The public is invited to join four Avoyelles Parish organizations at the dedication of two local trees into the Louisiana Garden Club Live Oak Society. The dedication of the two venerable live oak trees will take place on Sunday, March 8 at 2 p.m. The dedication will be held at 660 North Main Street, Marksville (old Gulfco Building) which will be the flagship library for the parish and the home of the Marksville branch library when remodeled.

The trees will be dedicated to Marilyn Beridon Coco and Carmen Couvillion Heywood. Both ladies were important to Avoyelles Parish. Mrs. Coco was an active member of many civic organizations in the parish and Mrs. Heywood was an early Avoyelles Parish librarian.

The oaks were on the homesite of an ante-bellum home which stood at the site until the 1900s. The home was the family home of Ludger and Rosa Cailleteau Couvillion, who are also great-grandparents of Mrs. Coco.

Trees eligible for the Live Oak Society must have a girth of eight feet in circumference for the Junior category and 16 feet in circumference for the Centenarian category.

The organizations sponsoring the dedication are Friends of the Avoyelles Parish Library, the Avoyelles Arts Council, the Marksville Garden Club and the Moreauville Garden Club. Refreshments will be served. The public is invited to join the dedication honoring these two ladies and celebrating the past in conjunction with the 200th birthday of Marksville.