Perry Mims Dubose

Funeral services will be held on Monday, January 3, 2011 at Indian Bayou United Methodist Church at 2:00 pm for Perry Mims DuBose, 72, who passed away on December 30, 2010 at 9:50 pm at Lafayette General Medical Center. Reverend G. Larry Maxwell, Pastor of Indian Bayou United Methodist Church, will conduct the funeral services. Burial will take place in Indian Bayou Methodist Cemetery. Mr. DuBose, a resident of Lafayette, LA, was the son of the late James Kirby DuBose of Indian Bayou, Louisiana and the former Winnie Perry of Indian Bayou, Louisiana. He was a graduate of USL and had been a teacher and principal in the Public School System for 35 years at Judice Elementary/ High School and Prairie Elementary. He served in the U.S. Army as assistant to the chaplain from 1962 to 1963. He was a member of the Indian Bayou Methodist Church. He is survived by wife, Carolyn DuBose of Lafayette; one daughter, Melanie DuBose of Lafayette; one son, Shane DuBose and his wife Adrienne of Houston, TX; two grandchildren, Madeleine and Chloe DuBose; two step-children, Kevin Thompson of Bossier City, LA, and Brenda Robbins of Longview, TX; seven step-grandchildren, Justin Robbins, Brandon Robbins, Vanessa Robbins, Kaylie Robbins, Julianna Thompson, Courteney Westley, and Robert Westley; three sisters, Margie Garrett of Lafayette, Syble Brouillette of Alexandria, and Jo Ann Foreman of Indian Bayou; four brothers, Billy DuBose of New Iberia, James Kenneth "J.K." DuBose and wife Shirley of Indian Bayou, Wheeler DuBose and wife Mary Helen of Port Arthur, TX, and Donnie DuBose and wife Rose of Lafayette. He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Gloria "Sissy" Goudeau DuBose; one brother, Calvin DuBose. The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Delhomme Funeral Home of Lafayette on Sunday from 2:00 pm until 8:00 pm and will continue on Monday from 8:00 am until service time. Pallbearers will be Chad DuBose, Danny Garrett, Layne DuBose, John DuBose, Kelly Joe Huval, and William "Buddy" Goudeau. Personal condolences may be sent to the DuBose family at www.delhommefuneralhome.com. Delhomme Funeral Home, 1011 Bertrand Drive, Lafayette, is in charge of funeral arrangements.

Perry Mims Dubose

November 3, 1938 - December 30, 2010