Thelma Romero LeBlanc

Published 6:00 am Friday, November 24, 2017

COTEAU — Funeral services will be conducted for Mrs. Thelma Romero LeBlanc, 86, on Saturday, Nov.r 25, 2017, at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church with Father Brian Harrington officiating. Burial will follow in Our Lady of Prompt Succor Cemetery.

Visitation will be on Friday, Nov. 24, 2017, from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. and resume on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017, at 8 a.m. until 10:15 a.m. A rosary will be prayed in the funeral home on Friday at 7 p.m.

Mrs. LeBlanc went home to be with the Lord Jesus on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, at 8:01 p.m. It was almost as though Thelma had a love story written in time as she would pass away on the same date as her husband 32 years later. She was surrounded by her loving family as she took her final breath in the same home that she was born in.

She was a graduate of New Iberia Senior High and upon completing High School she went on to Spencer Business College where she would earn an Associate’s Degree. She met the love of her life, Mr. Raymond LeBlanc, and they would get married on Sept. 3, 1950. She followed her husband up to Virginia after he got drafted into the Army and then they moved back home to Coteau into her childhood home where they began to rear their family.

She began her career with the United States Department of Agriculture, where she worked for 33 years. She would retire on March 15, 1991.

During her childhood, she spent many school nights and weekends at Sunrise Syrup Mill canning syrup at the family business. Also, she was part of a Tuesday Night Supper Club where you would frequently find BBQ Lamb and a Bourree game being played. Some of her hobbies included traveling, organizing trips for her girlfriends and attending gambling junkets to Las Vegas with her husband, family and friends. The trips to the beach will be cherished memories for her family. She loved to cook and entertain family and friends at her home. She also enjoyed shopping. But most of all, she loved spoiling her grandkids. She never met a stranger and had friends and acquaintances everywhere she went.

She is survived by her daughters, Brenda Louviere and her husband Randy and Diane Hargrave and her husband John; her grandchildren, Jason Louviere, Katie Louviere and Jordan Hargrave and her the upcoming births of her first great-grandchildren, Paxton and Mila Louviere.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 35 years, Raymond LeBlanc; her parents, Joseph P. and Eucretia Broussard LeBlanc; her daughter, Debra LeBlanc and her brothers, Alton Romero, Sr. and Doris Romero. Pallbearers will be Randy Louviere, Jason Louviere, John Hargrave, Jordan Hargrave, Alton Romero, Jr., Robert Romero and Joseph Romero.

The family would like to express a special thank you to Mary Cole for her devoted and loving care for the past year and a half.

The family also request memorials to Hospice of Acadiana, 2600 Johnston Street Suite 200

Lafayette, LA 70503.

You can sign the guest register book and / or send condolences at www.davidfuneralhome.org

David Funeral Home of New Iberia, 1101 Trotter St. 369-6336 is in charge of arrangements.