Irene LANDRY

Irene Landry Prejean, a resident of Metairie for 43 years, died of complications from leukemia on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005, at East Jefferson Hospital. She was 71 and a native of Grand Isle. She was a former employee of Humble Oil and a retired 25-year employee of East Jefferson Hospital. She was the beloved wife of the late Emile Travis "E.T." Prejean III; mother of Mary Elizabeth Prejean Hanson, Laura Prejean Gautreau, Angela Prejean DeMelo, Dennis Joseph Prejean, Steven Hamilton Prejean and the late Cynthia Prejean English, Linda Prejean Craig and Timothy Emile Prejean; daughter of the late Hamilton Landry and Olivia Adam Landry; and sister of Patrick Landry. She also is survived by 13 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. She also was preceded in death by a grandchild. Visitation at Leitz-Eagan Funeral Home, 4747 Veterans Blvd., Metairie, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, and from 8 a.m. until funeral Mass in the chapel at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 12. Interment in Our Lady of the Isle Cemetery, Grand Isle. Published in The Advocate on 2/10/2005.