1927
Dolores
2009
Dolores Alva Hebert
May 22, 1927 — October 9, 2009
Due to health reasons for both, she and her husband Alfred E. Hebert, an Abbeville native, had come to reside in Abbeville after many years of residence in New Orleans and Metairie, Louisiana.
Delores, affectionately dubbed “Bug” as a life-long family nickname by one of her older
sister’s boyfriends, was born on May 22, around 1927 (a secret we will help her keep), in the Taylorsville, Mississippi area. She was the last of 10 children born to Marion Columbus and Martha Neoma (Williamson) Ainsworth, descendants of Pre-Revolutionary War settlers from the British Isles, who migrated from the Carolinas along the Appalachian trails into northern Alabama and later into Jasper and Smith Counties, Mississippi.
A graduate of Taylorsville High School, Delores also attended Jones County
Community College, Ellisville, Mississippi, and resided in Laurel, Mississippi, where she worked in the Bookkeeping Department of the First National Bank of Laurel. As a very young woman, she moved to Louisiana. Outside of a brief residency in Baton Rouge, over 60 years of her life was spent living and working in New Orleans area, which she dearly loved and enjoyed. She met her beloved husband Alfred while they were both living in New Orleans and working at their respective careers: she, for the Central Appraisal Bureau in downtown New Orleans, and he, for Exxon. She loved to tell others that she began to pray that the Lord would send her “a good, Christian husband. And He answered my prayer and sent me Al,” she would say. They were married July 19, 1970, in New Orleans.
Early on at age 12, Delores had given her heart to the Lord Jesus and was baptized at the Taylorsville Baptist Church. She was a member of the Metairie Baptist Church, Metairie.
Delores was a Prayer Warrior. She and Alfred would daily spend time in morning prayers for their families and would continue to offer prayers throughout the day. Never having children of their own, they remained closely connected to their siblings and nieces and nephews. They would call their family members to exchange prayer needs and to keep tabs on what needs there might be so that they could pray for any situations as they arose. Delores would say: “I pray for all my family and so does Al, everyday. Pray for us. Don’t quit praying. Pray. Pray. Pray.”
Delores was preceded in death by her parents and her nine siblings (and their spouses): Travis, Otis, Virgil, Deavours, Esther (Parker), Ola (who died at 8 months), Bernice (Weaver), on whose 30th anniversary date of death--10-9-1979--Delores also died, J.C., and Wilma (Simpson), and several nephews and a niece.
She is survived by her husband, Alfred, a resident of East Ridge Nursing Center, Abbeville, numerous nieces and nephews and Alfred’s remaining sisters.
On Saturday, October 17, 2009, at the Vincent Funeral Home, 209 S. St. Charles St., Abbeville, a funeral service will be held at 1:00 P.M. preceded by a viewing beginning at 10:00 A.M. Memorial donations to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association would be appreciated in lieu of flowers for any who so desire.
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