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- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10537291/sidney-freyou
- Beloved Husband, Father and Grandfather.
Born at Charenton, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, the son of Simon Freyou (Frioux) (1881-1931) and Marie Anastasia Broussard Freyou (1884-1947), one of sixteen children. His brothers were Leodias Freyou (1903-1955), Leodas Freyou (1905-1968), Robert Freyou (1910-1966), William Freyou (1915-1917), George Freyou (1918), Roy Freyou (1923-2007), Whitney Freyou (1925-2016), and Winnie Freyou (1928-1997). His sisters were Aussie Freyou Crochet (1902-1971), Noemie Freyou Buteaux (1906-1924), Leah Freyou (1908-1924), Eunice Freyou Romero (1912-1991), Stella Freyou Martin (1916-2000), Sophie Freyou Bonin (1919-2005), and Edelia Freyou Johnson (1921-2007). He was a sugarcane farmer all his life, and founder of Freyou Farms, Inc. He made his home on the Freyou plantation in Iberia Parish with his wife of 37 years (from 22 January 1938), the former Irene Landry (1918-1975). They had four children, Ernest Freyou (1939-2017), Phyllis Ann Freyou Phillips (1941-), David Glenn Freyou (1944-), and John Wayne Freyou (1945-2020). From 1976 until his death he was married to Josephine Kemna, the widow of August Wiese. After a brief illness he passed from this life at Iberia General Hospital in New Iberia. A Requiem Mass was said at the Church of St. Nicholas, Lydia, the Rev. James Doiron, presiding. He was laid to rest beside Irene in the Freyou family plot in Memorial Park Cemetery, New Iberia.
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