Nell Decoux Louviere

NEW IBERIA – A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated for Nell Decoux Louviere, age 89, at 10:00 am on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at St. Peter’s Catholic Church. Fr. Charles Langlois will be the celebrant and will conduct the mass. Interment will follow at Holy Family Mausoleum.

A gathering of family and friends will be held at Evangeline Funeral Home on Monday from 4:00 pm until 10:00 pm, with the Rosary being recited at 6:30 pm. The funeral home will reopen on Tuesday from 8:00 am until services.

Nell Decoux Louviere was born September 19, 1922 in St. Martinville to Alfred and Lucide Melancon Decoux, and passed away peacefully at 6:33 am Sunday, September 9, 2012, just ten days before she was to celebrate her 90th birthday.

Miss Nell was a longtime parishioner of St. Peter’s Catholic Church, where she was a member of the Children of Mary and the Religious Community of the Third Order of Our Lady of Mr. Carmel. She was a volunteer at St. Francis Diner, and Dauterive Hospital where she received a 1500 hour service pin, of which she was very proud. She enjoyed sewing, working in her yard, and reading.

Mrs. Louviere was a kind and gentle woman who was a living example of the definition of Love, and a faithful prayer warrior.

Survivors include her daughters, Olga Louviere of New Iberia, Letrice Broussard and husband Michael Wayne of New Iberia, and Madeline Viator and husband Kyle of Broussard; seven grandchildren, Micah Broussard and wife Beryl, Molly, Sarah, Ruth, and Simon Broussard, Kally VanCleve and husband Jacob, and Luke Viator and fiancée Shannon Trim; eight great grandchildren, Gabriel, Sophia, Julius, Sienna, and Nadia Broussard, Peyton Pommier, Oliver Romero, and Zoe VanCleve; her brother, Leroy Decoux and wife Mazel of New Iberia; and sister-in-law, Doris Decoux of St. Martinville.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Percy J. Louviere; her son, Cornell Louviere; parents, Alfred and Lucide Decoux; brother, Ned Decoux, and a nephew, Kim Decoux.

Serving as pallbearers will be Wayne, Micah, Simon, and Gabe Broussard, and Kyle and Luke Viator.

To view the online obituary, video tribute, and sign the guestbook, please visit www.evangelinefuneralhome.com

Evangeline Funeral Home of New Iberia (337) 364-1881 is in charge of arrangements.