Valerie Dowden Wells was a reality television star, who appeared on the CMT series Bayou Billionaires, beginning in 2011.
The series followed the Dowdens, a hardworking family of modest means who strike it rich when they discover their home sits on the fourth largest deposit of natural gas in the U.S.
She was the oldest child of family patriarch Gerald and matriarch Kitten. The 10 episodes series followed the family as they discovered a new way of living.
Wells died November 7, 2016, in Shreveport, Louisiana. She was 47.