Daily Comet Obits - April 1987

Submitted by: Chris Tidwell(Date is the date the obit appeared in the newspaper)
Obituaries for MARCH 1987

, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La.
Source: The Lafourche Daily Comet

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NOTES:1. The date preceding the obituary is the date of the newspaper,not the date of death.

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April 5, 1987

Julia Blackard

Funeral services were scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Mt. Zion
Baptist Church in Galvez for Julia Wright Blackard, 72, a native of Red
Bay, Ala., and a resident of Schriever who died Sunday at 10:57 p.m. at
Thibodaux General Hospital.

Visitation will be 3:30-10 p.m. today and 8-9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Welsh
Funeral Home, Gonzales. Interment will be in Mt. Zion Cemetery, Galvez.

She is survived by her husband, Doyle H. Blackard; two daughters, Mrs.
Cline (Elois) Causey, Galvez, and Mrs. Earl (Elaine) Brown, Thibodaux;
two sons, Sonny Blackard, Schriever and Hoyt Blackard, Thibodaux; four
sisters, Clifta Ford of Red Bay, Grace Mosely of Dennis, Miss., Ethel
Cooper of Memphis and Flossie Carlisle of Chalmette.

She is also survived by 20 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parent; John and Martha Singleton
Wright; a son, Louisteen Blackard and three brothers.