LAURIE  WAS BORN IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. SHE LIVED IN JOPLIN, MISSOURI AND LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, RETURNED TO MEMPHIS WHERE SHE WENT TO BARTLETT H.S. SHE STUDIED NURSING AT SHELBY STATE COMMUNITY  COLLEGE AND WENT ON TO WORK AS AN RN AT METHODIST UNIVERSITY  HOSPITAL, METHODIST LEBONHEUR HOSPITAL, BAPTIST HOSPITAL COLLIERVILLE & ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL.

LAURIE  LOVED SOFTBALL, TENNIS: THE WILLIAMS SISTERS AND RAFA NADAL, THE MEMPHIS STATE TIGERS, THE GRIZZLIES, THE "EAGLES" BY MARRIAGE AND BOWLED WITH HER MOTHER AND SISTER UNTIL SHE BECAME ILL.

LAURIE  LOVED ALL TYPES OF MUSIC  BUT HER FAVORITES WERE DURAN DURAN,  DEF LEPPARD, THE WHO AND GENESIS BY MARRIAGE. LAURIE  LOVED STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN, 4HIM AND MICHEAL W. SMITH.

LAURIE LOVED HER TV SHOWS, SHE LOVED COMEDY, CRIME DRAMAS AND CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION AS WELL AS MOVIES NEW AND OLD.

LAURIE LOVED STUDYING THE BIBLE AND WAS SAVED BY HER LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.  LAURIE LOVED ALL OF HER FAMILY.

HER SON BRANDON JOHNSON, HER FATHER LLOYD LESTER AND SISTER SHEILA  ARE WITH HER BY THE LORDS SIDE.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND DAVID DESJARDINS, HER DAUGHTER  JACQUELINE BARRETO, HER MOTHER MILDRED "TINY" LESTER, OF EADS, TN., HER SISTER RENAY PARKER OF ROSSVILLE, TN., HER BROTHER KEITH LESTER OF MURFREESBORO, TN. SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY MANY NIECES, NEPHEWS, GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRAND CHILDREN ALL OF WHOM SHE LOVED DEARLY.

MAY THE LORD LOVE HER AND KEEP HER.