When Clara was giving birth to George Jr. with the assistance of a midwife, a mule crawled under their old farmhouse in the Princeton community in search of corn.

Outraged, he joined the submarine section of the United States Navy during World War II on the USS Razorback (SS-394).

At one time or another, Dement owned and operated fourteen restaurants in the Bossier City area, including "The Doghouse," where Elvis Presley ate in 1954, when he came to the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium for the Louisiana Hayride.

[4][5] By the late 1960s, faced with fast-food chain establishments in competition with his home-owned restaurants, Dement switched to hotels.

[5][6] In 1989, Dement was elected mayor as a Democrat, when the incumbent Donald Edward Jones, a former national president of the Junior Chamber International and a Bossier City businessman, did not seek reelection.

After the war, he was a higher-paid bartender, but Sunshine insisted that he leave that job, join the First Baptist Church of Bossier City, and enroll at Centenary College.

[4] The two somehow concealed their marriage for a year out of fear that Steve Norris would question George's ability to support a wife.

Throughout his career in business and politics, Sunshine, was always by his side and was an active "First Lady" of Bossier City for the sixteen years that he was mayor.

[15] Dement resides at his family farm, original Norris property, near Frierson in DeSoto Parish, within the Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area.

[16] Tim Dement is a former Bossier City police detective who investigated cases of sexual predators involved in youth sports.

[17] Another son, David Glenn Dement, died in 2006 at the age of fifty-two; he was a co-founder of GLAAD, an AIDS education and prevention group formed in 1980.

[20] On February 2, 2013, Dement, along with Leonard R. "Pop" Hataway, the former sheriff of Grant Parish, political consultant Angelo Roppolo of Shreveport, and the late State Senator Charles C. Barham of Ruston and later Shreveport, was among those inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.