A Celebration of Life honoring Charles Brandon Kelly, 67, will be held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 4219 McMichael Avenue, Shreveport, Louisiana.

Charles Brandon Kelly was born July 25, 1953 in Shreveport, Louisiana to Brody and Josephine Cross Kelly and passed away February 24, 2021 in Arcadia, Louisiana.

Charles received a Bachelor of Arts in Education and worked for over 40 years building custom homes. He loved nature, gardening, his dog, Breanna and cat, Dakota. He will be missed by all who knew and loved him.

He is preceded in death by his parents and brother, Timothy Kelly.

Left to cherish his memory is his loving wife of 34 years, Karen Kelly; stepdaughter, Courtney Brunson; and grandchildren, Bailey Gaspard and Brunson Gaspard.

The family suggests memorials be made to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research

Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New York, NY 10163-4777 or an Alzheimer’s organization of the donor’s choice.

I won’t send you a list of 50 ways to love your lover…

like I have done in years past.

I won’t tell you about the joy you bring to me…

Like at least five puppies and three kittens – all in one room.

You have heard those words before too.

I won’t tell you how your smiles save my sanity

And your whistles are heard in my mind long after

Their sounds have moved through the cosmos.

I won’t share all these things with you… because

You have heard them for twenty years now.

I need new words to tell you

How much you are loved

And how your heart is golden and as bright as the sun itself!

But words aren’t all I have.

Thank God you can hear my soul sing to you

And my heart dance for you!

Thank God…

By Karen Kelly 2007