Laura “Aunt Cat” Lockett

Published 6:00 am Friday, July 20, 2018

A Home-going celebration will be held for Laura “Aunt Cat” Lockett, 80, at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2018, at Fletcher Funeral Home with Rev. Arthur Lee Alexander officiating.

She will await the resurrection in Heavenly Rest Cemetery in Jeanerette.

A gathering of family and friends will be held 8 a.m. until time of service on Saturday at the funeral home.

A resident of Four Corners, she passed away at 11:32 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, 2018, at Maison Teche Nursing Center in Jeanerette.

She leaves in God’s care a devoted niece Rose Duhon of New Iberia; two devoted great-nieces Bridget DeFils and Tamekia Alexander, both of Jeanerette; and a host of relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Jules Lockett and Celestine L. Lockett; her brothers Claude Colbert, Leroy Lockett, Melvin Colbert Jr., Jacob Lockett and Louis Lockett; and her sisters Leola Jolivette, Lelia Charles, Lena Loston, Mary Marks and Bertha Benjamin.

Active pallbearers are Gerald Lockett, Keith Lockett, Allen Loston, Clarence Loston, Kevin Loston and Kevin Marks.

Honorary pallbearers are Quenton DeFils, Labron Marks, Louis Marks, Earl Marks, Peter Marks and Morman Alexander.

Condolences may be expressed at www.fletcherfuneralhomes.org. 

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Fletcher Funeral Home, 369-3341, 609 W. Admiral Doyle Drive, New Iberia, LA 70560.