2015 Queens Rule! Roll Call and Exhibition Closing

Please join us for the Queens Rule! Exhibition Closing
1-3 p.m., Saturday, March 14, 2015
McKenna Museum of African American Art
2003 Carondelet Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

Note: Please be forewarned the Irish Channel St. Patrick Day Parade begins at 1 pm and rolls one block from the McKenna Museum. We suggest you plan to take a route from the lake rather than river to the venue.

Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame
2015 Queens Rule! Roll Call

Ausettua AmorAmenkum
Aireca Angel Anderson
Pat Anderson
Journey Banister
Littdell S. Banister
Chianti Berry
Cinnamon Black
Renita Blazio- Washington
Areion Booker
Ashley Booker
Jevonda Booker
Ruby Booker
Keyonna Lincoln Braxton
Malaya Braxton
Irvinyell Bright
Kijafa Brown
Kim Boutte
Tricia Boutte-Langlo
Wynoka Boudreaux
Tayla Raymond Buckner
Maritza Caston
Dianne Chaney
Shilyn Cosey
Donna Crump
*Kennedi DeArmas
Kenya DeArmas
Kenyariah DeArmas
Kenyatta DeArmas
Lucinda Desmond
LaNyla Desmond
La’Nita Desmond
Ashante' Dominique Casby
Acerria Angel Dollis
Laurita Barras Dollis
Connie Dorsey
Lucy Douglas
Shirley Mae Smith Dumas
Na-Kala Duncan
Estabonique Eugene
Sula Janet Evans
Khole Fleming
Cymande Ford
Rhonda Ford
**Brandi “Allie Baby” Fortuné
Gwen Gaines
Adella Gautier
Gaynell Gibson-Sorina
Patrice Gordon
*Linda Green-Jones
Yolanda Greenup
Patricia Griffin
*Waddieonne Griffin
Michelle Hammothe
Sarah Hargrove
Agnes Harris
Cherice Harrison-Nelson
Victoria Harrison
Ashley Hayes
Paris Hayes
Rita Henry-Chambers
Veronica Henry
Tonja Hollingsworth
Keshia Holmes
Dakeia Johnson
Jes-Zahre Johnson
Pauline Johnson
Remy Andrea Johnson
Rita Johnson
Margie Jones
Mary Jones
Sally Jones
Barbara Lacen-Keller
Mikira Kirton
Gilda Landry
Lucy Langford
Kalindah Laveaux
Lorenza Lawless
*Myrtle Lee
Augustine Germain Lewis
Cailey Lewis
Kelci Lewis
Karen-kaia Livers
Tronell Louis
Trenise Luctti
**Rebecca Mark
Scotland Marquez
Ethelyn Marshall
*Destiny Bria McCloud
Beatrice McFadden-Burnes
Georgia Mae McFadden
Malon McGee
Isadora Mendez-Scott
Gina Montana
Toki Montana
Jamilah Peters-Muhammad
Latoya Myles
*Jeanette Narcisse
Charmaine Neville
Nikki Nixon
Onatreakia Nixon
Jessica Offner
Sky Pardo
Shmuela Padnos
Diadra Parker
Kelly Pearson
Patrina Peters
Jada Pijeaux
Natche Pleasant
Joyce Robair
Payton Robair
Trimeka Johnson Robair
Nadia Robinson
Rukiya
Barbara Scott
Ariya Smith
Denice Smith
Dynasti Smith
**Roslyn J. Smith
*Gwendolyn Spears-Torregano
*Barbara Sparks
Mary Kay Stevenson
Mercy Stevenson
Paris Snyder
Arionne Sterling-Smith
Amari Zoe Sylvas
Annette Tassin
Georgia Taylor
Malay Thomas
Dariel Thompson
Dondriel Thompson
**Barbara Trevigne
*Mabel Veal
Demetrice Walters
Amina Watson
Celeste Watson
Tabatha Williams
Wanda Womble
*Ancestor Queen
**Honorary Queen

Wild Magnolias Council Chief and longtime Big Chief Theodore "Bo" Dollis, Senior has become an ancestor

Big Chiefs of the Nation lead an Indian Red tribute to Bo Dollis
at Tipitina's on December 11, 2008.


That skipped beat New Orleans and the whole wild creation felt this morning was Wild Magnolias Council Chief and longtime Big Chief Theodore Emile "Bo" Dollis, Senior becoming an ancestor.

Among his many accomplishments and honors, he was selected by his fellow Chiefs as the 2004 Crystal Feather Honoree of the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame.

His family asks for prayers at this time in lieu of phone calls and texts.


Information about funeral arrangements

(Updated Friday, January 30)

A parade for Wild Magnolias Council Chief and longtime Big Chief Bo Dollis, Senior presented by Big Chief Kevin Goodman and The Flaming Arrows will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, January 30, at Kermit’s Treme Mother-in-law Lounge at 1500 North Claiborne Avenue and process to The Carver Theater.

On Friday, January 30, Visitation will take place between 4:00 and 7:00 pm at The Carver Theater at 2101 Orleans Avenue. The Friday visitation at The Carver is not a ticketed event, though tickets are required for the musical tribute that begins at The Carver at 8:00 pm.

On Saturday, January 31, a second Visitation will take place at 8:00 am in the Xavier University Convocation Center at 7900 Stroelitz Street, immediately followed by services at 10:00 am with Pastor Sherman Shelton of Firehouse Family Ministries officiating

A full funeral procession with a hundred suited Mardi Gras Indians will pay tribute to Big Chief Bo Dollis, Senior at the close of services. Leaving the Xavier Convocation Center, the procession up Washington Avenue will return the Big Chief to the corner of Second and Dryades Street where the Rebirth Brass Band will help play him home. Internment will take place at Providence Park Cemetery in Metairie.

Friends and family will gather for the repast at the NORD Lyons Center, 624 Louisiana Avenue at Tchoupitoulas St. from 1:00 – 4:00 pm on Saturday.

Sources: Wild Magnolias Big Chief Gerald “Bo, Junior” Dollis, WWOZ-FM website, Offbeat website, NOLAcom, The Carver Theater website, Marlena Asher, and Golden Comanches Big Chief Juan Pardo on Facebook.



Links to media coverage
   
"Bo Dollis, longtime Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians, has died"
 and
"Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias' groundbreaking Mardi Gras Indian funk: listen,"
both by Alison Fensterstock for The New Orleans Times-Picayune and NOLA.com

"Big Chief Theodore ‘Bo’ Dollis dies at the age of 71"
by Geraldine Wykoff for The Louisiana Weekly