Brent Michael Welch

A service to celebrate the life of Brent Michael Welch will be 11 a.m. Friday, March 18, 2011 in the chapel of Blanchard St. Denis with Mark Megason and Rev. Scott Chemino officiating. Interment will follow at Pine Grove Cemetery, Hagewood, LA under the direction of Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 5 pm until 9 pm on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home. Brent, 22 years of age, passed away March 15, 2011. He was born July 20, 1988 in Natchitoches. He was a graduate of St. Mary’s Catholic High School. As defensive captain of the 2007 St. Mary’s High football team, Brent excelled on the football field through his passion for the sport and love of the game. He loved the outdoors, especially hunting and fishing with the people closest in his life. As passionate as Brent was about hunting and football… nothing can compare to the love of his life, Brittany. Beginning to understand friendship at an earlier period of life Brent and Brittany became more than just best friends and high school sweethearts. From hunting and fishing to those long nights of studying, reading and homework, their lives bridged from high school into college and adulthood. Brent’s Paw Paw said it best by stating, “That if two people were ever made for each other, it was Brent and Brittany”. Those left to cherish his memory include his parents, Angie and Herbert “Spot” Welch; fiancé, Brittany Fosberg; sister, Kaylan Welch; brother, Seth Welch; maternal grandparents, Olan and Shirlene Megason; paternal grandmother, Lanora Welch Jennings; a couple he thought of as his grandparents; Tom and Peggy Guess; aunts, Netta Burk, Sue Knueppel and her husband Gary, Debbie Thompson and her husband Chuck, Anita Fay Harper and her husband David, Dana Mitchell and Sonja Welch; uncles, Dewayne Megason and Benny Welch; cousins; Tyler Megason, Taylor Megason Israel, Lexie Prewitt, Brandy Welch, Shadie Welch, Roy Welch, Reta Cater, Ricky Harper, Greg Welch, Chris Welch, Wendy Sheriff, Brandy Harper, Kristi Perleberg, Jennifer Perleberg, Scottie, Perleberg, Cody Welch, Natasha Welch, Keith Knueppel and Gene Knueppel; his soon to be extended family, Donna and David Nelson, Brittainey Nelson, Lauren Nelson, Jacky and Joy Nelson; as well as numerous extended family members and friends. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Roy Welch; uncle, Coleman Welch; great grandparents, Austin Megason, Gerte Megason, John McCallister and Ina McCallister. Those honored to serve as pallbearers include, Tyler Megason, Bruce Harper, John Grayson, Marcus Collins, Andrew Troquille, Austin Payne, and Brady Welch. Honorary pallbearers will be Brandon Boyd, Willie Garcia and Ben Garcia.