Roy C Broughton's Daughters
Brandi Cayle Broughton was born at Willis Knighton Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana on July 10, 1969 (ten days before Americans first landed on the moon) to Roy and Carolyn Broughton. When she was about a year old, the family moved to a 6-acre farm in Blanchard, a small town just north of Shreveport, Louisiana. There she grew up shelling peas, gathering eggs, feeding calves and getting in trouble for climbing the pear tree.
She started kindergarten at a private school, Caddo Academy, but continued her education at Blanchard and Highland Elementaries and then Northwood High School, where she also participated in spirit groups, as a captain of the Pep Squad and on the nationally-awarded high school danceline, the Falcon Line. She finally graduated in May 1987. (She was 3rd in her class, exactly like her Daddy before her.)
Brandi's education did not end with high
school. In 1987, she moved to Monroe Louisiana where she attended
Northeast Louisiana University, majoring in Journalism and minoring
in Spanish. While there, she worked in the Journalism Department,
wrote articles for the campus paper and yearbook, spread school
spirit as an Indian Scout, and received a variety of scholarships
and memberships to honor societies. Off campus, she worked one
summer at Yosemite National Park in California; as a stringer
in the sports department of the Monroe newspaper for a short
while; and as a television reporter for KNOE-TV from 1989-1991.
Her senior year was also filled with planning a wedding while
worrying about whether her fiance', Doug Loyd, would be there.
That was because he left the summer prior to her senior year
for the Persian Gulf, where he was serving in the Navy in Operations
Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Fortunately, the battles ended
quickly, and Doug was home for the July 6, 1991 wedding ceremony
at Northwoods Baptist Church.
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Doug, also a Shreveport-native and Northwood High School graduate, had attended a college in Kilgore Texas and LSU-Shreveport prior to joining the military. In 1991, Doug, a US Navy damage-controlman (firefighter), took temporary duty as a recruiter and moved back home to Louisiana for the first three years of the couples marriage. Brandi quit KNOE-TV in Monroe and took a job at KTBS-TV, where for about seven years she worked as a news producer and reporter. The couple owned a cedar home near a lake in Mooringsport, a small town north of Shreveport. Nearly four years after their wedding, the Loyds became parents when Brandi gave birth to a 9-pound-4-ounce baby boy. They named him Nathaniel Douglas Loyd after his father and a maternal ancestor.
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In 1997, Brandi accepted a job with NewStar (Tektronix, Inc.) as a computer software instructor for television news automation products. So, the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin. Brandi now travels to TV stations across the US and around the globe teaching broadcast journalists how to use computer software to produce the news. Douglas, who had been diagnosed with a degenerative joint disease, was medically discharged from the US Navy after 12 years of service in the military. Now a disabled veteran, he works as a service technician maintaining fire suppression systems and helps raise the couple's now very precocious 4-year-old son.
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Lisa Renee' Broughton was born November 19, 1971 at Willis Knighton Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana. Two weeks later she weighed less than two pounds and underwent surgery to save her life. Lisa had a sealed esophagus that was preventing her from digesting anything. She was kept alive through IV's laid inside incisions at her tiny ankles and taped down. Following the surgery, the "baby of the family" rallied and despite suffering several seizures during her early childhood she survived to add her strength and smiles to the Broughton family.
Lisa grew up on a small 6-acre farm in Blanchard with her parents, her sister Brandi, a half-sister, Sheila Bagley, and three half-brothers, Chuck Broughton, Kyle and Glenn Bagley. She attended Blanchard and Highland Elementary Schools and followed her other siblings into high school, where she was active in extracurricular activities, such as Pep Squad and Falcon Line. She graduated in May 1989, and for a short time, attended Bossier Parish Community College.
Two years after high school, on November 23, 1991, she married Keith Wayne Williams whom she had dated for three years. The couple moved to Blanchard and started a family. On May 19, 1992, Lisa gave birth to Kimbre' Nicole Williams at Willis Knighton Hospital where Lisa had been born two decades before. Ironically, Keith works as a phlebotomist at the same hospital where his wife and daughter were born. Lisa worked a variety of jobs from waitressing to managing a video rental store. But in the mid-1990's, riverboat casinos came to the Red River and Lisa accepted a job at Harrah's Casino in Shreveport as a dealer of blackjack, craps and roulette.
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Then, on April 25, 1995, the couple's last child was born. They named him Kolton Wayne Williams. However, the marriage soon dissolved and after more than a year of separation and just two days before what would have been their fifth anniversary, Lisa divorced Keith. She then moved her children to Bossier City where she continues to raise them and work at the Horseshoe Casino as a game supervisor.
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