Mary Dolores Andrus

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 3:00 PM on Monday, September 09, 2024 in St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Maurice for Mary Dolores Broussard Andrus who died peacefully at Calcutta House surrounded by loved ones in the early evening on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Fr. Paul Bienvenu, Pastor of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Maurice, will be Celebrant of the Mass and will conduct the funeral services. The lecturers will be her granddaughters, Tricia Andrus and Leah Fink. Gift-bearers will be her granddaughters, Samantha Grabert and Kayla Fain. Burial will take place in St. Alphonsus Mausoleum. Dolores was the daughter of Ambrose Broussard and the former Pearl Stelly. She grew up working in the family’s country store on Highway 167 in Abbeville. Her faith and Our Lady of Mount Carmel guided her life with three Carmelite Sisters as aunts, Sr. Mechtilda, Sr. Agatha and Sr. Lourentia. She graduated with a small class of students from Mount Carmel High who remained close throughout their lives, and she later continued to be involved with Mount Carmel School assisting with functions and substitute teaching as her children were in attendance. The Sisters of Mount Carmel were always dear to her and she would often host many of them in her home. Dolores was married to the late Paul Sheldon Andrus and they resided most of their lives in Maurice. They shared 70 years of marriage and 5 children. She is survived by one brother and dear friend, Donald Broussard. She was a long-time member of the St Alphonsus Alter Society and enjoyed making donated baptismal bibs, as well as, distributing Holy Communion to the home bound for many years. Dolores was also involved for many years in the Telephone Pioneers of America Association and enjoyed participating in the making of Hug-A-Bears for children in crisis. Dolores was a hardworking, excellent homemaker with determination that could do just about anything. She was a fabulous cook, baker and seamstress but most of all she was an extremely caring and loving wife, mother, sister and friend. Dolores possessed a unique ability, shared amongst her community of close friends, to spot need or hurt in others and a passion to help sometimes in small but consequential ways while never allowing attention to herself. She is survived by her children John (Becky) Andrus, Monica (Michael) Huffman, Philip (Michelle) Andrus and Carla (Joe) Fain, 14 grandchildren, Joshua (Pam) Andrus, Jarrod (Christine) Andrus, Jacob (Markie) Andrus, Leah (Andrew) Fink, Samantha (Corey) Grabert, Mick (Myka) Huffman, Miranda Broussard, Brodie (Aimee) Broussard, Tricia Andrus, Baron (Barrett) Andrus, Travis Fain, Andrew Fain, Matthew (Danielle) Fain, Kayla Fain, 12 great grandchildren, Ridge Andrus, Jett Andrus, Mason Andrus, Emma Andrus, Luke Andrus, , MJ Huffman, Moxyn Huffman, Bryce (Bree) Scalisi, Ann Claire Broussard, Amelia Broussard, Ryder Andrus-Wiley, Branson Andrus-Wiley, a great grandchild, Emma Scalisi, a brother Donald (Faye) Broussard, brother in laws Harold Lachaussee and Pierre Sidney Andrus. She was preceded in death by her parents Ambrose and Pearl Broussard, brother-in-law CJ Andrus and his wife Gertie, sister in laws Margaret (Harold) Lachaussee and Joanne (Sidney) Andrus, oldest son Paul Neil (Beth) Andrus and great grandchild Dani-Ryan Andrus. The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Delhomme Funeral Home - Maurice on Monday, September 9, 2024 from 9:00 AM until 2:30 PM. A Rosary will be prayed at 2:00 PM Monday afternoon in the funeral home. Pallbearers will Joshua Andrus, Jarrod Andrus, Jacob Andrus, Mick Huffman, Brodie Broussard, Baron Andrus, Travis Fain, Andrew Fain and Matthew Fain. The family would like to express their deep appreciation for the many caregivers and the wonderful teams at Brookdale Senior Living and Hospice of Acadiana. The family has requested any donations be made to Hospice of Acadiana in the memory of Dolores. Copyright Delhomme Funeral Homes, Inc. September 2024.

Mary Dolores Andrus

July 11, 1933 - September 5, 2024