Michael Wayne Fontenot

1949 - 2022

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband and father Michael Wayne Fontenot on June 2, 2022. A resident of Baton Rouge, formerly of Wellesley, Massachusetts and Washington, DC., Mike died suddenly of heart failure. He was born in Ville Platte, LA on August 25, 1949 to Harold Paul and Mary Lou Fontenot. He graduated from Northwestern in Natchitoches, LA, and Tulane Law School also receiving an LLM in Admiralty. He played baseball in high school and college and coached his son's Little League team in Wellesley. Mike was also an Eagle Scout. When practicing law in Lafayette, Louisiana, he met and married in 1987 Ellen M. Walker from Baton Rouge, also an attorney. His final job before retiring in Washington, DC was with the US Department of Labor as an investigator. In April of 2009, Mike was awarded the US Department of Labor's Secretary's Exceptional Achievement Award for one of his major investigations. He leaves behind his two beloved sons Philippe Michael Fontenot and Andre Byron Paul Fontenot and his wife Ellen, all of whom reside in Baton Rouge. Mike was predeceased by his parents Harold Paul Fontenot and Mary Lou Fontenot, his in-laws Byron W. Walker and Vivian Wintz Walker, his sister Elizabeth Faye Dardeau of Abbeville and his niece Sarah Buckley Jones of Houston, Texas. He is also survived by his sister Wanda Buckley, her husband Mike and their son David, his cousin Emma Joy Scales, his nephews Chris and Paul Dardeau and his nieces Michelle Dardeau LaPorte and Denise Dardeau Muller. Visitation will be at St. Aloysius Catholic Church at 10:00AM with a Mass to follow at 11:00AM on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Burial will be at Greenoaks Memorial Park on Florida Boulevard. Pall bearers will be Andre Fontenot, Charles W. Walker, Chris Dardeau, Paul Dardeau, David Buckley and Ryan Bilbo. In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation to Community Therapeutic Day School located at 187 Spring Street, Lexington, Massachusetts 02421.