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Gulf Coast Bank has partnered with Keep Abbeville Beautiful and the Abbeville Garden Club by sponsoring the “Love the Boot” canvas totes.
An average family takes home almost 1,500 plastic bags a year, none of which are recyclable. These reusable bags can be another choice when shopping.
Keep Abbeville Beautiful and the Abbeville Garden Club are participating in the “Love the Boot” week. “Love the Boot” week is held, April 18-24, dedicated to cleanup and beautification events in all 64 parishes across the state. Our goals are to Create a clean Louisiana for future generations; Engage communities to clean up Louisiana: Educate citizens to change behavior that create litter: and Make Love the Boot a strong, sustainable movement.
Keep Abbeville Beautiful’s participation involves several activities during the “Love the Boot” week. We will be distributing educational books dealing with litter and recycling issues to first and second graders. Promoting the use of less plastic in our daily lives by giving “Love the Boot” canvas bags and compostable take-out containers instead of Styrofoam containers. The Abbeville Garden Club not only spends countless volunteer hours beautifying the downtown flower beds but also addresses litter issues which in turn alleviates storm drain problems.
Keep Abbeville Beautiful would like to thank everyone involved for all their hard work making the “Love the Boot” event possible.

March 27, 1939 ~ April 13, 2022

KAPLAN — Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Catholic Church honoring the life of Dolores “Ms. Dee” Broussard, with Reverend Mark Miley officiating the services. She was the first-ever elected female councilwoman for the City of Kaplan and former organist for Cabrini Catholic Church of Kaplan and St. Theresa Catholic Church of Abbeville, passed away peacefully in her daughter’s home in Kaplan on Wednesday, April 13, 2022.
Dolores Broussard was born in 1939 in Abbeville, Louisiana. She was the 10th of 11 children of Luke and Ida Broussard of Kaplan. She taught herself to play the piano at the age of 5 and began playing in church at 8 years old. She was the organist for Cabrini Catholic Church in Kaplan and St. Theresa Catholic Church in Abbeville for well over 70 years combined. Tourists from around the world made it a point to attend mass at Cabrini just to be blessed by Ms. Dolores’s gift. She graduated from high school at 16, then attended SLI (now ULL), and earned her nursing degree.
She has always been civic-minded. She played an integral part in the civil rights movement. Her children were in the first group of children to integrate into schools in Kaplan. Her whole life has been one of service to her community. Countless people in the community would count on Ms. Dee for help and advice. She ran for Kaplan city councilwoman and was the first female ever elected to the position. As a councilwoman, every Christmas she would purchase turkeys for all city employees.
Anyone who knew Ms. Dee remembers her famous homemade tarts. She would ride down Main Street on her scooter delivering them to the police station, the bank, and city hall in appreciation for their service. Anyone who would pass by her house while she was baking would be welcomed to come in and try some.
In 2000, on the way to one of her home health patient’s houses, she was in a terrible car accident that left her completely immobile for several months. The doctors wanted to amputate her leg and said that she would never walk again. Her famous phrase was, “You don’t know the God I serve”. At the end of her long stint in the hospital, Ms. Dolores walked out of the hospital. She went back to her normal life of gardening, baking tarts, and playing the organ at church.
She recently had several major setbacks in her life: a house fire, a heart attack, and a stroke. While she was not the old “Ms. Dee” that everyone remembers, at 83, she still had unwavering faith in God and that feisty, fighting spirit. Some of her famous lines were: “If you gonna pray, don’t worry…if you gonna worry, don’t pray!, Shaa, my baby, and you ain’t gon worry me”.
She is survived by her son, Speedy Lappin and wife, Phyllis; daughter, Tina Chargois and husband, C.J.; godchild, Janet Moss and husband, Wayne; her grandchildren, Pedro “Trey” Jones III, Tatiana Boutte and husband, Tim, Sonnie Jackson, Alexis Jackson, Danielle Willis, Angelle Beltran and husband, Jon, Brittany Lassiter, Carl Chargois, Jr., Carina Chargois, and Chloe Chargois; her ex-husband, Linus Duhon; 17 great-grandchildren; and numerous cousins, nieces, nephews, family members, and friends.
She was preceded in death by her father, Luke Broussard; her mother, Ida Sellers Broussard; her siblings, Lena, Leona, Eldridge “Bruce”, Maudry, Audrey “Tsis”, Howard “Bob”, Evelle, Leon “Butsy”, Lona, and Glorious; and her daughters, Ida Robinson Solomon, and Tammy Robinson Fuselier.
The family requests that visiting hours be observed at St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Catholic Church, 910 N. Frederick Ave., on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 from 9 a.m. until the time of the services at 11 a.m.
All funeral arrangements are being conducted by Vincent Funeral Home of Kaplan, (337) 643-7276 [Service Information 225-5276]. Condolences may be sent to the Broussard family at www.vincentfuneralhome.net.

