Sidney Antoine Lasseigne

St. Martinville - A Funeral Service will be held on Friday, April 10, 2026, at 2:00 PM at Pellerin Funeral Home Chapel in St. Martinville for Sidney A. Lasseigne, 106, who died peacefully on April 1, 2026.

A visitation will take place at Pellerin Funeral Home in St. Martinville on Friday, April 10, 2026, from 8:30 AM until service time.

Sidney was the youngest of nine children born in January 1920 to Valery and Angela Robertson Lasseigne. He had vivid memories of surviving the great flood of 1927 when his family was barged to Lafayette to live in a tent city on what is now the Lafayette Municipal Golf Course. His father died when he was nine years old, but he managed to stay in school and complete the eighth grade. In his teens, he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and worked in North Louisiana. He received a draft notice for WWII but was rejected due to his poor hearing. Instead, he followed his sister Theresa to Beaumont, Texas, and found work in the Bethlehem Steel shipyards, where he was taught his first machining skills.

In 1944 he married Loula Mae Thibodeaux and their eldest child, Tony, was born in Beaumont. Soon after WWII ended, the family returned to Parks and Sidney applied for a job at Red Fox machine shop in New Iberia. Though he was turned down, he persisted and they eventually hired him. Sidney became their top machinist for thirty-eight years working long hours during the oil boom while also training young apprentices during this time.

Sidney was always enthusiastic about his profession (and loved to tell everyone the story of "the big shaft"), but his other passion was gardening. As his family grew with three more children (Larry, Mark and Sydney), he tended two large gardens with greens, beans, garlic, onions, tomatoes, potatoes and his beloved okra. He and Loula Mae canned vegetables all summer long to eat over winter. He often gifted produce to family and friends. In the fall he picked pecans, shelled them for the freezer and made his specialty sugared pecans.

Besides being a master gardener, he was also an excellent cook and loved to feed his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. For relaxation he would sit on his back porch and smoke a cigar or watch a Saints game on Sunday afternoon.

Sidney's advice for a long life should have been "Keep Moving" which, by the way, was one of his favorite brands of cigars.

He is survived by his children Linton (Tony) and wife Sandra, Lawrence (Larry) and wife Judy, Phillip Mark and his companion, Peggy, and Sydney Mae Crawford and husband Dave, his nine grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, one great- great grandchild also named Sidney, and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents Valery and Angela Robertson Lasseigne. His beloved wife Loula Mae Thibodeaux Lasseigne. His siblings Daniel, Rudolph, Eve, Mae, Camille, Leon, Bernard and Theresa. His daughter-in-law Elaine Huval Lasseigne.

The family would like to thank the staff at Landmark of Acadiana Nursing Home for caring for "Pop" with compassion.

Pellerin Funeral Home (337-332-2111) is in Charge of Arrangements.