Jennifer Lynn Girouard

Jennifer Lynn Girouard Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:50:26 EST From: Boudrx1@aol.com To: pierre@girouard.com This is from the Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, La. newspaper). Jennifer Lynn Girouard BROUSSARD Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, 2001, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church for Jennifer Lynn Girouard, 23, who died Saturday, Feb. 10, in Pecan Island as the result of an aircraft accident. Monsignor Michael Herpin will officiate. Burial will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Broussard. Jennifer was a native and resident of Broussard. She was a secretary with Rotorcraft Technologies in Broussard for the last 10 months. She was a 1995 graduate of Comeaux High School. At school she played on the tennis team and was a member of the 4-H Club. She loved horseback riding and was a former member of the Hub City Riders Club. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Community and sang with the Youth Choir at her church. Jennifer enjoyed playing softball, fishing, exercising and flying, having attended different air shows aften. She also loved dancing, listening to a variety of music and entertaining people. She will be remembered as someone who enjoyed life and lived it to the fullest. She will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her. She is survived by her father, William "Billy" Girouard of Broussard; her mother, Barbara "Bobbie" Hernandez Girouard of Broussard; one sister, Dana Girouard Simon and husband Scot of Broussard; maternal grandparents, Wilson "Kaiser" Hernandez and Cecile Daigle of Youngsville; one niece, Kaitlyn Jade Simon of Broussard; her beloved dog, Stryker; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins; and a host of friends. She was preceded in death by an infant sister, Donna Marie Girouard, and paternal grandparents, Lionel "Fils" Girouard and Jeanette Landry. Pallbearers will be Barry Dupuis, Derek Hernandez, Jeremy Hill, Lonnie Hotard, Neil Hotard and Will Wainwright. Honorary pallbearer will be Scot Simon. A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today. Funeral home visitation is from noon to 10 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday. David Funeral Home of Broussard, 316 Youngsville Highway, is in charge of arrangements.

Thanks to Greg Boudreaux from Canton, Ohio, who sent me this obit.

Pecan island Jet Crash Publication: American Press Publication Date: 02/12/2001 Page and Section: 2 A Witnesses: Pilot was performing rolls when jet crashed PECAN ISLAND (AP) -- The two victims in the weekend crash of an experimental plane here were the president of an oilfield service company and a Broussard woman. Pecan Island residents said they were watching from porches as pilot David Jeansonne, 40, of Lafayette did rolls in the air above his camp. His passenger was Jennifer Girouard, 23. The jet crashed at about noon, near the camp on Louisiana 82, killing both. "You couldn't even tell it was a plane," witness Tina Veazey, 38, said. They had a big hole in the ground, and there were pieces everywhere." Jeansonne, who was the president of Omni Energy Services Corp., was flying an L39C, a Czech-made plane used to train jet fighter pilots, according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman. The L39 is classified as an experimental aircraft, meaning it is a production model not certified by the FAA. Jeansonne was certified to fly single-engine aircraft and helicopters, according to the Landings.com pilots database. The jet is owned by Northern Lights Aerobatics USA Inc. of Lafayette. Veazey, 38, lives near Jeansonnes camp. She said she had been outside with her children watching Jeansonne earlier as he flew a propeller-driven plane. When he returned in his jet, she was looking out from her living room "He went way up in the air and then he was coming back down and he was flying upside down," Veazey said. "And he was flying just above the treeline." Angelle Broussard, 16, said she was watching from her porch. She said Jeansonne had rolled the plane over as he flew above his camp. "It was upside down and he just like went straight down really fast," she said. FAA spokesman John Clabes said Jeansonne took off from Lafayette Regional Airport about half an hour before the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident, along the Baton Rouge district office of the FAA.