Nicholas Bourgeois

Captain Nicholas Jay Bourgeois, 28, a native of Thibodaux, LA and a resident of Schriever, LA died Monday, June 7, 2010. Visitation will be Monday, June 14, 2010 from 8:00 am until service time at Living Word Church. Funeral services will begin at 12:00 pm following visitation at the church. He is survived by his wife, Miranda Kirchner Bourgeois; parents, Lester "Biff" Charles Bourgeois, Jr., and Carrie "Dee" Gros Bourgeois, Paula Bush Voisin and Judge Glynn F. Voisin; father and mother-in-law, Michael Kirchner and Karen "Kitty" Wagner Kirchner; sons, Schriever Bourgeois and David Bourgeois; brothers and sisters, Jason Bourgeois and wife Candace, Brody Bourgeois and wife Abbie, Glynn F. Voisin, Natalie Voisin, Patrick Voisin, Nicole Voisin Cayton and husband Stewart, Monique Voisin Burnell and husband Tim, Jonathan Lirette, Olivia Lirette, Lillian Bourgeois, Rebecca Bourgeois, Adam Bourgeois, Katherine Bourgeois and Jeffrey Bourgeois, and Ann Bourgeois; sister-in-law, Kiery Kirchner Franklin and husband Chris Franklin; grandparents, Grace Mallet Bush, Lester Bourgeois, Sr., and Rita Bourgeois; great-great-aunt, Clara Sciambra; great aunt, Lousie Bourgeois and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. He is preceded in death by his grandfather, Natale A. Bush, Jr., great grandparents, Natale A. Bush, Sr., and Kate Sciambra Bush and Olide Mallet and Edmonia Landry Mallet. Nicholas Bourgeois graduated from Houma Christian School in 1999.He enlisted in the Navy and completed Nuclear Power School before being selected to attend the United States Naval Academy. Upon graduation in 2006, Nicholas received a commission to the Marine Corps. He servied with 2nd Batallian, 8th Marines, in Camp Lejeune as an infantry officer and deployed both to Ramadi, Iraq, and to Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Mostly recently, he completed the Marital Arts Instructor Trainer Course in Quanitco, VA. Nicholas lived according to his priorities: God, family and country. He exemplified Christ in his words and deeds while humbly striving to allow God to mold him into a better servant, husband, and father. God's unconditional love for him was the foundation and example that Nicholas applied to his relationship with his family. He truly loved and honored his parents and was thankful for their wisdom and the examples they set living in fatih. He called his wife "My Lady" and kept up in the gentlemanly habit of opening doors.He aspired to one day be a butcher at his family's meat market where he could raise his children to appreciate the blessings of family and the importance of the legacy they've left behind. To him 'snow" was synonymous with "stupid", internet battles were won with carefully crafted haikus, and heroes played guitars with buttons instead of strings. Nicholas Bourgeois was a worship leader, a would-be pirate,a master of the hand stand, amd "That Guy" who would always stand up and recklessly say what everyone else was thinking. Nicholas leaves behind two beautiful boys and a wife who will forever consider him the greatest blessing she was ever given. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Nicholas Bourgeois Memorial Fund which was been opened at Whitney National Bank of Houma; 7910 Main Street, Houma, Louisiana 70360 (985) 868-1660.