Lucille Grace Fontenot

Lucille Grace Fontenot, 83, of Westlake died Wednesday, May 1, 2019 in a local hospital.

Mrs. Fontenot was born May 02, 1935 in Mamou, LA.  She has lived most of her life in Westlake.  A graduate of Westlake High School, she retired as Cafeteria Manager at Maplewood School where she shared twenty years of service and smiles.  During her younger years, Mrs. Fontenot enjoyed sewing, crocheting, riding horses, trail rides and French dances.  Many years were spent working in her flower beds, setting up campgrounds with her children during summer vacations on Ouiska Chitto, packing up grandkids for a weekend at The Camp, traveling throughout the country with her husband, and Sunday gatherings of family, good food and good times.  She was a member of St. John Bosco Catholic Church in Westlake.  Mrs. Fontenot will be most remembered as an admirable woman of faith, family, and prayer, as well as, a lady of strength, knowledge and grace.

She leaves to cherish her memory, her best friend and husband of sixty-seven years, John Buford Fontenot of Westlake; two sons, Tyrone Guy Fontenot of DeRidder and Ronald Curtis Fontenot and wife Tammy (Kennedy) of DeQuincy; one daughter, Ramona Fontenot Morris and husband Jim of Lake Charles; 10 grandchildren, Shane Fontenot, Shanna Fontenot Buxton, Chad Fontenot, Anthony Fontenot, Chantelle Fontenot, Andrea Fontenot, John Fontenot, Patrick Fontenot, Nicholas Fontenot, and Ashleigh Boykin Ortego; eighteen great-grandchildren, and two brothers, Jimmy Duplechin of Sulphur and Rauley (Karen) Duplechin of Spring, TX.

She was preceded in death by one son, Brady Bryant Fontenot; parents, Wilford and Lorise Morvant Duplechin; three brothers, Harold Duplechin, Michael Duplechin and Wilbert Duplechin, and one sister, Eloise Bourgeois.

Funeral services will be at 11:00 AM Saturday, May 04, 2019 in the Johnson Funeral Home Chapel.  Monsignor Harry Greig will officiate.  Interment will follow in Consolata Cemetery.  Visitation Friday will be from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM with a rosary beginning at 6:00 PM. Visitation Saturday will be from 8:00 AM until the time of service in the funeral home.