Past Honorees

The Angel Award Database is an archive of all those who have received the award since its inception in 1995. Click a year below to learn about our Angels.

Bobbie Blanchard

Baton Rouge, 2001
Bobbie Blanchard’s handicapped grandson, Beau, inspired her in 1997 to start Special Tuesday, a six-hour weekly progra...
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Mary “Betty” Braun

Houma, 2001
Known affectionately by her students as “Miss Mary,” Betty Braun had been an active volunteer at St. Charles Parish ...
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Nicki Armand Brignac

New Orleans, 2001
Named an Angel Award finalist at age 16, Nicole Armand had already faced more challenges than many people do in a lifeti...
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Dorothy “Dot” Brown

Monroe, 2001
Children of death-row inmates are often victims themselves, forgotten or wrongly judged by society and more likely to wi...
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Ari Ellerbe

Baton Rouge, 2001
Ari Ellerbe was introduced as a teen-ager to the needs of incarcerated youth through her parents’ faith-based prison m...
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Arthur Lathan

Shreveport, 2001
The tragic death of a local teen spurred postal worker Arthur Lathan in the mid 1990s to use his own funds to create a c...
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Gloria Millender

Shreveport, 2001
Gloria Millender retired after 26 years as a public school teacher, counselor and administrator, but she continues to nu...
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