LULA ROSS Obituary: Terrebonne Parish, La. Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Source: Houma Courier, Houma, Terrebonne Parish, La. 22 Aug 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. ============================= August 19. 2005 2:28PM Lula Ross [Photo] Lula Mae Newton Thomas Ross, 90, a native of Terrebonne Parish and resident of Houma, died at 9:50 a.m. Friday, Aug. 5, 2005. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to funeral time Saturday at New Salem Baptist Church. No wake services will be held. Religious services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the church with burial in Southdown Cemetery. She is survived by one son, Norman Brown and wife, Carrie, of Houma; three daughters, Rosadel Brown, Rebecca Brumfield, and Mary Amacker, all of Houma; one brother, Herbert Thibodaux of Baton Rouge; 30 grandchildren, 46 great- grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Thomas Eddie Brown Sr., and her second husband, John Ross; her parents, Mose Newton and Martha Thibodaux Newton; two sons, Joseph Celestine and Junius Thomas; two daughters, Martha Ross Camp and Yvonne Brown; and four brothers, Roosevelt Thibodaux, Alton Newton, Norman Newton and Clarence Newton; and four sisters, Hattie Palmer, Ruby Julian, Beluah Jenkins, and Delisee Newton. She was a homemaker, Baptist and member of New Salem Baptist Church. She also was a member of the Sun Flower Lodge, Daughters of Spinks, Ladies Knight Temple, Rose of Shawn, Rose of Seven Seals Ambulance, Queen of the South, United Workman Society and president of the Deaconess Board. Gertrude Geddes-Willis Terrebonne Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.