Joyce Elizabeth Jackson Lepetich

Published 12:01 am Wednesday, August 29, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A funeral mass for Joyce Elizabeth Jackson Lepetich, 66, of Belle Chasse, La., who died Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, will be 11 a.m. Friday at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church, 3368 Esplanade Ave., in New Orleans.   
Burial will follow at St. Louis No. 3 Cemetery in New Orleans under the direction of Mothe Funeral Home in New Orleans.
Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until service time Friday at the church.
Mrs. Lepetich was a native of Natchez, the daughter of Henry Jackson and Virgie May Herrin Jackson.
She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend.
She devoted her life to her family as a homemaker. She also enjoyed being a tour guide in the City of New Orleans.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Survivors include two children, Joyelle Adolph and husband, Denny, and Mathew Lepetich and wife, Malena; five grandchildren, Brooke and Emma Kate Adolph, Camilla, Mato and Malena Lepetich; two siblings, William Jackson and wife, Ruth, and JoAnn Gardner and husband, Ronny; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Special thanks to JoAnn Gardner and Maria Jackson for their loving care.
Donations may be made in her memory to the American Cancer Society or St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at mothefunerals.com.