Foret obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana 

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Foret, Thelma Roussel       29 May 2007    Jun 2007    Jerry Nelson

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge):  5/29/2007

FORET, THELMA ROUSSEL
Thelma Roussel Foret entered eternal rest at 2:40 a.m. Saturday, May 26,
2007, at Riverlands Healthcare Center, Lutcher. Mrs. Foret was 87, born
Oct. 9, 1919, in Convent, and was a resident of Lutcher. Visitation at Rose
Lynn Funeral Service, Lutcher, on Tuesday, May 29, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
and on Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St.
Joseph Catholic Church, Paulina, at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Entombment in St.
Joseph Mausoleum. She is survived by five daughters, Jacquelyn F. Melancon,
Hattiesburg, Miss., Peggy F. Harrington, Houma, Carolyn and husband Ralph
Stephens, and Rebecca Foret, all of Lutcher, and Colette Brignac,
Ponchatoula; and three sons and two daughters-in-law, Kenneth "Wop" and
Brenda Dupuy Foret, Lutcher, Richard "Footy" and Bernice Monica Foret,
Baton Rouge, and Ellis "Elka" Foret, Houma. She was a loving Maw Maw and
Grand Maw Maw to 22 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. Also
surviving Mrs. Foret are three sisters, Pearl Hymel, LaPlace, and Beverly
Anderson and Carmen Gaudet, both of New Orleans; and brother, Wilson
Roussel, Baton Rouge. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas
"Buster" Foret III; son, Thomas "Tommy" Foret IV; parents, Morgan and
Carmen Ayme Roussel; sister, Sister Mary Germain, O.P., (Earline); and
brothers, Earl "Yo," Morgan and Wilhelm Roussel. Mrs. Foret was a retired
Lutcher town clerk and former director of St. James Parish Council on
Aging. She was a member of St. James AARP, St. Anne's Altar Society,
Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies
Auxiliary Post 5852 and Airline Homemakers Club. 
 
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