Breaux Bridge - Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., on Saturday, April 26, 2008, at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, for Iola Mary Green, 65, who passed away on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at her residence in Breaux Bridge.
Interment will follow at St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery in Breaux Bridge.
Rev. James Fallon, SSJ, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Church, will conduct the services and Lionel Batiste will read.
Iola visited the sick and gave love to everyone especially family and her husband, Paul of 50 years. People often expressed how they enjoyed eating the food that she prepared with love. She would have fed her entire community, but she always provided food to those in need.
Survivors include her husband, Paul Antoine Green of Breaux Bridge; her daughters, Hazel Joseph and her husband, Herbert of Dallas Texas, Sandra G. Davis and her husband, Joseph of Breaux Bridge, Saraphina Green of Breaux Bridge and Rebecca Sylvester and her husband, Nelson of Gulf Port, MS; her Brothers, Edward Wiltz and Wilfred Scypion both of Port Arthur; her sisters, Margaret Zenon of Parks, Hazel Wiltz of Breaux Bridge, Rosalyn Harris and Mary Wiltz both of Port Arthur; her sister-in-law, Virgie Green; her 11 grandchildren, Ignatius Joseph, Maegan Davis, Joshua Davis, Donovan Green, Jordanna Green, Kyle Davis, Simone Davis, Seth Green, Deion Davis, Niyi Green and Brittany Payne; 7 Great grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Edwin F. Wiltz and Mary Ann Potier Wiltz. Her granddaughter, Jarona Green.
The family requests that visiting hours be observed from 7:30 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 26, 2008.
A rosary will be recited at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Pallbearers will be Donald Keith Jean Lewis, Joseph Davis, Ignatius Joseph, Clovis Sylvester Jr., Donovan Green and Emile Henry.
Honorary pallbearers will be Louis Green, Melvin Hypolite, Herbert Joseph, Jonas Smith and Joshua Davis.
Pellerin Funeral Home of Breaux Bridge is in charge of arrangements.