Vinice Demoruelle Brown

It is with great sadness that the family of Vinice Demoruelle Brown announces her passing on Monday, April 20, 2015 at Lafayette General Medical Center with her loving family by her side at the age of 86. A Mass of Christian Burial will be Celebrated at 1:00 pm on Friday, April 24, 2015 at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Eunice with Fr. Bill Ruskoski , Fr. Keith Landry and Father Mike Sucharski, SVD, Celebrants. Entombment will follow in the St. Paul Mausoleum.
Vinice was a very kindhearted, helpful, selfless, and spiritual woman with a strong love of God, family and country. She loved reading, keeping up with current events, sewing, crocheting, crafts, cooking and baking, crossword puzzles, planting her flower beds as well as family gatherings and holidays at home, telling stories and teaching her grandchildren family history and genealogy. Above all this she was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and friend and will be missed dearly by all who knew and loved her especially her two daughters, Chris Brown Carrier and husband, Eldridge of Lafayette and JoAnn Brown Burnett of Eunice. She was a wonderful grandmother to three grandchildren, Shane Carrier, Jonathan and Daniel Burnett and ten great grandchildren, Chase, Shelby, and Cameron Carrier, Hayden, Lauren, Brycen and Kayden Burnett, Tanner Fontenot, Kamryn Wright and Miah Broussard.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Eursey “E.J.” Joseph Brown; her parents, Edward and Anna Fontenot Demoruelle; brother, Clay Demoruelle; sister, Gussie Demoruelle Fontenot; two granddaughters, Kathryn Marie Carrier and Philomena Carrier; and a great granddaughter, Hannah Marie Carrier.
At the request of the family, visitation will be held at Ardoin’s Funeral Home in Eunice on Thursday, April 23rd from 4:00 pm until 9:00 pm and again on Friday, April 24th from 8:00 am until time of services. Deacon David Guillory will recite a Rosary at 7:00 pm Thursday evening.
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Ardoin’s Funeral Home of Eunice, 1301 West Laurel Ave, (337)457.3371 is in charge of arrangements.