Linda Graves

MANDEVILLE ~ A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 11:30 a.m. in East Fork Baptist Church (17278 Hwy 1054 Kentwood, LA 70444) for Linda Marie Graves, age 76, who passed away Monday, October 27, 2025 at St. Tammany Hospital in Covington.

The family requests that visiting hours be observed at East Fork Baptist Church (17278 Hwy 1054 Kentwood, LA 70444) from 10:00 a.m. Saturday until service time on Saturday.

Interment was in Evangeline Memorial Gardens on Wednesday, October 29, 2025. Pastor Chad Thibodeaux of Vatican Baptist Church officiated at the service.

Mrs. Graves was a native of Plaquemine and a resident of Arnaudville, Kentwood, and Mandeville. She was employed with the Louisiana Department of Insurance.

Survivors include three daughters, Nicole Peppo and her husband, Andre’, of Madisonville, Rene Blackwelder and her husband, Wayne, of Mandeville; and De Ette McClain, and her husband, Ehrett, of Mandeville; one stepson, Steven Graves of Watson; her step-father, Fred Bishop, of Kentwood; eight grandchildren; twelve great grandchildren; nine step grandchildren; one brother, John Borsky of Kentwood; and one sister, Julie Dauzat and her husband, Roy, of Mandeville.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bruce Graves; and her father, James Lloyd Schuler; her mother, Fannie Bishop

Melancon Funeral Home, (337) 896-3232, is in charge of arrangements.