Melba Marie Fontenot

Breaux Bridge - Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 pm, on Sunday, September 21, 2014, at Pellerin Funeral Home in Breaux Bridge, for Melba Marie Cormier Fontenot, 67, who passed away on Friday, September 19, 2014. The family requests that visiting hours be observed at the funeral home from 12:00 pm until 8:00 pm on Saturday and continue at 8:00 am until 12:45 pm on Sunday. A rosary will be recited by Wildie Roberts at 6:30 pm on Saturday. Deacon Marcel "Butch" Hebert will officiate at the Funeral Service. Readers will be Mitzi Fontenot, Susan Addison, and Dana Calais. Interment will follow at St. Bernard Mausoleum - No. 2 in Breaux Bridge. For many years Melba enjoyed being a T-Ball coach for Mills Pills and a caregiver for Blake and Lance Dutile. She is survived by her sons, Gene Fontenot and his wife, Lisa, Jon Fontenot and his wife, Mitzi, and Jared Fontenot; her daughter, Melissa Cormier; her step-daughters, Jackie Landry and her husband, Timothy and Sue Hebert and her husband, Charlie; her brother, Don "Coyote" Cormier and his wife, Sandra; her sister, Patsy Thibodeaux and her companion, Ray Robin; 17 grandchildren; and 5 great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband, Rodney Joseph Fontenot; her son, Rodney "JoJo" Fontenot; her step-daughter, Janice Fontenot; her mother, Duella "Noon" Courville Cormier; her father, Evans Cormier; and her sister, Judy Blanchard. Pallbearers will be Don "Coyote" Cormier, Skipper Thibodeaux, Gene Fontenot, Trey Cormier, Jared Fontenot, and Jon Fontenot. Honorary pallbearers will be Troy Thibodeaux, T-Mark Thibodeaux, Peyton Fontenot, Gage Fontenot, Bailey Fontenot, Seth Fontenot, Reggie Fontenot, and Brock Fontenot. Pellerin Funeral Home of Breaux Bridge, 211 Berard St., Breaux Bridge, Louisiana 70517, (337-332-2111) is in charge of arrangements. To view on-line obituary, sign guestbook and view video tribute, go to www.pellerinfuneralhome.com