Sonia R. Dalme

Sonia R. Dalme, R.N., 83, of Natchitoches, passed away January 11, 2010 at Natchitoches Community Care Center after a battle with Alzheimer and breast cancer. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. January 13, 2010 in the chapel of Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Memory Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. January 12, 2010 with a 7 p.m. Rosary service officiated by Deacon Joe Peltier. She graduated from T.E. Schumpert Memorial School of Nursing with a Graduate RN Degree in 1947. Her nursing career spanned 26 years at the old Natchitoches Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, Texas and Pasadena Bayshore Hospital in Pasadena, Texas. Her joy in life was serving as a nurse and helping other people. Preceding her in death are her parents, Louis Dalme and Roseline Rachal Dalme; brothers, Herbert, Herman, Leroy and R.B. Dalme; and one sister, Mildred Jennings. She is survived by numerous nieces and nephews; great and great-great nieces and nephews. A special thanks extended to Jody Powell, a very dear friend of our family. Those honored to serve as pallbearers include Adam Dalme, Richard Dalme, Archie Dalme, Herbert Dalme, Billy Jennings and Bobby Jennings.