TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La. OBITUARIY for LINDSEY, BETTY "MIMI" (ELLENDER) Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from Sept. 28 to Sept. 29, 2015 Died: Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 ============================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml ============================================================================= LINDSEY, BETTY "MIMI" (ELLENDER) ========== A photo is available for this file. Please go to http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafourche/obits/dateobits/2015/f1509.htm and click on the name of interest. ========== Betty Ellender Lindsey, a devoted and loving wife, mother, sister, grandmother and great-grandmother was welcomed into her heavenly home Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. She was 89 years young. Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. today, Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Rabenhorst Funeral Home at 825 Government Street in Baton Rouge and from 10 a.m. until funeral time Wednesday, Sept. 30, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. A Mass of Christian burial will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with burial at a later date in St. Francis de Sales Cemetery in Houma. She is survived by her husband of 68 years, Clyde; children and their spouses, Dr. Stephen Lindsey, wife, Joyce, and son, Kevin, and Steve's children, Ashley and Brandon; Larke Guercio and her children, Matthew, Stephen, Nicholas and Lindsey; Judy Determann, husband, Mike, and their children, Greg, Jason and Trent; Robin Sanchez, husband, Allan, and their children, Erick and Rusty. Also left to remember her are the loving spouses of her grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews, friends and one very spoiled kitty, Buddy Boy. She was preceded in death by her parents, Jessie Chauvin and Henry Jefferson Ellender; sisters, Gertrude Elissalde, Lucille Beauvois, Jeanette Kennedy, Marie Richard Miller and Jessie Henchy; and brothers, Harold, Henry and Rudolph Ellender. Born in Bourg, on Oct. 26, 1925, to Henry and Jessie Ellender, Betty grew up in Houma as the youngest of nine children. Betty was proud to be a drum majorette at LSU, graduating with a degree in education. She married her "football star," Clyde Lindsey, Dec. 28, 1946. For their honeymoon, they went to the 1947 Sugar Bowl with the entire LSU football team. Betty devoted her life to being a homemaker and what a home she made – one based on a strong Catholic faith and unconditional love. Betty, or Mimi as most people knew her, was an excellent cook who enjoyed preparing "beautiful" roasts and "good looking" gumbos. She was still preparing her famous corn bread dressing for the most recent holidays. There was always something good to eat at Mimi's. Mimi never met a stranger - everyone was darling, sweetie or sugar. She had a genuine concern for those less fortunate and was very charitable. She reveled at every accomplishment of her children and grandchildren and loved to reminisce about the good old days growing up in Houma. She treasured looking over the 100 year-old oaks that surrounded their trailer at "The Place" in Montegut, only a few miles from where she was born. In 1978, she and Clyde started an orange grove that grew to more than 350 trees. She enjoyed fishing and crabbing at Grand Isle and going to their camp at False River, always stopping to let us sample sugar cane and pick maypops along the way. Mimi truly enjoyed nature and the simplest of life's blessings could put a smile on her face. Mimi loved her family more than life itself. Never was this more evident than during holidays at the Lindsey home on Richland Avenue, where there was always enough food to feed a small army at Thanksgiving. Christmas was a gift extravaganza – you never knew if it was a real gift or a gag one, yours or someone else's, this year's gift or one she had found from last year. These are all special memories that will never fade. Her smile and corny jokes, her unselfishness and compassion, her kindness and honesty will be sorely missed. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow you and you shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Until we meet again, Mimi, you will always be in our hearts. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in her name may be made to the Lauren Savoy Olinde Foundation at www.lsofoundation.org or The Arthritis Foundation. Rabenhorst Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. ======================