In the Beaumont Enterprise, Thursday, February 24, 2000
Father Donald Joseph Hebert
Funeral services will be held Friday, February 25, 2000
at 10 a.m. in Church of Assumption BVM in Mire for Father Donald Joseph
Hebert, 57, who died at residence in Mire, Tuesday, February 22.
Entombment will be in Assumption Cemetery. He attended Immaculata
Seminary in Lafayette, St John Seminary in Little Rock, Arkansas and
graduated from Notre Dame in New Orleans in 1968. Father Hebert was
ordained in Lafayette on June 1, 1968. He was Assistant Pastor at St
Frances Regis in Arnaudville from 1968 until his assignment of Assistant
Pastor in 1970 at St Anthony in Eunice until he became Pastor of St
Joseph in Cecilia in 1975. In 1980 he became pastor of St Anthony in
Eunice until he became Administrator of Annunciation in Duralde in 1984.
In 1985 he was Pastor of Our Lady Queen of All Saints in Ville Platte
until he became pastor of church of the Assumption BVM in Mire in 1989
until he [his] death. In 1977 he was named Diocesan Consultor and in
1987 was on the Diocesan School Board for two terms.
Visitation will be held at Assumption Church, Thursday from 8am until
services at 10 am Friday. Rosaries will be at 4 pm and 7 pm.
He is survived by one sister Barbara Hebert of New Orleans. Gossen
Funeral Home in Rayne is in charge of arrangements.