Gloria Delores Delahoussaye, 83, of Nederland died, Thursday, March 19, 2009 at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas in Port Arthur.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be 11 AM Saturday, March 21, 2009 at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Nederland with Rev. Dan Malain officiating. Interment will follow at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Groves under the direction of Broussard’s in Nederland. A gathering of family and friends will be from 5 to 8 PM Friday with a scriptural rosary to be recited at 6 PM at the mortuary.
Mrs. Delahoussaye was born in Port Arthur on September 29, 1925 to John and Vida Gesser. She lived in Port Arthur until 1972, when she moved to follow her husband career to New Orleans, La., Jackson, Miss., Baton Rouge, La., Manderville, La., and then to the Nederland and Beaumont area in 2006, where she was a homemaker and a member of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Nederland.
Mrs. Delahoussaye is survived by her husband Gerard L. Delahoussaye of Nederland; two sons, Gerard L. Delahoussaye II and wife Mary Joe of Murphysboro, Ill., and Todd A. Delahoussaye of Lake Charles, Louisiana; three sisters, Hazel Rising of Port Neches, Fay Woodson of Nederland, and Gail Shaw of Nederland; one brother, Horace Gesser of Nederland; four grandchildren, Gabrielle, Pascale, Dominque, and Paul Delahoussaye.