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The Patterson 14U Baseball All-Stars team ended its postseason play after losing Friday 13-1 to Bryant, Arkansas and Saturday 3-1 to South Brazoria County, Texas during play in the Babe Ruth Baseball 14U Southwest Regional in Plainview, Texas.
Patterson was one of nine times in the double-elimination tournament.
The local squad won the Babe Ruth 14U district and Babe Ruth 14U State titles to advance to the Southwest Regional.
On Saturday, Patt-erson watched the game slip away 3-1 against South Brazoria County, Texas.
Brazoria took the lead on a double in the first inning making it 1-0. They scored two more in the third.
Dylan Fabre was the leading hitter at the plate for Patterson with two hits in two at bats.
Grant Hebert scored Patterson’s only run on a passed ball in the bottom of the fifth during Reid Perkins’ at bat. Hebert got on with a walk.
Fabre’s single to left field advanced Hebert to second. Hebert got to third when Lucas Brinlee ground into a double play.
Patterson hitters Saturday were Don Diaz 1-for-3 and Brinlee 1-for-2.
Taking the loss on the mound was Robert Conner. He gave up six hits, three runs and two walks while striking out three batters.
The team only had one error in the game.
Friday, the Patterson 14U All-Stars fell to the elimination bracket after falling 13-1 to Bryant, Arkansas.
While Patterson took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, Bryant scored 13 unanswered runs combined in the third and fourth innings. The Arkansas squad scored three in the third and 10 in the fourth.
Bryant outhit Patterson, 12-2, while Patterson committed five errors to Bryant’s two miscues.
Perkins suffered the loss for Patterson. In three innings, he surrendered three runs (two earned) on four hits with two walks and three strikeouts.
Hayden Bailey led Patterson with a 1-for-2 performance with two stolen bases and a run scored, while Lucas Brinlee was 1-for-1.
PHOENIX (AP) — Outfielder prospect Andrew Stevenson, a former LSU outfielder, was brought up from Triple-A Syracuse by the Washington Nationals, who put outfielder Chris Heisey on the 10-day disabled list Sunday because of a left groin strain. Stevenson had two at bats during the game but no hits.
Washington transferred outfielder Jayson Werth, who has a bruised foot, to the 60-day disabled list to open a 40-man roster spot for Stevenson. Outfielder Ryan Raburn was placed on the bereavement list, and catcher Pedro Severino was recalled from Syracuse.
The 23-year-old Steve-nson, a second-round draft pick two years ago, was hitting .246 at Triple-A this year with two homers, 36 RBIs and 10 steals.
Washington has four outfielders on the disabled list plus Trea Turner, who can play both infield and outfield. Heisey was hurt Saturday.
The newest additions to the Washington bullpen came through when called upon to help deliver a victory to their new team.
Sean Doolittle stranded the potential tying run by escaping a jam for his second save for Washington, and Ryan Madson tossed a scoreless eighth inning as the Nationals held off the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-3 on Saturday night.
“The game can really speed up on you once you start getting guys on base,” said Doolittle, who with Madson arrived in a trade with Oakland earlier in the week. “The crowd and the energy of the stadium can kind of take over and ... you have to be mindful enough to step off the mound, slow the game down a bit, kind of press reset.”
Bryce Harper homered and drove in two runs, and starting pitcher Tanner Roark struck out a season-high 11. Roark (8-6) gave up two runs and three hits in seven innings for the NL East-leading Nationals.
“Curveball felt good. Just keep the hitter guessing,” Roark said.
Harper hit his 25th home run on a full-count offspeed pitch from Anthony Banda (0-1), who lost in his major league debut.
Chris Iannetta hit a two-out RBI double in the bottom half, but the Nationals opened a 4-1 lead with a three-run sixth.
Harper hit a run-scoring double and scored on Ryan Zimmerman’s double, and Anthony Rendon beat out an RBI single that sent Zimmerman home.
“They had a young guy out there that throws the ball really hard, has good command. He’s going to be really good in the next couple of years for sure,” Harper said of Banda. “Just got him this time and got a few runs up there.”
A.J. Pollock tripled in the bottom half and scored on Jake Lamb’s groundout, and Arizona reliever Jorge De La Rosa got out of bases-loaded trouble in the seventh when he struck out Harper and Zimmerman.
