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Robert Thomas Ducharme (Bob), was reunited in the presence of God, with the love of his life, Dolores Hebert on March 20th, 2019. They were married over 65 years when she passed and he has deeply missed her.
He is the father of former Morgan City Councilman, Rocky Ducharme.
Funeral Services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 23, 2019 in the Delhomme Chapel of the Flowers for Mr. Robert “Bob” Thomas Ducharme.
Deacon Cody Miller will conduct the funeral services.
Burial will take place in Holy Mary Mother of God Cemetery.
He will be deeply missed by his sister, Gertrude Leblanc; his children, Rocky (Michelle), Donna Cortes (Edward), Brian (Lisa), and Elizabeth and fiancée Kristy Johnson; his grandchildren, Michelle Ridge (Sam), Gina Dehart (Marty), Robert III, Robert Cortes (Jana), Christopher Cortes, Robin Cortes, Nick Cortes (Savannah), Brett Burch, David Burch (Kelly) and his great-grandchildren, Carson and Carleigh Dehart, Lillie, Jacob, and Eden Ridge and Britton and Beckham Burch; and a host of nieces and nephews.
He is preceded in death by his beloved bride, Dolores Hebert; daughter Mary and son Joseph; his parents, Archie Ducharme and Edith Doucet; his brothers, Lee and Rex; his sister, Annie; and his nephew, Claude Roy Leblanc.
The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Delhomme Funeral Home - Bertrand on Friday, March 22, 2019 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., with recitation of the Rosary at 7:30 p.m. Visiting hours will continue on Saturday from 8 a.m. until the time of service.
Pallbearers will be Dr. Richard Bourgeois; Robert Ducharme III; Robert, Chris and Nick Cortes; David Ducharme; Eddie Joe Leblanc and Archie Ducharme.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Hospice of Acadiana and Catholic Charities of Lafayette.
The family would like to thank her caregivers, Dru Griffin, Dianne Veal, and the staff of Hospice of Acadiana for all of their love and support.
Personal condolences may be sent to the Ducharme family at www.delhommefuneralhome.com.
Delhomme Funeral Home, 1011 Bertrand Drive, Lafayette, LA is in charge of funeral arrangements.

Laverne Manning Stuchel, 71, a native of Olean, New York and resident of Berwick, died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, at Teche Regional Medical Center in Morgan City.
He is survived by two children, Belinda Stuchel of Farmington, Arkansas and Chance Stuchel of Berwick; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and four stepdaughters, Floris Hebert, Eileen Reinhardt, Mariam DiMaggio and Jodie Horschel.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother.
Memorial visitation will be Saturday from 9 a.m. until services at 11 a.m. at Twin City Funeral Home. Military honors will be rendered by the East St. Mary Veterans Funeral Squad.
Twin City Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Audrey Bowman McDaniel, 70, a native of Lake Providence and resident of Franklin, died Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at her residence.
Private services will be held at a later date.
She is survived by her husband, L.D. McDaniel; her mother, Neveal P. Bowman; three sons, Gerry McDaniel, Lee McDaniel and Robert McDaniel; a daughter, Sherryl Gary; her brothers, Jimmie Bowman, Franklin Bowman and Wendell Bowman, all of Franklin, and Doug Bowman and David Bowman, both of Morgan City; her sisters, Barbara Drasgow and Lisa Stokes, both of Morgan City; nine grandchildren; and a host of other relatives.
She was preceded in death by her father and a brother.
Jones Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

You probably haven’t given it a second thought as you’ve been planting, or at least planning, that row of tomatoes in your vegetable garden.
But can you properly call it a vegetable patch once those plants are in?
Botanists usually tell us what family a plant falls in, but when it comes to the Solanum lycopersicum, the U.S. Supreme Court has had its say. The case, Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304), was decided in 1893. The legal question before the court was: Is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit? As usual, the real question was about money.
The suit was filed by the Nix family, who ran a big produce company in New York.
They claimed that Edward L. Hedden, who was tax collector at the Port of New York, had overcharged them when the Nixes brought tomatoes from the West Indies.
Hedden collected duties under a part of the law providing that vegetables could be taxed.
The Nixes said tomatoes should have been classified under another section that allowed fruit to come into the country duty-free.
When the case first went to trial, lawyers for the Nixes read dictionary definitions of “fruit” and “vegetable” into the record.
Those definitions defined “fruit” as the part of a plant which contains the seeds. Vegetables, according to those definitions, included plants like cabbage, celery, and lettuce, that might ultimately produce seed, but in which the edible parts did not contain the seeds themselves.
The other side said those definitions might be right in a strict botanical sense, but that the proper legal standard was not how they were grown, but how they were eaten.
Defense attorneys argued that “in the common language of the people” tomatoes and some other plants such as bell peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, and squash, were thought of and referred to as vegetables.
“All of these are vegetables which are grown in kitchen gardens,” the defense argued, “and which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are like potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup, fish, or meats which constitute the principal part of the repasts, and not like fruits” which were “generally” served as desserts.
“The attempt to class tomatoes as fruit,” Hedden’s lawyers argued further, “is not unlike … [an] attempt to classify beans as seeds.”
They noted that in an earlier case, Robertson v. Solomon (130 U.S. 412), the court ruled that there was no reason to classify beans as seeds “any more than walnuts should be so classified.”
The court held that beans, “as an article of food on our tables, whether baked or boiled, or forming the basis of soup” are “used as a vegetable.”
The defense said that what had been applied to beans should also be applied to tomatoes, and the Supreme Court bought that argument.
The justices unanimously agreed that, botanically, a tomato is a fruit, but that it could be classified as a vegetable under the customs regulations because of the way it was commonly used and described.
Justice Horace Gray wrote, “The passages cited from the dictionaries define the word ‘fruit’ as the seed of plants, or that part of plants which contains the seed, and especially the juicy, pulpy products of certain plants, covering and containing the seed.
These definitions have no tendency to show that tomatoes are ‘fruit,’ as distinguished from ‘vegetables,’ in common speech, or within the meaning of the tariff act.”
So, if you listen to the botanists, your tomatoes are fruits; if you listen to the judges, they’re vegetables.
But whichever way you lean, remember that the name “tomato” comes from the Spanish version of the Aztec word “tomatl,” which means “a fat thing.”
Which I hope all of yours turn out to be.
A collection of Jim Bradshaw’s columns, "Cajuns and Other Characters," is now available from Pelican Publishing. You can contact him at jimbradshaw4321@gmail.com or P.O. Box 1121, Washington LA 70589.