Obituaries for Melancon Levingston
In Memory of Our Dear Loved Ones in Nederland, Port Neches, and Groves, TX.
Albert Thibodeaux
December 25, 2015
Albert Thibodeaux, 80, of LaBelle, Texas passed away Friday, December 25, 2015 at Harbor Hospice Hospital in Beaumont, Texas. Albert was born September 14, 1935 in LaBelle, Texas to Joseph Theophield Thibodeaux and Eucarise Miller Thibodeaux. He was a resident of LaBelle for twenty years and a former resident of Groves for 46 years. Albert retired from DuPont with 42...
Lois Mary Godair
December 25, 2015
Lois Mary Godair, 86, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Friday, December 25, 2015 at The Medical Center of Southeast Texas in Port Arthur, Texas. Lois was born March 23, 1929 in Duncan, Oklahoma. She was a resident of Port Arthur for 42 years and a member of Nederland Apostolic Church. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, December 30, 2015...
Kenneth E. Browning
December 24, 2015
Kenneth E. Browning, 66, of Nederland, Texas passed away Thursday, December 24, 2015 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Kenneth was born September 4, 1949 in Montgomery, Alabama to Cecil Earl Browning and Dorothy Blanche Fowler Browning. He was a lifelong area resident and retired from the Port Arthur Police Department after many years of service, and then worked for the Southeast...
Bobby Dean Grafton
December 24, 2015
Bobby Dean Grafton, 83, of Port Neches, TX passed away on 12-24-2015. After a two year battle with cancer he entered the Gates of Heaven to be with his Lord and Savior. He died in the comfort of his home with family by his side. Bob was born on March 6, 1932 in Bernice, LA to John Walter and Alsie...
Alto Berry Smith, Jr.
December 24, 2015
Alto Berry Smith, Jr., 57, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Thursday, December 24, 2015. Berry was born March 23, 1958 in Port Arthur, Texas to Alto Berry Smith and Verna Rose Broussard Smith. He was a lifelong Port Arthur resident and will be missed by his wealth of friends and loving family. Survivors include his daughter, Brittany Rose Smith...
LaVelle Irby
December 23, 2015
LaVelle Irby, 97, of Port Neches, Texas passed away on Wednesday, December 23, 2015. She was born on April 23, 1918 to Tom and Lenora Barker of Buna, Texas. LaVelle graduated from Buna High School and went to Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches to receive a teaching certificate. LaVelle married F.A. Irby in 1939 and they lived most of their...
Dena "Earldean" Philpott
December 23, 2015
Dena "Earldean" Philpott, 85, of Port Arthur passed away Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Plano. She was born on July 11, 1930 in Port Arthur, Texas and was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Dena was a lifelong area resident before moving to Plano with her daughter a year ago. She was...
Diane Simms
December 22, 2015
Diane Simms, 71, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at her residence. Diane was born December 15, 1944 in Port Arthur, Texas to Charles Lloyd Grantham and Margaret Barnes Grantham. She was a lifelong resident of Port Arthur and a retired Walmart Customer Service Representative with 14 years of service. She was a member of the...
Inez Richard
December 22, 2015
Inez Richard, 97, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Tuesday, December 22, 2015. Inez was born October 1, 1918 in Leonville, Louisiana to William and Lena Richard. She was a lifelong area resident and longtime member of St. Joseph Catholic Church where she was active in the choir and a member of the Altar Society. She belonged to several Catholic...
Phyllis Joy Gardiner
December 22, 2015
Phyllis Joy Gardiner, 89, of Port Neches, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015 peacefully in her home. Those who knew and loved her called her Joy. She was born on April 12, 1926, in Nutley, New Jersey. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry Gardiner, parents, Ross Young and Ruth MacKay Young, a brother, Jack Young, and a...
Scott Edward Granger
December 20, 2015
Scott Edward Granger, 49, of Woodville passed away Sunday, December 20, 2015 at St. Luke’s Health-The Woodlands Hospital. A native of Port Arthur, he lived in Woodville for 30 yrs. He was employed with Tyler County Tractor in Woodville, as a mechanic with 11 yrs. of service. Funeral services for Scott will be 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at...
Rosemary Whitehead
December 19, 2015
Rosemary Whitehead Rosemary Whitehead, 60, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Saturday, December 19, 2015 at Silsbee Convalescent Center. She was born February 5, 1955 in Port Arthur, Texas to Larry Whitehead and Billie Terrell Whitehead. Rosemary was a homemaker and lifelong area resident. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at Levingston Funeral Home...
Neomie LaVergne
December 18, 2015
Neomie LaVergne Neomie LaVergne, 91, of Groves passed away Friday, December 18, 2015 at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont, Texas. She was born November 2, 1924 in Cow Island, Louisiana to Augustin Gaspard and Ida Boudreaux Gaspard. She had lived in Groves since 1955 and was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Altar's Society. Funeral services will be held...
Harry Fontenot Jr.
