1. George Dement went to Arizona a year before he graduated from Elm Grove High School in Bossier Parish.
20 Facts About George Dement
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George Dement then earned a dollar a day as a delivery boy for a Bossier City drugstore.
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George Dement was present for the ceremony on Victory over Japan Day, September 2,1945, when the Empire of Japan, under Emperor Hirohito surrendered to General Douglas MacArthur at Tokyo Bay.
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In 2004, the Razorback was moved to North Little Rock, Arkansas, as a display vessel, and George Dement was there for the ceremony.
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At one time or another, George Dement owned and operated fourteen restaurants in the Bossier City area, including "The Doghouse," where Elvis Presley ate in 1954, when he came to the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium for the Louisiana Hayride.
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George Dement took over the management of a new Holiday Inn in Bossier City.
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In 1989, George Dement was elected mayor as a Democrat, when the incumbent Donald Edward Jones, a former national president of the Junior Chamber International and a Bossier City businessman, did not seek reelection.
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George Dement won second, third, and fourth terms in 1993,1997, and in 2001.
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George Dement retired on June 30,2005, exactly sixteen years from his original inauguration into office.
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George Dement was known for his leadership and accessibility to the public.
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George Dement pushed for the Louisiana Boardwalk in downtown Bossier City and worked to revitalize key areas of the city.
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George Dement was succeeded by a former opponent, the Democrat-turned-Republican Lo Walker, who still holds the position, the first Republican in the seat.
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George Dement was married to the former Sunshine Norris, a Shreveport native and one of two daughters of Steve Norris, a Bossier Parish sheriff's deputy, and the former Avis Wasson.
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George Dement graduated in 1945 and like her husband attended Centenary College, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in education.
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George Dement taught for twenty years for the Bossier Parish School Board at Bossier Elementary School and then became the first physical education teacher at Greenacres Junior High School in Bossier City.
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George Dement met Sunshine when he was working as a soda jerk for $19 a week in a drug store.
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George Dement had a brief boxing career in the Navy, and three of his sons won boxing titles.
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Tim George Dement, at the age of seventeen, was a contestant at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.
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In 2003, George Dement was awarded an honorary doctorate for outstanding service by his Alma mater, Centenary College.
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George Dement died at his home in Frierson on January 12,2014, eleven days prior to his 92nd birthday.