Amid the rubble in Port-au-Prince
February 12, 2010Wednesday, Feb. 17
February 17, 2010Bessie Marie Lodrigue, 87, a native and resident of Houma, La., died at 6 a.m. Friday, Feb. 10, 2010.
She is survived by her sons, Jimmie (Wendy), Lawrence (Eva) and Anthony (Evelina) Lodrigue Jr.; daughters, Gloria (Horace) Crappel and Mary (Easton) Gregoire; sisters, Cecile Guidry, Rita and Donita Lacoubon and Walterine Billiot; 28 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Anthony “Frere” Lodrigue; parents, Justillian Williams and Florance Lodrigue Lacoubon; sons, Henry Lodrigue and an infant son; grandsons, Richard and McShane Lodrigue; daughters, Florence DeFelice, Bessie Welch and Effie McVay; brothers, Albert and Joseph Lacoubon; sisters, Eunice Billiot and Lorraine Parfait.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, and 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, at the Falgout Funeral Home chapel in Houma. A funeral service will follow at 2 p.m. Friday at the chapel.
Mrs. Lodrigue will be buried at Terrebonne Memorial Park.
Falgout Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
