Paulette Vitto

New Iberia – Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am, on Saturday, September 12, 2026, at Pellerin Funeral Home, for Paulette Vitto, 75, who passed away on Saturday, August 29, 2026.

Visitation will be held Saturday, from 9:00 am until 11:00 am, at Pellerin Funeral Home, in New Iberia.

Paulette Vitto was born to the late Rufus and Zenobia Johnson Vitto in Lafayette, LA. She was a long-time resident of New Iberia, La. She was the first black to graduate in 1969 from New Iberia Senior High School. She attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, La, studying accounting.

She was a very hard-worker and a Go-Getter. She worked for the Iberia Parish Tax Assessors office starting in 1976. While working at the assessor’s office she picked up many other skills like floral arranging, restaurant management, interior decorating, seamstress. She loved music so much that she became a DJ known as “DJ Wonder Woman.” She believed in orchestrating gatherings of family and friends and was Loved Dearly. She retired after 28 from the Iberia Parish Tax Assessor’s office.

She was a member of The New Iberia Central Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. She diligently studied and loved teaching the bible to others.

She leaves to mourn her one son, Jonald Cretez Vitto, New Iberia, LA, one brother, Weldon “Don” Vitto (Linda) and; two sisters, Margaret V. Thomas (Milton) of Baton Rouge, LA, and Janet V. Jack of New Iberia, LA; six nieces, nine nephews, and a host of great nieces/nephews, great-great nieces/nephews, relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Rufus Vitto and Zenobia Johnson Vitto; six brothers, Robert Vitto, Rufus Vitto, Jr., Spencer Vitto, Claude Vitto, Thomas Vitto, Sullivan Vitto, Esau Vitto and Avery Vitto; and three sisters, Lillian V. Jones, Angeline V. Paul and Narcy V. Williams.

Pellerin Funeral Home, 502 Jefferson Terrace, New Iberia, LA 70560 (337.365.3331)