Myrtle P. LaGrange
Opelousas Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle P. LaGrange, 91, will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, November14, 2008, with a Mass of Christian Burial in Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church. Interment will follow in the Bellevue Memorial Park in Opelousas.
Father Angelo Cremaldi will celebrate the Mass. Music will be provide by Ms. Ann Purser and Pat LeBlanc. The songs will be On Eagles Wings, Amazing Grace, Ave Maria, Here I Am Lord and Gift of Finest Wheat.
Mrs. LaGrange was born April 6, 1917, in Prairie Ronde; and was a resident of Opleousas. She passed from life on Wednesday, November 12, 2008, in Doctor's Hospital of Opelousas.
Ms. Myrtle was a wonderful wife to her husband Alfred and a loving mother to her son Doyle. Ms. Myrtle was a very wonderful and loving grandmother and was a wonderful cook. Some of her favorite dishes that she was famous for is Crab Stew and Choupique Courtboullion. Ms. Myrtle loved to travel with her husband and loved going with the family to fish, trolling and to fish for crabs. She loved all of her nieces and nephews and treated them just like they were her own. Mrs. LaGrange was a member of the Ball Masque Club, Ladies Alter Society, and the VFW Ladies Auxiliary. Ms. Myrtle is going to be sadly missed by her family and many friends.
She is survived by her son; Doyle LaGrange and wife Paula of Opelousas; sister, Bertha Walter of Malvern, Ark. and her three grandchildren, Jesse LaGrange, Josh LaGrange and wife Whitney, Gavin Ardoin, and one soon to be great granddaughter, Lilith LaGrange.
Ms. Myrtle was preceded in death by her husband, Alfred LaGrange and parents Clovis and Celima LaFleur Pitre and brothers, Wallace and Marion Pitre.
Visiting hours will be observed on Thursday, November 13, 2008, from 3:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. in the Sibille Funeral Home of Opelousas. On Friday, visitation will continue in the funeral home from 8:00 a.m. until the time of services.
A Rosary service will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday 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.
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