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Her first husband Clem Geddes was in the funeral business. The couple partnered with Arnold Moss to form a company that sold insurance as well as owning a funeral home. [4] After Clem Geddes died in 1913, she married William A. Willis. In 1940, she renamed the business the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home and Life Insurance Company. [4]
John DeSantis of The Houma Times wrote, "Residents of local communities reeled from news of the case, horrified by the children’s deaths." [30] Visitations of the bodies of Braxton and Camille Hebert occurred at Falgout Funeral Home in Lockport, [5] and the funeral for the victims was held at the St. Hilary of Poitiers Catholic Church in ...
By 1960, with the combination of rich oil production backed by Houma's productive waters, fertile soil, and natural mineral resources, Houma became one of the fastest-growing cities in America. In 1961, the Houma Navigational Canal was completed to provide a 30-mile link to Terrebonne Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
The local newspaper is The Courier, founded in 1878 as Le Courrier de Houma by the French-born Lafayette Bernard Filhucan Bazet. He first published it in four-page, half-French half-English editions. Sold to The New York Times Company in 1980, it is now part of GateHouse Media. [29] The Houma Times is located in Houma. The newspaper is a weekly ...
Bishop Warren Boudreaux, the first Bishop of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux is interred under the marble raised altar near the Statue of the Blessed Mother. [8] Bishop Michael Jarrel was the second bishop of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux and reigned from this cathedral for a decade from March 4, 1993, until October 10, 2003.
Frey spent the remainder of his life first at Consolata Nursing Home in New Iberia, Louisiana, and later in a private home in Lafayette provided by the diocese. [10] Gerard Frey died after a lengthy illness on August 16, 2007, at age 93. [4] He is buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist in Lafayette. [4]
The Residence Plantation House is a historic house on a former plantation in Houma, Louisiana, U.S.. It was built in 1898 for Roberta Barrow, the daughter of sugar planter Robert Ruffin Barrow. [2] Her father lived in a house on the plantation; Roberta "demolished her father's antebellum home and built the current structure on its site."
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church in Houma, Louisiana, in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. It is noted for its historic church at 243 Barrow Street, which was built in 1892 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The parish was chartered in 1855.