Bertha Castille Duplantis; Jefferson Davis Parish Obits, Louisiana
Submitted by Kathy LaCombe-Tell
Source: American Press; Date: 01/26/1995; Page & Section: 2CT   
Submitted September 2004


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LAKE ARTHUR

Funeral services for Mrs. Bertha Castille Duplantis, 102, will be at 
noon Friday, Jan. 27, from Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church.

The Rev. Charles DuBois will officiate. Burial will be in Shell Beach 
Cemetery under direction of Matthews and Son Funeral Home.

Visitation is from 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m. today, with a 7 p.m. rosary, and 
from 8 a.m. Friday.

Mrs. Duplantis died at 4:40 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, 1995, in the Welsh hospital.

A native of Gueydan, she lived most of her life in Lake Arthur. She was 
a charter member of the Catholic Daughters of America and the Ladies 
Altar Society at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church.

Survivors include two sons, William Duplantis of Gueydan and Wilbert 
Duplantis of Lake Arthur; four daughters, Lillian Duhon of Grand Prairie, 
Texas, Mrs. Clarence (Bessie) Duhon of Galveston, Texas, Rose Cormier of 
Jennings and Eula Pennock of Texas City, Texas; 19 grandchildren, 
47 great-grandchildren, 43 great-great-grandchildren and six 
great-great-great-grandchildren.