A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday, February 3, 2010, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in New Iberia for Pamella Marie Dubois, 91, who died Saturday, January 30, 2010, in New Iberia.

Entombment will follow in the Holy Family Mausoleum.

Rev. Charles Langlois  will be the celebrant. Readers will be Aleta Lester and Nicholas Broussard. Gift bearers include Pam Whiteard and Michelle Branscum.

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Born on July 15, 1918, in New Iberia, Ms. Dubois, affectionately known as “Aunt Pup”, retired from United Gas/Entex with over 30 years of service. An excellent seamstress, she was a member of the Homemaker Club and the Garden Club. She loved to travel, having toured the United States, Canada, Alaska and Cuba, and was the first woman to receive the President’s Award for bowling. A Eucharistic minister, “Aunt Pup” loved going to daily Mass and baking cakes for all of the priests, especially her cousin Msgr. Disch.

Survivors include her nephews Leon Dartez and wife, Mary, of New Iberia and Gene Dartez of New Iberia; nieces Aleta Lester and husband, Clayton, of Baton Rouge, Pam Whiteard and husband, Greg, of Sulphur, Marie Fruge of Sulphur; brother-in-law Lorraine Oubre of Sulphur; 14 great-nieces and great-nephews; 11 great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Clovis and Constance Pesson Dubois; sisters Jeanne Dubois Oubre, Mildred Dubois Dartez; nieces Joyce Oubre Appleby and Constance “Connie” Oubre.

Pallbearers include Scott Dartez, Clayton Lester, Greg Whiteard, Gene Dartez, Stacy Broussard and Bruce Branscum.

Honorary pallbearers include Neil Dartez, René Dartez, Austin Breaux, Michael Lester, Brett Fruge, Andy Dautreuil, Leon Dartez, Joshua Dartez and Corey Romero.

A gathering of family and friends will be Tuesday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Pellerin Funeral Home, 502 Jefferson Terrace Blvd., in New Iberia. A Rosary will be prayed at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Visitation will continue Wednesday from 8 a.m. until 10:30 a.m.

To view online obituary, video tribute and sign guestbook, go to www.pellerinfuneralhome.com.

Pellerin Funeral Home, 502 Jefferson Terrace Blvd., New Iberia, 365-3331, is in charge of arrangements.