♀Lillian Serret

Lillian Serret (8 February 1920 – 10 June 2006), later Lillian Nobles, was a nurse’s aide at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and one of at least nine children of a carpenter’s household. She was a first cousin of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her father John Baptist Serrette (1889–1965), an elder brother of Floyd’s mother Ida Serrette (1903–1990).

Life

Lillian was born on 8 February 1920, a daughter of John Baptist Serrette and Beatrice Carr (1896–1979). Her family was then living at Lake Charles, in Calcasieu Parish, where her father worked as a carpenter; the census taker had called there a few weeks before her birth, so she does not appear in that year’s household, which lists her parents and four older siblings. The family later lived at Beaumont, Texas, and by the mid-1930s at Baton Rouge, where her parents spent the rest of their lives.

She married Charles Reese Nobles, who died before her. She worked as a nurse’s aide and had retired by the time of her death.

Death

Lillian Nobles died on 10 June 2006, aged 86, at Baton Rouge General Medical Center–Mid City, and was buried at Cole Town (also written Coal Town) Cemetery, at Purvis, Mississippi. Her obituary, printed in The Advocate of Baton Rouge the next day, records that her husband, her parents, a sister and her brothers Raymond Serret (1913–1990) and Cleveland Serret (1916–1996) had died before her, and that she was survived by two sisters and three brothers.

Notes

The family’s name is written Serret, Serrett and Serrette across the records; her obituary gives it as Serrett. The obituary’s list of surviving brothers and sisters shows that her parents had at least nine children, more than the census records of the household name.