ETHEL MELANCON Obituary: Terrebonne Parish, La.

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Source: Houma Courier, Houma, Terrebonne Parish, La.

1 Nov 2004

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October 31. 2004 1:45AM

Ethel Melancon

Ethel Mabel Parker Melancon, 87, a native of New Orleans and resident of Houma, 
died at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004.

Visitation will be from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday at Chauvin Funeral Home and 8 
a.m. to funeral time Tuesday at the funeral home. Religious services will be at 
10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home's chapel with burial in Garden of Memories 
Cemetery.

She is survived by two sons, Dudley Melancon and wife, Charlene, of Houma, and 
Barry Melancon and wife, Patty, of Rye, N.Y.; one daughter, Sharon Prevost and 
husband, Arnold, of Houma; one sister, Gladys Domingue of Metairie; six 
grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Dudley P. Melancon Sr.; her parents, 
Dudley Parker and Alice Debat Parker; two brothers, Dudley Parker and Walter 
Parker; and two sisters, Helen Bordelon and Ruth Riedie.

She was a housewife. She was a parishioner of First United Methodist Church.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Hospice of South 
Louisiana, 6500 Main St., Houma, LA 70360; and Columbia University ALS Gift 
Fund, 100 Haven Ave. Suite 29D, New York, N.Y., 10032.