Debra Lynn Touchet, born on October 27, 1959, has passed away on April 12, 2022, at the age of 62.
She is survived by her Husband, Troy Touchet; her daughters, Dedria Stelly, Nicole Stelly, Dayna Stelly, Natalie Stelly, Katie Stelly Camacho; her grandchildren, Jessica, Spencer & Heather Green, Landon Stelly, Rylan Boudreaux, Rawlis Leslie III & Layna Leslie, Lane Stelly, Christopher Green III & Hayden Green, Hunter Arcemont, Sadie, Cruz & Kennedy Camacho; her great grandchildren, Kylan & Kohen Schexnider, and her siblings, Jane Callais, Kim Callais, Lisa Callais
Debra was preceded in death by her parents Mary Jane Callais & Wildon Callais Jr., as well as her sister, Jeanette Callais.
Debra enjoyed playing bingo, cards, and loved going to the casino with her friends. She loved boating, just being on the water, and loved anything to do with Dolphins. Debra loved listening to country music and her favorite colors were yellow and purple, but she truly had a heart of Gold. She would help anyone that she could even if she did not always have it for herself.
Yellow is the color of light, hope, and encouragement; while purple often represents, dignity, love, and the uplifting of one’s spirits. Dolphins often symbolize, peace and harmony, protection, playfulness, and joy, inner strength, and resurrection. Although Debra will be missed here on Earth, we hope that she is at peace; that she has found a new light and is embodying all of the things she adored here on Earth, now in heaven.
Family and friends are invited to attend a Celebration of Life for Debra on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Louisiana Funeral Services and Crematory located at 108 Hardware Road, in Broussard. Please share your condolences, kind words, or fond memories, with the family below by signing our online guestbook.

August 16, 1948 ~ April 11, 2022

COW ISLAND — A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 AM on Monday, April 18, 2022 at St. Anne Catholic Church honoring the life of Sherry H. Guidry, 73, who died Monday, April 11, 2022 at Abbeville General Hospital. She will be laid to rest at St. Anne Cemetery with Reverend Matthew Barzare officiating the services.
She is survived by her husband of 50 years, Jeffery Guidry of Cow Island; her three sons, Randy Broussard and his wife, Donnie of Cow Island, Shane Guidry and his wife, Nicole of Maurice and Rusty Guidry and his fianceé, Nancy Smith of Abbeville; her nine grandchildren, Wyatt Broussard, Walker Broussard, Hunter Guidry and his wife, Kristin, Alaina Guidry and her fiancé, Noah LeBlanc, Olivia Landry, Sarah Landry, Ashley Rodriguez and her husband, Josh, Amanda Allen and Jesse Laperouse; her four great grandchildren, Parker Guidry, Oliver Guidry, Evan Rodriguez and Noah Rodriguez; her two sisters, Melissa Duhon of Henry and Cynthia Cormier of Hempstead, TX; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Isaac Hebert and the former Annie Menard.
The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Vincent Funeral Home - Kaplan, 300 N. Eleazar Ave., on Sunday, April 17, 2022 from 5:00 PM until 9:00 PM with a rosary being prayed at 7:00 PM; Monday, April 18, 2022 from 8:00 AM until the procession departs for the church at 10:30 AM.
All funeral arrangements are being conducted by Vincent Funeral Home of Kaplan, (337) 643-7276 [Service Information 225-5276]. Condolences may be sent to the Guidry family at www.vincentfuneralhome.net.