DELCAMBRE – A Mass of Christian Burial will be conducted for Mrs. Joseph Bourque, Sr., the former Gracie Boudreaux, age 93, at 10:30 am Monday, June 4, 2018 at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church with Fr. Ed Degeyter officiating. Interment will follow at Migues Cemetery.
Visitation will be held from 2:00 pm until 9:00 pm on Sunday with a Rosary at 7:00 pm. The funeral home will reopen at 8:00 am on Monday until service time.
A native of Iberia Parish and resident of Delcambre, Mrs. Bourque passed away at 7:29 am on Friday, June 1, 2018 at Abbeville General Hospital.
Mrs. Bourque was a member of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, St. Anne Altar Society Delcambre Shrimp Festival Association and the Golden Age and served as Queen in 1995.
She is survived by one daughter, Lelies B. Touchet and husband Wilfred of New Iberia; five sons, Calvin J. Bourque and Belisa and Joseph Bourque, Jr. and Mildred all of New Iberia, Wayland Bourque, Charles Bourque and Paul Bourque and wife Beverly of Delcambre; one sister, Dora Jane Sonnier of Delcambre; fourteen grandchildren; seventeen great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren; eleven step grandchildren and thirteen step great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Bourque, Sr.; one son, Bradley Bourque; one daughter, Mary Ebella Bourque; granddaughter, Mary Bourque; parents, Justilien and Lidie Migues Boudreaux; one brother, Wilton Boudreaux and three sisters, Nina Freyou, Una Mae Rodriguez and Valla LeBlanc.
Pallbearers will be Stacy Bourque, Trey Poirrier, Nicholas Battaglia, Joseph Bourque, Jr., Paul Bourque and Wilfred Touchet. Ronald Picard and Jacob Racca will serve as honorary pallbearers.
The family would like to thank her caregivers, Tamara Battaglia, Kristy Champagne, Shirley Nugent, Brittany Racca and Amy LeBlanc.
To view the on-line obituary, and sign the guest register, please visit www.evangelinefuneralhome.com.
Evangeline Funeral Homes of New Iberia is in charge of arrangements.
