LeTard-Cortez obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

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LeTard-Cortez, Beverly June Brooks  29 Mar 2006   Apr 2006   Jerry Nelson

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge):  3/29/2006

LeTARD-CORTEZ, BEVERLY JUNE BROOKS 
Surrounded by her children, she slipped into eternal sleep on Monday, March
27, 2006. She was 78, born Feb. 11, 1928. A loving mother, grandmother,
great-grandmother and sister, she is survived by her three daughters,
Beverly Diane LeTard Biggs, Houston, Linda Catherine "Cathy" LeTard Butler
and her husband, David, Baton Rouge, and Elizabeth Mattingly LeTard Coody,
Denham Springs; two sons, Edwin Carroll LeTard III, Amite, and John Carroll
LeTard, Denham Springs; 12 grandchildren, Samuel Biggs, Houston, John Eric
Brumfield, Greensburg, Krystle Butler Morris, Erik Butler and Nicholas
Butler, all of Watson, and Erica Elizabeth Coody, Jeremy Coody, Pamela Sue
LeTard Chambers, Vanna Anne LeTard, April LeTard, Edwin LeTard IV and Tessa
LeTard, all of Denham Springs; two great-grandchildren, Kylee Anne LeTard,
Denham Springs, and Austin Morris, Watson; three sisters, Dorothy Brooks,
Kentwood, Mildred Easley, Amite, and Catherine Lou Wright, Robertsdale,
Ala.; and two brothers, George Brooks, LaMarque, Texas, and Richard Brooks,
Kentwood. She was preceded in death by her parents, George Albert and
Bettie Hart Brooks; two sisters, Anna Laura Brooks Reed and Helen Sue
Gates; and her first husband, Edwin C. LeTard Jr. Special thanks to
Heritage Manor Nursing Home, Oxford Place, Baton Rouge, and Life Source
Hospice of Baton Rouge for their loving care and support in our Mom's last
days. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, on Thursday, March 30,
from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and on Friday from 9 a.m. until religious service
at 11 a.m., conducted by the Rev. Frank Smith. Burial in Amite Cemetery,
Amite. For more information, visit ttp://www.mckneelys.com. 

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