Obituary for Virginia Cunningham Bordelon
Mrs. Bordelon, Melville, Dies; Rites Saturday
Funeral services will be held at 10:15 AM Saturday at St. Landry Catholic Church for Mrs. Gordon H. Bordelon, 34 of Melville, who died at 2:05 PM Thursday in a New Orleans hospital after an extended illness (cancer)
Burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery, Washington, LA.
She is at Lafond and Son funeral home, where the rosary will be recited at 8 tonight. The former Mary Virginia Cunningham, she was a native of Melville. Since 1950 she was a teacher in the Eunice, Port Barre and Melville schools. She was a member of the Melville Woman's Club and a Girl Scout Leader.
Survivors are her husband Hewitt Bordelon of Melville, her daughter Sara "Sally" Marie Bordelon of Melville, Her parents Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Cunningham Sr. of Opelousas; two brothers, W.H. Cunningham Jr. of Opelousas, and J.Patrick Cunningham of Unionville, VA.
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Virginia's funeral was held in the large old Catholic Church in Opelousas where her entire family were connected to. The church was packed, she was a very popular school teacher. The children were seated in the balcony upstairs. The adults directly under the balcony said that they were soaked in the tears of the children above them. These "children" today talk about her as if she just left the room. When her papers were looked at after her death they found that she was buying shoes for children without any, dresses for her students and even prom dresses. To Virginia they were her children.
Mrs. Bordelon, Melville, Dies; Rites Saturday
Funeral services will be held at 10:15 AM Saturday at St. Landry Catholic Church for Mrs. Gordon H. Bordelon, 34 of Melville, who died at 2:05 PM Thursday in a New Orleans hospital after an extended illness (cancer)
Burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery, Washington, LA.
She is at Lafond and Son funeral home, where the rosary will be recited at 8 tonight. The former Mary Virginia Cunningham, she was a native of Melville. Since 1950 she was a teacher in the Eunice, Port Barre and Melville schools. She was a member of the Melville Woman's Club and a Girl Scout Leader.
Survivors are her husband Hewitt Bordelon of Melville, her daughter Sara "Sally" Marie Bordelon of Melville, Her parents Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Cunningham Sr. of Opelousas; two brothers, W.H. Cunningham Jr. of Opelousas, and J.Patrick Cunningham of Unionville, VA.
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Virginia's funeral was held in the large old Catholic Church in Opelousas where her entire family were connected to. The church was packed, she was a very popular school teacher. The children were seated in the balcony upstairs. The adults directly under the balcony said that they were soaked in the tears of the children above them. These "children" today talk about her as if she just left the room. When her papers were looked at after her death they found that she was buying shoes for children without any, dresses for her students and even prom dresses. To Virginia they were her children.
Obituary for Virginia Cunningham Bordelon
Mrs. Bordelon, Melville, Dies; Rites Saturday
Funeral services will be held at 10:15 AM Saturday at St. Landry Catholic Church for Mrs. Gordon H. Bordelon, 34 of Melville, who died at 2:05 PM Thursday in a New Orleans hospital after an extended illness (cancer)
Burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery, Washington, LA.
She is at Lafond and Son funeral home, where the rosary will be recited at 8 tonight. The former Mary Virginia Cunningham, she was a native of Melville. Since 1950 she was a teacher in the Eunice, Port Barre and Melville schools. She was a member of the Melville Woman's Club and a Girl Scout Leader.
Survivors are her husband Hewitt Bordelon of Melville, her daughter Sara "Sally" Marie Bordelon of Melville, Her parents Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Cunningham Sr. of Opelousas; two brothers, W.H. Cunningham Jr. of Opelousas, and J.Patrick Cunningham of Unionville, VA.
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Virginia's funeral was held in the large old Catholic Church in Opelousas where her entire family were connected to. The church was packed, she was a very popular school teacher. The children were seated in the balcony upstairs. The adults directly under the balcony said that they were soaked in the tears of the children above them. These "children" today talk about her as if she just left the room. When her papers were looked at after her death they found that she was buying shoes for children without any, dresses for her students and even prom dresses. To Virginia they were her children.
Mrs. Bordelon, Melville, Dies; Rites Saturday
Funeral services will be held at 10:15 AM Saturday at St. Landry Catholic Church for Mrs. Gordon H. Bordelon, 34 of Melville, who died at 2:05 PM Thursday in a New Orleans hospital after an extended illness (cancer)
Burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery, Washington, LA.
She is at Lafond and Son funeral home, where the rosary will be recited at 8 tonight. The former Mary Virginia Cunningham, she was a native of Melville. Since 1950 she was a teacher in the Eunice, Port Barre and Melville schools. She was a member of the Melville Woman's Club and a Girl Scout Leader.
Survivors are her husband Hewitt Bordelon of Melville, her daughter Sara "Sally" Marie Bordelon of Melville, Her parents Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Cunningham Sr. of Opelousas; two brothers, W.H. Cunningham Jr. of Opelousas, and J.Patrick Cunningham of Unionville, VA.
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Virginia's funeral was held in the large old Catholic Church in Opelousas where her entire family were connected to. The church was packed, she was a very popular school teacher. The children were seated in the balcony upstairs. The adults directly under the balcony said that they were soaked in the tears of the children above them. These "children" today talk about her as if she just left the room. When her papers were looked at after her death they found that she was buying shoes for children without any, dresses for her students and even prom dresses. To Virginia they were her children.
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