Doolittle, acquired from Oakland last weekend, walked Lamb leading off the ninth. Iannetta hit a broken-bat grounder to third, and Rendon’s throw to second went into right field for an error that put runners on the corners.
Paul Goldschmidt hit a sacrifice fly, Chris Owings flied out and Doolittle struck out Ketel Marte for his second save with the Nationals.
“Madson’s been great for us. Doolittle ... he never panics. It was great to see. It’s a lot of fun to have a back end like that,” Harper said.
Banda allowed four runs and seven hits in 52/3 innings, struck out five and walked none. He was optioned back to Triple-A Reno after the game.
“I felt confident. I threw the ball in the zone and kept attacking hitters,” Banda said. “I made a couple of mistakes, Harper and the middle of the lineup.”
MINNEAPOLIS — Before Phil Jackson and Pat Riley, before Gregg Popovich and Larry Brown, even before Red Auerbach, there was John Kundla.
Kundla, the Hall of Fame coach who led the Minneapolis Lakers to five NBA championships, died Sunday. He was 101.
Son Tom Kundla said his father died at an assisted living facility in Northeast Minneapolis that he called home for years.
With George Mikan in the middle and Kundla the calm, steady hand directing the team, the Lakers won the 1949 championship in the BAA — the league that preceded the NBA — and NBA titles in 1950 and 1952-54, cementing the franchise’s place as the league’s first true dynasty. The Lakers also won an NBL title in 1948, but the NBL marks are not included in the NBA’s records.
Kundla was the oldest living Hall of Famer in any of the four major pro sports.
Kundla was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1995. A year later, he was named one of the league’s 10 greatest coaches as part of the league’s “NBA at 50” celebration.
He was hired at 31 and resigned at 42 with a career record of 423-302, happy to cede the attention and the accolades to his players over himself. He was known for his understated sideline demeanor, which was unique compared to the fiery drill sergeants of the era.
“John wasn’t a screamer and was very mild-mannered, but he’d let loose when we deserved it, and usually I was the first one he bawled out,” Mikan once told Sports Illustrated. “The message he sent was that no one on the team was above criticism.”
Kundla was born in Star Junction, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1916. He relocated to Minneapolis with his family at the age of 5.
The Detroit Gems of NBL moved to the Twin Cities in 1947 and hired Kundla to run the re-named Lakers. In Mikan, Vern Mikkelsen and Jim Pollard, the Lakers assembled the first super-team, beating New York in 1952 and ‘53 and Syracuse in ‘54 for the three straight titles.
“The Lakers family is saddened by the passing of our original coach, John Kundla,” a team statement read. “Our thoughts are with his family and friends.”
He also was a trailblazer during those racially tense seasons, often turning down hotels that refused to house black players when the team was on the road. When he later coached at the University of Minnesota, Kundla was on the bench when the first black players arrived at the school.
“John was an incredible staple of Minnesota basketball,” Timberwolves and Lynx owner Glen Taylor said in a statement.
To this day Jackson, Auerbach and Kundla stand as the only three coaches to have won more than two championships in a row and Kundla remains tied with Popovich and Riley for total championships with five.
“He was an all-time great, Hall of Fame NBA coach,” Timberwolves coach Tom Thibodeau said in the team release “He had a very profound impact on the NBA, coaching and the overall game.”
What was Kundla’s secret?
“One game with about a minute left to go. Tie game. I substituted,” Kundla recalled to NBA.com last year. “The player I substituted gets a beautiful basket and wins the ball game. Everybody said, ‘What a smart move you made.’
“What had happened, the (other) player came to me and said, ‘I want to go to the bathroom.’ I got credit for being smart.”
That kind of humility was his hallmark, both on the court and at home.
Kundla and wife Marie, who died in 2007, had six children. Five of Kundla’s six grandchildren played college basketball, a hoops-loving family that would only find out how revered the patriarch was when others would speak for John. Only two were around during his Lakers days.
“We were too young to realize how important it was and what a number of accomplishments he had made until we reached the age of reason,” Tom Kundla said. “That’s what my dad does. No big deal. We’d see the trophies and the big gold basketball in the entry way. It was a norm.”
