Judy Cormier Blanchard

VIEW VIDEO TRIBUTE Breaux Bridge - Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m., on Sunday, January 18, 2009, at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, for Judy Ann Cormier Blanchard, 65, who passed away on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at Lafayette General Medical Center. Interment will follow at St. Bernard Mausoleum No. 2 in Breaux Bridge. Father Louis Allen Breaux, Associate Pastor of St. Bernard Church, will officiate at the funeral service. Readers will be Kristie Hebert and Kimberly Ruiz. Judy was employed by the St. Martin Parish School Board for 25 years as a bus driver and was a member of the Transportation Committee. During that time she had the privilege of driving the Breaux Bridge High School Football team to their games, in which she took great pride in doing. Judy had previously coached summer league baseball and softball. She enjoyed playing Pokeno and horse racing. Judy is survived by two daughters, Dana Calais and her husband, Chris, of Cecilia, and Susan Addison and her husband, Kenneth, Jr.; her daughter-in-law, Allison Blanchard, of Breaux Bridge; one brother, Don "Coyote" Cormier and his wife, Sandra, of Parks; two sisters, Melba Fontenot, of Parks, and Patsy Thibodeaux and her companion, Ray Robin, of Breaux Bridge; and six grandchildren, Brielle Blanchard, of St. Martinville, Amber Addison, of Breaux Bridge, Ryi Calais, of Cecilia, Jordan Addison, of Breaux Bridge, and Hagen Calais and Jansen Calais, both of Cecilia. She was preceded in death by her husband, Abel "Jim" Blanchard; her son, Torey J. Blanchard; a grandson, Brylin Jude Blanchard; and her parents, Evans and Duella "Noon" Courville Cormier. The family requests that visiting hours be observed from 12 noon until 10 p.m. on Saturday and continue at time 7:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Sunday. A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Pallbearers will be Jordan Addison, Ryi Calais, John Fontenot, T-Mark Thibodeaux, Dean Blanchard, and Frank Verret. Honorary pallbearers will be Skipper Thibodeaux, Troy Thibodeaux, Teddy Thibodeaux, Dwarren Olivier, Bentley Bijeaux, and all her "School Bus Driver Friends." Pellerin Funeral Home of Breaux Bridge is in charge of arrangements.