TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La.

OBITUARIY for FALTERMAN, JOSIE 
  
Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Source: Chauvin Funeral Home, Houma, La.

Died: Friday, January 20, 2017

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FALTERMAN, JOSIE 

August 17, 1923 - January 20, 2017

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Mrs. Josie Falterman, 93, of Harrison, AR previously, of Houma, LA, died 
Friday, January 20, 2017 at her daughter’s home in Harrison. 

A Visitation and Funeral Mass will be Tuesday, January 24, 2017 in the 
Annunziata Church in Houma, LA. Public viewing we be from 1:00 P.M to 2:00 P.M. 
and the Funeral Mass at 2:00 P.M. Father Mike Tran will be celebrant. 

Burial will follow in the St. Francis De Sales Cemetery #2.

Josephine Bertha Falterman was born, Friday, August 17, 1923 in Houma, LA to 
Nicholas and Helen (Voisin) Gaston. 

Josie was a lifelong resident of Houma and graduated from the St. Francis De 
Sales High School. After graduation, she attended Hotel Dieu School of Nursing 
in New Orleans, LA and graduated with her Bachelors in Nursing. She went to 
work as a Registered Nurse with Ellender Hospital and later for the Terrebonne 
General Medical Center working in the E.R., Surgical and later in local nursing 
homes. While working in the hospital, she met Don Falterman and they were 
married on February 4, 1947 in Houma. In 1956 the family moved to the suburbs 
of Houma--Bayou Blue. She retired from nursing in the early 1980’s. Josie and 
Don moved to Ridgedale, MO to be near their youngest daughter, Donna in 2009 
and then moved to Harrison, AR to be with her oldest daughter, Darlene in 2012. 
Her husband, Don died on November 30th of 2012.

Josie always enjoyed helping others, caring, loving, mentoring and nursing 
them. She had what is known as a Servant’s Heart. She had a strong faith and 
taught her family about the love of God and financial responsibility. In her 
younger days she sang in the St. Francis de Sale Church Choir and was a member 
of the Firehouse Squares, a square dancing club in Houma, LA. She enjoyed 
reading, sewing, cross stitching, singing and cooking. She was particularly 
talented in the preparation of Gumbo and chicken stew. She was a member of the 
Annunziata Catholic Church of Houma, LA.

She is survived by her son, Darrell Falterman and wife, Debra of St. Augustine, 
FL; two daughters, Darlene Coffman and husband, Donald of Harrison, AR, Donna 
McManus and husband, Patrick of Ridgedale, MO; one sister, Marie Gaston of 
Harrison, AR; one sister-in-law, June Gaston and her son, Matt Gaston his wife 
Liza and their son, Blake Gaston of Vero Beach, FL; five grandchildren, 
Catherine Goodrich, Mary Ellis, Chad and Brian Coffman and Allison Boudreaux; 
nine great-grandchildren, Nicholas, Benjamin, Tiffany, Jennifer, Katelyn, 
Hunter, Parker, Shelby and Brian Michael; one great-great-grandson, Adam 
Coffman.

She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband Darnell “Don” Falterman 
and one brother, Gerald N. Gaston.

Chauvin Funeral Home is honored to serve the Falterman family.

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