All Obituaries

Opelousas - Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, December 16, 2019, for Anna Lee Ortego Dunbar in the Skip Montet Chapel at Lafond-Ardoin Funeral Home. The Reverend Monsignor Keith DeRouen will officiate the service. Rite of Committal will follow in Bellevue Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Monday, December 16, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. at LaFond-Ardoin Funeral Home of Opelousas. Anna Lee Dunbar, age 94, was a resident of Opelousas and passed away...

Krotz Springs - A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 AM on Saturday, December 14, 2019 for Zule Mae LeJeune at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Krotz Springs. Reverend Michael DeBlanc will officiate the services. Rite of Committal will follow at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church Cemetery. Ms. LeJeune, age 62 and resident of Krotz Springs, passed away on Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at Harvest Manor Nursing Home in Denham Springs, LA.  Zule was the first-born...

Opelousas – Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM on Saturday, December 14, 2019, for Rita Joyce Schwartzenburg Shelton in the Skip Montet Chapel at LaFond-Ardoin Funeral Home in Opelousas.  Visitation will be held on Saturday from 9:00 AM until time of rosary at 12:30 PM.  The Very Reverend Monsignor Keith J. DeRouen will conduct the service.  Burial will be held at a later date. Mrs. Shelton, age 76, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 10, 2019, at...

Julie H. Guidry, age 69, a resident of Krotz Springs, LA passed away peacefully on Monday, December 9, 2019 at Opelousas General Health System.     Julie was an EMT for Fire District 1.  She enjoyed being outdoors fishing and tending to her roses and pecans.  She loved her dogs Catin, Bear, Tiny and Meerkat.  Most of all, she loved spending time with her family and friends.  Julie will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved her. She is survived...

Joan Julia (Cullen) Brady, a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother died peacefully early in the morning of December 4, 2019.  She was 88 years old.   Joan was a graduate of West Chester University and did graduate studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.  She taught school in Wallingford, Pennsylvania before devoting her life to her husband and children. She is survived by seven children:  Her daughters Julia Tullos of Baton...

Opelousas- Visiting and Funeral services for Julia Mae Brown Dupre will be held from 9:00 a.m. until service time at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, December 6, 2019 in the LaFond-Ardoin Funeral Home of Opelousas, LA followed by inurnment in the Bellevue Memorial Park Cemetery. The Reverend Monsignor Keith DeRouen will conduct the service. Ms. Dupre, age, 84, who was born in New Orleans, LA and was a resident of Opelousas, LA, died at her residence. Julia was a loving wife, mother and...

Opelousas -Funeral services for Don Louis Dugas will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 1, 2019, in the Skip Montet Chapel at Lafond Ardoin Funeral Home in Opelousas.  Msgr. Russell Harrington will officiate the services.  Rite of Committal and Interment will follow in the Bellevue Memorial Park Cemetery in Opelousas with military honors. Mr. Don, age 91, was a native of Scott, LA, and a longtime resident of Opelousas, LA.  He passed away on Wednesday, November 27,...

Opelousas - Funeral Services will be held on Monday, December 2, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. for Enola Marie Dupre at LaFond-Ardoin Funeral Homes in Opelousas. Deacon Dwayne Joubert will officiate the services. Rite of Committal will follow at Bellevue Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Monday, December 2, 2019 from 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. at LaFond-Ardoin Funeral Home. A Rosary will be prayed at 1:30 p.m. Enola Marie Dupre, age 93 and a resident of Lawtell, passed away on November...

Opelousas - Funeral services for Rounie Reed Beaugh will be held on Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 1:00 PM.  Visitation will begin at 9:30 AM until the time of the Rosary at 12:30 PM.  Deacon Sammy Diesi will officiate the service.  Burial will take place at Bellevue Memorial Park Cemetery. Mrs. Beaugh, age 93, a resident of Opelousas, LA passed away peacefully on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Nursing Home.  Rounie was a devout Catholic, a...

Melville - Funeral Services for Mrs. Janet Popps Comeaux will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 24, 2019, in the Lafond-Ardoin Funeral Home Chapel in Melville. Rev. Russell Comeaux will officiate the services. Burial will follow in Baptist Cemetery in Melville. Janet Comeaux, age 72, was a resident of Melville. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and Christian who passed from this life into the next on November 20, 2019, at University Hospital Clinics in Lafayette. Janet was...