Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....KIDD, NELDA EMORY  May 15, 2024
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NEWS STAR WORLD - MAY 30, 2024
NELDA EMORY KIDD

Nelda Emory Kidd was born June 27th, 1935 in Choudrant, Louisiana (aka Tremont) 
and died peacefully at her home in Monroe on Wednesday, May 15th, 2024.

She was pre-deceased by her husband, Paul Henry Kidd, by her son, Paul Henry 
Kidd II, by her parents, Malcolm & Lurlee Emory, and by her brother, Michael 
Alfonso Emory.

Her survivors include her daughter, Elizabeth Caroline Kidd (Wade); her son, 
Christopher Cook Kidd (Wendy); her daughter, Catherine Harrison Kidd Hepner 
(Rich); and her two grandchildren, Joshua Reese White, and Adeline Rose Hepner.

She also had devoted nieces and nephews who loved her. James, Debbie, Karen, and 
Bill, to name just a few.

Our mother was spectacular. To know her was to enjoy life a bit more. She could 
always create a design that was unexpected. She had a unique outlook that no one 
else envisioned. What people saw with merely their eyes, she experienced in body 
and soul. She felt music. She felt art. She lived in books. Her favorites were 
Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, Rosamunde Pilcher, Robert Frost, Ted 
Sorenson, among many. She loved antiques and had several of her own antique 
stores over the years in locations ranging from her first store in Ruston to her 
last in West Monroe. She and our father proudly had the first and only Bobby 
Kennedy Senior(!!) presidential headquarters in Monroe in 1968. Together they 
were constant champions of the underdog.

She loved her family, her friends, her neighbors, her cats, the written word, 
world travel, politics, LPB, and MSNBC (shout out to Rachel Maddow especially!). 
Not necessarily in that order depending upon any given day.

Should you wish to make any remembrances, please direct them to her most beloved 
library the West Monroe branch on Cypress Street; or, as she was unfailingly and 
proudly liberal toward any ACTBLUE2024 online donation to the common good.

Our mother was so much loved and will be sorely missed. We love you, Pondy. 
Thank you for everything.

“You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. 
Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.”

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