LOUIS BLUM, SR. Obituary: Terrebonne Parish, La. Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Source: Houma Courier, Houma, Terrebonne Parish, La. 27 Sep 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. ============================= September 26. 2005 12:39PM Louis Blum Sr. [Photo] Louis Lewald Blum Sr., 88, a native and resident of Houma, died at 6:51 a.m. Friday, Sept. 23, 2005. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to funeral time Tuesday at Chauvin Funeral Home. Masonic services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home chapel, with burial in Terrebonne Memorial Park Cemetery. He is survived by three sons, Leopold Blum and wife, Perry, David R. Blum and wife, Mary, of Houma and Louis L. Blum and wife, Iris, of Bayou Blue; two sisters, Sarah B. Babin and Bessie B. Antis of Houma; eight grandchildren, Bryan Blum, Jeramiah Blum, Isaiah Blum, Ashley B. Falgout, Gabrielle Blum, Jonah Blum, Gordan Blum and Zachary Blum; and three great-grandchildren, Hannah Blum, Carmen Blum and Caleb Blum. He was preceded in death by his wife, Johnnie Fae Moore Blum; his parents, Leopold Blum and Amalia Lewald Blum; his grandparents, Joseph and Sarah Raas Blum and Louis and Hannah Schwartz Lewald; and one brother, Joseph Blum Sr. He was a former president and C.E.O. of Blum and Bergeron Inc. In his early years he was employed as a warehouseman and farm worker for Blum and Bergeron. During the depression, he was employed by Texaco, first in the kitchens, then on drilling rigs in Terrebonne and Plaquemines parishes. During World War II, he was employed by Higgins Industries in New Orleans as an electrical engineer and draftsman building landing boats, P.T. boats and ships. Upon returning to Houma, he worked for Blum and Bergeron in the dried-shrimp and fur businesses and did electrical and mechanical work with Logan H. Babin and Water Works districts around southern Louisiana and was employed as an engineer and draftsman on boats for the U.S. Coast Guard inspection in the same region. He was engaged by the Peelers Company in New Orleans as an engineer and draftsman on the shrimp-peeling machines, after which he returned to Houma and served as general manager and president of Blum and Bergeron Inc. and Blum and Bergeron Realty Company Inc. He was a graduate of Lorton Preparatory School and attended Louisiana State University School of Electrical Engineering where he completed a National Defense course. He was a Louisiana Registered Electrical Engineer and a life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an international society. He developed several machines used in the dried-shrimp industry including the shrimp dryer upon which he once held a patent. He was a benevolent life member of the F & A Masons Unity Lodge No. 267 and Houma Lodge No. 1193 BPOElks. Chauvin Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.