EMMA T. HEATH

Sept. 7 1951 - Jan. 14, 2017
A memorial service for Emma T. Heath will be held at Sacred Heart Church in Ville Platte at 11:30 a.m on Monday, January 23, 2017 and in Kenner at at 11:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church on Friday, January 27, 2017
Heath, 65, passed away Saturday January 14, 2017 in Kenner.
Early on she graduated from Sacred Heart High School, Ville Platte, and attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she and Danny first met and later became One on May 13, 1972, in her hometown of Ville Platte. Thereafter Emma pleasantly spent the remainder of her life in Metairie and Kenner. Emma worked for a time in the hobby shop at Lighthouse Louisiana and as a special ed teacher’s assistant at J. D. Meisler Middle School. She was an active parishioner of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, a member of the Order of St. Joseph Lay Carmelites and, with Danny by her side, an active member of the Kenner Central Lions Club. Emma devoted herself to caring for the less fortunate, deepening her life of Roman Catholic Christian spirituality through prayer and reflection, sometimes in the silence of her home, but frequently in communion with other members of the Order of St. Joseph Lay Carmelites, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of New Orleans, attending the Holy Rosary Congress, or more broadly via the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). Throughout her life Emma made an everlasting impression on her numerous friends and acquaintances, and will be remembered as someone who radiated unwavering compassion, who recalled every birthday and anniversary, and who shared her passions with whomever she encountered along the path of her everyday extraordinary life.
Heath was preceded in death by her parents, Judge Albert Tate, Jr. and Claire Jeanmard Tate. She is survived by Daniel J. Heath, her best friend and beloved, devoted, attentive husband of 44 years; her brothers: Albert “Jules” Tate III, George J. Tate, Michel F. Tate, and Charles E. Tate, and their families; and by the Heaths who so warmly welcomed her into their family: George, Jeffery, David, Doyt, Mary, Elizabeth, James, John, Godfrey, Jane and Patrick, and their families.