Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....
LEBLANC, FELIX October 18, 1947

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ROGER LEBLANC RLEBL10226@HOTMAIL.COM March 31, 2007, 9:53 am

THE DAILY IBERIAN  MAY 20,1973

FELIX "TENNESSEE" LEBLANC AGED 46 WAS KILLED INSTANTLY SATURDAY AT ABOUT 
7:15P.M. WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY TWO CARS ON U.S. HIGHWAY 90 ABOUT TWO MILES 
EAST OF THE NEW IBERIA CITY LIMITS.ACCORDING TO CORONER ROBERT F.DEROUEN,WHO 
REACHED THE SCENE SHORTLY AFTER THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED,LEBLANC WAS STRUCK FIRST 
BY A CAR DRIVEN BY EDWIN GORDY OF JEANERETTE,WHO WITH HIS FAMILY WERE 
RETURNING TO JEANERETTE FROM NEW IBERIA.AS THE VICTIM FELL TO THE ROAD HE 
LANDED IN THE PATH OF ANOTHER VEHICLE HEADING WEST AND DRIVEN BY NORMAN 
FORTHE,ALSO OF JEANERETTE WHO WAS GOING TO LAFAYETTE WITH HIS FATHER AND SOME 
FRIENDS.GORDY TOLD MR.DEROUEN THAT WHEN HE FIRST SAW THE MAN HE WAS RUNNING 
ACROSS THE ROAD.A CORONERS JURY EMPANALLED BY MR.DEROUEN REPORTED A VERDICT OF 
UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT.THE CORONER SAID THAT THE VICTIM SUFFERED SEVERAL 
FRACTURES AND MULTIPLE INTERNAL INJURIES AND LISTED SHOCK AND HEMORRHAGE AS 
THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF DEATH.FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON FROM 
THE BERGES FUNERAL HOME TO ST.PETERS CATHOLIC CHURCH,WITH INTERMENT IN THE 
LOCAL CATHOLIC CEMETARY.THE DECEASED WAS THE SON OF DESIRE LEBLANCAND THE LATE 
ALICE HEBERT LEBLANC.IN ADDITION TO HIS FATHER,HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIDOW,THE 
FORMER LULA THIBODEAUX,ONE DAUGHTER,FIVE BROTHERS;OCTAVE,AYMAR,CLEMENT,GUSTAVE 
AND SIDNEY ALL OF NEW IBERIA.ALSO SURVIVING ARE TWO SISTERS;MRS.JOSEPH
(VICTOIRE)BLANCHARD AND MRS.EMILY BROUSSARD,BOTH OF NEW IBERIA.FUNERAL 
ARRANGEMENTS WERE HANDLED BY THE BERGES FUNERAL HOME.

Additional Comments:
HE WAS PRECECED IN DEATH BY ONE BROTHER ANTHONY LEBLANC.