Laura Leger Lajaunie was born into a French-speaking, Cajun clan in Church Point, Louisiana on May 23, 1941, and passed away August 16, 2025 after a slow decline into dementia. To the end though, through even the hardest days of loss and confusion, she remained herself, strong, determined, loving, and playful. The simple and beautiful life she filled those days with left a legacy of love and connection that ripples through multiple generations.

Laura Lajaunie loved life. In the truest sense of that phrase, she found pleasure in all the everyday moments she stitched into her life's fabric. The strongest and most beautiful part of her tapestry was family. She built a life centered around it: first with her loving husband, Ronald, and then with their two sweet sons, Kelly and Darren. When they married, she folded their wives, Laura and Camille, into her life as her own daughters. And when her long awaited grandchildren, Sydney, Andrew and Kylie, came, her loving family was complete.

When they were just coming to know themselves as adults, she met Ronald at a dance. They became friends while working at the Lafayette Charity Hospital and she soon knew he was her one. Beginning married life on October 19, 1963, they moved to Lake Charles then on to Virginia, finally landing in Houston. A much loved and pampered child, she was a complete novice at almost all household chores, but learned quickly as a young mother, displaced Cajun and Houston transplant, creating a warm and welcoming home. She had a special relationship with her mother-in-law, Edmay Lajaunie, and was the daughter of her heart. Building a community of faith and friends wherever they landed, she and Ronald forged lifelong friendships that supported and sustained them while they adjusted to being away from family and learned who they were as parents and partners.

1969 saw their big move from Virginia to the Space City with two young and very well-behaved sons in tow. They joined St Frances Cabrini Catholic Church, Laura began selling Avon, and they got busy molding two of the loveliest humans you could hope to meet. They became members of St Luke Catholic Church in 1975, staying lifelong and valued members. And in 1984, with both sons in college, Laura coupled her Avon work with a parttime job at Dan Moore Insurance Agency where she stayed until 2001 when her youngest grandchild needed childcare. She took on the role with no hesitation, complete commitment, and a loving and playful spirit. She shared her wisdom; did far too many loads of laundry despite protests from at least one of her related employers; learned who her grandchildren are and how best to support them; and had the grace and generosity to make space for new parents to figure out what they were doing.

Her purpose was children, loving, supporting, educating, offering quiet guidance. She knew intuitively how to guide young children specific to their unique needs, as a mother, grandmother and teacher. Laura's long held hope to become a grandmother was realized in 1995 when her little look alike, Sydney, was placed in her arms. She rehoned those boy skills when Andrew joined the family in 1996, and in 2000, began working as the most critical part of Kylie B's dream team. Having to wait far longer than she thought necessary to become a grandmother, she savored every moment, from the smallest to the profound. She was very happily and deeply involved in her grandchildren's lives, making sure she attended any and all school, church and extracurriculars events. She lit up when she saw them, from the first time she held each one to the very last moments. Laura had a beautiful ability to enjoy the moment she was in. Grandchildren made her life complete and all the moments that followed so very sweet.  In 2006 she became a preK teacher at St Bernadette's Catholic Church and continued that important work through 2018, extending her loving influence beyond her immediate family.

Together, she and Ronald created a beautiful, connected and uncomplicated life, full of friends, family and faith. For 61 years, they were an inseparable team, handling whatever life brought with grace and quiet strength. Laura loved with all of her heart, committed a lifetime to caring for her family, first sweet Ronald, those amazing Lajaunie boys, and her grandchildren; the loving care of her mother, brother and beautiful Edmay at the end of their lives, and the impossible challenge of losing Darren. Never flinching from the heart wrenching work of letting someone you love go in degrees. We saw her in the way she loved, unfailingly constant and steadfast. She gave selflessly to the care of her people in all of life's many moments, big and small.

She is survived by her loving husband, Ronald Lajaunie; son Kelly and his wife Laura Gross, their two daughters Sydney and Kylie Lajaunie; her grandson Andrew Lajaunie and her daughter-in-law Camille Lajaunie; her niece Elaine Granger; and many friends and extended relatives. She is preceded in death by her son Darren Lajaunie; her brother Horace Leger; her parents, Sidney and Edith Leger, and her in laws, Moise and Edmay Lajaunie.

The family will receive friends at St Lukes Catholic Church, Friday, August 22,  from 10:00am until 11:00am, with the rosary prayed at 10:30, Interment will follow at Forest Park East Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Darren Lajaunie Tennis Scholarship Fund. Donations (checks) can be sent to 3106 Mossy Elm Court, Houston, Texas 77059.