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Obituary:

Joseph Bourque, 55, brother of Mrs. Hesic Denton of Sulphur, died at 3:10 a.m. Friday in a Lake Charles hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday from Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church in Lake Charles.

Burial will be in the LeBleu Cemetery at Chloe under direction of Hixson Funeral Home.

Bourque was owner and operator of the Tri-Way Phillips 66 Service Station on U.S. 171.

Survivors are his wife, two daughters, three sons, four grandchildren, four brothers, and three other sisters.

(Published in The Southwest Star on June 26, 1968)

Obituary:

LAKE CHARLES - Joseph Bourgue, 55, died Friday.

Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church. Burial will be in the LeBleu Cemetery.

Survivors are his widow; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Manuel and Mrs. Armandy Aiken; three sons, Owen Bourgue, Melvin, and Terry Bourgue, all of Lake Charles; four brothers, John Bourgue of Lake Charles, Horace Bourgue of Baton Rouge, the Rev. Joseph Bourgue of Hathaway, and Homer Bourgue, of Houma; four sisters, Mrs. Lamer Gunter of College Station, Tex., Mrs. Fred Hebert of Lake Charles, Mrs. Edwin Hamilton of Lake Charles, and Mrs. Hesie Denton of Sulphur and four grandchildren.

(Published in The Shreveport Times on June 22, 1968)

Joseph married Evia Peloquin 20 Dec 1933, Oberlin, Allen Parish, Louisiana, USA. Evia (daughter of Benedict Mell Peloquin and Mandy Janese) was born 14 Dec 1915, Louisiana, USA; died 2 May 1938, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried , Green Oak Cemetery - Kinder, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. O.R. Bourque
2. M.R. Bourque