C.R. married H.R. Gillock [Group Sheet]

1. M.R. Mercke

C.R. married S.A. Broussard [Group Sheet]

F.R. married S.K. LeBlanc [Group Sheet]

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Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday in the Delhomme Funeral Home Chapel for Robert Lee LeBlanc, 52, who died at 2 a.m. Wednesday in Baton Rouge. Rev. James Caraway, pastor of the Asbury United Methodist Church, will conduct the services.

Interment will be in the Lafayette Masonic Cemetery.

Mr. LeBlanc was a native of Rayne, the son of the late Clebert LeBlanc and Marie LeBleu. He was living in Lake Jackson, Tex., at the time of his death where he was employed by the Dow Chemical Co. as an engineer. He had worked for them for the past 21 years. He attended USL and graduated from LSU. Mr. LeBlanc was a member of Hope Lodge No. 145 F. & A.M., which will hold Masonic graveside services. He was a veteran of World War II, serving with the U.S. Air Force.

He is survived by one daughter, Miss Susan Kaye LeBlanc of Lafayette; two sisters, Mrs. W.W. Bremer of Wimberly, Tex., and Mrs. Harry Davis of San Antonio, Tex.; and one brother, H. John LeBlanc of College Station, Tex.

The family requests that visiting hours be observed until 10 tonight and from 8 a.m. until service time Friday.

(Published in The Lafayette Daily Advertiser on March 29, 1973)

Robert married Kathleen Smith 7 Mar 1943, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA. Kathleen was born 19 Feb 1923, Rayne, Acadia Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 30 Jul 1994, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried 1 Aug 1994, Rayne Cemetery - Rayne, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Monday, August 1 in the Delhomme Chapel of the Flowers for Kathleen "Kitty" Smith LeBlanc, who died Saturday, July 30 at Lafayette General Medical Center after a long illness of cancer.

Interment took place in the Rayne Protestant Cemetery. Rev. Robert Burgess, pastor, Asbury United Methodist Church officiated.

Mrs. LeBlanc was a native of Rayne, the daughter of the late Lee Smith and the former Erma Leaze Hoffpauir and had been a resident of Lafayette for the past six months.

She was a retiree of Dow Chemical Company, Plaquemine. She was a member of the Asbury United Methodist Church, Lafayette, where she worked with the Phoenix Sunday School Class and V.I.M. While she lived in Baton Rouge, she was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Michael (Susan) Simmons of Lafayette; one sister, Eris Chachere of Shreveport, one brother, Oren Smith of Crowley; and one grandson, Chadwick Mercke of Lafayette.

She was preceded in death by her husband, mother and father, six sisters and two brothers.

Pallbearers were Michael Simmons, Chad Mercke, J.L. Hinckley, Michael McGrew, Stan Gegan and Ray Mercke.

(Published in the Rayne Independent on August 4, 1994)

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Clebert LeBlanc Expires in Rayne

RAYNE, La. - Clebert Joseph LeBlanc, 74, retired Southern Pacific railroad section foreman, died at 3:05 p.m. Sunday in the Rayne Branch hospital following an illness of three weeks.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Rayne Baptist Church and burial will follow in the Masonic Cemetery in Lafayette. Until the hour of rites the body will remain at the Gossen Funeral Home here.

Mr. LeBlanc had been a resident of Rayne for 55 years. He and his wife had celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last Spring. Mr. LeBlanc was a past master of Rayne Lodge 313, Free and Able Masons. He was also a member of the Scottish Rites Temple, and was active in the work of the Baptist Church.

Surviving are his wife, the former Marie LeBleu; two sons, Howard of College Station, Tex., and Robert LeBlanc of Port Allen; two daughters, Mrs. W. W. Bremer of Galena Park, Tex., and Mrs. Harry Davis of Selfridge Air Force Base, Mich.; three sisters, Mrs. Pierre Landry, Mrs. Lillian Tanner, and Mrs. M. Doucet, all of Lafayette; and four grandchildren.

(Published in the Crowley Daily Signal on December 11th, 1961)

Clebert married Marie Clementine LeBleu 28 Apr 1909, Rayne, Acadia Parish, Louisiana, USA. Marie (daughter of John LeBleu and Celina Clement) was born 22 Jul 1889, Rayne, Acadia Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 1 Oct 1972, Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, USA; was buried 3 Oct 1972, Masonic Cemetery - Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Rayne Rites for Mrs. C. LeBlanc

RAYNE, La. - Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. today for Mrs. Clebert LeBlanc, 81, the former Marie LeBleu, in the chapel of the Gossen Funeral Home here. Burial followed in the Masonic Cemetery in Lafayette.

Mrs. LeBlanc, a native of Rayne, died Sunday in Bryan, Tex.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Walter Bremer of Wimberly, Tex., and Mrs. Harry Davis of Mt. Clemens, Mich.; two sons, Howard LeBlanc of Bryan and Robert LeBlanc of Freeport, Tex.; a sister, Mrs. Laurent Boudreaux of Rayne; five grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren.

(Published in the Crowley Daily Signal on October 3rd, 1972)