Verna Mae Talbot Heck

Verna Mae Talbot Heck, 90, a native of Labadieville and resident of Thibodaux for more than 60 years, died Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to funeral time Thursday at Chauvin Funeral Home. Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home chapel. She is survived by one son, Carl E. Heck Jr. and wife, Amelia C. Heck, of Houma; one daughter, Susan H. Schwab and husband, Jerry Schwab, of Houma; one brother, Louis E. Talbot and wife, Mary Kline Talbot, of Houma; three sisters, Willie Lout Chilton of California, Alma T. Deligans and husband, Jean Deligans, Vivian T. Bartlett and husband, Thomas Bartlett, of Houston, and Janet T. Green of Jackson, Miss.; 11 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl E. Heck Sr.; her parents, Everett Talbot and Alma Folse Talbot; one son, David T. Heck; four brothers, Everett L. Talbot, Carroll Talbot, Richard Talbot and Douglas Talbot; one sister, Edith T. Denson; and two brothers-in-law, Carl Kenton Chilton and Travis Green. She received a degree in education for Normal College at the age of 17 years. She taught school in Golden Meadow, after graduation until her marriage to Carl E. Heck. She traveled around the country with her husband and first two children during his four-year term in the Army during World War II. They settled in Thibodaux in 1950.