Ruby Bascle

Ruby Marie Aucoin Bascle, 93, a native and resident of Bourg, Louisiana, died on Friday, September 25, 2009. Visitation will be held on Thursday, October 1, 2009 from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at Chauvin Funeral Home Friday, October 2, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. until service time at St. Ann Catholic Church. A Mass of Chrisitian Burial will be held on Friday, October 2, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Ann Catholic Church with burial in St. Ann Catholic Cemetery. She is survived by her son, Richard “Dickie” Thomas Bascle and wife Sharon Fletcher Bascle of Bourg, LA; grandchildren, Leslie Thomas Bascle and wife Brandy Dessell Bascle and Derek John Bascle and wife Julie’ Boudreaux Bascle; great-grandchildren, Anna Claire and Caleb Michael Bascle Thomas Michael Louis Bascle and Lauren Nicole Gottschalk, and numerous nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by, husband, Merlin Thomas Bascle; parents, Regina Robichaux Aucoin and Camille Aexis Aucoin; grandson, Michael Paul Bascle; brothers, Peter Joseph “P.J.” Aucoin; Numa C. “Frenchie” Aucoin ; sister-in-law, Lola Aucoin; sister, Vivian Aucoin Finklea; and brother-in-law, Bob Finklea. She was Catholic and a very active parishioner of St. Ann Catholic Church. She was a member of St. Ann’s Ladies Alter Society; the Catholic Daughters and American Legion Auxiliary. She was a receptionist for Dr. Arthur Anisman for 5 years and a Singer Sewing Machine salesperson for 10 years. She was a seamstress for over 35 years. She worked the church fairs for many years. She sang in the church choir beginning at the age of 8 and continuing until St. Ann hired an organist. She cleaned the church until she could no longer drive. She sewed altar clothes and washed and ironed altar clothes. After she retired she delivered meals on wheels and washed hair at a nursing home. She was Business Woman of the year in 1972. She was well know in the Mardi Gras community as she altered Mardi Gras costumes and dressed the queens for local clubs.