Rita Marie Guillory Emmons

Centerville - Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., on Monday, December 24, 2007, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Centerville, for Rita Guillory Emmons, 86, who passed away on Saturday, Decemer 22, 2007 at Iberia General Medical Center. Entombment will follow at St. Joseph Mausoleum in Centerville. Fr. Thomas Habetz, pastor of St. Joseph Church, will officiate at the funeral Mass, Con-Celebrant will be Fr. O'Neil Landry. Mrs. Emmons was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She enjoyed quilting, sewing, working in her flower beds, and cooking. She was a devout Catholic and was a member of the Ladies Altar Society at St. Joseph Church in Centerville for many years and was also a member of a Rosary Group in St. Martinville. She valued and treasured every moment spent with her family and will be dearly missed by them. Survivors include her husband, Wallace Lee Emmons, Sr., of St. Martinville; two sons, Wallace Lee Emmons, Jr. and his wife, Jackie, of St. Martinville, and Anthony Emmons and his wife, Lori, of Rayne; two daughters, Catherine Yvette Louviere and her husband, Anthony, of New Iberia, and Paula Peltier and her husband, Lee Roy Peltier, II, of Williamsburg, VA; one brother, Bertholin Guillory and his wife, Beverly, of Ville Platte; one sister, Anna Lee Guillory Siffert, of Chicot; 11 grandchildren, Anthony Louviere, III, Kara L. Blanchard, Heather P. Wright, Lee Roy Peltier, III, Peter N. Peltier, Jessica M. Emmons, Joni E. Emmons, Quincy Emmons, Avery Emmons, Leah Emmons, and Zoe Emmons; and four great grandchildren, Benjamin Blanchard, Emily Blanchard, Emma Peltier, and Lillian Peltier. She was preceded in death by her parents, Arnold and Elva Guillory; and several brothers and sisters. The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Pellerin Funeral Home, 211 Berard St., Breaux Bridge, from 10:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. on Sunday and continue at St. Joseph Church in Centerville at 9:00 a.m. on Monday until time of service. A rosary will be recited at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday. Pellerin Funeral Home of Breaux Bridge, (337.332.2111), is in charge of arrangements.