Lloyd Price

Lloyd J. “Capt. Lloyd” Price, 80, a native of Bourg, La., died at 11:23 a.m. Friday, Aug. 11, 2010.

Mr. Price was born on Nov. 23, 1929, in Bourg to Sheldon and Lucille Price on the bank of the St. Louis Canal where the family lived in a large campboat. There, with his parents, eight brothers and one sister, the family lived the bayou life. He and his brothers learned to hunt, fish and trawl to help their father provide for the family. It may have been work, but Lloyd enjoyed trawling, fishing and hunting all of his life. Throughout their lives, Lloyd and his brothers enjoyed a healthy rivalry: who caught the most fish or shrimp, who had the faster boat, even down to who had the fastest lawn mower! There was always a good laugh at the end of those challenges, ending with the words, “I’ll get you next time!” In 1951, he used his skills on the water at his first job as captain on the tug “Pelican.” It was later that same year that he married the love of his life, Rose Amie LeBlanc. They have been married 59 years, together raising three daughters. In 1952, he went to work as a roughneck for Texaco. Though he had limited formal education, through his life experiences, hard work ethic and common sense approach to situations, he was able to rise from roughneck through the ranks to retire in 1987, as a toolpusher with 35 years of service with Texaco. He earned the respect of all who worked with him. His men called him a great boss, as he never asked them to do anything that he wouldn’t do himself.

Throughout his life he had various size boats that he used to trawl the bayou waters on his days off. The size of the boats grew with his success, culminating with the “Capt. Lloyd,” his 52-foot skimmer. In preparation for his retirement from Texaco, he built the “Capt. Lloyd” in his backyard on the banks of Bayou Terrebonne. He and Rose skimmed the waters of Lake Pelto and beyond. Lloyd made sure the “Capt. Lloyd” had every convenience you could want on his boat: bathroom, running water, kitchen, plenty of food, comfortable sleeping quarters, country music in the tape machine and best of all air conditioning! With his natural mechanical ability, Lloyd’s shed was a very popular place for anyone needing repairs on practically anything. He always had the right tool and was willing to lend a helping hand. Summers were spent at the camps that the brothers built on Trinity Bayou on Last Island, and Uncle Lloyd was always popular with his nieces and nephews as they stood in line to receive the wooden toy boats he built for them to pull the shallows on the beach. When asked how to do anything, he was patient in his explanations: no matter how many times that explanation had to be repeated! We have many fantastic memories of scouring the beaches for wood to build camps, wharves and find the “treasures” that washed up overnight, all of the brothers racing to Whiskey Pass for the mass held on the island for the Whiskey Pass Redfish Rodeo, flounder gigging at night at Last Island, chasing coons at night at the camp, pulling the girls skiing across Lake Pelto with the laughing admonishment, “one fall, you get back in the boat” (we didn’t fall). He taught family members to throw a cast net, cast a fishing line to fish the beaches of Last Island. He taught his grandson to weld and made kites from newspaper and flour paste, the list could go on and on. Lloyd Price enjoyed a long and happy life and we were blessed to have had him as our dad, granddad, son, brother, friend and most of all loving husband. He was greatly loved and will be sadly missed.

He is survived by his wife, Rose LeBlanc Price, daughters, Myra (Glenn) Pellegrin, Peachie Schexnayder and Evelyn Price; seven grandchildren, Jason (Monica) Henry, Alexis (Donny) Daigle, Cody (Danielle) Schexnayder, Kellie Schexnayder, Mickey (Rhonda) Bourque, Brandon Pellegrin and Kimberly (Bill) Wimberly; 18 great-grandchildren, Jayce, Bailey and Aaron Henry, Bella Rene, Sophie and Bree Daigle, Kaitlan, Regan and Phillip Schexnayder, Shay Brien, Blaine and Nicholas Bourque, Rammie Trahan, Marquelle and Kevin Lewis, Gabrielle, William Alexander and Isabelle Wimberly; six brothers, Harold (Virgie) Price, George (Rita), Donald (Janet), Charles (Ruby), Robert “Bobby” (Laura) and Carl (Brenda) Price; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Sheldon and Lucille Boquet Price; one brother, Herbert J. Price; and one sister, Elma Price White.

He is buried at Terrebonne Memorial Park.

(Falgout Funeral Home)

Lloyd Price