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Note: (From obituary in the Lafourche Comet paper) Mr. Himel was a native of Assumption Parish. He owned the St. Msartin Plantation across Bayou Lafoourche from Labadieville for a long number of years. Reverses that beset the sugar industry, beginning with the distressful year of 1913, when many plantations were permitted to grow up in weeds, caused him to give up the sugar cane growing industry and he moved to Thibodaux, Lousiana. There he became a traveling salesman for a cookie company. Besides his two sons, he had two adopted children, Mrs. Nina Hoffman (Nina Vives) and Mrs. O. C. Lepine. He had two brothers, Fernand Himel of Detroit, Michigan and Charles M. Himel of Chicago. He had 15 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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