Adrianne Irene “Dianne” Mouton Landry

Published 6:00 am Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Adrianne Irene “Dianne” Mouton Landry passed away on April 9, 2018, with her family by her side. Services will be at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in New Iberia on Thursday, April 12, 2018, at 2 p.m. Visitation will be Wednesday from 5-8 p.m. at Pellerin Funeral Home and on the day of the funeral at St. Peter’s Catholic Church from 11 a.m. until the service at 2 p.m. Interment will immediately follow the mass at Memorial Park Cemetery, 402 W Admiral Doyle Drive.

She was devoted to the Catholic Church and its teachings. She was a voracious reader, particularly biographies. This was due to her love of people and good conversation. She was a proud member of Fortnightly Number for many years.  She was Queen Evangeline in the Krewe of Evangeline and Gabriel in Lafayette in 1951. 

She married Alfred S. “Smitty” Landry on April 26, 1952. On their wedding day, Smitty told her he wanted 10 children, so they had 11. She imparted to her children the example of a devoted and loving marriage. 

She is pre-deceased by her parents, J. Alfred and Irene Barry Mouton, her brothers J. Alfred Mouton Jr. and J. Barry Mouton; her son Peter Alexander Landry. 

She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Alfred S. “Smitty” Landry; children Adrianne L. Baumgartner (Robert), Amelie L. Bower (Michael), Alfred S. Landry Jr. (Laura), Edward P. Landry (Candi), Carole D. Landry, C. Benjamin Landry (Andrea), Thomas B. Landry, Helen M. Landry-Seward (Ken), Alice Landry Basden (Tim) and Louise L. Hill (Jimmy), and Diane L. Kirsch;  36 grandchildren Sam, Will and Luke Baumgartner, Maggie Baumgartner McCarty, Elyse Bower, Irene B. Doucet, Amelie B. Andrepont, Claire, Amy, Anna and Alfred S. Landry III, Marcy L Hanudel, Edward P. Landry Jr. Michael T. Landry, Emily L. Landry and Christopher P. Landry, Hannah L. Kirsch, H Benjamin Kirsch and Emma Segura Kirsch, Charles A Landry, John A. Landry, Mark A. Landry and Lillian Marie Landry, B. Elliott Landry, Catherine L. Landry, Henry H. Landry-Seward and Walker F. Landry-Seward, Alix C. Basden, Hugh A Basden, Peter H Basden and Sophie S. Basden, J. Pierce Hill, Ann Louise Hill, Julianna L. Hill, Thomas J. Hill and Mary Elizabeth Hill; five great-grandchildren; a sister Louise M. Cousin; brothers Dr. David Mouton and Edward P. Mouton; as well as many nieces and nephews

Dianne was born in Lafayette but lived and loved New Iberia as her home since 1952. She loved history and obtained a grant in order to have the photographs of I.A. And Carroll Martin printed and helped produce a photographic history of New Iberia. Two books of photographs were created as a result of these efforts. Dianne and Smitty videotaped residents of New Iberia creating an oral history of the town of which some of the videos were transcribed into two books “What Cannot Be Lost.”

Dianne graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau in 1948, attended Maryville College of the Sacred Heart and returned to obtain her degree at the College at Grand Coteau in 1952. She devoted her life to not only her immediate family but her extended family and many extras who showed up at her kitchen bar. 

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, the Iberia Parish Library, and/or Catholic High School.

Pellerin Funeral Home, 502 Jefferson Terrace Blvd., New Iberia, LA 70560, 365-3331 is in charge of arrangements.