Camille Francis GRAVEL

Gravel, Camille Francis Funeral service for Camille Francis Gravel will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27, at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, 626 Fourth St., Alexandria, with the Rev. Kenneth Roy officiating. The altar server will be his great-grandson, Ryan Gravel Antoon. Interment will be in Greenwood Memorial Park under the direction of John Kramer & Son, Alexandria. Camille Gravel, 90, of Alexandria, died on Friday, Dec. 23, 2005, in Naomi Heights Nursing Home. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Katherine David Gravel; three children, Eunice Gravel, Camille F. Gravel III and Richard Alvin Gravel; his parents, Camille and Aline Delvaille Gravel; and two sisters, Yvonne Wright and Marie Louise Ryder. Mr. Gravel was a native of Alexandria and was a graduate of Menard Memorial High School. He attended the University of Notre Dame and received his degree from the College of Arts and Letters. His legal education included the LSU Law School and Catholic University of America School of Law. He received a doctor of laws (Honoris Causa) conferred by Loyola University, New Orleans, in 1976. Mr. Gravel was admitted to the Louisiana State Bar in 1940. He was a member of the Alexandria Bar Association, the Louisiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Gravel served on numerous state advisory boards and commissions during his career which included the Board of Supervisors for LSU and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Mr. Gravel served on many national and state boards and commissions related to human and civil rights. Within the state of Louisiana, between 1967 and 1988, Mr. Gravel served as special legislative counsel to the governor, special assistant attorney general, and executive counsel to the governor. Camille Gravel is survived by his wife, Evelyn Gianfala Gravel of Alexandria; three sons, Grady David Gravel of Pineville, Mark Alan Gravel and his wife, Kate, and Charles Gregory Gravel and his wife, Elycia, all of Alexandria; five daughters, Ann G. Vanderslice and her husband, Stephen J. Vanderslice, of Alexandria, Eileen G. Cappel and her husband, Richard B. Cappel, of Lake Charles, Martha G. Antoon and her husband, Thomas A. Antoon, of Alexandria, Virginia G. Carbo and Margaret Lynn Gravel, both of Alexandria; 25 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandson. Friends are asked to call from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 26, at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral and on Tuesday, Dec. 27, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at John Kramer & Son. A Christian wake service will be held at 7 p.m. Monday in St. Francis Xavier Cathedral. The family requests memorials be sent to the Katherine and Camille Gravel Law Scholarship Fund at LSU in care of the LSU Foundation/Law Center, 3838 West Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, St. Mary's Residential Training School, 6715 Highway 1 North, Alexandria, LA 71303 or to Holy Savior Menard Central High School, 4603 Coliseum Blvd., Alexandria, LA 71303. Notes of condolence may be sent to the family online at kramerfunerals@aol.com. Published in The Advocate on 12/25/2005.