Lucy Vincent Menard

ERATH — A Mass of Christian Burial for Mrs. Lucy Vincent Menard, 85, was held at 10 AM on Monday, September 12, 2022, at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church with Father Sensat officiating. Interment followed at Our Lady of Lourdes Mausoleum.
Visitation was held at David Funeral Home of Erath on Sunday, September 11, 2022, from 2 PM until 9PM with a recitation of the rosary at 7 PM. 
Visitation resumed on Monday, September 12, 2022, from 8 AM until time of services.
A resident of Erath, Mrs. Lucy passed away on Thursday, September 8, 2022. Lucy loved flowers and birds. She won many awards at flower shows throughout the State of Louisiana with her African Violets. She also had about 100 different color Daylilies, some she hybridized herself, and her booth at the annual Abbeville Daylily Festival was always a big hit. Everyone who bought and planted one of her Daylilies has a piece of her passion in their garden. She bred and hand raised a variety of many birds, including Cockatiels, Finches, Love Birds, Sun Conures, Gouldian Finches, Canaries and Parakeets. She was a member and Director of the Acadiana Bird Club.
She and Donald were regular and popular vendors for years at the semi-annual Acadiana Bird Fair in Lafayette, LA. She had two African Grey Parrots named Honey and Alec in the house that spoke many words in both English and Cajun French and told her “Good morning,” every day when she walked into the living room. Lucy had many friends throughout Louisiana, once you met her, you would never forget her.
She loved making homemade preserves, pralines, pecan praline cakes, and lemon pudding cakes that she and her husband Donald sold, along with vegetables from their garden, at the Farmers Markets in Abbeville and Delcambre with their Farmers Markets family – their participation in the Delcambre Farmers Market was highlighted in an article in Southern Living Magazine on Louisiana Farmers Markets, and the Delcambre Farmers Market named them Vendors of the Month earlier this year.
She was a great seamstress and made dresses for her daughters and their Barbie dolls and did alterations for various dress stores and the dry cleaner down the block from their home.
She had hummingbird feeders hanging on the back deck and loved watching them return year after year. She had a beloved Yorkie named Tootsie completely spoiled after her, either following her in her footsteps, sitting in her lap, or sleeping by her side.
She was a completely devoted wife and mother, survived by her husband of almost 68 years, Donald Menard of Erath; her sons, Randall Menard of Erath, Creig Menard and his wife Debbie of Abbeville, and Don Menard of Erath; her daughters, Debora Frederick and her husband Danny of Eunice, Donna Diaz and her husband Ivan of Erath, Cindy Thibodeaux and her husband Troy of Erath, and Marlene Menard of Hurst, TX; her grandchildren, Lindsay Mooney, Terra Johnson, Claire Sarver, Isaac Frederick, Katie Hoehl, Ian Thibodeaux, Caleb Thibodeaux, Giles Menard, and Britlyn Faulk; and her 11 great grandchildren and 2 more great grandchildren on the way. Over the years, she babysat many children, whom she considered to be part of her family as well. As a teenager, she was a foster daughter for the Andrus family in Maurice, and also loved them and her foster siblings like family.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Ewell Vincent and Aurora Marceaux Vincent.
Serving as pallbearers were sons Creig Menard and Don Menard, and grandsons Ian Thibodeaux, Caleb Thibodeaux, Giles Menard and Isaac Frederick.
You may sign the guest register book and express condolences online at www.davidfuneralhome.org
David Funeral Home of Erath 209 E. Putnam St. (337)937-0405 handled the arrangements.