Consuello Christine Latham

Published 12:01 am Wednesday, December 14, 2016

SLIDELL, La. — Services for Consuello Christine Latham, 86, who died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, will be 7 p.m. Friday at Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, 1751 Gause Boulevard West, in Slidell, La.
A private burial will be at a later date.    
Visitation will be from 4 p.m. until service time Friday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Latham was born in Church Hill and later moved to Louisiana where she started her career as a public health nurse in Port Sulphur, La., and later went on to work at the Veterans Administration Hospital in New Orleans until 1981, where she ultimately retired from nursing. All who knew her knew she was very compassionate about nursing and loved what she did.
She was preceded in death by one daughter, Sharon Rose Houpy Niles.
Survivors include four children, Deborah Christine “Christy” Houpy Wegmann of Slidell, Walter Thomas “Tommy” Houpy of Hot Springs, Ark., Charles Edward “Sonny” Houpy of Jesuit Bend and David Wayne Houpy of Venice; and a number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
The family thanks all at Anderson Memory Care for their love and compassion for mom. Thank you to the entire staff and nurses for making mom’s stay at Anderson such an enjoyable one in her last days. She truly loved living at Anderson and loved all the people there. Also, a big thank you to all of the Ochsner Home Health Care nurses, the medical team, Ochsner Northshore nurses, Ochsner Neuro Critical Care ICU and MTSU units in New Orleans; to all the doctors, nurses and therapists who took care of mom and were so kind and compassionate to her. We could not have made it through this time without you, you made it much easier to handle and were always there when we needed you. We will be forever grateful to all of you for your love you showed mom.
In lieu of flowers, the family wishes for donations to be made to Miracle Assembly of God, P.O. Box 1307, Buras, LA 70041.