Favre obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana 

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Favre, Johnnie Mae         11 Jun 2010    Jun 2010    Jerry Nelson
Favre, Willard A.          26 Nov 2009    Nov 2009    Jerry Nelson  

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on:  6/11/2010

FAVRE, JOHNNIE MAE
A homemaker and resident of Baton Rouge, she died Saturday, June 5, 2010, 
at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. She was 61 and a native of 
Independence. Visiting at Winnfield Funeral Home on Saturday, June 12, from 
8:30 a.m. until religious service at 10 a.m., conducted by the Rev. Stanley 
Plain. Interment in Winnfield Memorial Park. Survived by four daughters, 
Tassine Anderson, Charlotte Cryer, Shannonne Cryer and Cassandra Favre, all 
of Baton Rouge; two sons, Jerry Cryer and Mack Cryer Jr., both of Baton 
Rouge; five sisters, Shirley Anderson, Audre Lee, Mamie Anderson, 
Charolette Anderson and Bertha Stewart; a brother, Joseph Anderson; 20 
grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by her parents, 
two brothers and a son, Boyd C. Favre.  

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge):  11/26/2009

FAVRE, WILLARD A.
Willard A. Favre died Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, at Our Lady of the Lake
Regional Medical Center at age 79. A descendant of several well-known
Colonial Gulf Coast families and a native of Logtown, Miss., he attended
Jesuit High School and graduated from S.J. Peters High School, both in New
Orleans. He held a bachelor's degree in accounting from Southwestern
Louisiana Institute, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Theta fraternity,
the Newman Club and the Accounting Club, having served as president of that
organization. He was a veteran of the Korean War with prior service in the
Louisiana National Guard. Favre was a career employee of the Louisiana
Governor's Office of the Division of Administration. He retired in 1987 as
director of state accounting. He devoted much of his time to Boy Scouts of
America Troop 108 and was a member of the Order of the Arrow. An
enthusiastic hunter and fisherman, he was a past member of Bay Tree Hunting
Club. He was an avid genealogist and student of history, preserving his
family's history in two books containing the family genealogy and many
anecdotes on growing up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. A devoted and
exemplary husband and father, he is survived by his wife of 55 years, the
former Elaine Bellard, of Church Point; son, Willard A. Favre Jr.; three
daughters, Alexandra Smith and her husband, Lee, Rebecca Lipe and her
husband, Larry, and AnnKatherine Watkins and her husband, Perrin, all of
Baton Rouge; four grandchildren, Lorraine Favre, of Hammond, Wallis and
Desirée Watkins and Pierson Smith, all of Baton Rouge; and stepgrandson,
Jason Palmer, of Baton Rouge. Also surviving are his brother, Otis W.
Favre, and sister-in-law, Margaret, of Slidell; nephews, Otis Jr. and Ford
Favre, of Slidell; niece, Stacy F. Pellerin, of New Orleans; five great-
nephews, four great-nieces and a great-great-nephew. The visitation will be
at Greenoaks Funeral Home, 9595 Florida Blvd., on Friday, Nov. 27, from
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Mass of Christian burial will be at St. Thomas
More Catholic Church on Friday at 1 p.m. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of
Memory. Pallbearers will be Chad Favre, Clint Favre, Cody Favre, Chase
Favre, Lee Ward Bellard and Paul Bellard. Coleen Favre will serve as
cantor. Preceded in death by his parents, William Christian Favre and
Nellie Thompson Favre. He was a member of St. Thomas More Parish. In lieu
of flowers, the family suggests donations to Cancer Services of Baton
Rouge, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer
Center or the Favre-Lipe Fund of LA Diabetes Foundation in Baton Rouge. 

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