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A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Saturday, March 3, at 10 a.m. at St. Theresa Catholic Church for Helen Corbins Randle, 83, who died Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, at 1:15 a.m. at Acadia General Hospital.
Fr. Godwin Imoru, pastor of St. Theresa Catholic Church, will officiate for the services.
The family requests visiting hours Saturday from 8:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. at St. Theresa Catholic Church. A rosary will be recited Saturday at 9 a.m.
Burial will be in West Crowley Cemetery.
She was born on March 15, 1934, to the late Louis and Virginia Corbins in Crowley. She was the third child of seven.
She left Crowley in the 1960s to live in Lawton, Oklahoma, where she met and married her late husband, Roger Randle. She worked for 26 years for First Baptist Church in Lawton. After her retirement she moved back to Crowley to be with her family.
She is survived by two sisters, Martha Cook of Crowley and Sarah Greer of Akron, Ohio; two brothers, Alfred Corbins of Lake Charles and Ben Corbins of Crowley; a host of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Roger Randle; her parents, Louis and Virginia Antoine Corbins; two brothers, Russell and Ernest Corbins.
Pallbearers will be Russell Corbins Jr., Ben Corbins Jr., James Cooke Jr., Travis Cooke, Brian Robinson Jr., and Edward Robinson.
Words of comfort may be sent to the family at www.geesey-ferguson.con
Arrangements have been entrusted to Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home, 301 N. Avenue F, Crowley, 337-783-3313.

Rayne native Scott Arceneaux, long-time teacher and Director of Sports Medicine at St. Amant High School and current LATA president, has been chosen by the National Athletic Trainers Association to receive the prestigious service award.
The Athletic Trainer Service Award recognizes NATA members for their contributions to the athletic training profession as a volunteer at the local and state levels. ATSA recipients have been involved in professional associations, community organizations, grassroots public relations efforts and service as an  athletic trainer.
Arceneaux’s athletic training career spans over 20 years and is credited with several initiatives that have benefited his school, community, state and have had national signifigance.
Some of his more notable contributions are establishing sports medicine courses as locally initiated electives in 1996. The courses were a catalyst to the current state-wide BESE curriculum taught throughout the state. He has also served for a number of years as the athletic trainer coordinator for the LHSAA/LHSCA all star games hosted at LSU from 1996-2001, and was also part of the staff for the LHSCA Bayou Bowl staff 2011-12. This also included working on several Baton Rouge area Red Stick Bowl staffs. Through his efforts he was the only athletic trainer to be recognized in 2012 by the LHSAA with a Distinguished Service Award.
His participation in legislative efforts for sports safety legislation on the state level has also been noteworthy. He was an original member for the LHSAA Sports Medicine Advisory Committee from 2009-2014 that has been credited with institution of sports safety policies.
His work in Ascension Parish has lead to the creation of classes and a district with expansion of its program with additional athletic trainers. Currently, the Ascension Parish School Board employs 13 teacher/athletic trainers who service its four high schools and eight middle schools. Arceneaux’s School, St. Amant High School, is one of only five schools in the state that holds the distinction of a National Safe Sports School. It is one of only two that have been awarded the distinction twice. His efforts at his high school also garnered him recognition in 2013 as the NATA District 9 SEATA Secondary School Athletic Trainer of the Year. It was the first time the award was received by a Louisiana member.
Arceneaux is currently president of the Louisiana Athletic Trainers Association numbering over 450 members including all of Louisiana’s professional, university, college, industrial and secondary school athletic trainers. His service to the state organization and as a executive board member for the Southeastern Athletic Trainers Association (SEATA) includes Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Kentucky.  
Through his leadership in 2016, in the aftermath of the great flood which devastated several athletic trainers’ homes and schools, the LATA raised over $30,000 for the members affected. Replacement supplies for the high schools that lost everything were also arranged by LATA members. His efforts was recognized by the Devon Gales foundation with the first ever Courson CARES Award given to an athletic trainer who, even through insurmountable odds, still delivers care to his athletes and others.
Currently, Arceneaux  is working on a task force with the Collaborative Solution for Sport Safety. This group sponsored by the NFL, NATA and the Korey Stringer Institute, strives to institute policy change to improve the overall standard of care for high school athletes.
Arceneaux will be presented the award this summer at the NATA Convention to be held in June in New Orleans.
Arceneaux is a 1993 Graduate of Southeastern Louisiana University, 1990 Graduate of Neosho County Community College, and 1988 Graduate of Rayne High School.
The son of John “Piggy” Arceneaux and the late Linda P. Arceneaux of Rayne, he is married to Bridget Hayden Arceneaux and they are the parents of two children, Kyle and Sarah.

RAYNE - The celebration of the St. Joseph Altar, honoring the patron saint on his feast day, has become a tradition at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Rayne.
This tradition will continue on March 17, 2018, with a Solemn Mass at 10 a.m. in St. Joseph Church, immediately followed by the Blessing of the St. Joseph Altar and a celebratory Italian meal in the Family Life Center, served to the public at no charge.
The Family Life center will also be open to the public for viewing on Sunday, March 18, between 8 a.m. and noon.
Each year the celebration is an act if humility where all food and decorations are derived from the generosity of friends and neighbors. The Altar is adorned with many decorative cakes, cookies and breads, as well as locally grown produce. They are blessed during the impressive ceremony and either consumed as part of the celebratory meal or donated to the poor and needy of our area at the close of the celebration.
Please consider donating a pair of cakes or decorative breads, a batch of cookies or fruit and vegetables from your garden. The Family Life Center will be open after noon Mass on Thursday, March 15, throughout the day Friday, March 16, to receive offerings and for individuals to visit.
The Altar will be located at the Family Life Center which is across the street from St. Joseph Catholic Church at 406 South Adams Ave., on Highway 90 West, Rayne. There is no charge to attend this celebration or for the meal that is served to all who attend. However, donations will be accepted to help defray costs. One hundred percent of all net proceeds will be donated to the poor and needy of our area.
For more information on the St. Joseph Altar or to find out how you can help, please contact Linda Ancona at linletters@hotmail.com or #337-660-5314.