December 17, 2015
Harry Matthew Fontenot, Jr. 81, of Nederland died, Thursday, December 17, 2015 at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas in Port Arthur. A mass of Christian Burial will be held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Nederland with Father Joseph Daleo officiating. Interment will follow at Memory Gardens of Jefferson County Under...
Freeman Lindsay Smith
December 16, 2015
Freeman Lindsay Smith, 82, of Nederland, Texas, passed away December 16, 2015. He was born November 19, 1933, in Beaumont, Texas to the late Edgar Adam Smith, Sr. and Myrtle Rose West. Freeman served in the United States Air Force and was a member of Calvary Baptist Church Nederland. He retired from Texaco Chemical with 27 years of service, where...
David Dwight Pardue
December 16, 2015
David Dwight Pardue, 69, of Port Neches, Texas passed away Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at his residence in Port Neches. David was born January 31, 1946 in Port Arthur, Texas to Dwight Pardue and Cleo Shields Pardue. He was a lifelong resident of this area and a member of Procter Baptist Church. David was a Marine Electrician with Signal International....
Bernice Fullilove Patin
December 16, 2015
Bernice Fullilove Patin, 91, of Groves passed away Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at The Medical Center of Southeast Texas. She was born May 4, 1924 in Carroll County, Mississippi to Charles Augustus Fullilove and Tammie Lishman Fullilove. She was a resident of Groves for 60 years. Her school days began in the Shady Grove School where she received her Eighth...
Brooke Danyelle Rowe
December 13, 2015
Brooke Danyelle Rowe, 28, of Nederland, Texas, passed away December 13, 2015 at Methodist Hospital in Houston. She was born March 15, 1987, in Tyler, Texas. Brooke loved scrap booking, talking on her phone, Starbucks and Shopping. She is survived by her parents, Cindy and Jeff Duhon and of Nederland, TX, Chad Rowe of Dallas; sister, Haley Gross and husband,...
Letha Hunt McLemore
December 12, 2015
Letha Hunt McLemore, 92, of Nederland passed away December 12, 2015 at Oak Grove Nursing Home. She was born on May 24, 1923 to the late Eugene Wiseman Hunt and Ethel Northrip Hunt in Leedy, Oklahoma. She was a member of Hillcrest Baptist Church, Nederland and past member of Hillcrest Baptist Church, Jasper, TX. She was also a member of...
Rene' F. Castillo
December 12, 2015
RENE' F. CASTILLO, 92, of Groves, departed this life to his Heavenly Reward December 12, 2015 after a brief illness. He was born on September 18, 1923 in Temuco, Chile and was proud to have been born on the Independence Day of his beloved native land. He was equally proud of his adopted country, the United States of America and...
Albert Thibodeaux
December 25, 2015
Albert Thibodeaux, 80, of LaBelle, Texas passed away Friday, December 25, 2015 at Harbor Hospice Hospital in Beaumont, Texas. Albert was born September 14, 1935 in LaBelle, Texas to Joseph Theophield Thibodeaux and Eucarise Miller Thibodeaux. He was a resident of LaBelle for twenty years and a former resident of Groves for 46 years. Albert retired from DuPont with 42...
Lois Mary Godair
December 25, 2015
Lois Mary Godair, 86, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Friday, December 25, 2015 at The Medical Center of Southeast Texas in Port Arthur, Texas. Lois was born March 23, 1929 in Duncan, Oklahoma. She was a resident of Port Arthur for 42 years and a member of Nederland Apostolic Church. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, December 30, 2015...
Kenneth E. Browning
December 24, 2015
Kenneth E. Browning, 66, of Nederland, Texas passed away Thursday, December 24, 2015 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Kenneth was born September 4, 1949 in Montgomery, Alabama to Cecil Earl Browning and Dorothy Blanche Fowler Browning. He was a lifelong area resident and retired from the Port Arthur Police Department after many years of service, and then worked for the Southeast...
Bobby Dean Grafton
December 24, 2015
Bobby Dean Grafton, 83, of Port Neches, TX passed away on 12-24-2015. After a two year battle with cancer he entered the Gates of Heaven to be with his Lord and Savior. He died in the comfort of his home with family by his side. Bob was born on March 6, 1932 in Bernice, LA to John Walter and Alsie...
Alto Berry Smith, Jr.
December 24, 2015
Alto Berry Smith, Jr., 57, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Thursday, December 24, 2015. Berry was born March 23, 1958 in Port Arthur, Texas to Alto Berry Smith and Verna Rose Broussard Smith. He was a lifelong Port Arthur resident and will be missed by his wealth of friends and loving family. Survivors include his daughter, Brittany Rose Smith...
LaVelle Irby
December 23, 2015
LaVelle Irby, 97, of Port Neches, Texas passed away on Wednesday, December 23, 2015. She was born on April 23, 1918 to Tom and Lenora Barker of Buna, Texas. LaVelle graduated from Buna High School and went to Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches to receive a teaching certificate. LaVelle married F.A. Irby in 1939 and they lived most of their...
