Deborah Doggette

Deborah Ann Goldthwaite Doggette, 69, passed to glory after a 3-year battle with pancreatic cancer, on Thursday April 2, 2020. Mrs. Doggette was a native and lifelong resident of New Orleans, of late in her beloved Lakeview neighborhood. She attended Soule Business School and was an insurance clerk at Kemper Insurance for many years. She was an active member and Eucharistic Minister of St. Dominic Church and an adoration chapel member. She was preceded in death by her mother Eleanor Vitry, and her father Wesley Frances Goldthwaite. She is survived by her beloved husband Joseph William Doggette, her step daughter Shannon Elizabeth Doggette currently residing in Nashville, her sisters Eleanor Goldthwaite Hebert (Richard), and Edith Goldthwaite Davidson (Eddie), as well as Sister-in-Law Me-Me Doggette Leblanc of Hammond (Maurice), Brother-in-Law James Doggette of Nevada (Debbie), and Brother-in-Law David Doggette (deceased) (Susan) Doggette (Mississippi). She is survived by nieces and nephews, Vicky Esteves Vaughn (Kirk), Mary Hebert Bornholdt Stuart (Matt), Valerie Esteves Heinz Castaneda (Willie), Robin Hebert Maggio (Michael), August Esteves, Jean Hebert Schuster Fitzmorris (Paul), Keefe Esteves, Jennifer Hebert Williamson (Craig), Vanessa Esteves Riggio Dean (Willie), many great and great-great nieces and nephews, and so many loving friends, for whom she was always a beacon of love and happiness. She accepted everyone for who they were, and was a devoted, loving, and spiritual woman. She so loved her Mr. Joe, and cat Loco, as well as family, traditions, friends, her Jaguar, The Beatles and all things British, the Star Trek series’ and its message of hope, acceptance and peace, and was well known for using her paper cameras to photograph her joy rising and blessings.
Due to the CoVid-19 social distancing requirements, a private interment and blessing was held Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at St. Louis #3 Cemetery at 2:30 PM. Once the Co-Vid-19 distancing requirements have passed, the family will receive friends with a blessing, mass, and celebration of life to be determined. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations can be made in her name to Spaymart at http://spaymart.org/ .

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