LAFOURCHE and TERREBONNE PARISHES, LA. 

Obituary for WAGUESPACK, ELIA 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

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

Published: Sunday, August 22, 2010 

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WAGUESPACK, ELIA 

Elia Marie Waguespack, 88, born Feb. 12, 1922 on Laura Plantation in Vacherie, 
died Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, at Lafourche Home for the Aged in Thibodaux.

Visitation will be held from 9 to 11:15 a.m. Tuesday at the St. Philip Catholic 
Church in Vacherie. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday 
at the church with the Rev. Christopher Decker as officiant. Interment will 
follow in the church mausoleum.

She is survived by one brother, Haydel A. Waguespack Sr. and wife, Leanne, of 
Garyville; four sisters, Marcelle W. Haydel and husband, Claude, and Blanche W. 
Troxclair and husband, Leon, both of Jefferson, Jewell W. Cuccia and husband, 
Louis, of Terrytown, and Gaynell W. Bourgeois and husband, Leo, of Vacherie; two 
nieces, Michelle B. Schexnayder and Nannette B. Nickens; as well as numerous 
nieces and nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Sidney P. Waguespack Sr. and Blanche 
Haydel Waguespack; a brother Sidney P. Waguespack Jr.; a niece, Pamela 
Waguespack; and a nephew, Leo Bourgeois Jr.

She was a retired teacher with the St. James Parish School Board with 40 years 
of service. She was a member of Court St. Philip Catholic Daughters No. 1504, 
and the Ladies Altar Society of St. Philip Catholic Church Parish.

The family wishes to thank the staff of St. Joseph Hospice and Lafourche Home 
for the Aged for the care they have given her.

Arrangements are under the direction of H. C. Alexander Funeral Home in Lutcher.

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