Rubie Marionneaux

LAKE ARTHUR

Former Lake Arthur resident Rubie Marionneaux, 89, entered Heaven’s glorious gates on December 13, 2015. She passed away peacefully at the Isle of Watermere in Southlake, Texas.

Visitation will be held in the Miguez Funeral Home in Lake Arthur Tuesday, April 19, 2016 beginning at 1:00 p.m. with a service at 2:00 with Rev. LaMarylis Cotton officiating.

Mrs. Marionneaux was born Rubie Marie Luna in Girard, Texas on July 26, 1926. She was raised in Bisbee, AZ, graduated from Bisbee High School and married Charles P. Marionneaux of Plaquemine, LA on January 26, 1946 in San Francisco. The couple spent several years in California where she worked as a fashion model then they relocated to Lake Arthur in the 1950’s when Mr. Marionneaux was employed by Superior Oil Co. Mrs. Marionneaux continued to reside in Lake Arthur for five years after her husband’s May 2007 death, and then relocated to Southlake, Texas in 2012 to be near her daughter.

Mrs. Marionneaux was employed by the Zigler Hotel in Jennings for a time and later by the Lake Arthur Library for many years as a part time librarian. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Lake Arthur, the Methodist Women’s Circle and the Lake Arthur Library Club. She had many talents and interests including cooking, reading, ceramics, sewing and traveling but was blessed with a green thumb and her greatest passion was gardening. She and her husband spend many hours in their yard cultivating a large vegetable garden, grape arbor, fruit trees, daylilies, azaleas, roses and too many other species of flora to name. The couple’s pride and joy was truly their home and yard, as they had planted every tree, shrub and flower when they built the house in 1960 on a bare 2 acre lot. They loved to sit in their favorite chairs and look out at the back yard oasis they had created, always teeming with beautiful flowers and birds.

Mrs. Marionneaux’s greatest devotion was to her husband, children and grandchildren. They were always her top priority and she was an outstanding example who shared her love of life with them. She suffered from leukemia, partial blindness and dementia the last years of her life but never lost her sense of humor or zest for, and wonder of, life. She fought the good fight until her Heavenly Father called her home to be reunited in eternal bliss with her beloved “C.P.” whom she had never stopped missing.

Mrs. Marionneaux was preceded in death by her husband, Charles P. Marionneaux, parents Alvin and Bonnie Luna, and her brother Milton Luna. Her youngest brother Myrl passed away soon after she died. She is survived by her daughter Tanya Benavides (Gerry) of Southlake, TX and son Mark Marionneaux (Terri) of Tarrytown, GA. She has three granddaughters (Cacey Marionneaux, Annalisa and Nina Benavides), two great grandchildren (Briar Rae Brannen and Charles Tunney Spell), two step-grandchildren (Jessica and Chase Gordon) and many beloved nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to First United Methodist Church, Lake Arthur or Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota.