Local Obituaries
for Families in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Melba Vincent
Dec 22, 2010
Melba Lea Vincent, 78, of New Iberia, LA, died at 10:30 AM on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 in a New Iberia hospital.
Ms. Vincent was born May 11, 1932 in Hackberry, LA, where she graduated high school. She lived in the Hackberry / Lake Charles area until moving to New Iberia over twenty years ago. While living in Hackberry, she was...
Ethel Marie Fontenot Leger
Dec 21, 2010
Ethel Marie Fontenot Leger, 82, was called home on Tuesday, December 21, 2010. Mrs. Leger was born on November 7, 1928 in Eunice, Louisiana. Ethel was the loving wife of Gurfy Leger for 62 years. She lived in Lake Charles since 1946.
Ethel enjoyed many things in her life, especially cooking and gardening. She was a homemaker and devoted her...
Archie Roy Stutes
Dec 21, 2010
Archie "Roy" Stutes, age 74, passed away Tuesday, December 21, 2010, at his residence in Moss Bluff.
Born July 1, 1936, to Jessie and Frances Bonsall Stutes, he was a member of First Baptist Church of Gillis. Roy loved sports, gardening, and working in his yard. He will be missed by all who knew and loved him. Preceding him in death...
Matthew Shane Hank
Dec 21, 2010
Matthew Shane Hank, age 21, passed away Tuesday, December 21, 2010.
A resident of Lake Charles, Matt was born January 15, 1989. Loved by his many friends, aunts, uncles, and cousins, Matt was very happy and outgoing and loved to joke around. He loved fishing and hunting, but most of all, his time with his daughter was the most treasured time...
Betty Jane Newman
Dec 20, 2010
Betty Jane Newman, 74, of Lake Charles died at 10:45 PM on Monday, December 20, 2010 in a Lafayette hospital.
Mrs. Newman was born on July 18, 1936 in Gueydan, LA. She was a graduate of Sulphur High School. She became a nurse's assistant at Christus St. Patrick Hospital and retired after over 40 years of employment. Mrs. Newman attended Our...
Ronald Thomas Waggoner
Dec 20, 2010
Ronald Waggoner, 74, of Lake Charles died Monday December 20, 2010 in a local hospital.
Ron was born in Olla on June 16, 1936. He was a retired boilermaker, having worked for 35 years for Firestone. He was lived in the Sulphur and the Lake Charles area for most of his life.
He was preceded in death by his parents,...
Carlton Wayne Foots Sutton, Sr.
Dec 20, 2010
I. Corinthians 13: 2, 13
And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love.
Carlton Wayne "Foots" Sutton, Sr., age 56,...
Earl C. Hamilton
Dec 19, 2010
Earl C. Hamilton, 94, of Bundick Lake, LA died at 2:15 AM on Sunday, December 19, 2010 in a local hospital.
Mr. Hamilton was born August 13, 1916 in Islesboro, ME, where he graduated high school. He served in the U.S. Air Force for twenty-one years, retiring as a Master Sargent. Mr. Hamilton lived in Lake Charles for twenty-five years, before...
Celila Roberts White
Dec 19, 2010
Celila Roberts White, 39, of Lake Charles died at 12:20 AM on Sunday, December 19, 2010 in a New Orleans hospital.
Celila was born on October 20, 1971 in Lafayette and lived most of her life in the Southwest Louisiana area. She attended Kinder High School and McNeese State University. Celila worked in the legal field, holding various positions for more...
John "Danny" Moss
Dec 19, 2010
Robison Funeral Home 107 West Napoleon Street Sulphur, Louisiana 70663 337-528-0240 Danny Moss Funeral services for John Danny Moss, 56, of Sulphur, will be held at 10am, Wednesday, December 22, 2010 in Robison Funeral Home Chapel. Deacon Maurice Serice will officiate. Burial will follow in Mimosa Pines Cemetery. Visitation will begin on Tuesday, December 21st from 4pm " 9pm and...
Edward Stephen Galayda
Dec 19, 2010
Edward Stephen Galayda, 76, passed away peacefully with his family at his side in his Lake Charles Home on Sunday December 19, 2010.
Edward was a born December 1, 1934 in Pittsburgh, PA and lived there for 65 years before moving with his wife to Lake Charles. He worked for LTV Steel Corporation, formerly Jones Laughlin, for 35 years as...
Imogene Weeks Janies
Dec 18, 2010
Funeral services for Mrs. Imogene Weeks Janies, 79, of Sulphur, will be held on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 10 am at the First Baptist Church of Sulphur with Dr. David Holder officiating. Burial will follow in the Hamilton Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5-9 pm on Monday, December 20, 2010 at Robison Funeral Home. Mrs. Imogene was...
Geoffrey A. Dille
Dec 18, 2010
Geoffrey Alexander Dille, 56, of Sulphur, LA died Saturday, December 18, 2010 in Estherwood, LA.
Mr. Dille was born in Houston, TX and was raised and educated in Indiana. Mr. Dille proudly served the United States Navy from the Vietnam War to the Persian Gulf War; retiring as AGCS (AW/SW) after twenty years. Throughout the course of his military career, he...
Kenneth Louis Yonich Ii
Dec 16, 2010
Kenneth Louis Yonich II, age 19, died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Spring, Texas on December 16, 2010. He was born on December 24, 1990 in Pittsburgh.
Louis is survived by his loving parents, Ken and Laura Ieyoub Yonich and his sisters, Jessica Erin and Sarah Frances, all of Spring, his maternal grandparents, Julie Christ Miller and husband...
Donald Ray Richard, Sr.
Dec 16, 2010
Don Richard, Sr., 80, of Sulphur passed away Thursday, December 16, 2010 at his residence surrounded by his loved ones. A Mass of Christian burial will be held at Our Lady of LaSalette Catholic Church at 9:30 am Monday, December 20, 2010. Mr. Richard was a graduate of Sulphur High School. He served in the U. S. Navy during the...
Darlene "Dolly" Reasoner Vincent
Dec 16, 2010
Funeral Services for Mrs. Darlene Dolly Vincent, 59, of Lafayette, will be held on Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 1pm at Robison Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Edgar Lee Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in New Hackberry Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Saturday, December 18 from 4pm-9pm at Robison Funeral Home Chapel. Darlene Dolly Vincent was born on...
Linda K. Wilson
Dec 15, 2010
Linda Kershaw Wilson, 65, passed away, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 in a Creole residence.
She was born in Lake Charles and lived in Hackberry most of her life. Linda worked as a dispatcher for the Cameron Parish Sherriff's Department for many years.
Survivors include her daughter, Kelly Wilson of Baytown, TX; and her son, Scott Wilson and wife Candace of Lake Charles;...
John Alvin Trouille, Sr.
Dec 14, 2010
John Alvin Trouille, Sr., 85, of Westlake, LA died at 2:40 AM on Tuesday, December 14, 2010.
Mr. Trouille was born February 23, 1925 in Washington, LA and has lived in Westlake for the past fifty-eight years. He retired from Gulf States Utilities and was a veteran of the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was a member of St....
