Obituaries of MARCH 1990 Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La.
Source: The Lafourche Daily Comet
Submitted by: Chris Tidwell
Last modified 7 September, 2014
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MAR 21 1990

Services set for local minister
Funeral services for the Rev. Louis Streams Jr., chairman of the Thibodaux
Housing Authority Board, are scheduled at 8 p.m. Monday at Calvary United
Methodist Church in ThibodauxStreams, 74, a native and resident of
Thibodaux, died Wednesday.Visitation is scheduled 5-8 p.m. Monday at the
church. Dismissal services are scheduled at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the church,
with interment in Calvary Cemetery.Streams, was an active member in the
Thibodaux community, having served as an educator and minister. He left the
community for a few years after he finished the seventh grade because
during, that time there was no high school available to blacks in the
city.Leaving behind his parents, brothers and sisters, Streams traveled to
New Orleans where he attended and graduated from McDonogh No. 35 High School
in 1937, and received a bachelor's degree from Xavier University in 1941. He
also received a master's degree from the University of Southern California,
attended Louisiana State University and Nicholls State University.He, began
teaching at the newly opened Corporation School located on Narrow Street,
the only high school for blacks in 1941. He stayed at the Corporation
School, which later became C.M. Washington High School, for seven years but
his stay was interrupted by a three-year stint in the United State
Army.Before he was discharged in 1946, Streams served in the European
Theater, in the war against the Germans, the Pacific Theater against the
Japanese and finally the army occupation in Korea.Streams left the
Corporation School to become a principal at Greenwood Middle School in
Terrebonne Parish. He served that school for 22 years. He was the only
principal in that parish to keep his job after integration.He became an
ordained minister of the United Methodist Church in 1952. He served at Mount
Vernon United Methodist, Walmsley United Methodist, Mason United Methodist,
Trinty United Methodist, Winan United Methodist, Calvary United Methodist
and Magnolia United Methodist.He was an active member of St. JosephÕs Lodge
No. 15, Rosa Sharon Chapter 24 Royal Arch, John Parson Consistory No. 170
32nd degree Mason, Supreme Council 33rd degree Mason, Rebecca Chapter of the
Order of Eastern Stars No. 23, the Lafourche Parish Branch of the National
Associations for the Advancement of Colored People and the Thibodaux Housing
Authority Board.To honor him for his work with the housing authority, the
city named a street after Streams. Louis Streams Circle is located in West
Thibodaux.Streams, is survived by his wife of 47 years, Cynthia Streams;
son, Dr. Michael Louis Streams of Culver City, Calif.; daughter, Gwendolyn
Sherrer Jackson of Thibodaux; brother Lionel Streams of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and
seven grandchildren.

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