LAFOURCHE and TERREBONNE PARISHES, LA. Obituary for: DUPLANTIS, MERLINE Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. Source: The Daily Comet, Lafourche Parish La. and Houma Today, Terrebonne Parish, La. Published: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 ======================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://theusgenweb.net/copyright.htm http://theusgenweb.net/la/lafiles.htm ======================================================================= NOTE: If a Photo is available for an obituary record, a reference note will be included with the record. =========================================================== DUPLANTIS, MERLINE ========== A photo is available for this file. Please go to http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafourche/obits/dateobits/2010/f1006.htm and click on the name of interest. ========== Merline Monica Duplantis, 67, a native and resident of Houma, died at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 14, 2010. Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. today at Chauvin Funeral Home and from 8:30 a.m. to funeral time Thursday at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church. Mass will be 11 a.m. Thursday at the church, with burial in the church cemetery. She is survived by her husband, Camille Duplantis Sr. of Houma; two sons, Keenan LaJaunie and wife, Karen, of Houma, and Glen LaJaunie and wife, Ellyn of Houma; one daughter, Melinda LeBoeuf and husband, Cecil, of Houma; four brothers, Ronald Deroche and wife, Carmen, of Youngsville, Eugene "Gene" Deroche and wife, Diane, of Houma, Lucius "Jay" Deroche Jr. and companion, Kendra, of Houma, and Rodney Deroche and wife, Heather, of Houma; one sister, Elvina Gros and husband, Mark, of Bayou Blue; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Lucius Joseph Deroche Sr. and Lillian Cunningham Deroche; and first husband, Raymond LaJaunie. Chauvin Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. She was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church. ===================