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WGNO) – A GoFundMe page set up to help the family of fallen Westwego Police Officer Michael Louviere has raised more than $50,000 in four days.As of 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, the online fundraising page had raised $50,171.Fallen Westwego officer Michael LouviereAccording to the web page, set up by Louviere’s childhood friend Reese d’Aquin, 100 percent of the money raised will go to Louviere’s family. The former Marine who toured Afghanistan leaves behind a wife and two children.d’Aquin recalls in his online message that Louviere grew up in Marrero and enjoyed riding bikes with his group of friends in the neighborhood.“It was here where Michael (aka ‘The Miz’) and all our neighborhood friends would meet up to skateboard and jump BMX ramps,” d’Aquin says. “We called ourselves ATP (‘all that pedaling’). It was quite funny because there is a traffic light next to my house that provided us with a captive audience every five minutes. Of course, everyone on the road waited for the inevitable bike crash. As I recall, The Miz was the only person to be moderately injured at ATP.”Louviere was shot and killed early Friday morning when he stopped at the corner of Barataria Boulevard and Ames Boulevard to  help with domestic incident that had spilled into the street.AdvertisementSylvester Holt, 22, had shot his pregnant wife, 32-year-old Simone Veal, and then shot Louviere in the head.Holt then fled to the Crescent City Connection, where he lingered on the bridge for more than seven hours until he eventually shot himself in the chest. He died from his injuries late Friday night.Visitation for Louviere will be held Friday from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at White Dove Fellowship Church in Harvey. A funeral service and celebration of life will immediately follow.AdvertisementBurial with full honors will take place at Westlawn Memorial Park, 1225 Whitney Ave., in Gretna.In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in the memory of Michael Louviere to Westwego Police Benevolent Association, 401 4th Street, Westwego, LA 70094.Mothe F...

The cause was cancer. He was 56 years old."He was a hard working person who took pride in the craft that he had learned," said Kelly Jarvis, Terrytown Cafe's manager and a 22-year employee of the bakery.No one, Jarvis said, could cut doughnuts better or faster than Mr. Songy.Mr. Songy, who was born in New Orleans and graduated from Alfred T. Bonnabel High School, took a job making doughnuts at a Tastee Donuts in Terrytown when he was 15 years old."It was just a summer job," Mr. Songy said in a 2015 interview. "I wanted to make some money. I didn't plan on staying in the business."His boss, however, eventually asked Mr. Songy if he wanted to become an owner of the shop that became Terrytown Cafe.In 2015, Terrytown Cafe was judged the best doughnut maker in the New Orleans area by NOLA.com The Times-Picayune.Jarvis was not the only longtime employee. One of her colleagues worked at Terrytown Cafe for nearly 40 years. Several other employees had worked for Mr. Songy for 15 years or more."He's always been a good boss," Jarvis said. "We're all just a big family over there."Even employees with shorter tenures at Terrytown Cafe left with important knowledge."Everybody who has ever worked for him talks about the work ethic that he taught, more so than the knowledge of making doughnuts," Jarvis said. "Just being good at what you do."Mr. Songy's wife, Lynne, will continue to run the cafe, according to Jarvis."We're going to go on," Jarvis said. "We will go on in his honor and keep up the quality he created."Survivors include his mother, Joan Songy, his wife, Lynne Songy, his two daughters, Aimee and Nicole Songy of Harvey, his brother, Raphael Songy of LaPlace, and his grandson, Tatum Licciardi.The funeral will be at Mothe Funeral Home in Harvey on Friday (Feb. 3) at 5 p.m. A Mass will said at the funeral home at 6:30 p.m.

Buras. He was 90.A lifelong resident of Buras, Mr. Schoenberger also helped organize the Plaquemines Parish Fair and Orange Festival in 1946 to promote the parish's orange output. The 2016 festival was held this past weekend.In 1961, Mr. Schoenberger was elected Orange King. Like his father, Mr. Schoenberger was active in the parish's citrus industry, and he was a longtime member of the festival's board. He graduated from Buras High School in 1942 and enrolled at Tulane University, where he earned a law degree when he was 20. Despite that achievement, he was a year too young to be admitted to the state bar. A year later, Mr. Schoenberger started his law firm in Buras.His career in public office began in 1959, when he was elected to the House of Representatives. He held that position until 1967, when he was elected Plaquemines assessor.Two years later, Mr. Schoenberger was elected sheriff, an office he held for 15 years. He was re-elected without opposition to his last two terms. As a member of the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association's Board of Directors, Mr. Schoenberger worked with other sheriffs to draft legislation setting up a fund for supplemental pay for deputy sheriffs.Mr. Schoenberger, whose grandfathers were presidents of Plaquemines Police Jury, was instrumental in creating legislation establishing Plaquemines' Commission Council form of government.He was a longtime member of the Delta Bank and Trust Co.'s Board of Directors, former president of the parish baseball league, the Holy Name Society and the Plaquemines Lions Club; former secretary and vice president of the 25th Judicial District Bar Association; a charter member of the Buras Fire Department; and a member of the Knights of Columbus, Elks Club, Empire Citizens Organization, Public Affairs Research Council, Peace Officers Association, the National Sheriffs' Association, Our Lady of Good Harbor Catholic Church in Buras and St. Ann Catholic Church in Empire.Survivors include his wife, Jo Ann Brandon Schoenberger; a daughter, Bonnie Jo S...