Kundla stepped down in 1959 to coach at his alma mater, the University of Minnesota, before the Lakers moved to Los Angeles.
“We played team ball,” Kundla told NBA.com. “We didn’t try to (run up) the score. We played defense. We didn’t try to make the other team look bad. But the players were a real good group together.”
His induction speech for the Hall of Fame lasted just over six minutes, with the vast majority of it spent thanking coaches, players and his wife, Marie, “who still yells defense in her sleep, believe it or not.”
The entire family was there for the induction ceremony, many of the children only then realizing just how accomplished their father was.
“I would say, ‘Dad you were a superstar coach,’” Tom Kundla said. “‘No no,’ he would say. ‘I had a great team. It was always, ‘I had a great team.’”
INDIANAPOLIS — Kasey Kahne survived a crash-marred Brickyard 400 on Sunday for his first NASCAR Cup victory in nearly three years.
The Hendrick Motor-sports driver won under caution in the race that took more than six hours to complete, finally finishing in fading light after 167 laps and double overtime.
Brad Keselowski was second.
Afterward, Kahne went to Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s infield medical center. Series officials didn’t say what he was being treated for but other drivers said the temperatures inside the cars topped 130 degrees.
It was a wild day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. — driving the two fastest cars — going out in a crash with 49 laps to go.
That was only a prelude the nutty final 20 laps that included five crashes, two of which brought out red flags.
Busch looked as if he would make history as the first driver to win three consecutive Brickyards when he led the first 71 laps — and 87 overall. But when Truex’s car slid up the track, both cars hit the wall.
That opened the door for Kahne, who had struggled all season. And as the crashes happened behind, Kahne overcame muscle cramps to hold on for his 18th career victory and first since Atlanta in August 2014.
The race was red-flagged with 10 laps to go after Kurt Busch, Erik Jones and Clint Bowyer collided coming out of the fourth turn.
On the ensuing restart, Kyle Larson hit the wall on the front straightaway to bring out another caution.
Things went awry once more when Jimmie Johnson, Keselowski and Kahne tried to go three-wide through the third turn on what was supposed to be the second-to-last lap. But Johnson’s smoking car spun and slammed into the wall, forcing overtime.
“I wouldn’t call it an absurdity, I just think it was a crazy race,” Keselowski said. “There was some crazy strategy.”
And after Trevor Bayne’s car got sideways with two laps left in the first overtime, another red flag came out and another overtime began.
But the race still wasn’t over.
With the sun setting and no lights at the track, Kahne barely made it to the overtime line as another multi-car pileup occurred behind him to bring out the last of the 14 cautions to seal the win.
The race had a little of everything — a 1-hour, 47-minute rain delay, 130-degree temperatures inside the cars and plenty of crashes.
None seemed like they would be bigger than the took out the two race leaders, Trues and Busch — the de facto Joe Gibbs Racing teammates.
For the first two-thirds of the race, it looked as if Busch would make history with his third straight victory at the track.
But when Truex’s car started to spin on Lap 111, everything changed. Truex tapped Busch’s No. 18 car, sending both into the wall and flames shooting out of the bottom of Truex’s car.
Neither driver was seriously hurt, but neither appreciated with the result — especially since they are de facto teammates with Joe Gibbs Racing.
“That’s the way it goes,” Busch said. “Just chalk it up to another one we found a way to lose.”
For Busch, it was a devastating blow.
After becoming the first Cup driver to capture back-to-back Brickyard poles since Ernie Irvan in 1997 and 1998 and extending his streak from last year to 181 consecutive laps led at Indy, he couldn’t snap the 12-month winless streak.
The only racers with three straight wins at Indy are former Formula One star Michael Schumacher, who won the U.S. Grand Prix four consecutive times, and Marc Marquez, who won three straight MotoGP titles at Indy. Both won their titles on the track’s road course. Nobody has won three in a row on Indy’s historic oval.
Busch won the first stage by 0.544 seconds and the second by 4.205 seconds — both over Truex.
“I just got loose and wrecked him. It was totally my fault,” Truex said. “We worked well together and that’s the hard part.”
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Judy Hidalgo, mother of current Shrimp and Petroleum Festival Queen Jeanne Hidalgo, revamped the Past Kings’ Club’s Shrimp and Petroleum Festival display case in Morgan City Municipal Auditorium.
