Bill Hall knows it will be nearly impossible to replace the general manager at his bar, Butt-Hedz, in Marrero.
The bright eyed, red headed Malinda Shano, who went by Mindy, was one of a kind.
“If you knew Mindy, you loved Mindy. She was just full of life,” Hall said. “It’s gonna take a team of us to kind of fill her shoes. But we realize we’ll never fill Mindy’s shoes. She was just larger than life.”
Friday, Shano’s co-workers served cold ones with comforting words. And with tears in their eyes, they slowly shared the news of the horrific crash during a motorcycle trip that Shano couldn’t wait to take.
“Before she left, I said be careful,” said a tearful Rudy Kosplich, a frequent customer. “Mindy was a good friend of mine, like a sister of mine. She took care of me always. And she treated everybody good.”