MELANIE VALDEZ Obituary: Terrebonne Parish, La. Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Source: Houma Courier, Houma, Terrebonne Parish, La. 19 May 2005 ================================================== ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ================================================== NOTES: 1. The date preceding the obituary is the date of posting on the WWW, not the date of death. ============================= May 13. 2005 2:57PM Melanie Valdez Melanie P. Valdez, 51, a native of Terrebonne Parish and resident of Houma, died at 4:35 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, 2005. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. today at Christian Faith Fellowship Church in Houma, with burial in St. Francis de Sales Cemetery No. 1. She is survived by one son, Joshua M. Valdez; one daughter, Jessica V. Naquin; one brother, Richard "Dickie" Picou; three sisters, Frances P. Doucette, Marie Louise P. Fonseca and Lillian P. Theriot; and three grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Isadore and Juliana Eschete Picou. She was a member of Christian Faith Fellowship Church.