Eric Rogers
March 9, 2007
FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE WORKPLACE
March 13, 2007(Posted Mar. 12, 2007)
Aurelia Christine Blanchard, 80, a native of Bayou Black, LA. and a resident of Bonne Terre Village in Houma, LA., died at 3:45 p.m. Friday, March 9, 2007.
Visitation will be from 6 to 10 p.m. Tuesday at Chauvin Funeral Home and from 8:30 a.m. until funeral time Wednesday at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral. Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with burial in St. Anthony Cemetery in Bayou Black.
She is survived by two sisters, Mercedes Blanchard Ponville and Virginia Blanchard Kelly of Houma; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Pauline Burnett Blanchard and Ellis J. Blanchard Sr.; one brother, Ellis J. Blanchard Jr.; one half-brother, Clifford L. Blanchard; three sisters, Helena Branigan, Kathleen Jacquillon and Rita Mae Duplantis; and one half-sister, Esther Blanchard.
She was a retired nurse for Dr. Allen Ellender. She was a former maid with the Krewe of Hyacinthians carnival club in 1968. She was a parishioner of St. Francis de Sales Cathedral.
Chauvin Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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