Australia Toups Comeaux

Connie Normand Rodriguez
December 23, 2009
Tourney gives teams early look at competition
December 29, 2009
Connie Normand Rodriguez
December 23, 2009
Tourney gives teams early look at competition
December 29, 2009

Australia Toups Comeaux, 89, a native of Galliano, La., and resident of Larose, La., died at 2:16 p.m. Friday, Dec. 25, 2009.


Mrs. Comeaux was a deputy for the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office for 14 years. She was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church and a member of the Holy Rosary Ladies Altar Society and Larose Senior Center.


She is survived by sons, Norris (Gloria), Ronald (Katherine Dupre), Perry (Faith) and Keith (Adene Toups) Comeaux; daughter, Elizabeth (Ray Ford) Bagley; sister, Mildred (Antoine) Doucet; 20 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, O’Neil “Pet Cream” Comeaux; parents, Cledmire and Julianne Martinez Toups; sons, Curtis and Riley Comeaux; daughter, Anna Dean Encalade; three infant children; brothers, Cledmire and Harold Toups; and three grandchildren, Kurt and Kenneth Comeaux and Mickey Ford.

Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church. A Mass of Christian burial will follow at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the church.

She will be buried at Holy Rosary Cemetery in Larose.