Church Point, La. Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 P.M. Friday, November 6, 2015 at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Church Point, La. for Gertie Mae Higginbotham, 82, the former Gertie Mae Duplechain. Mrs. Higginbotham, a native and long-time resident of Church Point, died Wednesday afternoon November 4 at Acadia-St. Landry Hospital in Church Point. Monsignor Jefferson J. DeBlanc will conduct the services with interment following in the Monsignor Bienvenu Cemetery on Highway 35 north of Church Point.
Survivors include two sons, James "Bozo" Higginbotham and wife Christi of Church Point and Joe Higginbotham and wife Natasha of Dedeaux, Miss; four daughters: Brenda Faye Ford and Tommy Hayes of Bay St. Louis, Miss., Celise Ann Daigle and husband Todd of Church Point, Angela Bellard of Lake Charles, La. and Dawn Malley and husband Drew of Dedeaux; a brother, J.D. Duplechain of Lake Charles and a sister, Enola Bourgeois of Lake Charles; nineteen grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Julius and Hysenth Thibodeaux Duplechain.
The family requested that visiting hours be observed at Guidry Funeral Home from 6:00 P.M. until Midnight on Thursday, November 5 and continue from 8:00 A.M. Friday until the time of the services. A recitation of the Rosary will be held there at 8:00 P.M. Thursday by Monsignor DeBlanc.
Arrangements are being handled by Guidry Funeral Home, Inc.; 219 N. Broadway, Church Point, La. (337) 684-5488. View the obituary and guest book on-line at guidryfuneralhome.com.