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A graveside service will be held on Friday, September 30, 2022, at Noon at Fountain Memorial Cemetery, 1010 Pandora St. in Lafayette for Deanna Charpentier, 74, who passed away Sunday, September 18, 2022, at Oschner University Hospital in Lafayette. Inurnment will follow the service. Deacon Joseph Hebert will officiate.
Dee was born on January 9, 1949, in Abbeville LA and was a long time resident of Acadiana. She graduated from Mount Carmel High School in Abbeville, LA, and began working for Riviana Foods shortly after. After Riviana, she became a sales representative for Tupperware. Dee was one of the top sales people in the area, and remained so for many years. Dee met the love of her life, Shelton Charpentier, at a car wash in the mid 70s. They were both Oldsmobile enthusiasts, and hit it off right away. They were married in 1976 and were married for 43 years when Shelton passed in 2019. Dee loved music, particularly Merle Haggard, going to the movies, was a Saints fan, enjoyed singing in the choir, and sending and receiving cards with friends and loved ones — she loved the Hallmark store, and visiting with friends. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her. Dee is survived by many cousins; she has a large family. She was preceded in death by her husband, Shelton Charpentier, her son, Chad Joseph Charpentier, and her parents, Edias Monteaux and Lula Menard Monteaux.
The family wishes to thank the doctors and team members of Ochsner University Hospital, Our Lady of Lourdes and Lady of The Oaks rehabilitation facility for the compassionate care given to Dee in her final days.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the American Heart Association at https://www.heart.org. Online obituary and guestbook may be viewed at www.fountainmemorialfuneralhome.com. Fountain Memorial Funeral Home, 1010 Pandora St., Lafayette, LA, 70506, 337-981-7098.

The 2022 Kaplan High Homecoming Court: Seated: Marlee Hebert, Camryn LeMoine and Emily Terro; Standing: Jahra Francis, Caroline LeMaire, Kaidence Broussard, Noble Hebert, Keisha White, Claire Broussard and Lainie Hebert. The annual Homecoming Game is this Friday against Beau Chene. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. The Queen will be crowned at halftime.

If there is one politician who deserves to be booed it is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). On Saturday night at Central Park in New York City among fellow leftists Pelosi received her just deserts.
As she was making a surprise speech to the crowd at the Global Citizen’s music festival, Pelosi was greeted with heckling and boos. This was a very unpleasant surprise for an audience that was hoping to hear music from Metallica, Mariah Carey, and the Jonas Brothers.
In her comments, Pelosi praised the action of Congress in passing funding for climate change. She said, “As speaker of the House, I am here to thank you for your dazzling advocacy, entrepreneurial thinking, and determination as global citizens…It’s thanks to your help that the United States recently enacted historic climate legislation, which will be a game changer…It will slash carbon pollution by 40% by 2030, it will give a historic, an historic $370 billion to fight the climate crisis.”
The catcalls continued as Pelosi told the crowd the legislation will create “better water and air for our children…. better paying jobs and lower energy bills for their parents.”
Eventually, she finished her speech after claiming that she promised her grandchildren, who were in attendance, that she would keep her remarks short. More likely, she left after realizing the depths of her unpopularity and a desire to limit the embarrassment.
Amazingly, even progressive attendees of a music festival that promotes globalism did not want to listen to a proponent of their ideology. They wanted to hear music, not a political speech from a political fossil.
Speaker Pelosi is 82 years old and has been in Congress for 35 years. She is in her 18th term as a United States Representative. She was Speaker of the House from 2007 to 2011 and resumed the role after Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections.
She should have retired years ago, but her high profile and powerful position is too lucrative for her family. Her wealth has skyrocketed, almost tripling to nearly $115 million, during her “public service” between 2004-2019.
Pelosi is the worst type of politician, who puts her needs before those of her constituents. During the height of the pandemic in September of 2020, while her district was suffering under draconian “health” mandates that Pelosi supported and implemented in the U.S. House of Representatives, she visited a San Francisco hair salon and was captured on camera without a mask. It was the height of hypocrisy, but typical of Nancy Pelosi.
Sadly, Pelosi has performed a horrible disservice to her constituents in her San Francisco, CA congressional district. During her 35 years in Congress, San Francisco has degenerated into an urban hellhole. As businesses have left the city, San Francisco has seen a major increase in crime, filth, homelessness, and blight.
While her constituents have been suffering, Pelosi has been busy traveling the world as Speaker of the House. She is more concerned about her “global” duties and couldn't care less about the needs of her district.
Her recent junket to a variety of countries in the Indo-Pacific region, including Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, complicated U.S. foreign policy objectives. In fact, her trip to Taiwan might have been more to do with her family business interests than showing support for a country under constant threat from the communist mainland.
As leader of the Democrats in Congress, Pelosi has been viciously partisan. She never expressed one iota of interest in collaborating with President Donald Trump. As evidence, let us not forget her unprecedented and unhinged action of tearing up the written copy of his State of the Union address while standing behind him.
As proof of her extreme partisanship and hatred of President Trump, Pelosi formed the “Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.” All nine members of this committee, seven Democrats and two establishment Republicans, are suffering from a severe case of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The committee is not interested in uncovering the “truth” of January 6, 2021, only in politically damaging President Trump so he cannot run for the White House again in 2024.
Since Joe Biden became President, Pelosi has supported his socialist agenda 100% of the time. With Pelosi’s staunch support, Biden has passed the American Rescue Plan, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and, most recently, the Inflation Reduction Act.
None of these bills will help the economy. Instead, all of them have added trillions of dollars to our national debt. Thus, Americans can thank Nancy Pelosi for the unnecessary spending, the high inflation rate, and the funding of 87,000 more Internal Revenue Service agents.
Pelosi not only deserves to be booed, but she also deserves to be fired. Americans can accomplish that task in the midterm elections by removing Democrats from control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and is a political columnist, the author of America's Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jcrouere@gmail.com

