LAFOURCHE and TERREBONNE PARISHES, LA. 

Obituary for BLANCHARD, BONNER 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source: The Daily Comet, Lafourche Parish La. and Houma Today, Terrebonne 
Parish, La.

Published: Thursday, August 19, 2010 

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BLANCHARD, BONNER 

Bonner Owen Joseph Blanchard, 88, a native of Houma, died Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, 
at Jennie Stuart Medical Center of natural causes.

Funeral services were held Aug. 11 at Hughart and Beard Funeral Home with the 
Rev. Dr. Rick Stevens and the Rev. Steven Sholar officiating. Burial with 
military honors was held in the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery-West.

Survivors include his wife, Gwendolyn Sholar Blanchard; one son, Jonathan Mark 
Bonner Blanchard of Chicago; one sister, Rena Blanchard Domangue of Houma; and 
three grandchildren.

He was born April 28, 1922, the son of the late Elgin Joseph and Nora Blanchard. 
He was a retired Army chief warrant officer. He entered military service in 1939 
and retired in 1972 after having served 31 years. He was a member of the 31st 
Infantry Division of Louisiana, which was one of the first divisions to deploy 
to Europe and remained there for the duration of World War II. He then served in 
the 325th Glider Infantry and had also served with the 23rd Division, 1st 
Cavalry Division and the 82nd and 11th Airborne Divisions. He served two tours 
of duty in Korea, receiving the United Nations Korean Medal and two tours in 
Vietnam and was the recipient of the Bronze Starl, which was awarded to him by 
the Marines for service with them at the Battle of Quang Tri in Vietnam. He was 
a master parachutist, a master of explosive ordinance disposal, a deep-sea diver 
and was a nuclear weapons officer. A Mason, he was also a member of the First 
Baptist Church and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American 
Radio Relay League as a HAM radio operator.

Memorials may be made to Gideon's International.

Hughart and Beard Funeral Home of Hopkinsville, Ky., was in charge of 
arrangements.

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