Gene Autry Bergeron

Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans)
October 31, 2008
Rosalie Marie Dufrene Keller
November 4, 2008
Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans)
October 31, 2008
Rosalie Marie Dufrene Keller
November 4, 2008

Posted Monday, November 3, 2008


Gene Autry Bergeron, 44, a native of New Orleans, La., and a resident of Houma, La., died at 5:27 a.m. Friday, October 31.

He is survived by his wife, Gwendolyn Marie Eschete Bergeron of Houma; one son, Greg Anthony Bergeron of Houma; his mother, Josephine Marie Bergeron LeBoeuf; his father, Lloyd Freeman; his step-parents, Willie and Lou Comeaux of Port Allen, La.; three brothers, Nicholas Francis Comeaux of Houma, Michael James Bergeron and Wade Paul Bergeron and wife Connie Hook Bergeron of Kentucky; two sisters, Brenda Marie Comeaux Billiot and husband Norman Billiot of Kentucky and Christine Freeman Brunet and husband Joe Brunet of Chauvin, La.; and lots of friends and relatives.


He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Joe Freeman and Beatrice Marcel Freeman, Eddie Joesph Bergeron and Emelie Hebert Bergeron.

He was a truck driver with L & L Oil and Gas and a former truck driver with Port Marine Vacuum Services. He was a parishioner of St. Anthony Catholic Church.

He was buried at St. Anthony Cemetery.

Chauvin Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.