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- Frances Thevis Melancon
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RAYNE - Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 3, 2005, at a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Leo Catholic Church for Frances Thevis Melancon, 85, who died Monday Feb. 28, 2005, in the Rayne Guest Home.
Interment will be in St. Leo Cemetery.
Mrs. Melancon was a member of St. Leo Catholic Church, Catholic Daughters and St. Leo Ladies Altar Society.
Survivors include one daughter, Mary M. Raine and husband, Jack, of Houston, Texas; one son, Russell Melancon and wife, Mary, of Roberts Cove; and seven grandchildren, Sara Melancon, of Roberts Cove, Aaron Melancon and wife, Erin, of Roberts Cove, Reed Melancon, of Roberts Cove, Ethan Melancon, of Roberts Cove, Wes Raine, of Nashville, Tenn., Garrett Raine, of Lafayette, and Travis Raine, of College Station, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Alphonse Melancon; parents, Peter Joseph Thevis and Mary Magdeline Theunissen Thevis; two sisters, Mary Thevis and Gertrude Habetz; and eight brothers, Joe Thevis, Gerard Thevis, Daniel Thevis, LeonardThevis, Martin Thevis, William Thevis, Peter Thevis and Theodore Thevis.
The family would like memorial donations be made to Hospice of Acadiana, 2600 Johnston St., Suite 200, Lafayette, LA 70503-3240.
A rosary will be recited at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. today and 10 a.m. Thursday.
Visitation will be observed from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. today and will continue from 9 a.m. Thursday until service time.
Pallbearers will be her six grandsons, Wes Raine, Garrett Raine, Aaron Melancon, Travis Raine, Reed Melancon and Ethan Melancon.
Honorary pallbearers will be Sara Melancon, Erin Melancon, JoAnn Thevis, Geraldine Dilly and Debbie Robinson.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Gossen Funeral Home Inc. of Rayne, (337) 334-3141.
Originally published March 2, 2005
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