RUBY CHAMPAGNE Obituary: Lafourche Parish, La. Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Source: Daily Comet, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La. 21 June 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. ================================ June 16. 2005 2:58PM Ruby Champagne Ruby Hebert Champagne, 93, a native of Raceland and resident of Gretna, died at 5 p.m. June 14, 2005. Visitation will be 6 to 10 p.m. today at 8 to 9:30 a.m. Friday at Mothe Funeral Home in Harvey. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Grenta, with burial at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Cemetery in Westwego. She is survived by her daughters, Denise Champagne Blanda and Patsy Champagne Fonseca; grandchildren, Angela Blanda Weil and Katie Lynn Fonseca; step- grandchildren, Ami Fonseca Taylor and Susan Fonseca Duthu; eight great- grandchildren; special friend and caregiver, Peggy Brunet. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Eves Gaubert; second husband, Oliver Albert Champagne; stepson, Harold Albert Champagne; brothers, Frank Hebert, August Hebert and Felix Hebert; sister, Gladys Hebert McCloskey; and parents, Frank Hebert and Ernestine Robichaux Hebert. Mothe Funeral Home of Algiers is in charge of arrangements.