Celeste DeRouen Reed

Services for Mrs. Celeste DeRouen Reed will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, August 25, 2018, in the Chapel of Hixson Brothers, Alexandria with Father Mario Romero officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park.

The family requests that visitation be observed Saturday at Hixson Brothers, Alexandria from 11 a.m. until time of service.

A recitation of the Rosary will be held at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, August 25, 2018, at the funeral home.

Mrs. Reed, 70, of  Baton Rouge passed from this life on Friday, August 17, 2018, at Colonial Care Retirement Center.

She was a native of New Iberia and a 1965 graduate of Mt. Carmel Academy. Mrs. Reed retired from the state as a commodities broker for Prison Enterprises. Celeste was a loving mother, grandmother and aunt who enjoyed reading and visiting with friends and family.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert DeRouen and Catherine A. Aucoin DeRouen.

Those left to cherish her memory include her  husband of 38 years, Harold Reed; daughters Lisa Scott Beaubouef and husband, Brett and Kelly Reed and Carmen Reed; sons Robert Scott and wife, Shelly and Christopher Reed and wife, Stacy; brother Robert M. DeRouen Jr. and wife, JoAnne; sisters Stephanie Wright and husband, Bob, Cathy Powell and husband, George and Claudia Burg; and five grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Brett Beaubouef, Robert Scott, Marco Matthews, Christopher Reed, Bob Wright, Robert DeRouen Jr., Rodney Reed, James DeRouen and George Powell.

Memorials may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at www. jdrf.org or to the Lupus Foundation of America at www.lupus.org.

To extend online condolences to the Reed family, please visit us at www.hixsonbrothers.com.