Hurricane Audrey Remembered, History: Cameron Parish, Louisiana
Source: DeQuincy News, Sept. 6, 1957
Submitted by Kathy Tell
Date Submitted: Sept. 2006

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HURRICANE VICTIMS VIEW NEW GRAND CHENIER HOME 

THELMA ROY, of Grand Chenier, is 27 years old and as a polio victim is confined to a wheel
chair. Her wheel chair is brand new and the house into which Thelma and her mother, Mrs. Rena
Roy, will be moving within a few days is even newer. 

Thelma and her mother sat in a car Sunday morning on the bank of the Mermentau River. They
watched a volunteer team of building craftsmen from the AFL-CIO trades union in New Orleans nail
a roof on their compact four-room bungalow in record time to beat the rain that soon beat down
from a cloud-swollen sky. 

The Roys were victims of Hurricane Audrey which swept the southern Louisiana coast on June 27.
They survived two days of wind and water and heat lashed to a roof of a house. Their home was
demolished. They lost everything. This home that was being erected so rapidly this Labor Day
weekend in Cameron Parish is the home that Red Cross is replacing for Mrs. Roy and her daughter. 

Thelma’s wheel chair...exactly like the one she lost in the storm...was also given her by Red
Cross right after the Roys were rescued from the marsh 40 miles from their home and taken to a
Red Cross shelter in Lake Arthur.





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Note by Submitter:  
THELMA ROY GUIDRY  Born 28 Feb 1930 , Died 03 Apr 1993 in Lake Charles, LA
Thelma Roy later went on to marry Mr. Alcede Guidry. 
They had a son John who graduated from South Cameron High School in 1990.
Thelma was an excellent artist and had painted many landscape scenes.
Her sister THEDA ROY CRAIN died 2 MAR 1992
Her sister MARY LILLIAN ROY FUSELIER, died 28 OCT 2002 at age 68