Maude Decuir Boutte

Mrs. Boutte was a native of the Belle Place community near Loreauville and a resident of New Iberia for her entire adult life. In her earlier years, she enjoyed listening and dancing to big band era music, participating in her local home demonstration club, travelling, and watching the Lawrence Welk Show. She was a great storyteller and she loved endlessly recounting the story of the flood of 1927 (highwater as she called it) to her grandchildren.

She was known for her great culinary skills and won many awards for her cooking. Her family and friends considered her to be the greatest cook in the South and the real champion of gumbo cooking. She was affectionately called Momee by her sons. Her greatest joy for many, many years was to cook a huge Sunday dinner for her entire family with all of her side dishes fresh from the garden and everything homemade down to the mayonnaise on her potato salad. She was fortunate to have lived a long, healthy life and to have witnessed many world-changing events.

Mrs. Boutte is survived by two sons, Clyde Boutte and Lennes Boutte (Sharon) of New Iberia and ten grandchildren, Lisa Boutte of Austin, Texas, Craig Boutte (Hope) of Baton Rouge, Blaze Boutte and Barrett Boutte (Brittany) of New Iberia, Blake Boutte of Farmington, Minnesota, Angela Boutte, Theresa Broussard (Troy), Mitchell Boutte, Kimberly Boutte, and Kelly Boutte of New Iberia. She is also survived by her lifetime friend, Kinta Dautreuil of New Iberia, and several great and great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her spouse of 54 years, Albert Boutte. She was also preceded in death by her son, Irvin Perk Boutte, her parents Lucien and Lydia Hebert Decuir, her brother and his wife, Alvin and Irene Decuir, her sister and her husband, Hazel and Volzie Simoneaud, and her daughter-in-law, Linda Boutte.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons Blaze Boutte, Blake Boutte, Barrett Boutte, and Mitchell Boutte, and her great-grandsons Marc Dautreuil, and Casey Dautreuil. Honorary pallbearers will be her nephews Claude Simoneaud, Roy Simoneaud, Wayne Simoneaud, and Lynn Decuir and her great-grandson, Jonas Boutte.

David Funeral Home of New Iberia, 1101 Trotter St. (337)369-6336 is in charge of arrangements.