Andrew Guidry, Jr.

Lydia – A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11:00 am on Thursday, September 29, 2022 at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Lydia for Andrew Guidry, Jr., 90, who died on Friday, September 23, 2022.

Entombment will follow in the St. Nicholas Cemetery in Patoutville, with Military Honors by the Iberia Honor Guard.

Rev. Randy Courville will be the Celebrant.

Visitation will be Wednesday from 5:00 pm until 8:30 pm at Pellerin Funeral Home in New Iberia and will continue on Thursday from 8:00 am until 10:15 am.

A rosary, led by the Men’s Rosary Group, will be prayed at 6:30 pm on Wednesday.

Mr. Guidry was born on July 23, 1932 to the late Andrew Guidry, Sr. and Mary Ellen Champagne Guidry. A lifelong area resident, he grew up on Weeks Island and proudly served our country in the U.S. Marine Corp. during the Korean War. Mr. Guidry worked 30 years for Morton Salt on Weeks Island, and then 17 years for the Iberia Parish Sheriff Department. He loved being outdoors, hunting birds, especially quail and doves, and raising his bird dogs. Mr. Guidry was a member of the Marine Corp League and the American Legion.

Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Dolly LaBiche Guidry; sister, Mary Ellen Guidry LaBiche; sister, Catherine Margaret Bayard (Wilson); and numerous godchildren, nieces and nephews.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his father-in-law, Milton LaBiche; mother-in-law, Annie Lee Judice LaBiche Bourgeois; brothers-in-law, Jean Whitney LaBiche, Sr., Chris LaBiche and Bill LaBiche; and a sister-in-law, Patricia LaBiche.

Pallbearers will be Whitney LaBiche, Joey LaBiche, Don Bayard, Patrick LaBiche, Bret Adams, Ryan LaBiche, Adam LaBiche, and Brycen Hammon.

The family would like to give special thanks to Traditions Hospice for their care and support, as well as his daily caregivers.