Opelousas Daily World - February 24, 2000
Fr. Donald Hebert
MIRE - Funeral services for Father Donald Joseph Hebert, 57, will be held at
10 a.m. Friday in Assumption of the BVM Catholic Church here with burial in
church cemetery. Father Hebert, a resident of Mire, died Tuesday, February
22, 2000, at his residence. He attended Immaculata Seminary in Lafayette, St.
John Seminary in Little Rock, Ark., and graduated from Notre Dame in New
Orleans in 1968. Father Hebert was ordained in Lafayette June 1, 1968. He was
assistant pastor at St. Francis 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 Assumption of the BVM Church in Mire
in 1989 until his death. In 1977 he was named Diocesan Consultor and in 1987
was on the Diocesan School Board for two terms. Survivors include: a sister,
Barbara Hebert of New Orleans. Visiting hours will be observed from 8 a.m.
today until time of services on Friday in the Assumption of the BVM Catholic
Church in Mire. Rosaries will be recited at 4 and 7 p.m. Gossen Funeral Home
of Rayne is in charge of arrangements.