Leo Bordelon Rites Saturday in Cottonport
Funeral services were held Saturday at 2
p.m. for Leo D. Bordelon, 61 year old
production foreman at the Meeker Sugar
Exchange, who expired Friday, June 27, 1975
at 2:45 p.m. at his Cottonport residence.
Rites were held from St. Mary's Assumption
Catholic Church to the church mausoleum in
Cottonport with Msgr. Mozart Pelletier
officiating. Escude's of Cottonport was in
charge.
Survivors are his wife,
Mrs. Emmy Lou Armand Bordelon; a son,
Christopher Paul Bordelon of Cottonport; two
daughters, Mrs. Marilyn B. Dugas of Carencro
and Miss Larayne Bordelon of Baton Rouge;
seven brothers, Roy of Evergreen, Dicken
Jr., of Bunkie, Noland and Harold of
Alexandria, John of Baton Rouge, and Ray and
Raymond of Pasadena, Texas; seven sisters,
Mrs. Maggie Aymond, Mrs. Pearl Normand, Mrs.
Ollie Redmon, Mrs. Lela Aymond, Mrs. Mabel
Aymond and Mrs. Odelia St. Romain of Bunkie
and Mrs. Dorothy Sehon of Baton Rouge; and
six grandchildren.
Source: Mabel Bordelon Aymond, sister, November, 2008.
Source: Mabel Bordelon Aymond, sister, November, 2008.
Pelican Footnote:
Leo Bordelon was a 1932 graduate of
Evergreen High School and a member of their
championship basketball teams. The oldest
child of Dicken Charles and Odelia Ducote
Bordelon, he related many fond memories of
Evergreen to me after I married his
daughter, Marilyn.