ROOSEVELT DUFRENE Obituary: Lafourche Parish, La. Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Source: Daily Comet, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La. 2 Nov 2005 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** NOTES: 1. The date preceding the obituary is the date of posting on the WWW, not the date of death. ================================ October 22. 2005 12:00AM Roosevelt Dufrene Roosevelt "Rooster" Anthony Dufrene, 84, a native of Morgan City and resident of Luling, died at 5:35 a.m. Friday, Oct. 21, 2005. Visitation will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday and from 8 a.m. to funeral time Monday at St. Gertrude Catholic Church in Des Allemands. Mass will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the church, with interment in the church mausoleum. He is survived by two sons, Brian and Philip Dufrene; one stepson, Leon Barnum; one daughter, Kathleen Horn; one sister, Josephine D. Bergeron; 14 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his former wife, Dora Adams; his parents, Wilton and Teresa Picataccio Dufrene; and one daughter, Tura D. Ruiz. He was a World War II Coast Guard veteran.