Jennifer LawrenceBordelon, 35,passed away in New Orleans, LAon Wednesday, June 8, 2022.
Jen was born on November 6, 1986 in Birmingham, AL, and wasa 2005 graduate ofShelby County High School, inShelbyville,KY.Miss Shelby County High School,Jen began a legacy of academic and social achievement at a young age. In the fall of 2005, she enrolled in the University of Mississippi as an Ole Miss Women’s Council Scholar and a Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors Scholar. Followed quickly with other accolades and offices, Jen was elected as president of Kappa Delta Sorority and voted by the university as Miss Ole Miss in 2009. Of all of Jen’s triumphal achievements at Ole Miss, she would say her greatest honor was meeting and falling in love with James Bordelon of Hattiesburg, MS. Jen dazzled the entire Ole Miss community, but none more than James. When Jen received awards and recognition, it was the support of her best friend and eventual husband that mattered the most.In true Jen and James fashion,theywere secretly married at the courthouse in Colorado Springs, COon March 15th, 2011,two weeks prior to James’first deployment with the U.S. Army. They told no one. Jen completed a most challenging assignment inpostgraduate work with the Mississippi Teacher Corpsin Tunicabefore moving to Colorado Springs.
Theypublicly celebrated ingrand and elegant fashion inDecember 2012 at the New Orleans Museum of Art and made their first home together in Washington, D.C. Jen later earned her Juris Doctorate at Campbell University School of Law when they moved to Fayetteville, NC. It was in their historical downtown loft in Fayetteville that they brought their eldest sons home, Theodore James Bordelon and Henry Fitzgerald Bordelon. Following her husband’s honorable discharge from the U.S. Army, Jen and her adoringboys moved to Bayou Lafourche. James and Jen kept a second home in New Orleans with dreams of growing old together in the city. They welcomed their youngest son, Louis Lawrence Bordelon in July 2021. By the sleepy waters of the bayou, surrounded moss adorned cypressand live oaktrees, Jen and James made a home for their young family.
Jen’s world was technicolor. She experienced everything from a good book to an exotic vacation to playing with her sonsin vivid hues. To those who knewher, Jenherself was technicolor. Wherever Jen was, the world was brighter and the colors sharper because of her mere presence and perspective. The lens with which Jen saw the world found beauty and poetry in even the most mundane, because nothing with Jen was mundane. Her keen eye for art, fashion and literature came from her passionate love of others.Jen’sgravitational pull was like thewaves to the moon, you could not help but be drawn to her.To be around Jen was to be enchanted by her warmth, her wisdom and her unmatched ability to make you feel special, no matter if you had known her for years or just met. Jen understood beauty because she loved others so deeply and tremendously.
Her most tremendous loves were her husband and her three sons. Described often as the love of her life, James was always Jen’s hero.Their love was the kind found in the pages of books and immortalized in legend.The passion and devotion Jen had for James wasmultipliedin love’s greatest economic feat of parenthoodwhen they had their sons together. Their many years together, Jen would say, allowed their growing up to happenin tandem making their love a partnership of sincere devotion and a true gift to have become an adult with one another. Becoming a parent with James expounded Jen’s ability to, as Bob Dylan put it, “contain multitudes.”Jen patiently pushed the boys to be their best selves, fostering curiosity, joy and the same love of learning their mother had. Above all she created a family that knew that home was with one another. On an Army base or on the bayou or in the Crescent City, home was where Jen, James and the boys were together.
While Jen’s tenure as a student in the classroom ended after Ole Miss and Campbell law, her quest for knowledge never paused for a moment. Jen had a goal to learn something newevery day. William Faulkner must have been referencing Jen Lawrence Bordelon when he wrote,“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”Jen was always swimming towards the horizon, unafraid and determined. Her success as a political consultant and strategist demonstrate the grit and fortitude Jen’s loved ones always admired in her.James always said that she was “tougher than a Green Beret.”
Jen will be remembered for her beautiful smile, her full and infectious laugh, her flowing chestnut hair and her gifted ability to make everyone feel at home. Called a best friend by many, Jen was the fire friends and loved ones gathered around to bask in the embers of her glow. And Jen was always glowing. Accomplished, radiant and inspiring with many accolades, degrees and awards, Jen will be most remembered by howmuchshe loved her friends and her family. It was because of her deep love for them that Jen was so dazzling—she reflected the light she saw in those she loved, and she loved so many so well.
