Obituaries:  Lou Audrey Vercher Thomas, Sabine Parish       T-520
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 25, 2000
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Lou Audrey Vercher Thomas

  Lou Audrey Vercher Thomas, 85, of Pleasant Hill, passed away
Monday, Oct. 23, 2000, in Bossier City, at Summit Hospital, of
complications from Guillian-Berre' disease.

  Survivors include her son, William Edward Thomas Jr. of Pleasant
Hill and wife Jane Jeffress Thomas; two grandchildren, and five
great grandchildren; Melyssa Gault Snelling and her husband
Terrell Dean Snelling; and their children, Dwight "Lee" Laurence,
Emily Anna Snelling, and Terrell Thomas Snelling of Converse.
Also, Benjamin Heath Gault and wife Christina "Clariss" Imhoff
Gault; and their children, Benjamin Kenneth Gault, and Gunnar
Matthew Gault of Pleasant Hill. Special grandchildren, Ike,
Sherryl, and J. V. Lafitte of Mansfield also survive Mrs. Thomas.

  Lou Audrey was born on June 22, 1915, in Campti, to Ellen and
Louis "Jack" Maxmillian Vercher. Her aunts raised her in Campti
after she was orphaned. She was a graduate of Tri-State Hospital
Nursing School (Willis-Knighton Hospital) in Shreveport.

  She was preceded in death by her husband, William Edward Thomas
Sr., and by her parents.

  She was an RN for 60 years, serving at Willis-Knighton Hospital
as charge nurse, Zwolle Hospital in Zwolle, Veteran's Hospital in
Shreveport, and was a nurse for Dr. C. E. Poimboeuf in Pleasant
Hill.

  A Mass of Christian burial was held at the Pleasant Hill United
Methodist Church at 10 a.m., Oct. 24. Interment followed at
Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Monsignors Earl Provenza, Mary Queen of
Peace in Bossier City, and Norman Buvens, chaplain at Schumpert
Medical Center concelebrated the mass.

  The family would like to take this opportunity to express their
gratitude for the loving care she received at Regency House
Assisted Living in Alexandria; Green Meadow Haven in Coushatta,
the nursing staffs at the Summit Hospital on the three occasions
she was there, the nursing staff at Willis-Knighton Hospital,
5-E. A special thanks to Dr. Richard Haynie, and the doctors who
helped her through this lengthy illness.

  In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations
be made to their own church, charity of their choice, or the
Gullian-Barre' Foundation.

  Pallbearers were Jerry Snelling, Terrell Dean Snelling, Lloyd
Hardee, Cliff Poimboeuf, Gene Poimboeuf, and Pete Scott. Honorary
pallbearers were Nick Spann, and Curt Nix.

  Rockett-Nettles Funeral Home, Coushatta, La.