Maria Pontiff

Application period ends today for vacant Ellender football position
January 5, 2016
Dove looking ahead to improving Terrebonne’s many ongoing projects
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Application period ends today for vacant Ellender football position
January 5, 2016
Dove looking ahead to improving Terrebonne’s many ongoing projects
January 6, 2016

Maria Ann Pontiff, 85, a native of Chauvin and a resident of Houma, La., died Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.


Mrs. Pontiff left a great legacy of the Cajun culinary arts. She thoroughly enjoyed traveling with her husband, and was an avid bowler, bowling in tournaments all over the United States. She was a parishioner of Maria Immacolata Catholic Church.

She is survived by her children, Kerry (Elaine) and James (Paula) Pontiff; five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and brother, Dallas Duplantis.

Burial is at St. Francis de Sales Cemetery No. 2.


(Chauvin)

Maria Pontiff