Doris Kobleur Bacala

Jeanerette- Funeral services will be held Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 11:00 am at St. John the Evangelist Church in Jeanerette for Doris Kobleur Bacala, age 88, who passed away Monday, August 15, 2011 at her residence in Lafayette.

Fr. Jody Simoneaux will officiate at the funeral mass. Scripture readers will be her granddaughters, Desiree and Brandy Bacala. Gift bearers will be her granddaughters, Celeste, Anna, and Kimmie Bacala. Eucharist minister will be her nieces, Ellen Stutes, Lynn Viator, and Leesa Falterman. Sharing the Eulogy will be her niece, Anna Allain Bergeron. Interment will follow the services at St. John the Evangelist cemetery in Jeanerette.

She was a business teacher in St. Mary Parish for over thirty years, and taught at Centerville High and Franklin High, where she started and ran the COE Program. Following her retirement from the public school system, she was the principal at St. Joseph School in Jeanerette. She was very active in civic and community affairs, and was a long-time member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an educational sorority. She enjoyed growing roses and won the Garden of the Month Award multiple times. She and her husband enjoyed fishing and eating oysters. In her later years, she moved to Garden View Assisted Living in Lafayette , where she served on multiple committees and made many new wonderful friends.

She is survived by her daughter, Pat Bacala and her daughters partner Jan Merin of Santa Fe, NM; her son, Steve Bacala, and his wife Wanda of Baton Rouge, and their children Desiree, Stevie, Brandy, and Joey; her son Glenn Bacala and his wife Kris of Hinsdale, NH, and their children Celeste, Anna, Kimmie. and her step-grandsons David, Patrick, and Steve Bundrick; her sister Claire Guidry of Lafayette; her brother Joseph V. Kobleur and his wife Rose of Titusville, FL, and numerous nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Vincent Bacala, Jr; her parents Joseph G. Kobleur and Anna Trahan Kobleur; her stepmother Nana Kobleur; and one sister, Marie Kobleur Allain.

The family wishes to especially thank Dorothy Adams and Pat Charles for their devoted service in her last days.

Visiting hours will be Wednesday, August 17, 2011 from 5:00-8:00 pm , and Thursday, August 18, 2011 from 9:00 am until time of services.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Stevie and Joey Bacala; her nephews, John Guidry, Bret Allain, and Eric Stutes; and her niece, Emma Allain. Honorary pallbearer will be her nephew Kevin Bacala and Dewey Billodeau.

David Funeral Home 400 Provost St. Jeanerette (337)276-5151 is in charge of arrangements.