ST. MARY PARISH, LA. 

Obituary for: PELTIER GODFREY HARRY 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source: Franklin Banner-Tribune, Morgan City Daily Review; St. Mary Parish, La. 

Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2012

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PELTIER GODFREY HARRY 
May 2, 1931 - Nov. 19, 2012

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, November 21, 2012, at 1 p.m., at 
Ibert’s Mortuary in Franklin for Mr. Godfrey Harry Peltier, 81, who went home 
to his Lord early Monday morning, November 19, 2012, at his son’s home in Bayou 
Sale. 

Burial will follow in the Franklin Cemetery. 
Pastor Marty Harden will officiate the services.

Mr. Godfrey was born on May 2, 1931 on Maryland Plantation to Wilfred Peltier 
Sr. and Ellen Coleman Peltier. His family later moved down Bayou Sale to 
Ellerslie Plantation where he spent his childhood. When he was old enough, he 
enlisted in the United States Army and served during the Korean Conflict. He 
loved the outdoors, especially shrimping, gardening, cutting his grass, and 
working in his yard. Mr. Godfrey worked for over 20 years for Cabot. After 
retiring from Cabot he went to work for SMI Companies where he also worked for 
over 20 years. He was a member of Bethel Pentecostal Fellowship in Patterson.

Survivors include his three children, John Godfrey Peltier and his wife, 
Bonita, of Bayou Sale; Mark Christopher Peltier and his wife, Christine, of New 
Iberia; and Julie Peltier Moore and her husband, Roger, of Bayou Sale; his 
wife, Georgia Amadore Fabre Peltier of Berwick; three stepchildren, Suzanne 
Dosier and her husband, Todd, of Berwick; Debbie Thibodeaux and her husband, 
Bart, of Berwick; and Robin Fabre of Patterson; one brother, Wilfred “Son” 
Peltier Jr. of Bayou Sale; one sister-in-law, Lova Peltier of Walker; eight 
grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; seven step- grandchildren; 11 step 
great grandchildren; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Lavona James Peltier; his parents, 
Wilfred Peltier Sr. and Ellen Coleman Peltier; four sisters, Mary Ellen P. 
Foreman, Emmadel P. Levet, Elizabeth P. Duncan Foreman and Miriam P. Firmin; 
and one brother, Huey Paul Peltier.

A gathering of family and friends will be held Wednesday at Ibert’s Mortuary 
from 11 a.m. until time of service at 1 p.m.

Serving as pallbearers will be Roger Moore, Dylan Moore, Brennan Moore, Eric 
Peltier, Emile Levet and Douglas Levet.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Ibert’s Mortuary, Inc. of Franklin.

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