Hazel Ann Blanchard Acosta

Hazel Ann Blanchard Acosta, 63, a native of Chauvin and a resident of Houma, died at 1:06 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to funeral time Tuesday at Holy Rosary Church. Mass will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the church, with burial in the church cemetery. She is survived by six sons, Russell Acosta, Lacy Acosta Sr. and wife, Patrina, Thomas Acosta and wife, Kristin, Perry Acosta, Byron Acosta and Travis Acosta of Houma; two daughters, Phyllis Acosta Poiencot and husband, Guy, of Houma and Crystal Acosta Landry and husband, Kyle, of Thibodaux; two brothers, Minus Blanchard and wife, Patricia, and Mannuel Blanchard Sr. and wife, Karen; two sisters, Martha Blanchard Savoie and Hilda Blanchard Didier and husband, Steve, of Orlando, Fla.; and eight grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Raymond J. Acosta Sr.; her parents, Preston G. Blanchard and Hilda Dumont Blanchard; one son, Raymond Acosta Jr.; one brother, Terry J. Blanchard; and one sister, Evelyn Blanchard. She was a homemaker and a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She was a parishioner of Holy Rosary Catholic Church.