“It’s never a bad thing to give back a little,” said Hidalgo.
Hidalgo said she noticed the exhibit case lacked appeal when she attended the children’s theater at the auditorium. She requested permission from the director of the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival and president of the Past Kings’ Club to revamp the display case.
“Other festivals look to our festival for tradition. Just the magnitude of it. I felt like the case and the condition it was in didn’t portray that,” said Hidalgo.
The revamped Past King’s Club display contains all of the original items, such as retired crowns, pictures that explain a bit of history, and plaques with the past royalty, that were already in the case. Hidalgo added a picture of the current royalty and two retired trains to the display case.
One train is the previous train that was retired in 2007 and the other is the 1972 train of past queen Renee Favret, which was made out of a shrimp net and sent overseas to be hand beaded and sewn.
Hidalgo, who spent two weeks to complete the revamp of the enclosure, hand-scrubbed the trains and retired crowns. She reframed the pictures, and reorganized the plaques and other items in the case.
Hidalgo said that she took pride in revamping the case because Morgan City has a lot of history that citizens should be proud of and can see it frequently in the auditorium. In addition, Hidalgo wanted the people to see the case at its best during her daughter’s coronation. The display case was donated by the Past Kings’ Club in 1991.
BATON ROUGE — Gov. John Bel Edwards must be wishing that all months could be like this one.
After bruising tax and spending battles with state lawmakers earlier this year, the Democratic governor has largely had a stretch of good — or at least less awful — news to talk about since the legislative sessions ended in June.
Louisiana’s budget is temporarily stable, with no dramatic cuts planned and college students returning this fall to a fully-funded TOPS tuition program.
Tropical Storm Cindy brushed Louisiana, but left no widespread damage.
Homeowners with damage from last year’s flooding are starting to see some aid from the Edwards administration’s Restore Louisiana program.
Nearly $277 million in federal cash is on its way to Louisiana to help parishes fortify their communities against the next storms to come.
Louisiana no longer owes the federal government $190 million for a disagreement over financing used in former Gov. Bobby Jindal’s privatization of the charity hospital system, settling the health dispute for the far smaller amount of $5.4 million.
Congressional proposals that would end Edwards’ Medicaid expansion program and that could more broadly disrupt federal financing for Louisiana’s traditional Medicaid program for the poor, elderly and disabled have stalled.
And the governor and Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry even managed to reach a detente in one of their many clashes, ending a lawsuit over a budget feud after legislative mediation.
That’s a far cry from the headlines of the three legislative sessions earlier this year, as Edwards and House Republican leaders battled over budget-balancing approaches.
The governor saw his tax package bottled up in the House and had such fierce disagreement with House GOP leaders over finances that taxpayers shelled out extra money for a special session to finish work on this year’s budget.
Edwards ultimately won much of what he wanted for the budget, but he was tied up in criticism about the unnecessary expense of a special session after a governor and lawmakers failed to finish a Louisiana budget in a regular session for the first time in 17 years.
But since lawmakers went home on June 16, Edwards has had some sporadic weeks that could be described as a bit of a breather.
Too bad the good news isn’t likely to last.
Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate are trying to revive their stalled health care proposal. Louisiana’s flood rebuilding efforts remain far short of the dollars Edwards says are needed for a full recovery.
Months remain in hurricane season, a constant worry and consistent threat for Louisiana.
A state investigation is ongoing into the death of Alton Sterling, a black man shot and killed by a white police officer last year, and the results could spark new protests and tensions in Baton Rouge.
Details still haven’t emerged from an internal investigation of questionable state police travel under the agency’s former superintendent, and outside auditors continue to dig into the records.
Meanwhile, more disagreements loom with the attorney general. Lawyers for Edwards and Landry will be back in court next month in a lawsuit over the governor’s executive order banning discrimination in government and state contracts based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The attorney general argued Edwards’ order unconstitutionally sought to create state law since legislators have refused to approve such LGBT-rights protections.
A district court judge agreed with Landry. Edwards is appealing, and appellate arguments are scheduled Aug. 15.
And overshadowing it all, Louisiana’s “fiscal cliff” is looming in the background.
