Local Obituaries
for Families in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Mary Pauline Cormier
Sep 6, 2020
It is with great sadness that the Cormier family announces the passing of Mary Pauline LeBouef Cormier on September 6, 2020. Pauline was born July 19, 1929 in Sweet Lake, Louisiana to Joe and Edna LeBouef. She married John Eddie Cormier of Lacassine, Louisiana on February 28, 1948. She was a great mother to four children, a wonderful grandmother to...
William Lee "Bill" Andrus, Sr.
Sep 5, 2020
William Lee Andrus, Sr., 69, of Lake Charles passed away on Saturday, September 5, 2020 in Houston, TX.
Mr. Andrus was born on April 2, 1951 in Ville Platte, LA to Wilford and Suzette Andrus. He lived most of his life in Lake Charles. He graduated from Lagrange High School Class of 1970. He was a lifelong member of Emmanuel...
John Ray Gammage, Jr.
Sep 2, 2020
John Ray Gammage, Jr., 73, of Lake Charles entered passed away Wednesday, September 02, 2020 in Metairie, LA.
Mr. Gammage was a graduate of LaGrange High School and McNeese State University where he was Captain of the ROTC Precision Drill Team. He served in the United States Active Army and Reserves for a total of seventeen years. He went on...
Leroy J. Savoie, Sr.
Sep 1, 2020
Leroy J. Savoie, Sr.
Leroy J. Savoie, Sr., 77, of Lake Charles, LA, died at 4:55 AM on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 in a Baton Rouge care facility.
Mr. Savoie was born November 22, 1942 in Leonville, LA and lived the past forty years in Lake Charles. He worked for over twenty-five years offshore for Exxon Mobil. Following his retirement,...
Albert Herman Wegener
Sep 1, 2020
“As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. For I am already being poured as a drink-offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:5-7
It is with great sorrow and deep...
Donna Jean Constance
Sep 1, 2020
Donna Jean Constance, 70, of Lake Charles, LA, died on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 in her residence.
Ms. Constance was born October 6, 1949 in Lake Charles, where she was a lifelong resident of Johnson Bayou and Lake Charles. She worked as an LPN, spending most of her career at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital. Ms. Constance was a member of...
Sheila Amidon
Sep 1, 2020
Sheila Amidon, 55, passed away on September 1, 2020. Sheila was a graduate of Sulphur High (1983) and McNeese State (1986). In her early years, she touched numerous young girls’ lives through dance as an instructor at Cindy’s School of Dance in Sulphur. She quickly started her professional career immediately out of college at Premier Health Services where she soon...
Barbara Jean Broussard Calloway
Sep 1, 2020
Barbara Calloway
Barbara Jean Broussard Calloway, 88, of Moss Bluff, died September 1, 2020 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law in Lafayette where she had been evacuated by hospice before Hurricane Laura. Mrs. Calloway was born July 19, 1932 in Lake Charles. She graduated from LaGrange High School and attended McNeese State University. She met the love of...
David Allen Fruge
Aug 30, 2020
David Allen Fruge
David Allen Fruge, 64, of Lake Charles, LA, died on August 30, 2020 at his son’s residence.
Mr. Fruge was born December 26, 1955 in Lake Charles, LA, where he was a life-long resident. He was a graduate of LaGrange High School. He worked as an automotive mechanic and retired from the industries. Mr. Fruge was a...
Archie Donald Constance
Aug 29, 2020
Archie Donald Constance, 53, of Westlake, LA passed away Saturday, August 29, 2020 in Gulfport, MS.
Mr. Constance was a born raised and educated in Sulphur and lived most of his life in Westlake. He worked his younger years as a Police Officer for Westlake Police Department and nearly thirty years as an Airplane Mechanic for Northrop Grumman. He...
