Kenneth Chase Langlinais

Funeral Services will be held at 11:30AM on Wednesday March 23, 2016 in Delhomme Chapel of the Flowers for Kenneth Chase Langlinais, 69, who passed away on March 20, 2016, Psalm Sunday, the first day of Spring. Reverend M. Keith LaBove, Pastor of St. Patrick Church will conduct the funeral services. He is survived by his wife of 17 years, Patricia C. Langlinais; his sister, Paulette Langlinais Robertson; a niece, Laura Henry (Robbie); grand niece and nephew, Kacy and Hunter Henry and his mother-in-law, Velma Manuel Castille. He was preceded in death by his parents, Paul Alexis Langlinais and Frances Chase Langlinais. His father was one of sixteen Langlinais siblings who were all prominent merchants in the early growth of Lafayette. Ken graduated from Lafayette High School in 1964 and from USL in 1968 with a BA in Speech. He was drafted into the Army and served in the Artillery Division in Vietnam. He returned and earned a MA of Communications from Miami of Ohio. Ken then worked for Hallmark Corporation in Kansas City, Missouri as a film production manager, then returned to Lafayette to own and operate Treescape Miniatures and co-founded the Lafayette Bonsoi Society. He was devoted to his parents, and cared for them with love until their deaths. Ken worked hard at living his life like he thought it should be lived- which involved holding as paramount being a loving, caring, attentive husband, a true friend, and a good man. He was leading the life he wanted. He loved his wife above all else. Theirs was very much a life shared together in community. Although very compatible, at the same time they respected each other's individuality, and they both worked hard to maintain equilibrium between the two. Ken had goals and a program of direction. He made them part of what can be said to be his life's calling. He helped many people, people similarly situated as he once had been. He loved to interact in a positive, life-affirming manner. He loved having a good time, especially with friends and cohorts and people he was close to, whether that took the form of going to a movie or engaging in other forms of entertainment, or even just participating at a social gathering where there was good food and good talk and plenty of laughter. Ken was very intelligent, witty and sociable. He knew himself and knew what he wanted out of life. He especially thrived on the give and take of just simply talking and sharing. He believed his life was a never-ending work in progress and had he prevailed over that calamity that ended his life, he would have continued working at making that progress. He tried to school himself to do the best he could through helping others, for he knew that in doing that he was helping himself. He knew that inextricably linked to what was accepting couldn't be changed. He took that seriously, and when the end came, he knew it and he accepted it. The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Delhomme Funeral Home - Bertrand on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 from 9:00AM until time of service. Personal condolences may be sent to the Langlinais family at www.delhommefuneralhome.com. Delhomme Funeral Home, 1011 Bertrand Drive, Lafayette, LA is in charge of funeral arrangements

Kenneth Chase Langlinais

September 8, 1946 - March 20, 2016