Published: November 02, 2009 07:03 am      

Gladys Adaway Broussard

Gladys Adaway Broussard passed away on October 30, 2009 at Baptist Orange Hospital.

She was born on May 29, 1921 in Morse, Louisiana to Bert and Jean Adaway. She grew up in Lake Arthur with her mother Jean and step father Dominick Gary whom she loved very much.

She married Andie Broussard on July 24, 1937. they had three sons, Calvin Dale Broussard Sr., Calton Dave Broussard, Sr., and Kenneth Broussard. Gladys and Andie raised their boys in a little house on Elm Street that Andie and the boys built for there mother in Crowley, Louisiana.

Gladys worked as a dispatcher for a cab company in Crowley. In 1960, Gladys and Andie moved to Orange, Texas where they went to work for the Old Orange rice mill. Life was good in Orange and there family grew. She loved crabbing and gar fishing at the city docks in the cove. She also loved camping at the beach and Twin Dikes Marina, and she always had one or more of the grandchildren there with her. Gladys was very active in the Orange Chapter of the red cross during the Vietnam War. She joined with other mothers to send their soldiers care packages, and to get a message to a soldier that he had just had a child. She really enjoyed her work there. She had a passion for cooking and baking and Cajun food spilled from her black iron pots. She also had a passion for her grandchildren that ran deep. She never went to sleep at night without saying a prayer for all of them.

She will be greatly missed by those grandchildren. She s preceded in death by her husband, Andie Broussard; sons, Calvin Dale Broussard, Sr., Calton Dave Broussard, Sr., and Kenneth Broussard.

Those left to honor her memory are her daughter-in-law, Velma Broussard; grandchildren, Calvin Dale Broussard, Jr. and wife, Becky, Randie Broussard and wife, Dorothy, Vicki Broussard and Dakota, Dominick Broussard, Sarah Broussard, Belva Buckley and husband, Larry, Calton Dave Broussard, Jr. and wife, Tammie, Jeffery Broussard, Jason Broussard, and Annette Mudd and husband, Danny; great-grandchildren, Bailey Grace, Victoria (Greg), Jennifer (Hunter), James, T.J., Mary, Shannon (Brandi), Michael (Brooke), Jeremy (Jennifer), Ashley, Erika, Joseph, Emily, Felicia, Timothy, William, Patience, Ethan, Christopher Dave, and Kenneth Smith; and great-great grandchildren, Tory, Tyler, Grant, Anthony, Christine, Drake, Laylin, Taylor, and Gabrielle.

Serving as pallbearers will be Shannon Buckley, Mike Buckley, Jeremy Buckley, Greg Whitaker, James Rogeau, and T.J. Wilkerson.

Honorary pallbearers are Jeffery Broussard, Jimmie Donahue, and David Broussard

The family wishes to acknowledge with grateful appreciation the love and care provided to Mrs. Broussard by the staff of memorial Herman Baptist Orange Hospital, the nurses in telemetry unit, Dr. Townsend, her nurse and Chaplin Kevin Trinkle.

Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating will be Deacon Harvey David of St. Francis of Assisi.

Graveside service will follow at 2:00 p.m. at Hanks Cemetery in Morse, LA.

Visitation will be from 5:00-8:00 p.m., Monday at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange.