Kathryn "Totsy" Lestage

Mrs. Kathryn "Totsy" Lestage, 96, of Huntersville, N.C., died Thursday Dec. 18, 2008. at the Oaks Nursing Home. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday Dec. 26 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church with interment following at Nativity Church Cemetery. A Rosary-visitation will be at 11 a.m. at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home prior to the service. Born Aug. 27, 1912, in Campti, she was a daughter of the late Frank and Eva Perot Maricelli. She was the bookkeeper for her husband's hardware store in Campti and for the town of Campti, a member of The Nativity Church in Campti for 50 years and The Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Natchitoches for 20 years. Survivors are her sons, Robert "Bob" Lestage and wife Beverly of Cypress, Texas, and Bill Lestage and wife Sharon of Spartanburg, S.C.; daughter, Ann O'Shea and husband John of Huntersville, N.C.; sister, Frances Townsend of Natchitoches; nine grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, W.T. Lestage. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Nativity Church Cemetery, 119 Tally St., Campti, LA 71411