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Le Barn Rouge in Lafayette was the setting for the ceremony uniting Jenna Victoria Daniels and James Lynn Godwin in marriage on April 14, 2018.
Barbara Broussard officiated the nuptial.
The beautiful bride is the daughter of Donald and Glena Gaspard of Gueydan and Carley and Brenetta Daniels of Maurice. Her maternal grandparents are Glynn Gillentine (deceased) of Gueydan and Elizabeth Gillentine of Crowley. Her paternal grandparents were Homer and Delta Daniels of Gueydan.
The groom is the son of Jim and Carlene Godwin of Abbeville. His maternal grandparents were Rudolph and Nita Touchet of Abbeville. His paternal grandparents were Lurlene Riddick of Milton and Mack Godwin of DeKalb Texas.
The bride wore an ivory Galina Signature dress. It had a plunging neckline, scallop-edged beaded lace bodice that lead to a fitted flare trumpet skirt with layers of tulle ruffles. The back of the dress was a low button design that provided a flawless finish. She completed her wedding attire with a beautiful sheer veil trimmed with a beaded flowered headpiece.
She carried her blue and white rose bouquet with greenery. She went with tradition and had something old and borrowed which was her sister’s veil, something new, were her boots and something blue, her blue Sapphire ring.
The maid of honor was Jaycee Porter; friend of bride, and the matron of honor was Jacqueline Daniels Richard, sister of bride. Both wore champagne colored dresses of their choice. The bridesmaids were, Amanda Richard, friend of bride; Dawn Landry, friend of bride; Janise Townley, friend of bride and Shelby Domingue, friend of bride. They wore navy blue dresses of their choice.
The flower girl was Lily Disotell, a friend’s daughter. She wore a white lace dress. She carried a wooden bucket with roses.
The best man was P.J. Townley, friend of groom. Serving as groomsmen were David Godwin, brother of groom; Eric Frederick, nephew of groom; Ross Richard, brother-in-law of bride; Bryan Guillory, friend of groom and Kyle Harrington, friend of groom. The junior groomsmen were Drake Godwin, son of groom; Mason Godwin, son of groom, Lane Godwin nephew of groom and Karson Richard, nephew of bride.
The groom wore a straw cowboy hat, white button shirt, tan vest, blue jeans and cowboy boots. The groomsmen and junior groomsmen wore white button down chocolate vest, blue jeans and cowboy hats. The boutonnieres were duck calls that were made by the bride’s grandfather, (Glenn Gillentine) trimmed with baby’s breath. The ring bearers were Jaylen Godwin, son of bride and groom and Kase Richard, godchild of bride. The attire worn were white button down shirts, tan vests, blue jeans and cowboy boots.
The mother of the bride wore a beaded charcoal colored dress.
The mother of the groom wore a taupe beaded pant suit. The corsages for the mothers were white flowers with blue and silver ribbon accented with pearls.
Following the ceremony, the guests were delighted to see the beautifully decorated tables with white table cloths, navy blue laced burlap table runners, white and navy mason jars filled with flowers, wooden barrels and a lace back drop lined with lights.
The bride’s cake was a four tier western cake with flowers, made by ‘Sky’s The Limit Cakes’. The groom’s cake was a replica of a tan Yeti cooler topped with Michelob Ultra bottles to complete the look.
Terry Boudreaux served both cakes. Music was provided by Justin Cormier.
Abacus Catering served approximately 200 guests for the reception.
The couple’s destination for their honeymoon was a Frank Foster Cruise, and will reside in Erath upon their return.

