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Educator, civil rights trailblazer Juanita Thibeaux has died
Posted at 11:54 AM, Feb 24, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-24 19:24:34-05
Funeral services will be held on Friday, February 26 for Juanita Jackson Thibdeaux, a well-known Lafayette educator and civil rights trailblazer.
The service will be at 11:00 a.m. at Mount Calvary Baptist Church located at 414 South Weeks Street, New Iberia. For those who cannot attend in person, the funeral may be viewed online on the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church-New Iberia Facebook Page.
Services will be conducted by Reverend Mark Lewis, Pastor of Mount Calvary Baptist Church.
Thibeaux was a long-time educator in Lafayette parish, but before she was a teacher she helped integrate Lafayette s education systems. As a high school student, she led a strike that ended with black children allowed to ride parish school buses. After graduation, she was one of 80 black students who desegregated what is now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Man killed in fire that engulfed Warren County home
Shadow Wood Drive fatal fire under investigation Share Updated: 12:46 PM CST Dec 31, 2020
Shadow Wood Drive fatal fire under investigation Share Updated: 12:46 PM CST Dec 31, 2020
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Shadow Wood Drive fatal fire under investigation Share Updated: 12:46 PM CST Dec 31, 2020 A 78-year-old man was killed in a house fire in Warren County, authorities said.The fire was reported about 9 a.m. Thursday at a home on Shadow Wood Drive, off Fisher Ferry Road, according to Sheriff Martin Pace. When firefighters arrived, the home was engulfed in flames, Pace said.Family members on the first floor of the home were able to escape, but a man who was on the second floor was unable to get out of the home, Pace said. The man, identified as Lucius Jackson, was pronounced dead at the scene by Deputy Coroner Ron Regan, Pace said. Fire investigators with the Warren County Sheriff’s Department and th
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