Obituaries:  Grace Broussard, Sabine Parish       B-626
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Sep 4, 1986
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Grace Broussard

  Mrs. Grace Broussard of Lake Arthur, died on Friday, August 22,
at 10:30 p.m., in the Jennings, (La.) Hospital, following a
lengthy illness. She was 73.

  Funeral services were held at the Lake Arthur Funeral Home, at 2
p.m., on Monday, August 25. Burial was in the Catholic Cemetery
at Lake Arthur.

  Surveyors include one daughter, Sandra Smith of San Francisco,
Calif.; one son, Alford Broussard of Stonewall, Miss.; one
grandson, Darrell Smith of San Francisco; five sisters, Audrey
Wenner, and Ruth Dees, both of Lake Charles, and Lela Lowe, Ola
Ellison, and Addie Petty, all of Many; several nieces and
nephews, and a host of friends.

  Mrs. Broussard was preceded in death by her husband, Morris
Broussard, who died in Oct. 1984.

  Born in Sabine Parish, to Mr. and Mrs. Ross Alford, she was one
of ten children. She and her siblings were raised on a small farm
in the Jerusalem community.

  Educated at the Many schools, Mrs. Broussard graduated from Many
High in 1930, and then continued her education at La. Norman
College in Natchitoches. She received her degree at Southwestern
University in Lafayette.

  Thirty-eight years were devoted to a teaching career. She was a
fifth grade teacher at Lake Arthur. Mrs. Broussard was an active
member of the Methodist Church.

  Since retirement, she had enjoyed traveling.