William Hebert

Opelousas A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, November 19, 2012, at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Opelousas, LA, for William E. Bill Hebert. Rite of Committal and interment will follow in the Bellevue Memorial park Cemetery. Rev. Msgr. Keith DeRouen will celebrate the Mass.

William Elas Hebert died peacefully at Acadian Medical Center in Eunice, Louisiana on November 15, 2012, at 5:35 p.m. Pop Bill, 84, will be sadly missed by his many surviving family and friends, whose grief will be greatly lessened as we know that he and his childhood sweetheart and devoted wife of 55 years, Pat, rest in eternal happiness adoring our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Bill was a 1944 graduate of A.I.C. in Opelousas, where Slinging William quarterbacked the football team to the Louisiana Class B State Championship.

Bill was a College student when he was drafted in the Army he was studying Mechanical Engineers at S.L.I for 2 years before the war. Bill served in the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged in 1948. He entered the 2nd World War on 9101946 and discharged on 11241947. He was awarded the Victory Medal while being involved in the Occupations of Japan. Bill retired from South Central Bell Telephone Company in 1985 and started his own communications business, The Bill System which he operated until 2005.

He is survived by 7 children, Tina Hebert Dean and husband Dougie Dean, Billie Hebert Aswell, Anne Catherine Hebert and husband Bradford Jackson, all of Opelousas Christopher William Hebert and wife Josie Hebert, of New Iberia Marie Hebert Wise and husband Scott Wise of Minden, Mary Annette Hebert Artall and husband, Jeffrey Artall of Crowley and Matthew Joseph Hebert
and wife Toni Montgomery, of Carencro and by numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren two brothers, Clifford George Hebert and Tommy Hebert of Opelousas, and one sister, Toni Hebert Faar of Bunkie.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Cliff Hebert and Bessie Ardoin Hebert, by sisters Faye Hebert Schwartzenburg and Nelwyn Hebert Mistrot. Bill was also preceded in death by his wife, Patricia Mary Guidry and by his son, Michael Guidry Hebert and grandson Christopher Culbertson.

Pallbears will be Jeremy Dean, Nicholas Wise, Patrick Hebert, Joseph Artall, Jacob Hebert, Zachary Hebert.

Visiting hours will be observed in the Sibille Funeral Home of Opelousas on Monday, November 19, 2012, from 8 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. at 12 noon will open at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, 12:30 pm a Rosary will be recited, at 12:50 a Eulogy will be said, and at 1:00 pm the Mass will began.


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

Sibille Funeral Home
2309 George Drive
Opelousas, LA  70570
Monday, November 19, 2012
8am11:30am

Service

Mass

Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church
2125 S. Union St.
Opelousas, LA  70570
Monday, November 19, 2012
1 pm

Rosary

Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church
2125 S. Union St.
Opelousas, LA  70570
Monday, November 19, 2012
12:30

Cemetery

Bellevue Memorial ParkH
4833 Highway 182
Opelousas, LA  70570