MOTHER DOROTHY GUILBAULT Obituary: Lafourche Parish, La.

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Source: Daily Comet, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La.

9 Oct 2005


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October 03. 2005 6:10PM

Mother Dorothy Guilbault

Mother Dorothy Guilbault, a Sister of Mount Carmel, teacher, principal and 
former Superior General of the Sisters of Mount Carmel died Oct. 2, 2005, at Our 
Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Lafayette. She was 91 years old and in the 69th year 
of her religious profession.

Mother Dorothy was born Dorothy Marie Guilbault on Oct. 16, 1913, to George 
Guilbault and Julia Dastre in New Orleans. She entered the Congregation of Our 
Lady of Mount Carmel on Sept. 5, 1933, and received the habit of the Sisters of 
Mount Carmel Aug. 6, 1934. On Aug. 3, 1936, she made her first profession and 
pronounced perpetual vows Aug. 3, 1939. She graduated from Mount Carmel in New 
Orleans in 1932. She received her undergraduate degree in 1944 from Loyola 
University in New Orleans and her master's degree in Secondary Administration 
from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1954. She received 
an undergraduate degree and a master's degree in Hospital Administration in 1964 
from Xavier University in Ohio.

Mother Dorothy taught from 1936 to 1949 at parochial and Mount Carmel schools in 
New 1beria, Thibodaux, Lafayette and St. James Major in New Orleans. She served 
as principal of Mount Carmel New Iberia and Mount Carmel Lafayette from 1949 to 
1961 and administrator of St. Joseph Hospital in Thibodaux from 1961 to 1967. 
She was assistant general from 1967 to 1973 and superior general from 1973 to 
1977 of the Sisters of Mount Carmel. Mother Dorothy also served as residential 
administrator at Chateau de Notre Dame, Motherhouse superior and administrator 
and Lakeview Shepherd Center Board President.

Since 1990 Mother Dorothy served as moderator, regional coordinator, consultant 
and formation national commissioner of the Lay Carmelites. She was moderator of 
the Marians and the Theresians in the New Orleans area. Mother Dorothy served as 
coordinator for bringing the Relics of St. Therese to the Archdiocese of New 
Orleans. Among her awards she received a certificate of merit from the council 
on aging as Shepherd of the Year and was honored at a retirement program by the 
Regional Lay Carmelites. She celebrated her 60th Jubilee in 1996.

Mother Dorothy, the fourth of six children, was preceded in death by her 
parents; three brothers George, Marius and Robert Guilbault; and two sisters 
Julia Moore and Isabel Guilbault. She is survived by many nieces and nephews and 
their children.

Visitation will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday at St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church, 600 
Raintree Trail, Lafayette, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 1:30 p.m.

The Rev. Harold J. Trahan, Pastor of St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church will be 
the celebrant of the funeral Mass and will conduct the funeral services.

Interment will be in St. John Cemetery in Lafayette.

View the obituary and guestbook online at www.mourning.com

Arrangements have been entrusted to Martin and Castille Funeral Home of 
Lafayette.