The Life of Nellie Naquin
Funeral Services will be held Monday, January 12, 2009 at a 10:00 AM Mass of Christian Burial in La Chapelle de Martin & Castille for Nellie Broussard Naquin, 88, who passed away peacefully on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM in the Acadian Medical Center in Eunice, Louisiana.Interment will be in Lafayette Memorial Park Cemetery.Reverend Louis Allen Breaux, Associate Pastor of St. Bernard Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge will be the Celebrant of the Funeral Mass and will conduct the Funeral Services. Survivors include one daughter, Roylene Roy of Lafayette; two grandchildren, Stephen Roy and Scott Roy; and three great grandchildren, Hannah, Bethany and Emily Roy.She was preceded in death by her husband, Earl Naquin, Sr.; her parents, Augeron Broussard and the former, Ida Henry; one son, Glenn Hebert and one sister, Grace Guillot.Mrs. Naquin was a native of Morse, Louisiana and a resident of Lafayette for over forty years.Prior to her retirement, she was employed as a Cashier at the A & P Food Store at the corner of South College Road and Heymann Boulevard in Lafayette. Mrs. Naquin was also a bee keeper for 63 years and keeping bees was a major part of her life. She became known as the "Bee Lady". The bee hives were spread out in different areas of Lafayette Parish and produced a large number of 55-gallon drums of honey and during the year of 1994, she and her husband had more than 200 hives and were making about 42 drums of honey each year. It was just a hobby at first, she and her husband both had jobs and did not start bee-keeping to make money. Actually, she started with one hive, ordered from the Sears Roebuck catalog and from that hive it just grew. It wasn''t until after the couple retired in the 1970''s that they really became serious about keeping bees. At retirement, they had about 77 hives, but later the hives would number as high as 225. Still, above all of the other benefits, Mrs. Naquin said it was the basics of beekeeping that were most rewarding for her, and selling the honey to people, which developed into many new friends. She was also a member of both state and local beekeeping associations, which kept her very busy. Mrs. Naquin was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and sister. She will be dearly missed by her family and friends.A Rosary will be prayed Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM in the Martin & Castille Funeral Home.The family requests that visitation hours be observed Sunday from 1:30 PM until 6:00 PM and Monday from 8:00 AM until time of services. Pallbearers will be Stephen Roy, Scott Roy, Nolton Hains, Nick Mayeaux, Derrick Begnaud and Hannah Roy. Martin & Castille - Lafayette - 234-2311.
