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Dorothy Ann Zaunbrecher
Graveside services were held Thursday, March 19, at 10 a.m. at St. Lawrence Catholic Church Mausoleum for Dorothy Ann Zaunbrecher, 82, who died Tuesday, March 17, 2020, at 12:40 p.m. at Cedar Crest Memory Care in Lafayette.
She was born Oct. 5, 1937, in Mowata, the daughter of Annie Dischler and Joseph A. Zaunbrecher. Dot graduated from St. Francis High School in Iota with the class of 1955. She completed a secretarial science program at SLI (ULL).
She was employed as a secretary for several oil and gas companies including United Gas, Entex and Colinga. She volunteered as a Eucharistic Minister at Lafayette General Hospital for 20 years.
Ms. Dot is survived by three sisters, Edna Broussard, Joyce Melancon and husband Howard all of Lafayette, and Genevieve Tate of Nacogdoches, Texas; two brothers, Dr. Hilary Zaunbrecher and wife Suzanne of Lafayette and Donald Zaunbrecher of Baton Rouge. She is also survived by 21 nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph A. and Annie Dischler Zaunbrecher; four brothers, Leo, Harold, Gerald and Ferdinand Zaunbrecher; her nephew and godchild, Timothy Zaunbrecher.
A heartfelt appreciation is extended to her caregivers, Cedar Crest Memory Care, Cornerstone, Right at Home and Hospice of Acadiana.
Family requests memorial donations be made to, Hospice of Acadiana, 2600 Johnston St., Suite, 200, Lafayette, LA 70503
Words of comfort may be sent to the family at www.geesey-ferguson.com.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home, 301 N. Avenue F, Crowley, 337-783-3313.
LDH retracts Acadia coronoavirus finding
UPDATE: Earlier reports that a patient in Acadia Parish had tested positive for the coronavirus were wrong.
According to Chance Henry, president of the Acadia Parish Police Jury, the Louisiana Department of Health contacted parish officials and retracted the information. “The patient appears to have been from a parish other than Acadia,” according to a statement from LDH.
More details will be released as they become available.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Acadia Parish officials have reported the first case of COVID-19 in the parish.
At 5:15 p.m. Thursday, the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness was notified that a patient in Acadia Parish had tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Ashley LeBlanc, director.
“We are working closely with the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness and the Louisiana Department of Hospitals,” LeBlanc said. “More details will be released as they become available.”
This is the fourth coronavirus case reported in the Acadiana in the last 24 hours. Two were reported in Lafayette late Wednesday night and another in St. Landry Parish just before noon on Thursday. More positive cases are expected as test results are returned from private labs, according to state officials.
