Jules St. Martin Dupont

Jules St. Martin Dupont, 85, a native and resident of Houma, died Friday, Jan. 12, 2007. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to funeral time Monday at Chauvin Funeral Home. Religious service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home chapel, with burial in Magnolia Cemetery. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Louise Moore Munson Dupont, a native of Jeanerette; two sons, Jules St. Martin Dupont Jr. and wife, Pamela Toler Dupont, and Stephen Munson Dupont and his wife, Beth Haydel Dupont; two daughters, Adela (Mimi) Pratt Dupont Walker and husband, Thomas Ray Walker, and Alice Burguieres Dupont Johnson and husband, Carlton Brent Johnson; 11 grandchildren, Juanita Bell, Camille Garcia, Leslie Barton, Jules St. Martin Dupont III, John Paul Burguieres Dupont, Edward Munson Dupont, Alice Louise Walker, Thomas Ray Walker Jr., Marisa Gabrielle Dupont, Carlton Dupont Johnson and Cameron Brent Johnson of Houston; and three great-grandchildren. He attended Lorton Preparatory School beginning at the age of 3. Two years prior to graduation, he transferred to Western Military Academy in Alton, Ill., where he received his high-school diploma. He then attended Louisiana State University and Tulane University undergraduate schools and graduated from Tulane Medical School in 1945. He completed a combined residency in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology at Charity Hospital in New Orleans through LSU and Tulane medical schools. After World War II, he was selected to serve for a year in residency at the reopening of the American Hospital in Paris. Subsequently, he served in the Navy during the Korean War as senior medical officer on board the Admiral’s flagship, The Albany, of the Atlantic fleet. In 1954, he returned to Houma to start his practice. Over the course of his career, he was instrumental in founding the Heart Station, Intensive Care and Respiratory Therapy Units at Terrebonne General Hospital. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Terrebonne Parish Library or the charity of your choice.