Funeral services for Walter J. Authement, Sr., 72, of Sour Lake, will be held on Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in the Praise Christian Center with Pastor Reggie Lloyd, Jr. and Rev. Wayne Volz officiating. Interment will follow at Eminence Cemetery in Wallisville at 3:00 p.m. A gathering of family and friends will be held on Friday, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Claybar Kelley-Watkins Funeral Home. He was born August 8, 1936, in Lake Charles, LA to Cyrus and Margaret Lacombe Authement and passed away on November 23, 2008 in Beaumont.
Mr. Authement had worked as a roughneck and will be remembered for the many years he was an Assembly of God minister. He loved his family and they fondly remember his great dry sense of humor.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his sister, Betty Lucky, and grandson, Joseph Authement. Those left to cherish his memory are his wife, Linda Authement; sons, Walter Igor Authement, Jr. and wife, Pamela, of Sour Lake, Jeff Authement and wife, Patricia, of Baytown, Ken Authement and wife, Rebecca, of Nederland, and Troy Authement of Corpus Christi; 9 grandsons, 3 granddaughters, 1 great grandson; brother, Harry Authement; and sisters, Nettie Matejicek, Myrtle Sonnier, and Dorothy Breaux.