Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Dupuy, Anite - February 6, 1921
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source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, February 12, 1921, Image 1

SCHOOL PAYS HONOR TO BEST STUDENT.

MISS ANITE DUPUY, "MOST STUDIOUS," DIED SUNDAY.

On Monday, February 7th the students and faculty of the New Iberia High 
School were called upon to show their sincere regard for one of their number 
who had answered the last roll call. This was the first time that this had 
occurred within the memory of those who have been connected with the High 
School for the last twelve years.

Anite Dupuy entered the High School September 8, 1919 and always ranked high 
among the students of her class. At the opening of the present session, the 
third Monday in January, she enrolled as a student in the 9th A grade. She 
belonged to the group of students who each term attain an average of 90 or 
over in all subjects and hence are exempted from final examinations. In a 
"popularity contest" conducted in the first part of the previous session she 
received the largest number of votes, as "The most studious" pupil in the 
High School.

Her's was a gentle and reserved character. She moved so quietly among her 
fellow-students that when the news was brought that she was no longer with 
us it was difficult for many to recall more than her name as one on the 
roll. But her teachers knew her as an ambitious student, conscientious 
almost to a fault. She eagerly absorbed all the knowledge within her reach 
and was ever prompt with her assignments and in the performance of her 
duties. her classmates will remember her always as a grave, refined student, 
holding her place among them so gently that it seems she must still be with 
them.

She had been absent from school scarcely two weeks and it was generally 
known she was ill with the grippe which had been prevalent among the 
students for over two weeks. her death came as a complete shock to many for 
scarcely any knew that pneumonia had set in and that she was desperately 
ill. She died Sunday night at the home of a relative, Mrs. Derouen, at the 
age of sixteen years.

School was dismissed at 3:30 Monday afternoon and the entire student body 
and faculty formed a guard of honor for the funeral cortage as it moved from 
Weeks St. to St. Peter's Catholic Church where the last services were 
conducted. The girls of the ninth grade, carrying flowers, led the 
procession. Floral offerings from the faculty and her class attested the 
deep sympathy of her teachers and classmates for her bereaved father, Mr. 
Henry Dupuy, and for her other grief-stricken relatives.



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