That’s the name used to describe the more than $1 billion budget shortfall that hits when temporary state taxes expire on June 30, 2018.
Edwards and House GOP leaders haven’t agreed on an approach to close that gap. At the moment, the two sides are even in disagreement about who should be devising the action plan.
At some point again soon, Louisiana’s financial roller coaster will consume all the oxygen in the state capitol and return the governor and lawmakers to the tension they all seem happy to escape, if only briefly.
Melinda Deslatte has covered Louisiana politics for The Associated Press since 2000. Follow her at http://twitter.com/melindadeslatte
The following are the radio dispatch logs from the Morgan City Police Department. To report unlawful or suspicious activity, call the police department at 985-380-4605.
Friday, July 21
7:50 a.m. 800 block of Victor II Boulevard; Suspicious vehicle.
8:27 a.m. 600 block of Willow Street; Animal complaint.
9:05 a.m. U.S. 90 East; Stalled vehicle.
9:20 a.m. 300 block of Franklin Street; Vehicle burglary.
9:46 a.m. 6400 block of La. 182; Complaint.
10 a.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Arrest.
10:07 a.m. 100 block of Wren Street; Loud music.
10:46 a.m. U.S. 90 West; Reckless driver.
10:54 a.m. Sixth and Arenz streets; Crash.
11:02 a.m. Lake End Park; Complaint.
11:11 a.m. 600 block of Barrow Street; Alarm.
11:21 a.m. 500 block of Roderick Street; Medical.
11:27 a.m. Sixth Street and Brashear Avenue; Complaint.
12:40 p.m. 500 block of Freret Street; Complaint.
2:46 p.m. 6000 block of La. 182; Complaint.
3:43 p.m. 600 block of Fourth Street; Drug activity.
3:51 p.m. La. 182; Reckless driver.
4:41 p.m. 900 block of Railroad Avenue; Animal complaint.
4:47 p.m. 100 block of Mallard Street; Complaint.
5:06 p.m. 1200 block of Prescott Street; Complaint.
5:26 p.m. 700 block of Brashear Avenue; Suspicious subject.
5:27 p.m. 200 block of Utah Street; Burglary.
6:01 p.m. 2600 block of Garber Street; Complaint.
6:13 p.m. U.S. 90 East; Assistance.
7:59 p.m. 1000 block of Railroad Avenue; Disturbance.
8:15 p.m. 7200 block of La. 182; Stalled vehicle.
8:35 p.m. 500 block of Egle Street; Complaint.
8:49 p.m. 900 block of Railroad Avenue; Complaint.
9:23 p.m. Louisa Street; Complaint.
11:10 p.m. 800 block of Brashear Avenue; Animal complaint.
Saturday, July 22
12:37 a.m. 600 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard; Assistance.
3:15 a.m. Wren Street; Complaint.
4:22 a.m. 600 block of Bush Street; Suspicious person.
6:25 p.m. 3000 block of Allison Street; Vehicle accident.
7:15 p.m. 1100 block of Chester Bowles Street; Complaint.
7:37 p.m. 1000 block of Victor II Boulevard; Assistance.
8:48 p.m. 1000 block of La. 70; Complaint.
8:50 p.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Complaint.
9:13 p.m. 1000 block of Fifth Street; Complaint.
9:16 p.m. 1200 block of Victor II Boulevard; Shoplifter.
9:44 p.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Complaint.
Sunday, July 23
12:23 a.m. Marshal Street and Federal Avenue; Complaint.
3:30 a.m. U.S. 90 ; Complaint.
3:45 a.m. 7400 block of La. 182 East; Disturbance.
6:19 a.m. 200 block of Mallard Street; Disturbance.
6:36 a.m. 1100 block of Fourth Street; Animal complaint.
8:32 a.m. 300 block of Halsey Street; Utilities.
10:07 a.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Arrest.
11:04 a.m. 700 block of Hilda Street; Found property.
11:11 a.m. 400 block of Fifth Street; Disturbance.
11:14 a.m. 300 block of Pecos Street; Animal complaint.
11:19 a.m. 200 block of Federal Avenue; Disturbance.
2:31 p.m. Berwick; Civil matter.
3:29 p.m. 700 block of Louisiana Street; Remove subject.
