Anne Caffery

New Iberia - Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, November 22, 2017, at Pellerin Funeral Home in New Iberia for Anne Bercegeay Caffery, 83, who passed away on Sunday, November 19, 2017, in New Iberia. A gathering of family and friends will be at Pellerin Funeral Home from 8:00 am until 2:00 pm on Wednesday. Rev. Mario Romero will be the Officiant. Interment will follow at Beau Pre Cemetery in Jeanerette. Anne was born on November 22, 1933 in Charenton, Louisiana, to the late Melville and Manila Gardner Bercegeay. She attended Franklin High School, and graduated Valedictorian of her class. During her high school years, she won many academic honors, including rally winner in English and Physics. An avid reader, she boasted that she had read almost every book in the Franklin Library before she graduated from Franklin High School. She subsequently attended SLI, now University of Lafayette, on academic scholarship. She married Patrick T. Caffery, a native of Franklin, in 1954, and the couple resided in New Iberia. Anne was an avid student of Louisiana politics, and managed both of her husband's successful campaigns for the Louisiana House of Representatives, and later the U.S. House of Representatives. She was a tireless campaigner and fund raiser, and later used those skills in campaigns to raise money for the Iberia Performing Arts League (IPAL). She was also politically successful in her own right, being twice elected to represent Iberia Parish as a member of the Louisiana Republican Party State Central Committee. She delighted in her six grandchildren. Mrs. Caffery is survived by sons, Patrick T. Caffery, Jr. and wife Margaret, Michael M. Caffery and wife Katherine, and Kevin Caffery, all of New Iberia; grandchildren, Caroline Young and husband, Dr. Steven Young, Cathleen Bush and husband, Patrick Bush, Margaret Caffery, Dr. Michael Caffery, Jr., Thomas Caffery and Anne Caffery; and sisters-in-law, Ethel Bercegeay of Newport, NC and Virginia Bercegeay of Broussard. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Patrick T. Caffery; and brothers, Leslie Bercegeay, David "Tish" Bercegeay, and Emanuel Paul Bercegeay. Pallbearers will be David Bercegeay, Scott Bercegeay, Dr. Michael Caffery, Jr., Thomas Caffery, Pat Bush, and Dr. Steven Young. Pellerin Funeral Home of New Iberia, 502 Jefferson Terrace Blvd., New Iberia, LA 70560, (337-365-3331) is in charge of arrangements.