Dena "Earldean" Philpott
December 23, 2015
Dena "Earldean" Philpott, 85, of Port Arthur passed away Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Plano. She was born on July 11, 1930 in Port Arthur, Texas and was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Dena was a lifelong area resident before moving to Plano with her daughter a year ago. She was...
Diane Simms
December 22, 2015
Diane Simms, 71, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at her residence. Diane was born December 15, 1944 in Port Arthur, Texas to Charles Lloyd Grantham and Margaret Barnes Grantham. She was a lifelong resident of Port Arthur and a retired Walmart Customer Service Representative with 14 years of service. She was a member of the...
Inez Richard
December 22, 2015
Inez Richard, 97, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Tuesday, December 22, 2015. Inez was born October 1, 1918 in Leonville, Louisiana to William and Lena Richard. She was a lifelong area resident and longtime member of St. Joseph Catholic Church where she was active in the choir and a member of the Altar Society. She belonged to several Catholic...
Phyllis Joy Gardiner
December 22, 2015
Phyllis Joy Gardiner, 89, of Port Neches, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015 peacefully in her home. Those who knew and loved her called her Joy. She was born on April 12, 1926, in Nutley, New Jersey. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry Gardiner, parents, Ross Young and Ruth MacKay Young, a brother, Jack Young, and a...
Scott Edward Granger
December 20, 2015
Scott Edward Granger, 49, of Woodville passed away Sunday, December 20, 2015 at St. Luke’s Health-The Woodlands Hospital. A native of Port Arthur, he lived in Woodville for 30 yrs. He was employed with Tyler County Tractor in Woodville, as a mechanic with 11 yrs. of service. Funeral services for Scott will be 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at...
Rosemary Whitehead
December 19, 2015
Rosemary Whitehead Rosemary Whitehead, 60, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Saturday, December 19, 2015 at Silsbee Convalescent Center. She was born February 5, 1955 in Port Arthur, Texas to Larry Whitehead and Billie Terrell Whitehead. Rosemary was a homemaker and lifelong area resident. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at Levingston Funeral Home...
Neomie LaVergne
December 18, 2015
Neomie LaVergne Neomie LaVergne, 91, of Groves passed away Friday, December 18, 2015 at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont, Texas. She was born November 2, 1924 in Cow Island, Louisiana to Augustin Gaspard and Ida Boudreaux Gaspard. She had lived in Groves since 1955 and was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Altar's Society. Funeral services will be held...
Harry Fontenot Jr.
December 17, 2015
Harry Matthew Fontenot, Jr. 81, of Nederland died, Thursday, December 17, 2015 at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas in Port Arthur. A mass of Christian Burial will be held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Nederland with Father Joseph Daleo officiating. Interment will follow at Memory Gardens of Jefferson County Under...
Freeman Lindsay Smith
December 16, 2015
Freeman Lindsay Smith, 82, of Nederland, Texas, passed away December 16, 2015. He was born November 19, 1933, in Beaumont, Texas to the late Edgar Adam Smith, Sr. and Myrtle Rose West. Freeman served in the United States Air Force and was a member of Calvary Baptist Church Nederland. He retired from Texaco Chemical with 27 years of service, where...
David Dwight Pardue
December 16, 2015
David Dwight Pardue, 69, of Port Neches, Texas passed away Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at his residence in Port Neches. David was born January 31, 1946 in Port Arthur, Texas to Dwight Pardue and Cleo Shields Pardue. He was a lifelong resident of this area and a member of Procter Baptist Church. David was a Marine Electrician with Signal International....
Bernice Fullilove Patin
December 16, 2015
Bernice Fullilove Patin, 91, of Groves passed away Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at The Medical Center of Southeast Texas. She was born May 4, 1924 in Carroll County, Mississippi to Charles Augustus Fullilove and Tammie Lishman Fullilove. She was a resident of Groves for 60 years. Her school days began in the Shady Grove School where she received her Eighth...
Brooke Danyelle Rowe
December 13, 2015
Brooke Danyelle Rowe, 28, of Nederland, Texas, passed away December 13, 2015 at Methodist Hospital in Houston. She was born March 15, 1987, in Tyler, Texas. Brooke loved scrap booking, talking on her phone, Starbucks and Shopping. She is survived by her parents, Cindy and Jeff Duhon and of Nederland, TX, Chad Rowe of Dallas; sister, Haley Gross and husband,...
Letha Hunt McLemore
December 12, 2015
Letha Hunt McLemore, 92, of Nederland passed away December 12, 2015 at Oak Grove Nursing Home. She was born on May 24, 1923 to the late Eugene Wiseman Hunt and Ethel Northrip Hunt in Leedy, Oklahoma. She was a member of Hillcrest Baptist Church, Nederland and past member of Hillcrest Baptist Church, Jasper, TX. She was also a member of...
Rene' F. Castillo
December 12, 2015
RENE' F. CASTILLO, 92, of Groves, departed this life to his Heavenly Reward December 12, 2015 after a brief illness. He was born on September 18, 1923 in Temuco, Chile and was proud to have been born on the Independence Day of his beloved native land. He was equally proud of his adopted country, the United States of America and...
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