Mary Sue Colvin

    Mary Sue Colvin is a lifelong resident of Fort Necessity, Louisiana, a small farming community in northeastern Louisiana.  After graduation from Fort Necessity High School, she attended Louisiana State University and graduated with honors with a degree in both lower elementary and upper elementary education.  She returned to live at Fort Necessity and began her career teaching sixth grade at Gilbert High School.  During that first year as an educator, Mary Sue met and married Juston H. (Jimbo) Colvin, Jr.

For the next 14 years, Mary Sue was a stay-at-home mom, as she and her husband became the parents of four children:  Tom, now a Family Practice physician in Winnsboro; John, who was fatally injured in his third year of college in an accident on the farm campus of Northeast Louisiana University; David, now in Family Practice and living in Shreveport with his wife, Julie: and Kathy, who with her children, Camille and Rodney, has established a home in Monroe with her husband, David Kovac and his children, Laura, Amber and Caitlin.

Mary Sue returned to the classroom when the last child entered school and taught at Fort Necessity High School for six years.  At that time she “reformed” rather than retired and returned to the preferred status of stay-at-home mom.  Five months later, she was invited to join the Garden Gate Study Club.   Six months later, she was elected vice-president of the club.  In 1985, after serving as club president for two years, Mary Sue assumed the office of District V Director and has been a member of the Louisiana Garden Club Federation, Inc., Executive Council for the past 22 years.

In 2001 – 2003, Mary Sue was President of the Louisiana Garden Club Federation, Inc.  She has served as Deep South Recording Secretary for three Regional Directors and has served on the NGC Board of Directors as NGC Endangered Species Chairman for six years and as NGC Environmental Concerns Coordinator for the past two years.

Her theme as State President was “Leaving Footprints in the Garden of Life” and now as Regional Director, she has chosen the theme, “Together as One – Our Hands and Hearts are POWER.”