Marion Marcotte

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Marion Marcotte is a legend of Cajun French music and language. He was a song writer, storywriter, vocalist and guitar player. Although he lived most of his life in Cajun land, he was not really cajun. His ancestors originated from the Alsace-Lorraine area of France. He was born and raised on a farm in Moreauville, Louisiana with 9 brothers and sisters. After he received his high school diploma, he moved with his parents to New Orleans. He began playing in local bars and night clubs with other musicians and created his own band. He fell in love with and dated for ten years, Rita Spera, a woman whose family migrated from Italy in the early 1900's, then settled in Gretna, Louisiana. Marion Marcotte and Rita Spera married in 1959 and continued to live in the house that she grew up in on 4th Street in Historic Gretna. He lived in that house for the rest of his life. The house still remains in the family. They had three children, Louis III, Lori and Lisa, two grandchildren by daughter Lisa; Reginald Marcotte and Lexy Duhon. They also had one grandchild by daughter Lori; Sophia Maria Parigi. Marion Marcotte was a hard working man and a great father. He managed to send his three children to St. Joseph Catholic School in Gretna in order to instill the values he learned as a child and provide them with a good education. He and his family openly expressed their feelings for one another and enjoyed an inseparable love. Marion Marcotte served in the United States Navy durin

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