Category Obituaries

George Joseph Ohmer Jr., a resident of Chauvin, joined his father in heaven at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, May 11, 2010, surrounded by his loving family, after a valiant three-year battle with cancer. Born to George Joseph Ohmer Sr. and Florence Barras Ohmer on Sept. 6, 1940, in Labadieville, he lived his life serving his Lord and dedicating himself to his wife and daughters. A gifted musician, George spent most of his life in Amelia, where at age 12 he acquired his first guitar and began a lifelong love of making and writing music. He leaves behind to cherish his memory his wife of 52 years, Eva Mae Gaudet Ohmer, whom he married Aug...

Cleveland Joseph Ohmer, Sr., 86, a resident of Amelia, passed away on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at the Ochsner St. Mary in Morgan City, Louisiana.

Cleveland was born on February 16, 1935 in Bayou Chene in a house boat, the son of Philip Columbus Ohmer and Helen Mary Verret Ohmer. He was the 4th child born of 9 children.

Cleveland grew up on the Bayous of South Louisiana, making a living hunting, fishing, and trapping. He was a welder by trade and eventually became a USCG licensed Captain. He was a jack of all trades and did whatever was necessary to provide for his family. He drew the blueprints for his shrimp boat and built it with his sons. Unfortunately, every time he wanted to work on it, it would rain so he affectionately named it “Raindrops”...

Lucy Ohmer Tabor, 74, a resident of Amelia, passed away Thursday, November 3, 2016 at Terrebonne General Medical Center. Lucy was born on December 1, 1941 in Bayou Chene, the daughter of Philip Ohmer and Helen Verret Ohmer. Lucy was a faithful member of Pharr Chapel United Methodist Church. She was very devoted to her family and always made sure that everyone was taken care of before herself. She enjoyed cooking and pampering her family with her delicious meals. Lucy especially loved spending time with her five grandchildren. She was a lifelong fan of Elvis Presley. Her most recent hobby and love was “following” her family and friends on Facebook or being able to communicate with them via text message on her iPhone...

Huey John Ohmer Sr., a native of Bayou Chene and a resident of Morgan City, passed away Monday, September 8, 2014 at the age of 81.

Huey leaves to cherish his memory six loving children, Huey J. Ohmer Jr. and his wife, Darlene, of Amelia, Julie O. Barbier and son-in-law, Gerald, of Morgan City; Nancy O. Gros and her husband, Lynn, Belleville, TX., Cindy O. Gunter and her husband, Chris, of Morgan City, Jimmy A. Ohmer and his wife, Chantel, of Amelia, and Joel A. Ohmer and his wife, Michelle, of Houma; one brother, Cleveland Ohmer; five sisters, Lona Pennison, Loretta Tabor, Helen Benoit, Lucy Tabor, and Geneva Carnley; 12 grandchildren, Heath Ohmer and his fiancé, Megan Mayon, Heidi Ohmer, Brittany Barbier Evans and her husband, Josh, Trey Gros, Cameron Gros, McKenna Gros, Ashlyn Br...

Susan Catherine Ohmer, the last surviving daughter of a pioneering Dayton family, died Tuesday, one month shy of her 106th birthday.

Miss Ohmer had lived most of her life at Floral Hill, a 14-room house on Creighton Avenue built in 1864 by her grandfather, Nicholas Ohmer. The neighborhood, near the Dayton Mental Health Center, is known as Ohmer Park.

She died at the Maria-Joseph Center, where she lived with her sister Ruth since 1987. Ruth Ohmer, a former society editor for The Journal and The Herald, died last July at the age of 96.

“Susie is the boss, the one who always decided things for us all,” Ruth Ohmer said in a 1987 interview.

Another sister, Alice, who also lived at Floral Hill, died in December 1986 at the age of 9...

Mrs. Emma Althoff Ohmer, 92, of 1350 Creighton Ave., widow of Charles T. Ohmer, a Dayton realtor and civic leader, died a 1 a.m. Saturday at her residence after an illness of one year

She and her husband developed the residential section known as Ohmer Park.

Born in Dayton, she was the daughter of the late Pius and Catherine Althoff, pioneer Daytonian. She attended  St. Joseph parochial school and Mount Notre Dame Academy at Reading, O.

In 1882, she married Mr. Ohmer in the old St. Joseph Catholic Church.

As a young bride, Mrs. Ohmer braved the rigors of frontier life, as she and her husband moved to the then sparsely settled area of northwestern Minnesota to engage in wheat farming.

During her 23 years there and after her return to Dayton sh...