Sarahmae Giroir Gastal

Abbeville- A Mass of Christian Burial for Mrs. Sarahmae Giroir Gastal, 86, will be held at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church on Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 2:00PM with Fr. Nicolas Dupre officiating. Burial will follow at St. Mary Magdalen Cemetery.

Visitation will be held at Frioux-David Funeral Home of Abbeville on Wednesday, May 28, 2025 from 3:00PM until 9:00PM with a recitation of the rosary at 7:00PM. Visitation will resume on Thursday, May 29, 2025 from 8:00AM until time of services.

A resident of Abbeville, Mrs. Sarahmae passed away on Saturday, May 24, 2025. She was born and raised in Assumption Parish, Bayou L'Ourse community. After the death of her husband, she went to nursing school, realizing she had the empathy to care for others. She was part of the 2nd graduating class for nursing school in Abbeville. She put her career on hold to raise her daughter. She started her career at Abbeville General Hospital and stayed there until she retired. She worked in all departments of the hospital but worked in the nursery/OB ward for the last twelve years of her employment. After retirement, she gave her time to take care of her family and friends.

She was an avid traveler. She travelled to all fifty states, as well as Mexico, all Providences of Canada a few times, and the Arctic Circle. She traveled to Rome for the 2000 Jubilee year and toured in Italy.

She was a member of the Ladies Alter Society, the Lay Carmelites, and was very active in the church. She cleaned the church in Esther for many years. She helped set up the Altar at the Vermilion Healthcare Center for the weekly mass. She would also dismantle the altar and wash the linens. She was an avid reader, and for years she would collect children’s books and go to all the elementary schools in Vermilion Parish and read to the children and give them each a book to take home. She was a long-time member and treasurer of Les Domestiques and the VVFC (of which she was literacy chair of the Vermilion Volunteers for Family and Community).

Mrs. Sarahmae is survived by her daughter, Angela Gastal Bernard and her husband Louis of Abbeville; her sister, Gladys Giroir Solar; her godchildren, Rosalie Ann Solar LaSalle and her husband Clayton, and Ricky James Solar and his wife Keri; her nephew, Robbie Paul Giroir; her niece, Heather Giroir LaSalle and her husband Greg; and many more nieces and nephews; and her sister-in law, Mary Ann Guillory Giroir.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Leo Joseph Gastal; her parents, Augustine Andri and Gladys Landry Giroir; her special friend, John Bennett Trahan; her sisters, Louann Giroir, Rosalie Giroir, and Nellie Giroir Fontenot and her husband John; her brothers, Paul Augustin Giroir, and Norman Jude Giroir; her brother-in law, Robert Jacob Solar; her nephew, Neilly Fontenot; and her niece, Sherry Ann Fontenot.

Angela gives eternal gratitude to Rosalie for the care, kindness, and love she gave to her nanny for her end of life care.

Frioux-David Funeral Home of Abbeville 2600 Charity St. (337)893-3777 will be handling the arrangements.