Obituary: Funeral services are Saturday at 2 p m at St Genevieve Catholic Church for Mrs Leah Sommers, 88, the former Leah Schexnyder, who died Thursday at her Lafayette home. Burial is in Calvary Cemetery. Survivors include five daughters, Mrs Ralph (Anna Lee) Mier, Mrs Ham (Elaine) Hamilton, Mrs. Fred (Nell) Landry, and Mrs. Ernest (Georette) Carbo Jr., all of Lafayette, and Mrs Fred (Susan) Aultman of Sacramento, Calif.; a half sister, Gladys Cuccio, Orange, Texas, 13 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Alfred “Dutch” Sommers; her parents, Rayne natives Leodice and Azema Lavergne Schexyder; a sister. Mrs. Louis Mier, and a brother, Leo Schexnyder. She was a native of Rayne and resident of Lafayette for 70 years.