4:16 p.m. 100 block of Wren Street; Assistance.
5:42 p.m. Maple and Palm streets; Traffic complaint.
6:20 p.m. Mount Street; Disturbance.
9:04 p.m. 100 block of Glenwood Street; Complaint.
9:16 p.m. 6300 block of La. 182 East; Complaint.
10:16 p.m. 700 block of Fifth Street; Medical emergency.
Monday, July 24
12:24 a.m. 900 block of Willard Street; Complaint.
2:13 a.m. 6700 block of La. 182 East; Complaint.
4:30 a.m. 300 block of Garber Street; Assistance.
4:45 a.m. Victor II Boulevard near Myrtle Street; Stalled vehicle.
October 31, 1933-July 21, 2017
Ray Luker Easley passed away peacefully on Friday, July 21, 2017, at the age of 83 at his home in Patterson, Louisiana, following a lengthy battle against Parkinson’s disease. He was a native of De Leon, Texas, and a resident of Patterson for over 50 years.
He began work in the oil industry with Kerr-McGee Transworld for 17 years. He then worked for Mobil Oil Corporation for 24 years, retiring as a “company man,” also known as a drilling supervisor. He was a devoted member of First Baptist Church of Patterson for over 50 years, serving many years as a Deacon. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge Doric No. 205 F. & A.M., Morgan City, Louisiana, and attained the degree of Master Mason. He enjoyed hunting and fishing, but his true joy was spending time with his family and grandchildren. He will be fondly remembered as a quiet, strong, honest family man who could be counted on in all situations.
Those he leaves to cherish his memory include his wife of 58 years, Barbara Tarrant Easley; their two sons, Lonnie Ray Easley and his wife Rebecca, and Darrell Lee Easley and his wife Katheryn; a brother, Edmer Easley; two sisters, Jane Nowlin, and Martha Beaty and her husband John; grandchildren Joshua Easley, Hannah Easley, Sarah Easley, Rachel Easley, and Mary Easley Comeaux and her husband Jay Comeaux, Katie LeBlanc, and Cameron LeBlanc; one great-grandson, Alexander Comeaux; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Edgar Earl Easley and Vera White Easley; and four siblings, Florene Watson, Jack Easley, Willa Faye Rogan and Jo Kathryn Ratliff.
Relatives and friends are invited to join the family for the visitation at Ibert’s Mortuary in Patterson on Monday, July 24, 2017, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. and Tuesday from 9 a.m. until time of service. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at Ibert’s at 11 a.m. The Rev. John Elliot will conduct the service. Visitations and services will also be held in De Leon, Texas, on Friday, July 28, 2017, at Nowlin Anders Funeral Home from 9 a.m. until service time at 11 a.m. conducted by The Rev. Matt Morgan, followed by burial in De Leon Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions be made in Mr. Ray’s memory to First Baptist Church of Patterson, P.O. Box 397, Patterson, LA 70392.
Family and friends may view the obituary and express their condolences online by visiting www.iberts.com.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Ibert’s Mortuary Inc., 1111 Lia Street, Patterson, LA 70392, 985-395-7873.
Elizabeth “Liz” Giroir LaCoste, 77, a native of Lake Verret and a resident of Morgan City, passed away Friday, July 21, 2017.
Liz loved to spend her free time fishing, cooking and being outside in her yard. Liz was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother, who loved spending time with her family. Liz loved the Lord and reading her Bible.
Liz is survived by three children, Cathy Wiese and husband Gerald Sr., Buddy LaCoste and wife Dianna, and Dianne Weeks and husband Jerry; seven grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; a brother, Herbert Giroir and wife Edna; and her special friends, Gwen “Booboo” Elliott and Lori Moore.
Liz was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Delma LaCoste; parents; grandson, Shane LaCoste; four sisters; and two brothers.
The family would like to thank the Morgan City Health Care staff and Journey Hospice for all the care that was given to their mother.
Visitation will be held Monday, July 24, 2017, at Hargrave Funeral Home from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Burial will be in Morgan City Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Joshua Nelson, Gerald Wiese Jr., Chad Adams, Hank McCay, Daniel Chellette, Steven Gray, Tommy Welch and Kenny LaCoste.
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