Stephensville park to be named for Larry Doiron

A 10 a.m. Friday ceremony is planned to dedicate a Stephensville park to the memory of developer Larry Doiron Sr.

Doiron died in May 2021 at age 92 after a lifetime as a businessman, Morgan City Council member, a police juror and, for 27 years, a member of the Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District board, where he worked to find solutions for backwater flooding in the area. Thursday would have been Doiron's 94th birthday.

A native of Patterson, he worked in a hardware store as a teenager. He went on to learn plumbing and, in 1947, founded Doiron's Plumbing, which became Doiron Construction and Development.

According to information submitted for his obituary, Doiron's company built the first water line from Leeville to Grand Isle and, at the urging of project engineers, he expanded into the New Orleans area.

That launched a quarter century of work in subdivision development in south Louisiana. Among his projects are Bayou Estates in Stephensville, Lakeside in Morgan City and Oak Harbor on La. 70.

Doiron donated the property on which Stephensville Elementary stands.