Gloria Lasserre Parker

NEW IBERIA – Funeral Services will be conducted for Mrs. Gloria Lasserre Parker, age 89, at 11:00 am Friday, February 10, 2012 at St. Peter’s Catholic Church with Fr. Charles Langlois officiating. Interment will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 8:30 am on Friday until service time with a Rosary at 10:00 am.

A native of New Iberia, Mrs. Parker passed away at 10:17 am on February 2, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia. She was born on February 10, 1922 in New Iberia, Louisiana.

Gloria and Neil lived in New Iberia until his job took him to Natchez, Mississippi. Then they lived in Vidalia, Louisiana until Neil’s death in 1974. Gloria moved back to New Iberia and worked for the City of New Iberia in the Mayor’s Office from June, 1975 until she retired in January, 1998.

Gloria moved to Stone Mountain, Georgia to live with her daughter and son-in-law after Hurricane Katrina and resided in Atlanta until her death.

She is survived by one daughter, Neilanne Parker Lange and husband Jim of Stone Mountain, Georgia; one granddaughter, Courtney Lange of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and one grandson, Craig Lange of Atlanta, Georgia.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Octave John Lasserre and Eunice Feignant Lasserre and her husband, Neil Parker.

Pallbearers will be Burton E. Cestia, Jr., Harry Cestia, Jim Lange, Craig Lange, Marion Courtois and Billie Gesser.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Gloria’s name.

To view on-line obituary, video tribute and sign the guest register, please visit www.evangelinefuneralhome.com.

Evangeline Funeral Homes, Inc. of New Iberia is in charge of arrangements.