VELMA MATHERNE Obituary: Terrebonne Parish, La. Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Source: Houma Courier, Houma, Terrebonne Parish, La. 25 July 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. ============================= July 19. 2005 2:15PM Velma Matherne Velma L. Matherne, 92, a native and resident of Larose, died at 9:05 a.m. Monday, July 18, 2005. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to funeral time Wednesday at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church in Larose. Mass will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with interment in the church mausoleum. She is survived by her second husband, Herman Matherne; one son, Melvin Gaspard; two daughters, Katherine Terrebonne and Bonnie Erickson; one brother, Roy LeBlanc; two sisters, Marie Hymel and Elma Kaiser; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Leo Gaspard; her parents, Abel and Valerie Acosta LeBlanc; one daughter, Geraldine Gaspard; two brothers, Abel and Alvin LeBlanc; and two sisters, Wilma Guidry and Thelma Arabie. She was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church.