Marie
Marie Roche Blanc
d. December 1, 2011
Mrs. Blanc was a native and longtime resident of Kaplan. She was currently residing in Lafayette. She died on Thursday, December 1, 2011, at Magnolia Estates in Lafayette, LA. She was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church and prayed the Rosary often.
She was a homemaker who cooked many delicious meals especially chaudins, cabbage rolls, and rice dressing. She would also make homemade pancakes/crepes for breakfast, watermelon preserves, and holiday treats. She would tend to the ducks and chickens. As we all can remember, each of us having to gather eggs from the hen house, picking figs from the trees, and putting the quarters into the slot to run the dryer. As a pastime, she loved her rose bushes. She would love to go visiting the family and friends. She always made sure she had candy for her visitors.
Leaving to cherish her memory are two daughters, Beverly Blanc Mire and husband, Marion of Kaplan; and Linda Blanc LeMaire and husband, Leo of Scott; two sons, Howard M. “Lovey” Blanc, Jr. and wife, Michelle of Morgan City; and Raymond Mark Blanc and wife, Gladys of Lafayette; and son-in-law, Larry Faulk of Bayou Vista. Having shared her life with her are 16 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren, and 5 great-great-grandchildren. She also has a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and neighbors.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Mark Blanc, Sr.; daughter, LouAnna Blanc Faulk; son, Gerald Mark Blanc; sisters, Eve Cormier, Anna R. Mouton, and Althea “Petit” Bonin; brother, Adam Roche; granddaughter-in-law, Cheri Saltzman Mire; and great-granddaughter, Hailey Angelle Blanc.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons.
The family visiting hours will be observed at Vincent Funeral Home - Kaplan, 300 N. Eleazar Avenue, on Saturday, December 3, 2011, from 5 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. On Sunday, visitation will continue in the funeral home from 8 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
A Rosary service will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday evening in the funeral home.
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