TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La. OBITUARIY for MELANCON, ALLEN JOSEPH Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from Feb. 25 to Feb. 26, 2016 Died: Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 ============================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml ============================================================================= MELANCON, ALLEN JOSEPH ========== A photo is available for this file. Please go to http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafourche/obits/dateobits/2016/f1602.htm and click on the name of interest. ========== Allen Joseph Melancon, age 87, a native of Donaldsonville and resident of Houma, died Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 at 5:18 AM. Visitation will be held on Saturday, Feb. 27 from 8:30 a.m. until funeral time at Chauvin Funeral Home. Funeral Service will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday, with burial to follow in Terrebonne Memorial Park Cemetery. He is survived by his son, Stephen Melancon; daughters, Jeanne Rhodes and husband, Benny, Denise Benoit and husband, Pete, and Charlotte Day and husband, Dirk; brother, Paul Melancon Jr. and wife, Annalee; sisters, Mildred Smith and husband, Leonard, and Dorothy Charlet; grandchildren, Jeffrey LeBoeuf and wife, Krystal, Jenna Clause and husband, Kyle, and Matthew Rhodes and wife, Katie; great-grandchildren, Sophie Frank, Madox Rhodes and Lillian Rhodes. He was preceded in death by his parents, Paul Stanislaus Sr. and Leonie Schexnayder Melancon; former wife, Mabel Dufresne Melancon; sons, Michael Melancon and David Melancon; brother-in-law, Billy Charlet. He was a parishioner of St. Bernadette Soubirous Catholic Church. Chauvin Funeral Home, Inc. is in charge of arrangements. ======================