DAIGLE REUNION
Crowley Signal June 23, 1930
News Article from Adadia Parish
Submitted by Winston Boudreaux, 2006

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DAIGLE REUNION
Crowley Signal June 23, 1930

The members of the Joseph E. Daigle family held a reunion at Church Point, 
Sunday, June 22.  The date was chosen for this gathering that has been 
an annual one for the past four years is the anniversary of the mother’s 
birthday.  This year the 75th milestone was celebrated in the gathering 
of the Daigle clan.  A spot in the woods near Church Point was chosen and 
prepared and a barbecue was prepared and served.  A whole beef and a lamb 
with all the accessories known to the culinary prowess of Louisiana cooks 
were provided for the noon meal.  About 150 attended.  There were tall 
Daigles , short Daigles, little Daigles and fat Daigles and all the inlaws, 
connected with the family.  Joseph E. Daigle died seven years ago. While 
a Christmas dinner at home has alwosy been a yearly custom of the family, 
the reunion was instituted four years ago to take place on the mother’s 
birthday.

There were eleven sons and daughters of the house of Daigle.  They were 
Edward, Theodore, Emile and Emielien, twin brothers, Mrs. Pierre Giudry, 
Mrs. A.W. Langley, Mrs. John Bourgeois, Benjamin, Jos. E. Jr., Vincent P.
and George.  Joseph E. Jr. and Vincent P. are residents of Crowley, all 
the others being settled in the vicinity of Church Point where the parents 
were born and where they spent their lives.  The grandchildren range from 
twelve in number in the family of Edward down the line through the numerals 
to one the sole offspring of two of the family.  Many of these are married 
and there are at least five great grandchildren.  A few of the younger 
members have left the parish, one living in New Orleans, but so far as 
known there are none outside the state.

They mustered about 150 in the gathering of Sunday and are looking forward 
to the reunion of 1931 already.