Ernestine LaCaze

Funeral service for Mrs. Ernestine Brevelle LaCaze will be at 3 pm Wednesday, April 19, 2017, at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home with Rev. Carson LaCaze officiating. Interment will follow at Memory Lawn Cemetery of Natchitoches. The family will receive friends from 5 pm until 9 pm on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home. Recitation of the Holy Rosary by Rev. Blake Deshautelle will be at 7 pm on the 18th in the funeral home chapel. Those honored to serve as pallbearers are Sterling Liles, Sheldon Liles, Steven Faccone, Bruce McTire, Bruce Holden and Scooter Perot. Honorary pallbearers will be Charles LaCaze, David Bailey, Gary DeBlieux, and Allen Solomon. Mrs. LaCaze, 93 of Natchitoches, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loving daughters, on Saturday, April 15, 2017. She was a native of Cloutierville, LA. She was a homemaker who loved cooking, sewing, and taking care of her family. She is preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, J.C. LaCaze; parents, Julian Brevelle and Ezzie Brevelle Rachal; two brothers, J.W. Smith, Sr. and Newton Rachal; four sisters, Alice Marie Vercher, Loretta McTire, Bessie Holden, and Cecile Searl; a granddaughter, Toni Jacoby; and a son-in-law, Buddy McQuagge. She is survived by two daughters, Ann McQuagge of Shreveport and Chesteen Jacoby and her husband Richard of Natchitoches; a sister, Ann Sellers; two sisters-in-law, Betty Lee and her husband Bill of Shreveport and Titia Rachal of Natchitoches; three brothers-in-law, Kirby LaCaze and his wife Miriam of Shreveport, Douglas LaCaze of Shreveport, and Philo Searl of Salt Lake City, Utah; one granddaughter, Jackie Jacoby; two great-grandsons, Richard Sterling Liles and his wife Angela and Robert Sheldon Liles and his wife Sabrina; and one great-great-granddaughter, Lily Liles all of Natchitoches; as well as numerous nieces, nephews and friends. The family would like to express their gratitude to Dr. Kathleen Kautz and her staff, Harmony Home Health, and Natchitoches Hospice for all the care that they showed Ernestine during the time of her illness.