BETTY HOLLIER

May 8, 1939 - Nov. 7, 2016
Visitation for Betty Lou Deshotel-Hollier will be held Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 8 a.m. at Ardoin Funeral Home in Mamou. A Mass of Christian burial will be conducted at 11 a.m. at Saint Ann’s Catholic Church. Hollier will be laid to rest in the Saint Ann’s Mausoleum.
Hollier, born May 8, 1939, was the eldest daughter of Lester Deshotel, Sr. and Yolanda Gotro-Deshotel. She was a graduate of Vidrine High School in 1957.
Hollier married Larry Hollier on May 17, 1958. They were the proud parents of three loving daughters and hand in hand they traveled and saw the sights of the world. Hollier was a member of the Evangeline Parish Homemakers Club, St. Anne’s Chapter of the Catholic Daughters of America and volunteered as a Pink Lady at Savoy Medical Center in Mamou for approximately 35 years.
Hollier was known for her kindness, generosity, sewing and baking skills. She was a loving and supportive mother to her daughters and grandchildren as well as to her to confidant and husband Larry for 58 1/2 years.
Betty will be immensely missed by her husband, Larry; daughter Roxanne Hollier-Roessler and husband Herman of Westlake, daughter Lauren B. Hollier-Perkins and husband, Edward, of Lafayette, and daughter Daphne M. Hollier-Bihm and husband, Wayne ,of Humble, Texas. She had two grandchildren, Ashlyn Fontenot-Castete and husband, Scott, of Moss Bluff, and Seth Fontenot and his companion, Brittany Childs, of Sulphur; and step-grandsons, Herman Frederick Roessler Jr. and Carlton L. Roessler, of Westlake. She also was blessed with two great-grandchildren, Aaron Castete and Kaitlyn Fontenot.
Hollier leaves behind her siblings Verdie Deshotel-Lamke of Ville Platte; Lester Deshotel, Jr. of Eunice; JoAnn Deshotel-Ardoin and husband, Joel, of Eunice, and James W. Deshotel of Ville Platte. Also, Rinal Hollier, brother-in-law and wife, Leola Young, of Mamou; Bobby Hollier, brother-in-law, and wife, Sarah Barnett of West Monroe; Loretta Hollier, sister-in-law, of Ville Platte and Ramona Hollier-Yarborough, sister-in-law, and husband, Bob, of Carencro; and former sister-in-law Lyn Schaeffer Hollier, along with numerous nieces and nephews.
Waiting for her at Heaven’s Gate is her mother, Yolanda Gotro-Deshotel and father, Lester Deshotel, Sr. along with her brother, Layton W. Deshotel, and his wife, Patsy, and brother-in-law, Verdon Lamke. She will rest in eternal peace with many other family and friends who departed before her.