She was preceded in death by her mother, Parilee Tyler Eddy, and her father, Thomas Eddy.
She found her beloved sorority, Sigma Kappa, as a new student in her Junior year at Northwestern State University in Nachitoches, Louisiana. She was initiated into the Delta Mu chapter 51 years ago.
At Northwestern she earned both her Education undergraduate and Master’s degree.
She started her teaching career at Sam Barthe and then moved to Ecole Classique when the schools merged. Her teaching career with these institutions spanned many years.
While teaching Business classes at Ecole, she also had time to be the cheerleader coordinator and chaperoned many senior trip cruises. She even chaperoned several after retiring from Ecole.
While Leila did not have a typical 4-year Sigma Kappa experience at Northwestern, she more than made up for it by joining the Greater New Orleans Alumnae chapter of Sigma Kappa and volunteering as an advisor and Housing Corporation Board officer to the Epsilon Beta chapter at UNO.
Leila was generous with her time to promote causes near and dear to her and Sigma Kappa. One of those causes was searching for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. She served on the GNO Alzheimer’s Association board before Hurricane Katrina, participated in the Annual Memory Walks, and helped raise funds needed for research.
Her home served as the setting for multiple gatherings for her Sigma Kappa Sisters.
Leila served as President of Sigma Kappa’s Alumnae chapter more than once and for several years chaired the By-Laws Committee. To recognize her commitment, Leila was awarded the Alumnae chapter’s Lucia Kendall Berry Award for Outstanding Alumnae.
She loved Sigma Kappa’s National Conventions. Her 16th Convention was her last one in 2018 in Jacksonville, Florida.
In 1999 Leila discovered what would be her second love, Creative Memories, the company that made scrapbooking a household word. She became a Creative Memories Consultant. Leila honed her craft by attending annual Creative Memories conventions and meetings. She met with and shared her knowledge of this art with others from around the United States.
During this time, she also became the historian for Sigma Kappa’s Greater New Orleans Alumnae chapter and faithfully documented the chapter’s history in the scrapbooks she made through the years.
Her scrapbooks will live on as her legacy binding the past and the present. She always celebrated life and had fun and never met a stranger.
She lived Sigma Kappa’s motto – One Heart One Way.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend a graveside service on Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. at Lake Lawn Park Mausoleum, 5454 Pontchartrain Blvd., New Orleans. Visitation will begin at 10:00 a.m. in the parlor of Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd., New Orleans.
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