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Mr. Kermit Couvillion
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Home Phone: -- Obituary: Kermit “Coach” J. Couvillion – Long-time Supporter of Athletics Kermit “Coach” J. Couvillion GRAND COTEAU – Memorial services for Kermit J. Couvillion, age 90, will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 20, 2010, in the St. Charles Catholic Church in Grand Coteau. Fr. Ferd Derrera, S. J. will officiate at the Memorial service. Kermit was a resident of Sunset. He died on Monday, February 15, 2010, at his residence. Kermit was born January 15, 1920 in Redfish, Louisiana; he is the son of, John Couvillion and Alberta Sutton Couvillion. He is survived by his beloved wife of sixty years, Rose Miller Couvillion, one brother, Raymond Couvillion and his wife Delores. Preceded in death by his parents: John Couvillion and Alberta Sutton, three brothers Albert, Stanley and Hansel Couvillion, and one sister, Ollie Couvillion Ferina. At the age of eighteen, Kermit joined the US Marine Corps and served for four years in the Pacific during WWII. Upon his discharge, he returned to Melville. While working in Sunset he met the love of his life, Rose Miller and they married in July of 1949. He then attended Southwestern Louisiana Institute and received a BA and BS in Physical Education. Kermit and Rose then moved to Baton Rouge where he received his Master’s degree in Education at LSU. After graduation, Kermit began a long career in education, and coaching at Opelousas High School, Sunset High, and Opelousas Catholic. In his first year of coaching at Opelousas High School, his team won the State Boxing Title. In 1962, he coached the Sunset High baseball team to a State Championship. He ended his long career of educating young people as the principal at Cherry Street Academy in Opelousas. Kermit was a member of many Civic Clubs and professional organizations, including the YMBC of Sunset, the Sertoma Club, which acknowledged Kermit’s kindness with the Mankind Award in 1988, the LHSAA and was a lifetime member of the Durio-Lavergne American Legion Post # 237 in Sunset. After retiring, Kermit continued to give his time and expertise to many schools and organizations, including South West Louisiana Institution, which is now University Louisiana at Lafayette, Academy of the Sacred Heart, Beau Chene High School, Opelousas Catholic, and Lafayette Little League, also American Legion Baseball of Lafayette. Beau Chene High School is where he was named an ambassador for the school, in 1995, the South St. Landry Youth Baseball Park was renamed in honor of Kermit, as a way of showing the love and respect to the man who spent his life working with the youth of South Louisiana as a teacher and coach. Mrs. Rosie would like to thank our family and friends who gave their care and showed compassion to us. I also will to thank Dr. Scott Sibille and staff of the Sunset Medical Clinic, Complete Home Health, Hospice of Acadiana and St. Charles Catholic Church. Kermit “Coach” will surely be missed by all. Words of comfort to the family may be expressed at www.sibillefuneralhomes. com Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Sibille Funeral Home of Grand Coteau. Athletic Network Footnote: Kermit Couvillion served on a graduate assistantship in Athletics in the late 1960s. He special area of expertise and interest was the proper care of baseball/softball fields, which he did on a voluntary basis for many schools in the area…and for several years, the field at UL – pre-Tigue Moore Field. Thank you, Coach.
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