BOUTERIE

Edward Daniel “Danny” Bouterie III passed away Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, at St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington.

He was 45. Danny was a native of New Orleans and a resident of Mandeville for the past 37 years.

He was the beloved father of Ian Hano; brother of Constance Beaujeaux, Larry Bouterie, Wayne Bouterie and the late Sydney Wacksman; son of the late Sylvia Oramous Bouterie and Edward Daniel Bouterie Jr.; and grandson of Elvira Bachemin Bouterie and the late Edward Daniel Bouterie Sr. and the late Edna Wilde Oramous and Emanuel Oramous.

He was uncle of Heather Beaujeaux, Brian Beaujeaux, Angela Bouterie, Jonathan Bouterie and Amanda Poissant.

Danny was a builder in the construction business.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend religious services in the chapel of Bagnell & Son Funeral Home, 75212 Lee Road, Covington, on Saturday Sept. 13, 2008, at 1 p.m. Interment will be in Mandeville City Cemetery. Visitation will be after 11 a.m. Saturday.

MADISON

Robert J. “Buddy” Madison was a native and longtime resident of Slidell. Born on March 24, 1920, he passed away on Aug. 29 at 88 years of age.

Buddy graduated from Slidell High School, where he received the “Best Athlete Award.” Buddy graduated from Pearl River Community College on a football and baseball scholarship and later was inducted into the PRCC Sports Hall of Fame. Buddy graduated from Southeastern Louisiana College with a B.S. in Science Education and received his M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Southern Mississippi.

He played with the Andalusia Rams, the minor league team for the St. Louis Cardinals, until a knee injury caused his early retirement from baseball.

A U.S. Army Air Corps veteran serving during WWII, Buddy taught chemistry and physics in Morgan City and at Slidell High School and mathematics at William Carey College and was an assistant professor of computer science at Southeastern Louisiana University. Buddy was one of the founding members of Aldersgate Methodist Church. He was an avid golfer and ballroom dancer and was active in the Slidell GOSH, SHS Alumni Association and PRCC Alumni Association.

Recently he fulfilled a lifelong dream by writing his first book titled “A Calculus Primer.”

Buddy is survived by his wife, Betty Broaddus Madison; three daughters, Leah Cheshire and husband Vince of Slidell, Kathy Wilson and husband John of West Monroe, and Carol Ludden and husband Brendan of Brandon, Fla., as well as his stepdaughter Lynn Kesselring of Slidell and stepson James Kesselring and wife Sylvia of Oregon.

He is also survived by eight grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, and five step-great-grandchildren along with one brother, Francis Madison and wife Maisie; two sisters, Ellen Goodman and husband Vince and Noelle Embree.

Buddy was preceded in death by his first wife, Karla Neuhauser Madison; his mother and father, Marie Antoinette Lagman Madison and A.B. Carl Madison; two brothers, Carl Jr. and Ralph Madison; and two sisters, Georgia and Mary Madison.

Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral

services at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 360 Robert Blvd., Slidell, at noon Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008. The Rev. Chris Andrews and the Rev. John Williams will officiate.

Interment will be in Dubuisson Lawn Cemetery at a later date.

All visitation will be at the church on Tuesday from 10 a.m. until noon.

Donations to Hospice Care of Louisiana/Mississippi are preferred, in lieu of flowers.

Arrangements by Honaker Funeral Home, Inc., Slidell.