Helen Bowles Roy

Helen Bowles Roy, a retired secretary of more than 20 years from the Terrebonne Parish school system, died Saturday, November 26, 2022 after an extended illness. She was 88. She previously worked for Shell Oil and Grundmann’s Athletic Co. in New Orleans. She loved family, Saints football, LSU sports, dancing, Mardi Gras, reading and watching Hallmark movies. She loved gathering with friends, enjoying good food, Old Fashions and White Russians. She graduated from Warren Easton High School and Soule Business College. Roy and her family moved to Houma in 1973.

She is survived by her three daughters, Suzanne Roy Gravois and husband, John, of Mansfield, TX, Katherine Roy Stewart, and Cynthia Roy Knight and husband, Dennis, of Houma. Also, grandchildren, Joy Gravois Hanna and husband, Jason Hanna, Bradley Stewart, Nicholas Gravois and wife, Anna, and Sean Stewart; and great granddaughters, Adelyn Hanna, Gracie Hanna, and Lennie Jane Gravois; and brother, Robert Bowles and wife, Jackie.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lennie Joseph Roy; her father, Raymond Bowles; her mother, Catherine Bowles; and brothers, Raymond Bowles, Gerard “Jerry” Bowles and Jim Bowles.

The family wishes to extend a special thanks to Dr. Brian Matherne, Gary Labat, Roberta Pontiff, the staff of the Medical Team, Journey Hospice, the Cancer Center of Thibodaux, and the Thibodaux Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Mass in the chapel of Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. in New Orleans on Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 2:00PM. A visitation will be held at the funeral home beginning at 12:30PM. The interment will follow the Mass at Lake Lawn Park Mausoleum.

In lieu of flowers, the family request donations be made to Maria Immaculata Church in Houma, Louisiana and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in memory of Helen Roy.

To view and sign the online guestbook, please visit www.lakelawnmetairie.com.