Lelia Credeur

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BASILEWith much sorrow, the family announces the passing of their beloved mother, Lelia Caruthers Credeur who peacefully slipped away in her 96th year at the Basile Care Center on Sunday, December 23, 2012. A Mass of Christian Burial will be Celebrated at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Basile. Rite of Committal will follow in the Langley Cemetery with Father Nathan Comeaux Celebrant.

Lelia was a homemaker and devoted her life to the care of her family and over the years she was a babysitter and she worked on the assembly line for Air King products in Eunice. She volunteered at the church by preparing altar cloths, etc. for weekend masses. She was a member of the Cajun French Music Association and St. Augustine Catholic Church. Her hobbies were gardening, baking pumpkin pies, canning figs and making her famous hot sauce which she gave away freely to the citizens of Basile especially Father Speyrer. She also loved Cajun music and dancing and participated in the Basile Mardi Gras. In 2010 she was the Basile Care Center Swine Festival Queen. Most of all she loved her family and will be deeply missed by her son, Charlie Caruthers and wife, Jackie of Lafayette two sisters, Essie Mae LeBlue and Ethel Bordelon both of Welsh. She was blessed with fourteen grandchildren and further blessed with numerous great and great great grandchildren.

She now rests in Heaven with her beloved parents, Orther and Clothilde Young her three husbands. Clovis Caruthers, Weston Monceaux and Lawrence Credeur three sons, Clyde, Paul Clifton and Claude Caruthers two daughters, Clara Abbott and Carrie Perron, three grandchildren, two brothers and five sisters.

At the request of the family visitation will be held at Ardoins Funeral Home in Basile on Tuesday, December 25th from 3:00 pm until 9:00 pm and again on Wednesday, December 26th from 8:00 am until time of services. Deacon Gary Gaudin will recite a Rosary at 6:00 pm Tuesday evening.

Visitation

Ardoins Funeral Home
1210 South Ryan Street
Basile, LA  70515
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
3:00 PM 9:00 PM

Service

MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL

St. Augustine Catholic Church
2717 Dr. Bobby Deshotel Ave
Basile, LA  70515
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
1:00 PM

ROSARY

Ardoins Funeral Home Chapel
1210 South Ryan Street
Basile, LA  70515
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
6:00 PM

Cemetery

Langley Cemetery
Fernest Road
Basile, LA  70515