Died at 6:15 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, 1979, at his residence in Baton Rouge. He was 58, a native of Church Point. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and construction superintendent at Gully & Associates.
Body at Welsh Funeral Home, with visiting from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday. Religious services at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, conducted by Msgr. William Greene. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of Memory.
Survived by his wife, Mrs. Irene B. Fontenot, Baton Rouge; mother, Mrs. Arduse Fontenot, Church Point; a sister, Mrs. Huey Guidry, Church Point; three brothers, Emery J. and Kenneth Fontenot, both of Baton Rouge, and C.J. Fontenot, Los Altos, Calif.; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Janet Smith, Mrs. Cecile Smelling and Mrs. Amy McCleskey, all of Baton Rouge; and a stepson, Robert M. Ellis, Melbourne, Fla.
Preceded in death by his father, Arduse Fontenot, and a brother, Austin J. Fontenot.
Pallbearers will be Kenneth, John H., Emery J. and Harold Fontenot, Curt Kertacy and Lynwood Smith.
He was a member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church, Fraternal Order of Eagles, American Legion Post No. 38 and was president of the Irish Club at Baton Rouge.
Published in The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), Friday, February 9, 1979
Body at Welsh Funeral Home, with visiting from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday. Religious services at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, conducted by Msgr. William Greene. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of Memory.
Survived by his wife, Mrs. Irene B. Fontenot, Baton Rouge; mother, Mrs. Arduse Fontenot, Church Point; a sister, Mrs. Huey Guidry, Church Point; three brothers, Emery J. and Kenneth Fontenot, both of Baton Rouge, and C.J. Fontenot, Los Altos, Calif.; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Janet Smith, Mrs. Cecile Smelling and Mrs. Amy McCleskey, all of Baton Rouge; and a stepson, Robert M. Ellis, Melbourne, Fla.
Preceded in death by his father, Arduse Fontenot, and a brother, Austin J. Fontenot.
Pallbearers will be Kenneth, John H., Emery J. and Harold Fontenot, Curt Kertacy and Lynwood Smith.
He was a member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church, Fraternal Order of Eagles, American Legion Post No. 38 and was president of the Irish Club at Baton Rouge.
Published in The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), Friday, February 9, 1979
Died at 6:15 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, 1979, at his residence in Baton Rouge. He was 58, a native of Church Point. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and construction superintendent at Gully & Associates.
Body at Welsh Funeral Home, with visiting from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday. Religious services at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, conducted by Msgr. William Greene. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of Memory.
Survived by his wife, Mrs. Irene B. Fontenot, Baton Rouge; mother, Mrs. Arduse Fontenot, Church Point; a sister, Mrs. Huey Guidry, Church Point; three brothers, Emery J. and Kenneth Fontenot, both of Baton Rouge, and C.J. Fontenot, Los Altos, Calif.; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Janet Smith, Mrs. Cecile Smelling and Mrs. Amy McCleskey, all of Baton Rouge; and a stepson, Robert M. Ellis, Melbourne, Fla.
Preceded in death by his father, Arduse Fontenot, and a brother, Austin J. Fontenot.
Pallbearers will be Kenneth, John H., Emery J. and Harold Fontenot, Curt Kertacy and Lynwood Smith.
He was a member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church, Fraternal Order of Eagles, American Legion Post No. 38 and was president of the Irish Club at Baton Rouge.
Published in The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), Friday, February 9, 1979
Body at Welsh Funeral Home, with visiting from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday. Religious services at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, conducted by Msgr. William Greene. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of Memory.
Survived by his wife, Mrs. Irene B. Fontenot, Baton Rouge; mother, Mrs. Arduse Fontenot, Church Point; a sister, Mrs. Huey Guidry, Church Point; three brothers, Emery J. and Kenneth Fontenot, both of Baton Rouge, and C.J. Fontenot, Los Altos, Calif.; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Janet Smith, Mrs. Cecile Smelling and Mrs. Amy McCleskey, all of Baton Rouge; and a stepson, Robert M. Ellis, Melbourne, Fla.
Preceded in death by his father, Arduse Fontenot, and a brother, Austin J. Fontenot.
Pallbearers will be Kenneth, John H., Emery J. and Harold Fontenot, Curt Kertacy and Lynwood Smith.
He was a member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church, Fraternal Order of Eagles, American Legion Post No. 38 and was president of the Irish Club at Baton Rouge.
Published in The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), Friday, February 9, 1979
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