Clelie Mary Berard

Clelie Mary Broussard Berard Coteau Holmes - A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 2:30 pm, on Monday, February 1, 2016, at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Coteau Holmes, for Clelie Mary Broussard Berard, 89, who passed away on Friday, January 29, 2016, at Iberia Medical Center. The family requests that visiting hours be observed at the funeral home in St. Martinville from 2 pm until 9 pm on Sunday, and continue at 7 am until 2 pm. on Monday. A rosary will be prayed at 6 pm on Sunday. Father Joseph Padinjarepeedika will officiate at the Mass. Serving as Lectors are Regina Douet, Stanley Berard and John Douet. Sr. Ameline Theriot will serve as Eucharistic Minister. Altar server will be Hannah Schexnider. Interment will follow at St. Elizabeth Cemetery in Coteau Holmes. Through good times and bad, Mary helped her family and her community make it through with an unshakeable faith in God and the belief that better times were always ahead. From being a Rosie the Riveter factory worker helping construct airplanes during World War II, to meeting and marrying the love of her life, Lloyd J. Berard, Sr., at the tender age of 19, to devoting herself completely to being a wife and mother for Lloyd and her 9 children, to contributing to her extended family as a caregiver and her community by helping on many church functions, fundraisers, and donation drives for those in need, Mary was a great example to all of a life well lived through philanthropy and faith. Mary also was a green thumb gardener and found joy in the simpler pleasures in life family, friends, and fellowship. She is survived by her sons, Michael Berard and wife, Shirley of Youngsville, Lloyd Berard, Jr. and wife, Patsy Angelle of Coteau Holmes, Mark Berard and wife, Claudette of Loreauville, Stanley Berard and wife, Brooke Harlowe of Lock Haven, PA; daughters, Mary "Anne" Breaux and husband, Russell of Morgan City, LA, Regina Douet and husband, Lee of St. Martinville, Renee' Bulliard of Myrtle Beach, SC, and Amy Berard Gaudet of Loreauville; sisters, Mrs. Felix (Lilly) Guidry of Breaux Bridge, Mrs. Lloyd (Elsie) Lasseigne of Breaux Bridge; 16 grandchildren; and 14 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by husband, Lloyd J. Berard, Sr.; son, Peter Jean Berard; father, O'neil Broussard; mother, Helen Lasseigne Broussard; brothers, Dorsey, Alphonse, Ivory, Cletus and Shirley Paul Broussard; and sister, Mable Mendoza. Pallbearers will be Michael Berard, Lloyd Berard, Jr., Mark Berard, Stanley Berard, Chad Gaudet, John Douet, Yohannes Berard and Joshua Breaux. Honorary pallbearers will be Russell Latiolais, Todd Boutte, Russell Breaux, Sr., Lee Douet, Patrick Gordon, Rob Hollerbach, Rusty Breaux, John Raia, Jonathan Whittaker, Christopher Berard and Zachary Gaudet. Pellerin Funeral Home of St. Martinville, (337-332-2111), is in charge of arrangements.