TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La.

OBITUARIY for MCNABB, MARIE LOUISE DUPLANTIS 
  
Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from Mar. 3 to Mar. 4, 2017

Died: Thursday, March 2, 2017

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MARIE LOUISE DUPLANTIS McNABB (1924 – 2017)

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Marie Louise Duplantis McNabb, the matriarch of the Carl McNabb, Sr. clan, 
passed peacefully into the hereafter on March 2. She was 92. 

She joins her husband "Mac" and two daughters, Patricia McNabb and Lisa McNabb, 
where they are now establishing a Crescent Boulevard above –-- lined with 
clouds instead of magnolia trees and populated with family and long-time 
neighbors turned angels.

Marie's house was filled with a laughter that was legendary. She welcomed 
family, friends, her children's friends, and her grandchildren's friends with 
open arms and always a cup of coffee or a Coke. It has also been said in later 
years that she had the coldest beer and the best advice in town.

She met and married her late husband while he was stationed with the US Navy at 
the Houma Blimp Base during WWII. They lost their first-born child, Patricia, 
while he was engaged in war operations in the Phillipines. Unable to return for 
the funeral, he wrote her one of the most heart wrenchingly beautiful letters 
which the family has kept these long years. Her second-born, Kathleen, 
contracted meningitis at age three which began a difficult and months-long 
hospitalization at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Though the illness was 
arrested with then experimental drugs, Kathleen was left mentally and 
physically disabled, but no child could have been more loved or cared for. 
Marie served on the board at TARC and helped to establish and grow the 
organization as it exists today at the Houma Air Base, and she was forever 
grateful for TARC's services in helping Kathleen live to her full potential.

Her tough-as-nails spirit was called to task yet again when her husband was 
critically injured in an auto wreck on his way home from work with Halliburton 
in 1969. It took him out of commission for 18 months. The family navigated this 
setback successfully due in no small part to her ability to run a household 
with little help.

Having learned through tragedy the precariousness of this life, she turned a 
cheek to the emotional pain and adopted the motto "Laugh and the world laughs 
with you – weep, and you weep alone". She reveled in the accomplishments and 
escapades, large and small, of her next three children, Carolyn, Buddy and Lisa 
and enjoyed every birthday, every holiday and every event involving them to the 
fullest. Tragedy struck again, however, when she lost her daughter Lisa to a 
car accident in 2000. Unbowed, she continued to give comfort to others who were 
down, and continued up to the end to share a hearty chuckle when needed. In her 
last years, her only great grandchild, Marli, gave her immense delight.

She is survived and dearly missed by daughters, Kathleen Marie McNabb and 
Carolyn Ann McNabb and her son, Carl ("Buddy") Leroy McNabb, Jr. and wife, 
Claire; grandchildren, Jennifer L. McNabb, Michael D. McNabb and wife, 
Stephanie, and Zachary McNabb. She has one great-grandchild, Marli McNabb. (And 
"part-time son", Richard Watkins. )

She was predeceased by her mother, Marie Louise Chauvin Duplantis; her father, 
Camille Charles Duplantis Sr.; her sisters, Muriel Duplantis and Mary Tracy 
Duplantis; her brothers, Elmore Joseph Duplantis, Elton Joseph Duplantis, 
Thaddeus Baker Charles Duplantis, and Camille Charles Duplantis Jr., her 
husband, Carl Leroy McNabb Sr., and her daughters, Patricia McNabb and Lisa 
McNabb.

Services will be held March 4 at Chauvin Funeral Home in Houma from 3 p.m. to 5 
p.m. with a Liturgy of the Word at 5 p.m. 

Graveside services are deferred to a later date.

In lieu of flowers, Marie would appreciate donations to T.A.R.C in Houma.

Chauvin Funeral Home, Inc. is honored to serve the McNabb family.

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