Hannah Joyce Sarver Grado
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, April 29, at Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home Chapel in Crowley for Hannah Joyce Sarver Grado, 67, who died April 25, 2016, in Lafayette.
Deacon Phil Lazote will be officiating for the services. The family is requesting visiting hours to be held Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to the time of services. Interment will be in St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Cemetery in Abbeville.
Hannah was born in Crowley and resided in Lafayette. She graduated from St. Michael High School in 1966; she attended Louisiana Technical College earning a certificate in business and a diploma in nursing. Hannah then attended Louisiana State University at Eunice earning certification as a paramedic; one of the first women in Louisiana to obtain that certification. She spent most of her life caring for psychiatric patients at American Legion Hospital, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and then Cypress Hospital. Hannah then retired from the Lafayette Parish School Board as a nurse.
She is survived by one son, Chad Mitchell LaComb of Lafayette; and a godchild, Valarie “Cricket” Benoit.
Hannah is preceded in death by her parents, Wilbur and Laura Autin Sarver.
Condolences may be sent to the family by www.geesey-ferguson.com.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home of Crowley.
