Lindsey Edward Landreneau

Lindsey’s French ancestry was deeply rooted, dating back to 1718 when the first Landreneau arrived in Louisiana. His Kretz ancestors from Alsace Lorraine arrived in Baton Rouge in 1837.

Born in Ville Platte in 1935, Lindsey grew up in Abbeville and graduated from Crowley High School. During his formative years, he often visited his grandparents in Baton Rouge, and as a teenager served as a Louisiana State Senate page. After high school he worked summer jobs with the state highway and agriculture departments, and on offshore service boats to pay his college tuition. After two years at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now the University of Louisiana Lafayette), he transferred to Louisiana State University, his father’s alma mater.

In 1957, he graduated from LSU as a Phi Kappa Phi in Chemistry and German. He married and began a career in the chemical industry with Chemstrand Corporation in Pensacola, Florida. After the birth of his two children, he returned to Louisiana to work with Morton Chemical in New Orleans. He was an Emeritus Member of the American Chemical Society.

Later, Lindsey’s life trajectory shifted dramatically, and he moved to his beloved Baton Rouge. Eager to start his own business, he founded Hayden Landreneau, Inc., a real estate development/construction firm, and later OverSee, the largest rental property management company in Baton Rouge at the time.

During off hours he indulged his many interests: hunting, big game fishing, travel, music, opera, and of course the LSU Tigers. He was a longtime member of the Baton Rouge City Club.

In the early 1970s, he remarried Judith Thompson and gained another daughter. During this time, he sent his children through Episcopal High School, where he served on the board of trustees. He decided to join the Episcopal Church, which he considered one of the best decisions of his life.

An opera lover, he became a member of the New York-based Metropolitan Opera National Council and was seriously studying cello. As a result of his extensive travels in France, his love of French food and wine encouraged him to become a culinary expert. His cooking was legendary, with frequent culinary feasts prepared for family and friends.

In the 1980s a series of setbacks occurred as the state’s economy declined and the unpredictable ripple effect caused Lindsey to narrowly escape bankruptcy. He reluctantly moved to Florida where, with the backing of his longtime friend John B. Noland, he started a new business developing a luxury townhome community on Siesta Key, Florida. After this five-year exile, he returned to Baton Rouge to start another venture. He and John B. Noland again worked together to develop Ascension Parish’s first two curb and gutter subdivisions. Assisting in these successful projects was his dedicated, longtime office manager, Christina Ball. After having developed large apartment complexes, mid-rise office buildings, townhomes, luxury homes (1,000+ in Baton Rouge and Ascension Parish), fine subdivisions, and commercial properties for over 40 years, he retired.

Lindsey is preceded in death by his parents, Beverly Kretz Bauer Landreneau and Lindsey Edward Landreneau, Sr. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Judith Thompson Landreneau, sisters Susan Landreneau Leonards and Diane Landreneau, daughter Lisa Landreneau Barksdale, son Randall Lindsey Landreneau, daughter Susan Landreneau Richardson (Paul Stanley Richardson, Jr.), six grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.

The funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, February 15, at St. James Episcopal Church, Baton Rouge, followed by a short service at Roselawn Memorial Park.