New Orleans Obituaries

Local obituary notices in New Orleans, LA

• 10 hrs ago | via Best of New Orleans 

  Fire at the Up Stairs Lounge: a musical

  New Orleans Healing Center, Cafe Istanbul, 2732 St. Claude Ave., 975-0286; www.cafeistanbulnola.com or The Up Stairs Lounge was usually crowded on Sunday nights.

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• 11 hrs ago | via NOLA.com 

  'Miss Dot' Domilise and her messy-good po-boys are r...

  Dorothy 'Miss Dot'A Domilise is being remembered by longtime customers as a woman whose capacity for friendship was as abundant as the dressing she slathered on the roast-beef po-boys she prepared for more than six decades at the Uptown restaurant bearing her surname.

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• 20 hrs ago | via NOLA.com 

  Smoking Flax and Martha Faith

  My zeal for God was at an all-time low when I started an ambitious project - read Alfred Edersheim's 5,000 page The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah .

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• Yesterday | via The Georgetown Times 

  Obituaries, June 17, 2013

  Samuel Boyd Samuel Harper Boyd, born March 29, 1945 in Georgetown, died suddenly at his home in New Orleans, La.

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• Sunday | via The Lakeland Ledger 

  Hall, Virginia Legendre

  VIRGINIA LEGENDRE HALL, 92 LAKELAND - Virginia Legendre Hall, 92, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Friday, June 7, 2013, as a result of natural causes.

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• Saturday Jun 15 | via WWL-TV New Orleans 

  'Miss Dot' Domilise, matriarch of Uptown poor boy re...

  Dorothy "Miss Dot" Domilise, the matriarch and mainstay of the Uptown restaurant that bears her family's name and earned fans nationwide for its poor boy sandwiches and New Orleans character, died Friday.

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• Friday Jun 14 | via Visalia Times-Delta 

  Lilly, Hollie Elizabeth Chiniche

  Hollie Elizabeth Chiniche Lilly Hollie Elizabeth Chiniche Lilly, Born in New Orleans, LA on November 24, 1962, she was a resident of Visalia, CA and native of Denham Springs, LA.

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• Friday Jun 14 | via NOLA.com 

  'Miss Dot' Domilise, po-boy queen of Uptown New Orle...

  Dorothy "Miss Dot" Domilise, who assembled and served thousands of succulent shrimp, roast beef, hot sausage and oyster po-boys to priests, politicians and neighborhood regulars at Domilise's Restaurant for more than 70 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure at East Jefferson General Hospital.

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• Friday Jun 14 | via WWL-TV New Orleans 

  Plant CEO: Explosion feels like a big failure

  A second worker has died in Thursday's explosion and fire at the Williams Olefin plant in Giesmar, up river from New Orleans.

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• Friday Jun 14 | via Crowley Post Signal 

  Deaths Elsewhere

  TV repair man CARENCRO - Services for William "Bud" Chandler, Jr., who operated Acadiana's first shop specializing in repairing color television sets and later owned a music store will be Saturday.

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• Friday Jun 14 | via New Orleans Saints 

  Former New Orleans Saints DE Joe Owens Passes Away

  The New Orleans Saints extend their heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the family of former defensive end Joe Owens, who passed away this week at the age of 68. Owens was a 6-3, 250 pound native of Columbia, Miss.

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• Thursday Jun 13 | via WWL-TV New Orleans 

  Community remembers SUNO grad gunned down in front o...

  "He definitely left a legacy here, and his funeral will not be sad. It's going to be a big celebration.

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• Thursday Jun 13 | via Uptown Messenger 

  Slain AmeriCorps volunteer's father preaches hope in...

  Pastor Andre Massenburg, leader of the City of Refuge Ministry in Chicago and father of slain AmeriCorps volunteer Joseph Massenburg, speaks at the Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church on Wednesday evening.

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• Thursday Jun 13 | via KLFY-TV Lafayette 

  Carl W. "Wimpy" Bauer Obituary

  Carl W. "Wimpy" Bauer, age 79, departed this earthly life on June 11, 2013, having fought the good fight and living life to the fullest.

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• Wednesday Jun 12 | via The Times-Picayune 

  Police looking for suspect in Saturday's St. Claude ...

  Donald Powell, 30, is wanted for the murder of Calvin Thomas in St. Claude on Saturday.

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• Wednesday Jun 12 | via The Town Talk 

  Retired UL-Lafayette government relations officer di...

  LAFAYETTE, La. -- Carl Bauer, who lobbied on behalf of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for years and helped establish Acadiana as an officially recognized cultural region, died Tuesday morning.

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• Sunday Jun 9 | via KRMG-AM Tulsa 

  Serious musical: 1973 fire killed 32 in gay bar

  Wayne Self's latest musical drama is far from upbeat and bubbly. People who think that's the only suitable style for a musical are selling the form short, he says.

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• Friday Jun 7 | via WWL-TV New Orleans 

  St. Peter Claver parish mourns loss of 'Father Mike'

  Patrick Clay / Contributing Writer NEW ORLEANS - The St. Peter Claver Catholic Church is preparing to say a final goodbye to longtime pastor and friend Father Michael Jacques, who died of an apparent heart attack last night according to the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

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• Wednesday Jun 5 | via The Times-Picayune 

  NTSB proposal for tougher drunken driving standards ...

  So far, not so good for a proposal by the National Transportation Safety Board to toughen standards for drunken driving.

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• Apr 19, 2012 | via WWL-AM New Orleans 

  Father Michael Jacques visitation and funeral arrang...

  Visitation services for St. Peter Claver's Father Michael Jacques will be held Friday and Saturday.

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