Marion Rita Bayhi Dyess passed away peacefully on November 5, 2023, in Baton Rouge, La. She was born December 5, 1934, in New Orleans, La., and grew up in Jesuit Bend, La., in Plaquemines Parish. She graduated from Belle Chasse High School in 1950 and began working as an administrative assistant at the Alvin Callendar Naval Base in Belle Chase the following year. She married the love of her lif...