His career was apparently winding down when Edward LeRoy returned to Lafayette to walk a wire strung high above the high school campus.
“Mr. LeRoy has been walking the high wire for many years,” the Lafayette Advertiser reported on July 5, 1941, “and states that he first learned to do this high-wire walking in Lafayette when he was a boy.” His act, the account said, “will consist of various tricks on the wire” and that “he states he is the only man who is able to perform some of the more difficult stunts.”
I’ve looked in vain for record of his birth and death and details of his early life. I suspect that Edward LeRoy was the performer’s stage name, and that when he was a boy in Lafayette he was known as Edward LeRoy Broussard or Thibodeaux or Hebert or some other last name.
The Advertiser said he’d “performed all over the United States from many high buildings,” and that was apparently true.
I found an advertisement in the Houston Post that in May 1914 proclaimed him “King of the High Wire.” The ad promised that the “sensational tight wire walker” would put on a “sensational act 50 feet in the air, amongst the tree tops.” They seemed to like the word “sensational.”
LeRoy had apparently performed in Natchez several weeks before. The Natchez Democrat reported in April 1914, that he would close out his stay there “with an exhibition of wire-walking that has never been equaled in this city.” He was first going to walk a wire strung on top of the Baker Grand Theatre, and then put on “a clever slack wire performance inside of the theatre.”
He was in Kansas in July 1919, when the Fort Scott Monitor reported that the “high wire walker extraordinary more than lived up to all advance notices when he performed on a wire stretched [from two tall buildings] across Main Street.”
“While a crowd of 1,500 people looked on, LeRoy did every conceivable stunt on the tight wire,” that account continued. “He walked frontwards and backwards and then, to the astonishment of the crowd, he imitated a drunken man performing on a wire.”
There were shrieks from the crowd when he pretended to slip, but “it was all in the act, as not once did LeRoy lose his bearings, and seemed as much at home on the wire as on the ground.”
His name crops up regularly in old copies of Billboard, the show business magazine, and in the 1940s he sometimes performed with his wife. A 1942 blurb referred to them as Edward and Helen LeRoy of the LeRoy High Wire Troupe. Their act included something called the “revolving ladder” routine. In 1944, another blurb reported that “The Great LeRoy, high wire,” had been signed by the Ray Brothers Circus for performances in Houston and New Orleans. I presume that was Edward.
That seems to have been one of his last gigs. Billboard recorded on Christmas Day, 1949, that “Edward LeRoy, former wire walker for 35 years, has been a switchman for the M.K.T. Railroad in Houston for several years.”
He’d dropped in to visit old friends at the Billboard office in St. Louis, according to that report, then as far as I can tell dropped out of the limelight.
A collection of Jim Bradshaw’s columns, Cajuns and Other Characters, is now available from Pelican Publishing. You can contact him at jimbradshaw4321@gmail.com or P.O. Box 1121, Washington LA 70589.

April 19, 1936 ~ April 27, 2018

COW ISLAND — A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1:00 PM on Monday, April 30, 2018 at St. Anne Catholic Church honoring the life of James “Teanny Man” Hebert, 82, who passed away on Friday, April 27, 2018 at his residence. He will be laid to rest at Harrington Cemetery with Reverend Matthew Barzare officiating the services.
He is survived by his two sons, James B. Hebert and his wife, Charlsie of Cow Island and Roylee G. Hebert and his wife, Angela Mayeux Hebert of Sunset; two daughters, Lorna Bourque of Kaplan and Tawana and her husband, Pete Vaughan of Kaplan; one sister, Lina Ruth Miller of Ragley; one brother, Mickey Hebert of Lake Charles; one brother-in-law, Dale Stelly of Cow Island; 9 grandchildren; and 23 great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Florine S. Hebert; one grandson, Brock Vaughan; one brother, John “Bootsie” Hebert; and his parents, Roy Hebert and the former Beulah Broussard.
The family would like to thank Hospice of Acadiana, Carleen Grogan, and Priscilla Broussard for their special care.
The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Vincent Funeral Home - Kaplan, 300 N. Eleazar Ave., on Sunday, April 29, 2018 from 4:00 PM until 9:00 PM with a rosary being prayed at 7:00 PM; Monday, April 30, 2018 from 9:00 AM until the procession departs for the church.
All funeral arrangements are being conducted by Vincent Funeral Home of Kaplan, (337) 643-7276 [Service Information 225-5276]. Condolences may be sent to the Hebert family www,vincentfuneral home.net.