Mr. Fontenot obituary
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Church Point News   Front Page   April 16, 1963

Former Church Point Editor’s Husband Expires

The husband of Mary Alice Fontenot, former Church Point News editor, 
died Wednesday at 3 p.m. en route to New Orleans.

Funeral services were held at the Ardoin Funeral home chapel in Eunice.  
Burial was in the Woodlawn cemetery in Crowley.

Fontenot’s widow is the former Mary Alice Barras, former editor of the 
Church Point News and Rayne Acadian-Tribune, authoress, and present area 
editor of the Opelousas Daily World.

Other survivors are two daughters, Miss Julie Fontenot of Opelousas and 
Mrs. Burton Ziegler of Newellton; a brother, Roland Fontenot of Crowley; 
two sisters, Mrs. Doris Staken of Crowley, and Mrs. Jeanette Sarver of 
New Orleans, and six grandchildren.

Mr. Fontenot was born Jan. 21, 1905, in Crowley and was educated there.  
He managed a rice mill in Crowley until 1946 when the family moved to Eunice.  
He held a similar position in Eunice and was widely known in the 
Louisiana rice industry.