TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La.

OBITUARIY for MARTIN, LOUISE 
  
Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Source: Falgout Funeral Home, La.

Died: Friday, January 23, 2015

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MARTIN, LOUISE 
    DIED: January 23, 2015

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A funeral service celebrating the life of Louise Martin will be held at 11:00 
A.M., Friday, January 30th, 2015 at First Baptist Church of Larose, LA, with 
Rev. Gary Hanberry officiating. 

Burial will follow in First Baptist Church cemetery of Larose 

under the direction of Falgout Funeral Home, Raceland, LA.

Visitation will be observed at the church on January 30th from 10:00 A.M. until 
time of service.

A memorial service will be held on January 31st at 2:00 P.M. at Emmanuel 
Baptist Church in Alexandria, LA. Visitation will be observed from 1:00 P.M. 
until time of service.

Louise Martin, 95, born in Graysport, MS and a resident of Alexandria, LA, 
passed from this life on Friday, January 23rd, 2015, at Rapides Regional 
Hospital in Alexandria, LA, following a brief illness.

Louise was an elementary school teacher in Larose, LA for thirty years. She was 
a member of the Lafourche and the Louisiana Retired Teachers' Associations as 
well as a member of Delta Kappa Gamma.

Louise had lived in Larose for 41 years, was a charter member of First Baptist 
Church and taught Sunday school there for many years. In 1996 she and her 
husband, Houston Martin, moved to Alexandria, LA where she became a member of 
Emmanuel Baptist Church. There she was a facilitator of the Women on Mission 
Esther Bible Study group for nine years.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry and Abigail Anderson; her 
husband, Houston Martin; son, Houston Gaines Martin; two brothers, Richard 
Anderson and Gaines Anderson; five sisters, Ella and Olive Anderson, Ruth 
Spears, Grace McLaughlin, and Frances Strahan; and one nephew, Robert Cade.

Those left to cherish her memory are her daughters, Frances Blair and 
(Obit incomplete on line from Falgout)

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