TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La. OBITUARIY for KELLEY, BESSIE (COLEMAN) MCBRIDE Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from May 14 to May 15, 2015 Died: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 ============================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml ============================================================================= KELLEY, BESSIE (COLEMAN) MCBRIDE ========== A photo is available for this file. Please go to http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafourche/obits/dateobits/2015/f1505.htm and click on the name of interest. ========== Bessie M. Coleman McBride Kelley, 84, a native of Paincourtville and resident of Raceland, died Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Visitation will be 3-5 p.m. today, Friday, May 15, at Williams and Southall Funeral Home in Thibodaux and from 9 a.m. until funeral time Saturday, May 16, at St. Charles Baptist Church in Paincourtville. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church, with burial in St. Charles Baptist Church cemetery in Paincourtville. She is survived by her sons, Sidney McBride and Michael Thomas, of Houma, John McBride (Albertine Terry), of Labadieville, Werton (Susan) McBride, of Louisville, Kentucky, and Herman McBride, of Thibodaux; daughters, Audrey Francis, of Thibodaux, Hilda McBride, of Paincourtville, Ethel Thomas (Nelson Robertson), Linda (Ernest) Coleman, of Houma, and Dorothy (Alton) Gray, of Raceland; sisters, Edna Coleman, of Napoleonville, and Lillian Crandle (Edward Mitchell), of New Orleans; stepsisters, Celena Gladden, Lucille Massap and Louise Conway; 66 grandchildren; 111 great-grandchildren; and five great-great- grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ethel and John Coleman Sr.; first husband, Sidney McBride; second husband, Cleveland; and numerous children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, brothers and sisters. Williams and Southall Funeral Home in Thibodaux is in charge of arrangements. ======================