Southern Mutual Help Association, Inc.

07/21/2026

https://www.katc.com/iberia-parish/services-set-for-long-time-southern-mutual-help-association-employee

Lurcy Marceaux was Construction and Property manager for Southern Mutual Help Association, Inc. in New Iberia for almost 50 years.

07/20/2026

A Fond farewell to our friend and family member

A friend to all - A true friend indeed

There is a large emptiness in our office and the hearts of many that cannot be filled.

Lurcy was with SMHA for almost half a century. Through his untiring dedication to SMHA’s clients he assisted in the construction of over 260 new and rehabilitated units and helped rural communities combat poverty through SMHA’s credit and debt counseling, financial literacy training, home-ownership counseling and skills transfer training.

Lurcy provided hundreds of families and communities in Acadiana a better quality of life and was committed to SMHA’s Rural Recovery after the hurricanes of 2005 and 2008 and again in 2022.

He was instrumental in coordinating SMHA’s Teche Ridge traditional neighborhood development and was the chief liaison with countless construction crews and contractors.

He was well known and well loved. Lurcy was a quiet, gentle man and if he needed something all he had to do was ask and it was done.

He was a sweet man with one of the strongest Cajun accents and loved to tell Boudreaux and Thibodeaux jokes. And he was so good at it. He told them well and brought many moments of laughter.

When someone used to ask where he was from he would tease and say from the islands. Cow Island.

Here is his obituary with arrangement details:

https://www.vincentfuneralhome.net/obituaries/lurcey-marceaux