Gene cooks fabulous SouperSoup and other food for the homeless people we serve. The magic ingredient in his food is love!

Gene was born in New Orleans and worked for a utility company there for 34 years. He resettled his family after fleeing hurricane Katrina. He and his family liked Dallas, so he retired and made a new home in Dallas.

Gene is more than qualified to be Head Chef at the SoupMobile. In Viet Nam he served on the front lines cooking meals for his infantry company. Needless to say, the SoupMobile is challenging, but at least it doesn’t have bullets aimed right at you while dinner is cooking!!! When Gene finished his tour of duty, he was assigned to Germany, but snow in June was too much for him. “Coming from the South, I’d never seen so much snow in my life.”