TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La.

OBITUARIY for KORNOVICH, FLORENCE "FLORRIE" (WATKINS)  
  
Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from July 7 to July 8, 2014

Died: Thursday, July 3, 2014

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KORNOVICH, FLORENCE "FLORRIE" (WATKINS)  

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Florence "Florrie" Theresa Watkins Kornovich, a native of Houma, and longtime 
resident of Terrytown, passed away peacefully at Our Lady of Wisdom Healthcare 
Center Thursday, July 3, 2014. 

Family and friends are invited to a celebration of Florrie's life at 6 p.m. 
Friday at 190 Colony Road in Belle Chasse. Funeral services will be at 10:30 
a.m. Saturday at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral in Houma. 

Florrie is survived by her brother Thomas Kenneth Watkins and sister-in-law, 
Sheridan Milek Watkins; children, Catherine Francis (Arthur), Stephen Kornovich 
(Roylene), John Kornovich (Alice), Mark Kornovich, and Paul Kornovich; 
grandchildren, Sara and Ann Francis, Jennifer Hicks (Christopher) and Jason 
Kornovich (Stephanie), and Anna and Clara Kornovich; great-grandchildren, Riley 
and Kennedy Hicks; as well as many nieces and nephews, other family, and 
friends. 

Florrie was preceded in death by her parents, Florence Delatte and Judge J. 
Louis Watkins; husband, Lawrence Vincent Kornovich; brother, Judge J. Louis 
Watkins Jr.; sister-in-law, Shirley Rome Watkins; sisters, Catherine Ann 
Watkins and Elizabeth Watkins Lonergan; and brother-in-law, Maurice Anthony 
Lonergan Jr. 

Florrie was born May 27, 1927, to Florence Delatte and Judge J. Louis Watkins. 
She attended St. Francis de Sales Catholic School and Ursuline College. 
In 1949, she married Lawrence Vincent Kornovich of Foley, Minnesota, to whom 
she was happily married for 51 years. 
Throughout her entire life, Florrie practiced her faith by working tirelessly 
to care for her family, friends, and the friends of her family, especially by 
applying her talents in the kitchen and at the sewing machine. She was much-
loved. 

The family thanks the staff and residents of Ville Ste. Marie Senior Living 
Center, Our Lady of Wisdom Healthcare Center, and the staff of Concerned Care 
Hospice, for the care and support they provided their mother. The family 
requests that any memorials to Florrie take the form of donations to Our Lady 
of Wisdom Healthcare Center 

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