She was preceded in death byher grandparents, Winston and Geneva Gentry ofJemison, AL, Kenneth and June Garner ofCalera,ALand Ray Lawrence ofBessemer; her uncle, Joe Gentry ofJemison and her aunt, Elaine Gentry Headley ofJemison, AL.
Jen is survived by her husband of10years, James Gerald Bordelon; her sons Theodore JamesBordelon (4 years), Henry Fitzgerald “Fitz” Bordelon (2 years) and Louis Lawrence Bordelon(11 months). She is also survived by her parents, Carol Hance ofPleasureville, KY and Robert Lawrence of New Orleans, LA; her brother, Daniel Lawrence of Pensacola, FL; and her in-laws,Dale and Tina McDonald of Hattiesburg, MS. She leaves behind several beloved siblings-in-law,nieces and nephews, cousins and countless dear friends.
A celebration of Jen’s life will be held on Saturday, June 18, 2022. Friends and family arerespectfully invitedto dress in green and white in honor of the vibrant life of Jen Lawrence Bordelon and in reprieve from the New Orleans summer heat. Thevisitationwill be heldat the Parkview Terrace Room in the Casino Building of NewOrleans City Park from 2-5 PM.Immediately following, a service will be held on the lawn belowthe terrace. (56DreyfousDrive, New Orleans, LA)
In lieu of flowers, the family of Jen Bordelon kindly asks that donations be made to support thefuture needs of her young sonsTheo, Fitzand Louis.A GoFundMe has beenset up entitled‘Sons of Jen and James Bordelon’, please reach out to an immediate family member for additional details.If you have a memory or photo of Jen you would like to share with the family, please submitto: MemoriesofJenB@gmail.com.
To share a memory or send a condolence gift, please visit the Official Obituary of Jennifer Lawrence Bordelon hosted by Jacob Schoen & Son.
Jennifer LawrenceBordelon, 35,passed away in New Orleans, LAon Wednesday, June 8, 2022.
Jen was born on November 6, 1986 in Birmingham, AL, and wasa 2005 graduate ofShelby County High School, inShelbyville,KY.Miss Shelby County High School,Jen began a legacy of academic and social achievement at a young age. In the fall of 2005, she enrolled in the University of Mississippi as an Ole Miss Women’s Council Scholar and a Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors Scholar. Followed quickly with other accolades and offices, Jen was elected as president of Kappa Delta Sorority and voted by the university as Miss Ole Miss in 2009. Of all of Jen’s triumphal achievements at Ole Miss, she would say her greatest honor was meeting and falling in love with James Bordelon of Hattiesburg, MS. Jen dazzled the entire Ole Miss community, but none more than James. When Jen received awards and recognition, it was the support of her best friend and eventual husband that mattered the most.In true Jen and James fashion,theywere secretly married at the courthouse in Colorado Springs, COon March 15th, 2011,two weeks prior to James’first deployment with the U.S. Army. They told no one. Jen completed a most challenging assignment inpostgraduate work with the Mississippi Teacher Corpsin Tunicabefore moving to Colorado Springs.
Theypublicly celebrated ingrand and elegant fashion inDecember 2012 at the New Orleans Museum of Art and made their first home together in Washington, D.C. Jen later earned her Juris Doctorate at Campbell University School of Law when they moved to Fayetteville, NC. It was in their historical downtown loft in Fayetteville that they brought their eldest sons home, Theodore James Bordelon and Henry Fitzgerald Bordelon. Following her husband’s honorable discharge from the U.S. Army, Jen and her adoringboys moved to Bayou Lafourche. James and Jen kept a second home in New Orleans with dreams of growing old together in the city. They welcomed their youngest son, Louis Lawrence Bordelon in July 2021. By the sleepy waters of the bayou, surrounded moss adorned cypressand live oaktrees, Jen and James made a home for their young family.
