memorial services have been scheduled for Barbara Lacen Keller, a longtime New Orleans civic activist who died Monday.
Memorial Service
Thursday, January 26
Viewing 6:30-7:30 p.m., memorial service to follow
Located at Mardi Gras World (1380 Port of New Orleans Place)
Funeral Service
Saturday, January 28
Viewing 8-10 a.m.
Funeral at 10 a.m.
Jazz procession to follow
Located at New Home Family Worship Center (1605 Robert C. Blakes, Sr. Drive)
Loved ones say Keller passed after a brief illness. She recently retired after a long career working in different capacities at New Orleans city hall and served on a host of boards, including the Jazz and Heritage Foundation, WWOZ, and Preservation Resource Center.
Keller was a staunch advocate of the city’s second line culture and was a member of the Lady Buck Jumpers Social Aid and Pleasure Club. She also served as a member and chaplain of the Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale’ Mardi Gras organization.
Keller was 76 years old.
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