Lester Dupre

Funeral services for Lester Joseph Dupre, 65, will be held on Friday, February 7, 2014 at 7:00 pm with the visitation beginning at 3:00 pm at the New Zion Baptist Church in Eunice, LA. Burial will be in the Resthaven Gardens of Memory in Baton Rouge, LA on Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 11:00 am. Pastor Allen Ben will conduct the funeral ceremony.
He died on Friday, January 31, 2014, at the San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland, Calif.
Survivors include his l wife, Nazie Dean Dupre of Rancho Cucamonga, CA; his mother, Ethelrine Johnson Beans of Eunice, LA; five daughters, Stephanie D. (John) Prudhomme of Eunice, LA; Andrea (Desmond) Atkins of Los Angeles, Calif.; Sherrell, Tara and Terry Dupre of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.; eight brothers and three sisters; six grandchildren, Danell R. Issac, Jr. “DJ”, Taylor R. Atkins, Bethany S. Issac, Trevor R. Atkins, Payton C. Atkins and Mason A.M. Davis; four godchildren, Keith Brignac, Jacqueline N. Vallare, Kendall C. Bellard, Brittany J. Frank and D’Shaya Flukers and a host of sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his father, Hayward Dupre; his maternal grandparents, Benjamin and Bertha Jordan; Jewel Johnson; his paternal grandparents, Fred Dupre, Sr and Regina F. Dupre, his uncle “Bruh” Robert Harold Dupre and his “baby brother” Charles Wayne Johnson.
Owens-Thomas Funeral Home of Eunice is in charge of arrangements.