Beryl Fangue-Wallen

On Saturday, February 22, 2025, Ms. Beryl Fangue-Wallen passed over to God's heavenly realm on the "other side", at Woodstock, Georgia. She was a native of Morgan City/Berwick, Louisiana and a resident of Highland Pointe in White, Georgia since 1996. At the time of death, she was age 92.

Beryl graduated from Morgan City High School, and went on to attend University of SW Louisiana at Lafayette, La. in 1951, later Universal Management School in Miami Beach, Florida.

During her earlier career, she was employed in the offices of Shell oil, Texaco, Teledyne Secraft & Southwestern Laboratories in Morgan City & Bayou Vista, La. Later she became Editor of company newspapers for National American Corp. in Gautier, Mississippi. In 1987 she founded her own monthly newspaper in Fort Myers, Florida and worked as editor/publisher/reporter for nine years there.

During her career, she was a newspaper columnist in five southern states in four decades, beginning with a column in St. Mary Journal in Morgan City, La. Thereafter, she was a newspaper columnist in Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and in Georgia where she was a featured columnist for the Daily Tribune News in Bartow County.

Beryl has authored five published books -- "A Cajun's Persuasions", "Cajun Odyssey I & II", "Escape From The Guillotine" and "Spiritually Reached...Why Me?"

During her lifetime, she was instrumental in participating & organizing two notable social clubs in her home towns, where she succeeded in bringing a state convention to Morgan City in 1973. She was honored as "Citizen of the Month" as a result of this endeavor. Later, in 1980, she organized and was executive director of another social club on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

She has always been interested in politics and was a member of the League of Women Voters. In 1973 she lobbied for the Equal Rights Amendment in Baton Rouge. As a lifelong Democrat, she pushed for women's rights through her columns, letters to the Editor & blogs on E-mail & Facebook. As a result of her work with the Democrat Party in North Georgia, she was awarded a trophy as the "Bartow County Democrat of the Year in 2004.

Beryl is the daughter of the late Howard Fangue, Sr. & Mae Landry Fangue of Berwick, La.

Also preceded in death by husbands, M.J. Sauce, Jr & Leo D. Wallen. She is survived by her daughter Robin Sauce Griffin & husband Chris of Woodstock, GA, and son Brett Sauce of Sparta, TN & fiancé Roxann Daigle Judd. One brother Howard Fangue, Jr. & his wife Lee of Bradenton, FL. Four grandchildren - Carlee Griffin Parsons of Savannah, GA, Nicholas Griffin of Columbia, SC, Patrick Sauce Bloomgren of Garnet Valley, PA & Laura Sauce Bloomgren of Bellefonte, Delaware.

Also, two great grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, Beryl's wishes are for donations to be sent to Tranquility House for Battered Women & Their Children P 0 Box 1383, Cartersville, Georgia, 30120.