Eugene Joseph Trahan
Aug 29, 2020
Lake Charles
Funeral services for Mr. Eugene Joseph Trahan, 67, of Starks, LA will be held on Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Starks with Rev. Ron Butler officiating. Burial will follow in Miller Cemetery Annex under the direction of Johnson Funeral Home.
Visitation for Mr. Trahan will begin at 10:00 a.m. Saturday,...
Gail Ann Myers Fontenot
Aug 28, 2020
Gail Ann Myers Fontenot, 71, of Sulphur passed away on Friday, August 28, 2020 in a local hospital.
Mrs. Fontenot was born on December 9, 1948 in Lake Charles where she lived most of her life until moving to Sulphur 13 years ago. She began her career as an admitting clerk at Moss Regional Hospital and retired from Christus St....
Teresa Viglia Mistretta
Aug 28, 2020
Teresa Viglia Mistretta passed away August 28, 2020 in her home with her family by her side. She was born June 4, 1922 in Lake Charles, LA to Joseph and Ursula Maggiore Viglia. She was a lifelong resident of Lake Charles and a graduate of Lake Charles High School. Teresa was member of the first graduating class of McNeese State...
Ruth Marie Hall Trahan
Aug 28, 2020
Marie Trahan, age 69, peacefully passed away in her home on August 28, after months of battling lung cancer with her family by her side.
She was born to James Dewey "JD" and Mary Ruth Hall on December 08, of Moss Bluff, Louisiana where she grew up. She met and married the love of her life in 1972 and resided...
Marla Faye Doise
Aug 27, 2020
Marla Faye Doise, 63, of Lake Charles passed away Thursday, August 27 in a local hospital. Ms. Doise was born and raised in Lake Charles, and attended Barbe High School. In her younger years, she was a hotel clerk for Howard Johnson. Later, she found her "green thumb" while working for Lowes and Greengate Garden Center. For the last decade,...
Emilien "Ok" Bumgarden
Aug 27, 2020
Emilian “OK” Bumgarden, 89, passed away on August 27, 2020 in a local hospital. OK Bumgarden lived in Sulphur approximately 75 years.
OK is survived by his son, David Wayne Bumgarden and wife, Dena of Sulphur; son in law, Garland Reed, Sr. of Sulphur; 7 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; and 3 sisters, Clara Pringle, Amelia “TT” Ancelet, and Maggie Deshotel. ...
Paul Lawson Fetzer
Aug 26, 2020
Paul Fetzer was born August 9, 1937 in Helena, OK and was a resident of Lake Charles, LA for the last 55 years. After graduating Helena High School he received a Bachelors of Science in Math, Physics and Chemistry from Northwestern State Oklahoma University and a Masters in Chemistry from Oklahoma State University. Paul began his work career in 1962...
Richard Sanders, M.D.
Aug 24, 2020
Richard Dunn Sanders, 69, passed away on August 24, 2020 after a lengthy battle with Lymphoma.
Dr. Sanders was born on July 20, 1951 and grew up in Lepanto, Arkansas. After graduating from Lepanto High School in 1969, Richard attended the University of Arkansas before gaining early admission to the University of Arkansas Medical School in 1972. Richard chose to...
Abbie Joseph Higginbotham
Aug 24, 2020
Abbie Joseph Higginbotham, 94, of Lake Charles, LA, died at 12:35 PM on Monday, August 24, 2020 in a local care facility.
Mr. Higginbotham was born April 25, 1926 in Church Point, LA and lived all of his adult life in Lake Charles. He worked a number of years at Highland Memory Gardens and retired from the Department of Transportation...
Pamela Joan Guillory
Aug 23, 2020
Pamela Joan Miller Guillory, 65, died Sunday, August 23, 2020.
Born to Norris James Miller, Sr. and Eva Dronet Miller, Pamela attended Barbe High School. She was a homemaker and enjoyed watching football, especially LSU and the Saints. She loved spending time with her husband, whatever he was doing.
Survivors are her husband of thirty-nine years, Randall K. Guillory; sister-in-law...
