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- Obituary:
Funeral Services For Mrs. Renee Richard Will Be Held Today
Funeral services will be held at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon at St. Joseph Catholic church in Rayne for Mrs. Renee Richard, nee Boudreaux, 35 years of age who died at St. Mary's hospital in Rayne at 6:10 p.m. Thursday. Interment will be made in the Rayne Catholic cemetery.
Mrs. Richard, who was a native of Rayne and had lived there all her life, had been ill three months.
Pallbearers will be Ernest J. Boudreaux, E. P. Richard, Joe Wilks, and J. B. Richard.
Surviving are her husband, two daughters, Leatrice and Ernestine, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Laurent Boudreaux.
Arrangements were in charge of the Geesey-Ferguson funeral home in Rayne.
(Published in The Crowley Daily Signal on August 11, 1939)
- Obituary:
RICHARD RITES HELD FRIDAY
Mrs. Rene Richard Passes Away After Lingering Illness
Mrs. Ivey Boudreaux Richard, 35, beloved wife of Rene Richard, passed away here at 6:30 p. m., Thurs- day, August 10, following a long illness, and a critical condition of several weeks' duration.
Funeral services were held from St. Joseph's Catholic Church Friday, August 11 at 5 p. m., Rev. Father H. Lerschen officiating with interment following in the adjacent Catholic cemetery. During the last rites which were largely attended, Father Lerschen chose the opportunity to pay high tribute to Motherhood in general as represented in the heroic death of so many women who have sacrificed their lives for their families. His message, worded as a tender and beautiful eulogy to the life of the deceased mother was the source of great comfort and consolation to the bereaved family.
Pallbearers included Ernest Boudreaux, E. P. Richard, Joe Richard, Wiltz Richard, Milton Richard and J. D. Richard.
Born in Rayne on March 7, 1904, Mrs. Richard was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laurent Boudreaux of this city. She attended local schools, and in early young womanhood, became the bride of Rene Richard. To this union, two daughters were born, both of whom survive.
None but those who have sat in the shadow of a great bereavement can justly weigh such a sorrow as this death has brought about. devoted wife and mother whose constant concern and chief thought was for her husband and children and her home - and a devout member of the Catholic Church who not only adhered to the precepts of her religion, but put them to everyday practice throughout her entire life, Mrs. Richard was a real Mother in every full sense of this beautiful word.
Her husband and children, her mother and father - scores
friends, were at her bedside constantly do to everything within their power to help her in her fight to overcome the inroads of an illness which was considered serious from the outset, but their loving hands could not hold her here, and death came to give her relief from her months of patient suffering. Deep as is their grief, her family has the consolation of knowing that it is only for a little while that God takes from us our loved ones. We shall have them again "made into immortal beauty. He will keep them safe for us and will give them back to us in radiant and imperishable loveliness. In this life, we see only the beginning of our good things - but one of the surprises of Heaven will be finding there the precious hopes, joys and dreams which seem to have perished on earth - not left behind; but all carried forward and ready to be given into our hands the moment we reach Home."
Tribune extends its condolences to members of the bereaved family who included Rene Richard, and two daughters, Ernestine and Leatrice; Mrs. Richard's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Laurent Boudreaux and one brother, Ernest Boudreaux, all of Rayne.
(Published in The Rayne Acadian-Tribune on August 18, 1939)
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