home sitesearch contact fan about
home
  Submit/Update Profile  

Search the Network:




People Search

Find an individual who either played a sport or was a member of a support group. Search by last name by clicking on the first letter of the person's last name.


Mr. L. J. Raymond (Deceased)
Graduated 1949

Home:
1510 Bellemoor Dr.
Plaquemine, LA 70764

Work:

Home Phone: 225-687-4078
Work Phone: --
Fax: --
Email: dear2pop@aol.com

Football Letterman, 1947 & 48.

* * * * * *

Obituary:

L.J. Raymond, Football 45-48

L. J. Raymond, first Coach at Marksville High
Avoyelles Today.Com

slideshow Former Marksville High Football Coach and multiple Hall of Fame coach/official L.J. Raymond died Monday, January 10, 2010.

Lawton John (L.J.) “Coach: Raymond died at 6:35 a.m., at Our Lake of the Lady Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge.

Visitation at Wilbert Funeral Home in Plaquemine Tuesday, Jan. 11 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Wednesday, Jan. 12, from 8 a.m. until Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Plaquemine. Mass will be celebrated by Father Gerald Burns. Entombment will be at Grace Memorial Park.

Raymond is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law (Cyndy and Harry Bickham and Dianne and Billy Bujol, all of Plaquemine), two sons and daughters-in-law (Randy and Luciene Raymond of Mandeville and Chris and Linda Raymond of Plaquemine), 13 grandchildren (Beau Raymond and wife Heather, Chad Raymond and wife Jenna, Clint Bickham and wife Jamie, Brad Bickham and wife Nicole, Lindsay Raymond Licata and husband Nick, Jaclyn Raymond, Heidi, Christopher, Angelle and Billy Bujol Jr., Luke, Hannah, and Abbie Albarez), Great grandchildren (Carter and Jack Raymond, Hunter Bickham, Kaleb Bickham, Vince and Drew Lieata, Lilly Rose Albarez), and special friend Betty Blanchard.

Preceded in death by wife Muriel “Mookie” Raymond, parents Lawton and Ellen Raymond.

Pallbearers will be Clint and Brad Bickham, Christopher Bujol, Beau and Chad Raymond, and Frank Shockley.

Honorary Pallbearers will be Charles Bujol, Nolan Sharon, Bubbie Dupont, Phil Breaux, Charlie Moore, Emory Broussard, Ronald Richard, Bill Fadol, Kenneth Boagni, Fred Wyble, Ray Delahoussaye, and Irion Bordelon.

Raymond graduated from Southwestern Louisiana Institute (University of La. Lafayette) and received his Masters Plus Thirty from Louisiana State University.

After he was head coach at Marksville High School where he founded the football program in 1948 he coached at AIC Opelousas High and then spent many years as head coach, assistant principal, and Principal at Plaquemine High School. After retirement from the Iberville Parish School System, Raymond served as the Administrator at St. John High School in Plaquemine.

He was a member of the La. High School Athletic Assn. Athletic Hall of Fame, the LSU Track Officials Hall of Fame, Track Coaches Hall of Fame.

He was President of the La. Principal Assn., LSU Track Officials Assn., and Baton Rouge Area Football and Basketball Officials Assn.

He was a man of Manresa, Group Eight.

Memorial donations may be made to St. John Interparochial School System (58645 St. Clement Ave., Plaquemine, La. and St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Raymond spent many years as the principal at Plaquemine High School, and, after retirement from the Iberville Parish School System, went on to serve as the principal at St. John High School in Plaquemine. He came to Plaquemine and coached a state runner-up football team in the 1960s. He was a member of the La. High School Athletic Assn. Hall of Fame, the LSU Track Officials Hall of Fame, and the Track Coaches Hall of Fame.
Athletic Network Footnote: Click here for L.J. (back center) and teammates at a UL football game in 2002: http://athleticnetwork.net/picpopup.php?piclibID=1559 and http://athleticnetwork.net/picpopup.php?piclibID=1545 where he is back right.

Click here for Randy Raymond’s AN Profile: http://athleticnetwork.net/site.php?pageID=55&profID=1082