KAPLAN — Kaplan High junior Kennedy Marceaux knew when she walked onto the University of Alabama campus that it was the place she wanted to spend the next four years of her life.
For the last month, Marceaux has been recruited by most softball programs in the country. She could have written her ticket as to where she wanted to play.
Marceaux and her family visited four softball programs — UL-Lafayette, LSU, Ole Miss and Alabama. On her fourth university visit, the Marceauxs traveled six hours to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
When Marceaux walked onto the campus, it was love at first sight. The family toured the campus, and she fell more in love with the University of Alabama.
That night, in the hotel room, she had trouble falling asleep. She tossed and turned.
“Alabama? LSU? UL-L?”
“I started thinking about the campus, the program. I could not sleep. When I first walked on campus, I thought the university was so pretty. I told myself I wanted to come here. I repeated it to myself.”
That Saturday, the Marceauxs revisited the campus. They met with Alabama softball head coach Pat Murphy (who coached at USL in the 1990s) and assistant coach Allison Habetz (a Crowley native who played for the Cajuns in the early 1990s under Murphy).
While her decision was made the night before, she did not tell her parents of her decision until the next day, after talking with the Alabama coaches. Then, after telling her parents, she told the Alabama coaches.
“When you know, you know,” she said. “I knew what I wanted. That is what I wanted. So I was really happy.”
There were a lot of factors that went into selecting Alabama. First, the softball program is a top 10 program in the country. They attended the College World Series two years ago. They won the national title in 2012 under coach Murphy. They played again in the finals in 2014. Alabama wins an average of 40 games a year.
Another major factor in her decision was the university was only six hours from Kaplan, so her family can drive to watch her play, and if she wants to go home, she can.
Marceaux has been a starter for Kaplan in her freshman and sophomore years. In only two years, she has put up career numbers.
Her batting average is .655 (139 hits in 212 at-bats), 128 runs batted in (RBI), 40 home runs, 38 doubles and eight triples. But one of the most impressive offensive stats is how many times she has struck out in 212 at-bats. She has struck out only three times. That equals one strikeout for every 70 at-bats.
Marceaux’s highly anticipated recruiting war began at midnight on Sept. 1 — the first official day of recruiting for high school juniors.
College coaches began calling her not long after midnight. Murphy called her at 12:01 a.m. to invite her to visit Alabama. She received another 15 phone calls over the next several minutes.
“I experienced such an amazing night that I will never forget. It was the beginning of official recruitment for my junior year that I had been anxiously awaiting for as long as I can remember.
“To describe the adrenaline rush and excitement I felt when receiving over 15 calls from D1 Coaches at the stroke of midnight is impossible! Beginning with legendary coach Patrick Murphy ringing my phone at exactly midnight has to be the most incredible moment I have ever experienced! It was the wow factor of all time.”
This past month has been one she will never forget. By committing to Alabama, college coaches should back off from recruiting her. However, she is not an official Alabama softball player until she signs a letter of intent during her senior year.
Marceaux did not hesitate to think about the people who significantly influenced her life. She thanked the late Douaine Conner, Nathan Nelson, Mel Dumezich, Dale Serie, Coach Shay Herpin, and Coach Brittany Lebeouf. In addition, she praised her Kaplan High teammates and her summer travel ball teammates, who have supported her.
“I cannot love the Lady Pirates and Hotshots enough for all the encouragement and good vibes they’ve sent my way.”
When Marceaux plays softball for the Lady Pirates, she is the shortstop. However, when she plays summer ball, she plays a catcher. When asked what position she would play in college, Marceaux said any position that gets her on the field.
She made her decision two weeks ago, called the coaches she visited, and informed them of her decision. After everyone was called, she announced her decision on social media this week.
“My decision was far from easy as I’ve been traveling every weekend to different universities since the day of Sept 1. My official visits to UL, LSU, and Ole Miss were amazing, and I had the pleasure of spending time with Coaches and staff.
“The itineraries were filled from Fridays to Sundays with celebratory and fun-filled activities on campus. I’m still in awe and will be forever grateful for these once-in-a-lifetime opportunities and offers. It’s been an amazing ride which is so hard to put into words, but my heart landed in Bama that day when I put on that crimson jersey. It was the best feeling in the world I always imagined it would feel like.
“I am so proud to make the University of Alabama my new home away from home — Sweet Home Alabama! Roll Tide!”