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OUTDOOR MEMORIES
August 29, 2015
A caring and supportive mother, devoted wife, and longest running stage manager in Thibodaux Playhouse history. Died at 72 on Monday, Aug. 10, 2015.
Sherryanne F. Thibodeaux was a mainstay at the Thibodaux Playhouse, a beacon of culture in the Thibodaux area.
Sherryanne was the longest tenured stage manager at the Playhouse having worked there for 20 years. But before that, she was a loving mother and wife.
Sherryanne was born in 1943 and raised in Raceland, the daughter of Herbert Sr. and Irene Fremin. The family – including her brother Herbert Jr. – lived comfy lives.
Herbert Sr. worked at the Godchaux Sugar Plantation and made a comfortable living. Sherryanne and her brother didn’t fight often, but if there were any a divide Herbert knew to run to their mother and Sherryanne knew to run to father.
“She got her way with Daddy; she had him turned around her little finger,” recalled Herbert Jr. “But I could do the same with momma!”
Sherryanne did have an infectious smile, according to her daughter, Cambria.
When she met Calvin A. Thibodeaux, the man she would fall in love with, they were still in junior high school – at different schools and different ends of the spectrum, though. Calvin was from Larose and headed to high school. Sherryanne was 13 and just entering junior high.
Their friendship blossomed and the two began dating. By the time Sherryanne reached high school, Calvin was working full-time as a milkman.
After graduation from Raceland High School, Sherryanne joined the workforce, taking a job as a receptionist at St. Anne Hospital in Raceland. She and Calvin married in 1962 shortly after Sherryanne began working at the hospital.
“We were the ideal couple,” Calvin said. “We were grown-ups at 17.”
Together, the Thibodauxs had four children: Calvin Jr., Kevin, Kalon and Cambria.
Calvin Sr. began working on tugboats when the children were young, which is what he did until he retired. The work paid well, but he was gone much of the time. So, Sherryanne had a full-time job of her own: raising four children.
Sherryanne Thibodeaux, who enjoyed going on cruises, is pictured with her family on a trip to the Bahamas. Sherryanne died Monday, August 10. From left are grandson Brandon, her husband Calvin Thibodeaux Sr., Sherryanne, her daughter Cambria Guidry, son-in-law Harris Guidry and grandson Kyle.
