 Chase's favorite job was working as a waitress at the Colonial Restaurant and The Coffee Pot (which has been renamed "Cafe Beignet at the Old Coffee Pot") in the French Quarter in New Orleans with a pay of "$1 a day".In 1946, she married jazz trumpeter and band leader Edgar "Dooky" Chase II.His parents owned a street corner stand in Treme, founded in 1941, that sold lottery tickets and homemade po-boy sandwiches.