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Graveside services will be held at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, August 7, 2017 at Holy Rosary Cemetery in Kaplan for Charles Wayne Trahan Sr., 64, who died Friday, August 4, 2017 at his home in Crowley surrounded by his loving family.
Fr. Mark Miley, pastor of Holy Rosary Catholic Church will be officiating for the services.
Mr. Trahan is survived by his wife of 46 years, Mergie Miller Trahan; three daughters, Nannette Marks and her husband Gary of Morgan City, Jeanette Chautin of Morgan City, and Lynette Champagne of Menden; three sons, Dale Champagne and his wife Debra of Arnaudville, Charles W. Trahan Jr. and his wife Rachel of Golden Meadow, and Andrew Shane Trahan of Crowley; one brother, Mahlen Trahan of Crowley, 12 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Alvin Jene Trahan Sr. and Eve Anita Louise Cormier; one sister, Mary Jane Trahan; and one brother, Alvin Jene Trahan Jr.
Condolences may be sent to the family by www.geesey-ferguson.comArrangements have been entrusted to Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home Inc. of Crowley.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, August 4, 2017 at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church for Hershel Ray Doucet, 82, who died August 1, 2017, at Acadia General Hospital.
Fr. Mikel Polson will be officiating for the services. The family is requesting visiting hours to be held Thursday from 5 pm to 9 pm and Friday from 8: a.m. to 1:30 p.m. A rosary led by Deacon Dan Didier at 7 p.m. Thursday. Interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Musical selections will be provided by organist Alberta Lyons and violinist and vocalist Hunter Jon Lambert, his great-nephew.
Mr. Doucet was an oil field roughneck and driller for many years until his retirement and worked at City Hall in Crowley for a few years thereafter.
He is survived by two daughters, Suzanne Doucet Boullion, and Suzette Doucet Venable both of Crowley; one brother, Hollis Doucet, Sr. and his wife, Elgin of Kaplan; two nieces, Sandy Doucet Lambert of Lafayette, and Minnette Doucet Schexnayder of Crowley; one nephew, Hollis Doucet, Jr. of Kaplan; three grandchildren, John Brady Venable and his fiancée, Ariel Marvant of Crowley, Jared Kolby Boullion and his wife, Brittany of Bastrop, and Sumar Scheree Boullion of Crowley; and seven great-grandchildren, Tayden Nolan, Grayson Nolan, Ro’myn Boullion, Saylor Boullion, Sydney Venable, Sydney Boullion, and Jacques Venable.
Mr. Doucet is preceded in death by his parents, Francis and Lorina May Sensat Doucet; first wife, Nell T. Doucet; one son, Glenn Ray Doucet; another wife, Betty D. Doucet; and one nephew, Darryl Anthony “Beasy” Doucet.
Pallbearers will be Hollis Doucet, Jr., his nephew; Hollis Doucet, III, his great-nephew; Britlyn Doucet, his great-nephew; R.J. Schexnayder, his nephew-in-law; Jared Kolby Boullion, his grandson; John Brady Venable, his grandson; and Jacques Venable, his great-grandson.
Condolences may be sent to the family by www.geesey-ferguson.com
Arrangements have been entrusted to Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home of Crowley.

SHREVEPORT – A unique drainage improvement program garnered top honors for the City of Rayne during the presentation of the prestigious Community Achievement Awards at the Louisiana Municipal Association Convention this past weekend.
The Phase II Drainage Improvements Project — dubbed “Culvert Angioplasty” — involves a new method of thoroughly clearing out drainage culverts along the city’s nearly 15 miles of open ditch streets.
The tools and methods required to implement this project were conceived, designed, fabricated and executed entirely by city employees.
Over time, culverts become blocked or partially blocked by sediment or items that become lodged in them.
Rayne city employees devised a method, using expandable poles, to run a line from one culvert opening to the next opening. A metal disc the approximate size of the culvert opening is attached to one end of the line and, using city equipment (i.e., a bulldozer) the line is pulled back through the culvert.
As the disc is pulled through the culvert, a “tube” of sludge and sediment is pushed ahead of it into the open ditch. That material is then removed from the ditch, stored and recycled.
The LMA’s annual awards program recognizes municipalities for outstanding achievement in basic services, community development, and economic development. Within these categories, awards are presented in four population subcategories.
“We didn’t know what to expect,” Mayor Charles “Chuck” Robichaux said of the experience.
“It was the first time I had entered anything and we were sitting there just hoping for an honorable mention.”
Robichaux said the presenter ticked off all the winners in the economic development category, then the community development category then, finally, the basic services category.
In Rayne’s population category (3,001 to 10,000), the honorable mention winners were called up — Grammercy and Addis. Then the winner was named — the City of Franklin.
“We were all disappointed,” Robichaux said. “I remember saying, ‘Well, maybe next year.’
“Then Dr. Brookie Allphin (communications and governmental consultant for LMA) announced that there was one more very prestigious award to be presented,” Robichaux continued.
“She said it was the most prestigious of any of the awards given out that night and represented a community project that was outstanding and beyond compare to anything by any other city — the best of the best, the ‘Best of Show.’
“We were freaking out,” Robichaux said. “She was talking about how this city went out before the August flood and attacked drainage problems and, after the storm, continued to work on cleaning the culverts.”
When the City of Rayne was named “Best of Show,” Robichaux and members of the Rayne City Council went forward to accept the recogntion. Each was presented a plaque and the mayor also received a larger plaque to hang at city hall.
“Of course, we are very proud to have won this award,” Robichaux said. “Rayne has won a number of Community Achievement awards in the past but this is the first ‘Best of Show’ award for us.
“And, while it’s good to have been recognized, it’s great that we were recognized for providing a service that is going to benefit the entire city.”
The announcement of LMA’s 2016 Community Achievement Awards was made Saturday night, July 29, at the annual banquet of LMA’s 80th annual convention at the Shreveport Convention Center. The convention drew some 1,700 delegates, spouses, dignitaries, exhibitors, and guests.
Rayne also was recognized on Friday afternoon when Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser presented the second annual Lieutenant Governor’s Beautification Awards to 20 Louisiana communities.