TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La. OBITUARIY for WINSTON, MERCEDES Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from May 2 to May 3, 2013 ============================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml ============================================================================= WINSTON, MERCEDES ========== A photo is available for this file. Please go to http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafourche/obits/dateobits/2013/f1305.htm and click on the name of interest. ========== Mercedes F. Winston was born July 13, 1933 in Thibodaux, and died Sunday, April 28, 2013. Visitation will be from 8:30 a.m. until funeral time Saturday at Abiding Temple Church. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the church. Burial will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Moses Baptist Church Cemetery in Thibodaux. She is survived by her children, Arnold and Rock Winston, Angelia (Marc) Smith, Phyllis (Gregory) Johnson, Jennifer (Eric) Pulley, Monica (Joseph) Stanton and Joyce Winston; siblings, Luella Rhodes and Mary Louise Williams; 23 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jake Winston Jr.; parents, Jules and Elizabeth Brown Flakes; and siblings, Martha Flakes, Dorothy Davis, Eula P. Flakes Reado, Raymond, Jules Jr., and Lawrence and Eddie Flakes. Littlejohn Funeral Home in New Orleans is in charge of arrangements. ======================