Marie Blanc

KAPLANA Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Sunday, December 4, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. in the Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church honoring the life of Mrs. Marie Roche Blanc, age 88. Interment will follow in the Kaplan Cemetery. Father Chester Arceneaux will celebrate the Mass.
Mrs. Blanc was a native and longtime resident of Kaplan. She was currently residing in Lafayette. She died on Thursday, December 1, 2011, at Magnolia Estates in Lafayette, LA. She was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church and prayed the Rosary often.
She was a homemaker who cooked many delicious meals especially chaudins, cabbage rolls, and rice dressing. She would also make homemade pancakescrepes for breakfast, watermelon preserves, and holiday treats. She would tend to the ducks and chickens. As we all can remember, each of us having to gather eggs from the hen house, picking figs from the trees, and putting the quarters into the slot to run the dryer. As a pastime, she loved her rose bushes. She would love to go visiting the family and friends. She always made sure she had candy for her visitors.
Leaving to cherish her memory are two daughters, Beverly Blanc Mire and husband, Marion of Kaplan and Linda Blanc LeMaire and husband, Leo of Scott two sons, Howard M. Lovey Blanc, Jr. and wife, Michelle of Morgan City and Raymond Mark Blanc and wife, Gladys of Lafayette and soninlaw, Larry Faulk of Bayou Vista. Having shared her life with her are 16 grandchildren, 37 greatgrandchildren, and 5 greatgreatgrandchildren. She also has a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and neighbors.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Mark Blanc, Sr. daughter, LouAnna Blanc Faulk son, Gerald Mark Blanc sisters, Eve Cormier, Anna R. Mouton, and Althea Petit Bonin brother, Adam Roche granddaughterinlaw, Cheri Saltzman Mire and greatgranddaughter, Hailey Angelle Blanc.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons.
The family visiting hours will be observed at Vincent Funeral Home Kaplan, 300 N. Eleazar Avenue, on Saturday, December 3, 2011, from 5 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. On Sunday, visitation will continue in the funeral home from 8 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
A Rosary service will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday evening in the funeral home.
Words of comfort to the family may be expressed at www.sibillefuneralhomes.com.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Sibille Funeral Home of Opelousas.

Visitation

Vincent Funeral Home
300 North Eleazar Avenue
Kaplan, LA  70548
Saturday, December 3, 2011
59 pmSun. 8 am1:30 pm

Service

Mass of Christian Burial

Holy Rosary Catholic Church
602 Church Ave.
Kaplan, LA  70548
Sunday, December 4, 2011
2:00 p.m.

Rosary Service

Vincent Funeral Home
300 North Eleazar Avenue
Kaplan, LA  70548
Saturday, December 3, 2011
7:00 p.m.

Cemetery

Kaplan Cemetery
American Legion Road
Kaplan, LA  70548