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By: DR. BRIAN DORE’
Member of the Ville Platte Ministerial Alliance

(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Patricia Duplechin, resident activity director at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Ville Platte. This column runs every Sunday in The Gazette.)

December 25, 1951 - December 12, 2015
Funeral services will be held for Christine Jane Ortego, 63, of Ville Platte, at Our Lady Queen of All Saints Catholic Church in Ville Platte at 11:30 a.m., Monday, December 21. Burial will follow in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

March 21, 1924 - December 15, 2015
Funeral services will be held for Joseph Herbert Perrodin Jr., 91, of Ville Platte, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ville Platte at 11 a.m., Saturday, December 19. Burial will follow in the Evangeline Memorial Park Cemetery.

June 29, 1936 - December 9, 2015
MAMOU - Funeral services will be held for Dorothy Mae Hampshire, 79, of Mamou, at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Mamou at 10 a.m., Saturday, December 26. Burial will follow in the Old St. Ann’s Cemetery. A memorial service will be held at a later date.

March 26, 1918 - December 13, 2015
Funeral services will be held for Pearl Attales, 97, of Houston, Texas, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ville Platte at 11 a.m., Monday, December 21. Burial will follow in the Evangeline Memorial Park Cemetery.

February 14, 1951 - December 14, 2015
MAMOU - Funeral services will be held for John L. Roya, 64, of Mamou, at the Ardoin’s Funeral Home Chapel in Mamou at 11 a.m., Saturday, December 19. Burial will follow in the Highland Memorial Park Cemetery in Lake Charles.

A diverse panel of 10 individuals from across Evangeline Parish assembled Monday to help select three teachers from the parish’s school district to receive an honor that District Middle School Teacher of the Year Lisa Jack described as “humbling.”