TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La.

OBITUARIY for GRILLET, AIMEÉ RITA HOTARD
  
Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from Aug. 4 to Aug. 5, 2016

Died: Wednesday, August 3, 2016

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GRILLET, AIMEÉ RITA HOTARD
March 21, 1921 – August 3, 2016

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On August 3, 2016, Aimeé H. Grillet continued her journey to join her love ones 
and friends who have gone before, planning yet another great reunion. 

During her 95 years on earth she was a strong, loving and determined woman that 
touched many lives. She was born at Belle Rose, Louisiana, later moving to 
Oaklawn Plantation where she was raised and attended school in Franklin. After 
high school she attended Louisiana Normal College in Natchitoches. Upon return 
to Bayou Teche, she entered the work force. 
She married Bill Grillet in 1953. They started their family in Franklin, 
continued to Sugar land, Texas, and then finally settling in Houma, Louisiana 
on Southdown Plantation. 
She went to work as the bookkeeper for Terrebonne Parish Police Jury in 1958, 
retiring 27 years later as the last Secretary-Treasurer of the Police Jury (now 
Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government). 
Ms. Aimeé, as she was known, was chosen as Houma Business Women of the Year in 
1984. She was very active in inspiring young women to make a difference and 
join politics or secure jobs at political offices. 
Among her many accomplishments she was member and president of the Secretary-
Treasurer Association of Louisiana, member of Professional Association of 
Municipal Finance Officers. She was also an avid supporter and member of the 
Historical and Cultural Society, LePetit Theatre de Terrebonne, TARC, American 
Red Cross, Business and Professional Women, Terrebonne Parish Library, Girl 
Scouts, Boy Scouts, the Terrebonne Genealogical Society, and Docent for 
Southdown Museum, just to name a few. 
She always had time to work in her yard, keep up with family members and her 
joy of researching history of Louisiana and genealogy of her family tracing it 
back to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 

Those she leaves behind to cherish her memory include her children, Joan 
Elizabeth Grillet Adams and husband Jody, John Paul Grillet and wife Cindy, and 
Thomas André Grillet; her grandchildren, Jo Elizabeth Adams, William Joseph 
Adams and wife Danielle, John Robert Adams, and Sean Paul Grillet; the light in 
her eyes, her great-granddaughter Kinslee Reed Adams; her sister Marjorie 
Hotard Blanchard; and a host of nieces and nephews. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, A. William "Bill" Grillet Jr., her 
parents Ernest and Aimeé Maurin Hotard; her sister Mildred Hotard Lambert; and 
her half sister Lillian Hotard Clement. 

Services will be held at the Church of the Assumption, 915 Main St., Franklin, 
Louisiana on Friday, August 5, 2016, during a 12:00 p.m. Mass of Christian 
burial, 

followed by internment in the Franklin Cemetery. 

Father Lloyd Benoit will be the Celebrant for the Mass and conduct the 
services. The family will receive guests Friday at the church from 9:30 a.m. 
until Mass time. 

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that her memory be shared with the 
Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Baton Rouge, 3134 Hundred Oaks 
Ave., Baton Rouge 70808, 225-332-2999 or the Terrebonne Parish Library 
Genealogy Reference Collection, 151 Library Drive, Houma, LA 70360, 985-876-
5861 

Arrangements have been entrusted to Ibert's Mortuary, Inc., 1007 Main Street, 
Franklin, LA. 

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