TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La.

OBITUARIY for RHODES, ELBERT "BERT" 
  
Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from June 20 to June 22, 2015

Died: Thursday, June 11, 2015

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RHODES, ELBERT "BERT" 

Elbert "Bert" Rhodes, 87, a native of Busy, Kentucky, and a resident of Houma, 
and Knoxville, Tennessee, passed away peacefully Thursday, June 11, 2015, in 
Knoxville.

He will be laid to rest with military honors next to his loving wife, Norma, at 
Saint Ann Catholic Church Cemetery in Bourg at a later date to be announced by 
the family.

He is survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Rhodes Dominique, of Gainesville, 
Virginia, and Monique Rhodes, of Hammond; son-in-law, retired Army Major Dean 
Dominique; grandchildren, Taylor Dominique, Nicholas Dominique, Alessandro 
Cucito, Silvio Cucito and Gianluca Cucito; and sisters, Telvis "Ted" Miracle, 
of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Wauneth "Waun" Forrester, of Harlan, Kentucky.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 32 years, Norma Duplantis Rhodes, who 
passed away Jan. 4, 1990. 

They were joined in marriage at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Houma Nov. 23, 
1957. 
He was also preceded in death by his father, Horace Rhodes; mother, Opal 
Rhodes; and brother, Edward "Ed" Rhodes.

Bert was a U.S. Navy veteran and a graduate of Lincoln Memorial University in 
Harrogate, Tennessee.

U.S. Navy 
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