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Verna Gauthier Obituary

Verna Perrin Gauthier

Funeral services for Verna Gauthier will be at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, July 30, 2012 in the chapel of Hixson-Ducote Funeral Home of Bunkie with the Rev. Scott Chemino officiating. Burial will follow at 2:00 p.m. at the Greenoaks Memorial Park in Baton Rouge. Arrangements are under the direction of Hixson-Ducote Funeral Home of Bunkie.

Mrs. Gauthier, age 85 of Bunkie, passed away on Friday, July 27, 2012 at her residence.

She is preceded in death by a daughter, Yvonne Russell; and her parents, Lucien and Maria Rasch Perrin.

Survivors include her husband, Ollie Gauthier of Bunkie; three sons, Thomas Seymour of Bunkie, Jerry Seymour of Bunkie and James Shelton of White Settlement, Texas; one daughter, Karen Louise Russell of Denham Springs; two brothers; two sisters; 19 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren; and 5 great-great-grandchildren.

Friends may call from 9:00 a.m. until the time of service at 10:00 a.m. on Monday morning at Hixson-Ducote Funeral Home of Bunkie.

Online condolences may be sent to www.hixson-ducote.com.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The Town Talk on Jul. 29, 2012.

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