ST. MARY PARISH, LA. 

Obituary for: MARCOTTE, KATHERINE 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source-Published: Franklin Banner-Tribune, The (LA) - Tuesday, November 27, 2007

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MARCOTTE, KATHERINE 

Funeral services for "Katie" Burns Marcotte will be held Wednesday, Nov. 28, 
2007, at 4 p.m., at Teche Baptist Church in Centerville, with her grandson, the 
Rev. Lyndon Marcotte officiating. 

Interment will follow in Teche Gardens, adjacent to the church, under the 
direction of Ibert's Mortuary of Franklin.

"Katie," 82, of Verdunville, entered eternal life on Nov. 26, 2007.

Katie was born June 8, 1925 to her late parents, Dewey and Mae Voisin Burns, on 
a houseboat, in the Lake Chicot area in the Atchafalaya Basin. The earliest 
inhabitants in the Basin area were the Spangler and Burns families. Mr. 
Spangler's daughter married Nicholas Burns and Katie, her sisters and brothers 
are the last living descendants of an era and way of life for almost 200 
families that settled in the Atchafalaya Basin in 1870s till 1950s. Most living 
on beautiful bayous and banks in houseboats. They were fishermen and trappers 
who depended on the Basin for their livlihoods.

Katie and her sister, Thelma, were school boat pilots at a very early age, and 
went up and down the rivers, and bayous picking up school age children to 
attend a one room school on Hog Island Pass, taught by missionaries through 
eighth grade.

She lived her first 23 years of her life on a houseboat on Bayou Smith in the 
Basin, and has shared many wonderful treasured stories to her children, 
grandchildren, family and friends that the earliest settlers were her great 
grandparents on both sides, and her parents also had seven children and raised 
them all on the Basin.

Mrs. Marcotte was preceded in death by her parents, Dewey and Mae Voisin Burns; 
three sisters, Birdie Mae Sauce, Vivian Carter and Sadie Aucoin.

She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Elwood "Red" Marcotte Sr. of 
Verdunville; three daughters, Patricia Lee of New Iberia, Julie Marcotte of 
Bayou Vista and Cindy Fuhrer of Centerville; one son, Elwood Marcotte Jr. of 
Alexandria, La.; one sister, Thelma Chauvin and two brothers, Donald Burns Sr. 
and Ernest Burns, all living in Verdunville.

She leaves behind nine beautiful grandchildren and four precious great 
grandsons and one great granddaughter and a host of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers honored to serve will be Jeremy Marcotte, Beau Fuhrer, Zachary 
Fuhrer, Joe Fuhrer, Baron Trahan and Elwood Marcotte Jr.

Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, November 28 at Teche Baptist 
Church on Hwy. 182 in Centerville.

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