Jen’s world was technicolor. She experienced everything from a good book to an exotic vacation to playing with her sonsin vivid hues. To those who knewher, Jenherself was technicolor. Wherever Jen was, the world was brighter and the colors sharper because of her mere presence and perspective. The lens with which Jen saw the world found beauty and poetry in even the most mundane, because nothing with Jen was mundane. Her keen eye for art, fashion and literature came from her passionate love of others.Jen’sgravitational pull was like thewaves to the moon, you could not help but be drawn to her.To be around Jen was to be enchanted by her warmth, her wisdom and her unmatched ability to make you feel special, no matter if you had known her for years or just met. Jen understood beauty because she loved others so deeply and tremendously.
Her most tremendous loves were her husband and her three sons. Described often as the love of her life, James was always Jen’s hero.Their love was the kind found in the pages of books and immortalized in legend.The passion and devotion Jen had for James wasmultipliedin love’s greatest economic feat of parenthoodwhen they had their sons together. Their many years together, Jen would say, allowed their growing up to happenin tandem making their love a partnership of sincere devotion and a true gift to have become an adult with one another. Becoming a parent with James expounded Jen’s ability to, as Bob Dylan put it, “contain multitudes.”Jen patiently pushed the boys to be their best selves, fostering curiosity, joy and the same love of learning their mother had. Above all she created a family that knew that home was with one another. On an Army base or on the bayou or in the Crescent City, home was where Jen, James and the boys were together.
While Jen’s tenure as a student in the classroom ended after Ole Miss and Campbell law, her quest for knowledge never paused for a moment. Jen had a goal to learn something newevery day. William Faulkner must have been referencing Jen Lawrence Bordelon when he wrote,“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”Jen was always swimming towards the horizon, unafraid and determined. Her success as a political consultant and strategist demonstrate the grit and fortitude Jen’s loved ones always admired in her.James always said that she was “tougher than a Green Beret.”
Jen will be remembered for her beautiful smile, her full and infectious laugh, her flowing chestnut hair and her gifted ability to make everyone feel at home. Called a best friend by many, Jen was the fire friends and loved ones gathered around to bask in the embers of her glow. And Jen was always glowing. Accomplished, radiant and inspiring with many accolades, degrees and awards, Jen will be most remembered by howmuchshe loved her friends and her family. It was because of her deep love for them that Jen was so dazzling—she reflected the light she saw in those she loved, and she loved so many so well.
She was preceded in death byher grandparents, Winston and Geneva Gentry ofJemison, AL, Kenneth and June Garner ofCalera,ALand Ray Lawrence ofBessemer; her uncle, Joe Gentry ofJemison and her aunt, Elaine Gentry Headley ofJemison, AL.
Jen is survived by her husband of10years, James Gerald Bordelon; her sons Theodore JamesBordelon (4 years), Henry Fitzgerald “Fitz” Bordelon (2 years) and Louis Lawrence Bordelon(11 months). She is also survived by her parents, Carol Hance ofPleasureville, KY and Robert Lawrence of New Orleans, LA; her brother, Daniel Lawrence of Pensacola, FL; and her in-laws,Dale and Tina McDonald of Hattiesburg, MS. She leaves behind several beloved siblings-in-law,nieces and nephews, cousins and countless dear friends.
A celebration of Jen’s life will be held on Saturday, June 18, 2022. Friends and family arerespectfully invitedto dress in green and white in honor of the vibrant life of Jen Lawrence Bordelon and in reprieve from the New Orleans summer heat. Thevisitationwill be heldat the Parkview Terrace Room in the Casino Building of NewOrleans City Park from 2-5 PM.Immediately following, a service will be held on the lawn belowthe terrace. (56DreyfousDrive, New Orleans, LA)
In lieu of flowers, the family of Jen Bordelon kindly asks that donations be made to support thefuture needs of her young sonsTheo, Fitzand Louis.A GoFundMe has beenset up entitled‘Sons of Jen and James Bordelon’, please reach out to an immediate family member for additional details.If you have a memory or photo of Jen you would like to share with the family, please submitto: MemoriesofJenB@gmail.com.
To share a memory or send a condolence gift, please visit the Official Obituary of Jennifer Lawrence Bordelon hosted by Jacob Schoen & Son.
