Geneva Marie Bergeron Rozas was born to parents Marie Ida Pousson Bergeron and Amos Ernest Bergeron on July 8, 1932 in Vinton, LA. and died in the presence of family on December 5, 2017 in Irving, TX.
She was a selfless and loving mother to Jeannine Marie Rozas Cook and Darren Matthew Rozas. Geneva is preceded in death by her parents and 4 of her 5 siblings; Amos Ernest, Jr., Norma Simmons, Irma Williams and Germaine Stagg. She will be lovingly remembered by her 2 children, their spouses Charles Cook, M.D. and Laurie Lottinger Rozas, her 6 grandchildren; Bane, Reed and Meredith Cook and Kai, Ellie and Camille Rozas, her brother Clifford Bergeron and many nieces and nephews in Louisiana and Texas. Geneva spent many hours involved in the activities of her 6 grandchildren and loved to travel, not only to foreign countries but back to her roots in Louisiana.
Genevas family moved to Eunice, LA when she was an infant. She attended St. Edmunds Catholic high school where she graduated Valedictorian, class of 1950. Much later in life, when she had moved to Irving, TX she attended North Lake College excelling in what she loved the most; oil painting, sculpting and assistant teaching younger students.
Genevas was a life of unwavering Catholic faith and she had previously been a parishioner of St. Edmunds Church in Eunice, LA and of Our Lady of Fatima Church in Lafayette, LA. While living in Irving for the past 28 years, she was a Eucharistic Minister of the Church of the Incarnation at The University of Dallas.
Two and a half years ago Geneva suffered the first of 3 major strokes and finally succumbed at the age of 85. She will be cremated in accordance with the Vaticans Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith guidelines and a memorial service and interment will be held in Lafayette, LA on a later date. As a memorial, donations were requested by Geneva to be made to St. Judes Hospital for Children where she was a faithful, yearly contributor since it was founded by another devout Catholic, Danny Thomas.