Marie Elsie LALONDE

ARNAUDVILLE - Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12, 2005, at a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Francis Regis Catholic Church in Arnaudville for Marie Elsie Sanders, 75, the former Marie Lalonde, who passed away at 9:20 a.m. Monday, May 9, 2005, at J. Michael Morrow Nursing Home in Arnaudville.Interment will be in St. Francis Regis Cemetery in Arnaudville.The Rev. Bennett J. Voorhies, pastor of St. Francis Regis Catholic Church, will officiate at the services.Musical selections will be provided by Valerie Andrus. The songs will be "Amazing Grace", "Just A Closer Walk With Thee", "Notre Pere" and "J'Irai La Voir Un Jour".Mrs. Sanders was a native of Leonville and a resident of Arnaudville. She was a parishioner of St. Francis Regis Roman Catholic Church.Survivors include her husband of 55 years, Harry Sanders, of Arnaudville; four daughters, Patsy McKinney and her husband, Roger, of Prairieville, Suzanne Wong and her husband, John, of Sonora, Calif., Harriet LaPorte and her husband, Kurt, of Arnaudville, and Linda Willis and her husband, Jeffrey, of Sugarland, Texas; two brothers, Wilfred Lalonde, of Breaux Bridge, and Wilbert Lalonde and his wife, Brenda, of Parks; two sisters, Margie Latiolais and her husband, Gerald, of Breaux Bridge, and Geraldene LaGrange, of Arnaudville; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.She was preceded in death by her parents, Regis Lalonde and the former Pauline Devillier, both natives of Leonville; and two brothers, Leo Lalonde and George Allen Lalonde.A rosary will be prayed at 7 p.m. today in the funeral home.The family requests that visiting hours be observed from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. today and will continue from 8 a.m. Thursday until service time.Melancon Funeral Home of Arnaudville, 224 Main Street, (337) 754-5725, is in charge of arrangements.