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Virginia Shehee services today

Shreveport Assistant Chief David Dice makes sure the flag is straight at St Paul's for the funeral of Virginia Shehee.

Community members touched by Virginia Shehee, her friends and her family say goodbye today at an 11 a.m. service at St. Paul Episcopal Church, 275 Southfield Road, Shreveport.

Shehee, a former state senator, died Monday at age 91. She was CEO and president of Rose-Neath funeral home, where family gathered Thursday for a visitation. Shehee also led Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company in Shreveport and is credited as a force behind many civic projects in Northwest Louisiana.