![]() ![]() Duree’s tragic death in a car crash at the age of 29, the young widow rushed home to Joplin with her two children. In 1947 she married Jack Duree, with whom she moved to Baton Rouge in 1954. They divorced soon after the end of World War II. Carroll Pattison, in January of 1942 before his deployment to the European Theater. In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, she left school when just 16 to marry the first of four husbands, Tech. She and her sisters came of age at the height of the Great Depression, and their mother took in boarders to help support them as Sidney Hopwood’s health declined. ![]() “Allene” attended Joplin High School where she demonstrated an early interest in poetry as a member of the Sapphonians. Her father Sidney was an entrepreneur, salesman, and former private detective and her mother, Pearl (Fox) Hopwood, kept house. Allena Louise Hopwood was born November 9, 1925, in Joplin, MO, the youngest of three daughters. Her deep yet quiet spirituality she shared with the world through her art-whether paintings, sculptures, or the ethereal beauty of her poetry: timeless words written in present moments, gifts to eternity. She was 95. With her regal grace and violet eyes, one could not doubt that Allena descended from kings and emperors, as further evinced in her life filled with tragedy and passion to challenge the gods. Allena “Big Mama” Duree, artist and poet, passed away on Wednesday, September 8, 2021, in Baton Rouge of natural causes. ![]()
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