Bernice Lorene Shaw (also known as B. L. "Buddy" Shaw; September 6, 1933 – January 18, 2018), was a Louisiana educator and politician who served in the Louisiana State Senate. Shaw died early in 2018 at the age of eighty-four, and was interred at Providence Cemetery in Ringgold, Louisiana. Caddo Parish School Superintendent T. Lamar Goree described Shaw as "undoubtedly a legend in our district and a man who set C. E. Byrd apart from the crowd. He was a career educator who loved the students of this district and spent his life in service to the community. ... his legacy will long be remembered." } References 1933 births 2018 deaths Republican Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives Republican Party Louisiana state senators Politicians from Shreveport, Louisiana Baptists from Louisiana Northwestern State University alumni Louisiana State University alumni Schoolteachers from Louisiana American school principals School board members in Louisiana United States Army soldiers Burials in Louisiana 20th-century Baptists