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Rita Ledger Guilbeaux
(February 13, 1929 - November 3, 2009)

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Rita Ledger  Guilbeaux

Funeral services will be held Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. in Melancon Funeral Home Parlor in Carencro for Rita Ledger Guilbeaux, age 83, who passed away Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5:04 p.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette.

Interment will be in St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery in Grand Coteau. Deacon Ken Arnaud of St. Peter Roman Catholic Church of Carencro will officiate at the services.

Ms. Guilbeaux was a native of Sunset and had been a resident of Lafayette for nearly fifty years. She was employed as a waitress and a babysitter. Ms. Guilbeaux enjoyed playing bourré and dominoes as well as taking trips to the casino. She also loved spending time with her grandchildren. Ms. Guilbeaux was a parishioner of St. Genevieve Catholic Church in Lafayette.

Survivors include two sons, Darrell Guilbeaux of Dardanelle, AR and Danny Guilbeaux of Lafayette; three daughters, Patsy Romero, Linda Leblanc and her husband, Gordon, and Marquitte Guilbeaux, all of Lafayette; fifteen grandchildren; twenty nine great grandchildren; and three great great grandchildren; and four sisters, Rose Guidry of Welch, Effie Speyrer of Carencro, Rena Breaux of Lafayette and Avia Breaux of Sunset.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Wesley Guilbeaux; her parents, Olide Ledger and the former Angelle Hebert; one grandson, Randall David Romero; one brother, Anatole Ledger; and two sisters, Rosetta Ledger and Lucille Royer.

A rosary will be prayed at 7:00 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.

The family requests that visiting hours be observed from 10:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. Friday and will continue from 8:00 a.m. until service time on Saturday.

Pallbearers will be Ray Romero, Stevan Melancon, III, Cal LeBlanc, Danny Guilbeaux, II, Waylon Guilbeaux and Shelby Cormier. Honorary pallbearer will be Dylan Melancon.

Melancon Funeral Home of Carencro, 4615 North University Avenue, (337) 896-6366, is in charge of arrangements.

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