JEANETTE APPERSON Obituary: Lafourche Parish, La.

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

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

10 Jan 2005


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January 07. 2005 1:19PM

Jeannette Apperson					[Photo]

Jeannette "Jenny" Dupre Apperson, a native of Thibodaux and resident of 
Gonzales, died at 11 a.m. Jan. 4, 2005, after a four-year battle with cancer.

A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Theresa of Avila 
Catholic Church in Gonzales.

She is survived by her husband, Henry "Buddy" Apperson; sons, John Daniel and 
Brian Apperson; daughter, Megan Apperson Percy; grandchild, William Conner 
Percy; mother, Jeannette Dupre; brothers, Alvin Jr., and John Dupre; sister, 
Agnes Dupre; son-in-law, Adam Percy; and sister-in-law, Ramona Dupre.

She was preceded in death by her father, Alvin Dupre.

She attended Louisiana State University and graduated from Nicholls State 
University with a bachelor of arts in English. She earned a master's degree in 
English at Mississippi State University. She was an English professor at Mary 
Holmes Junior College in Mississippi, then became a homemaker.

It was her wish that the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans use her body to 
study the rare form of cancer, adenoid cystic carcinoma, which took her 
prematurely from her loved ones.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Gonzales branch of the 
Ascension Parish Public Library, 708 S. Burma Blvd., Gonzales, LA 70737, to 
benefit the Louisiana Summer Film Festival project at LSU. English Department, 
which she helped inaugurate.