Josephine Doucet

Josephine Jo Higginbotham Doucet

Port Barre- Funeral services for Josephine Jo Higginbotham Doucet, age 97, will be held at 4 :30 p.m. Saturday, October 10 , 2009, in the Sibille Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow in the Sacred Heart Cemetery.

Mrs. Doucet was born in Church Point, and was a long time resident of Port Barre. She died on October 8, 2009, at Evangeline Oaks Nursing Home, in Canerco, LA.

Mrs. Doucet was a owner and operator of Doucet's Grocery and Doucet's Market. Mrs. Doucet has one son Charles Doucet, of Lafayette, and two daughter's Betty Davidson and her husband Gordon, of Lake Isabella,CA. and Patricia Stelly, of Port Barre. Mrs. Doucet has twenty-two grandchildren, twenty-seven great grandchildren, four great great grandchildren.

Mrs. Doucet loved gardening, she could make anything grow from a cutting, she was a Great Cook loved to cook for her family, was an excellent seamtress, loved crocheting, quilting,and knitting. Mrs. Doucet enjoyed taking care of her grandchildren and helping her husband in the grocery store. She will be sadly missed by all.

Preceded in death by her parents, Louise and Anna Bellard Higginbotham, and her two daughters, Anna Mae Desoto and Veronica Ann Ponton, her two, son-In-laws Frank Stelly and Phillip Desoto, and two brothers, Oscar Higginbotham and Leonce Higginbotham, two sisters, Euphemie H. Lavergne and Marcelite H. Soileau.

Visiting hours will be observed in the Sibille Funeral Home on Saturday, October 10, 2009, from 1:00 p.m. until time off service.

Words of comfort to the family may be expressed at www.sibillefuneralhomes.com.
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Visitation

Sibille Funeral Home
402 Saizan Avenue
Port Barre, LA  70577
Saturday, October 10, 2009
1:004:30 pm

Service

Memorial Service

Sibille Funeral Home Chapel
402 Saizan Avenue
Port Barre, LA  70577
Saturday, October 10, 2009
4:30 PM

Cemetery

Sacred Heart CemeteryHa
403 Saizan Avenue
Port Barre, LA  70577