Mrs. Mary Lenore Caplis McGowen, 49 passed away on Thursday, October 29, 2009, after a courageous four year battle with lymphoma and leukemia. A celebration of her life with a rosary and memorial mass will be at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 10:30 A.M. Lenore was a native of Elm Grove, LA, and a resident of Shreveport, LA for 26 years. She was a charter member of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church where she was a Lay Eucharistic Minister and involved with St. Ann’s Circle. She was also a member of the Junior League of Shreveport and St. Vincent’s Alumni Association. Lenore very much enjoyed her neighborhood bunko group, as well. Lenore was a faith filled person who touched everyone she passed during her life journey. She would start everyday with “This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad” and “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”. She loved the rosary and the Blessed Mother. Lenore was preceded in death by her father, John Edmund Caplis, her brother, Christopher Michael Caplis, her nephew William Stuart Caplis, and her niece Madge Keller Caplis. She is survived by her husband, Robert Miles McGowen of 26 years, her mother, Bettie Keller Caplis, her two daughters, Miriam Lenore McGowen and Nell Caplis McGowen, her son, Robert “Miles” McGowen, Jr., her sister, Bettie Jane Caplis Boubelik, and her three brothers, Jack Edmund Caplis, Jr., Paul Keller Caplis, and Mark Alexander Caplis. The family requests that memorials be made to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Loyola College Prep Scholarship Fund, or the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society at leukemia-lymphoma.org. The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to Lenore’s angels, Beverly Robertson, Ann Weeks, Kathy Ryan LeBlanc and Jeanie Middleton, all of the wonderful people who provided meals for her family over the past four years and sent hundreds of cards of encouragement, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and the Dubuis Hospital at Schumpert Medical Center. And as Lenore would also say, “It’s all good!”
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