Ruby Bergeron

St. Martinville - Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., on Saturday, August 14, 2010, at St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church in St. Martinville, for Ruby Alice Bergeron, 83, who passed away on Thursday, August 12, 2010, at East Jefferson Hospital in Metairie. Interment will follow at St. Michael Cemetery in St. Martinville. Monsignor Douglas Courville will conduct the services. Mrs. Ruby worked for the State of Louisiana caring for the elderly and was admired for the compassion she offered to those she cared for during her tenure with the state. She also worked at Randall's Grocery Store and Fournet's Drug Store for many years. She was the proprietress of the Evangeline Caf, where she continued to express her love of people through her cooking and good company. She will be sadly missed by her family, friends and those she helped nurture back to good health. Survivors include her son, Louis 'Buster' Bergeron, Jr. and his wife, Connie, of St. Martinville , La. ; her daughter, Janice Broussard and her husband, Kenneth, of Destrehan; two sisters, Aimee Castille of St. Martinville and Laura Belanger of New Iberia ; 8 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by parents, Dorsey and Laura Boudreaux Borel; her son, Anthony 'Tony' Bergeron; a grandson, Blake Matthew Broussard; three brothers, Evrard, Stanley, and Louis Borel; and three sisters, Mabel Dore, Martha Theriot, and Aurelia Guidry. The family requests that visiting hours be observed from 5:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. on Friday and continue at 7:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. A rosary will be recited at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. Pellerin Funeral Home of St. Martinville is in charge of arrangements.