Edna Mae Breaux, the wife of a retired United States diplomat and Louisiana state official, died January 7, 2018 in San Antonio TX of natural causes, age 94.

She was born in Port Arthur, Texas, daughter of Edouard Parfait Broussard and Marie Alice Barras, and lived in Metairie LA for 33 years. She graduated from St Mary High School in Port Arthur and attended Port Arthur Business College until her marriage to Clarence Thomas Breaux in 1942.

She then supported him for the next four years as he served in the U. S Naval air corps and then subsequently for over twenty years as he served in the Diplomatic Service of the U.S State Department. She learned to speak and read Spanish in addition to the French she knew from childhood. For fifteen years she served as a diplomat's wife in Embassies and Consulates abroad, in Argentina, Spain, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Guatemala, Bolivia, Cambodia, and Haiti, and for five years in the State Department in Washington. They returned to Louisiana and her husband became an official with the then Department of Commerce and Industry. After thirteen years he again retired and devoted some of his time as a volunteer with the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, national public television and national public radio and in genealogical research. In all of these activities Edna Mae strongly supported her husband. She also enjoyed embroidery and became a gourmet cook. She and her husband also continued to travel throughout the world after he retired.

Survivors include her son, Kenneth Edward, of San Antonio TX, a grandson, Douglas Norwood, of League City TX, a granddaughter, Cynthia Ann Breaux Benner, of Libertyville IL, four great grandchildren, Austin Douglas, Grace Elizabeth, Rachel Ann Benner, and Charis Ann Breaux and one niece, Jan Umphrey Wenglar of Pearland, TX.

She was preceded in death by her husband of sixty-six years, her son, Norwood Daniel, one brother, Lawrence, and one sister, Gertrude Umphrey and her parents.

FUNERAL SERVICES

Following cremation memorial services will be held on Friday, January 19, at 2:00 P.M. at Colonial Gardens, 20 Lynn Batts, San Antonio, TX 78218.

The ashes will be inurned at a later date in All Saints Mausoleum, Lake Lawn Cemetery, 5100 Ponchartrain Blvd., New Orleans, LA.

MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Pius X Catholic Church, 3907 Harry Wurzbach Road, San Antonio, TX 78209.