Bio Faie Duplantis

Faie Gaubert Duplantis was born July 11th, 1946, the third child of Uriel “Billy” Gaubert and Therese Sposito.  She graduated from Mt. Carmel Academy in Thibodaux, LA  and earned her B.A. degree as a cum laude graduate from Nicholls State University in the same city.  Although she enjoyed her five-year profession as a counselor with Vocational Rehabilitation, during which time she earned Counselor of the Year award, she opted to become a full-time homemaker. In 1989, she received Louisiana’s full-time homemaker award from Eagle Forum in Washington, D.C.  After spending hours helping with nightly homework assignments, and with one child needing extra help, she began her 14-year journey with homeschooling six of her seven children for different time periods.  She founded the Ave Maria Home School Group and served as president of the Assisi Home school 4-H club.  She also served as co-president of Kitchen Madonnas with Terrebonne Association for Family and Community Education.

Faie has participated in many ministries and charitable activities as a parishioner of St. Bridget Catholic Church in Schriever, Louisiana.  She is a member of the Catholic Daughters, St. Vincent de Paul Society, and is co-director of Haiti Mission, Inc.  Faie and Lloyd, along with a core group from St. Bridget parish formed the Haiti Mission. (www.haitimissioninc.com) after Lloyd visited Haiti in 2000. While the primary focus of the mission is to develop safe and sufficient water supplies, the mission has also begun schools, various forms of humanitarian aid and animal husbandry projects.

For approximately 37 years, Faie’s favorite ministry was teaching couples Natural Family Planning.  Faie’s involvement with her husband in local and national right-to-life organizations led them to attend the Third World Congress for Pro-Life movements in Rome, where she presented a paper on Breastfeeding and Family policy. For fifteen years she served as the fundraising chairman for the Terrebonne-Lafourche Right-to-Life Mother’s Day corsage program. Faie also served for six years as the Coordinator for the Governor’s Program on Abstinence in the Terrebonne-Lafourche area schools. 

Faie says her claim to fame lies in her family----her husband Lloyd, her seven children and her 21 living and 3 in heaven as angels (Hunter, Martin and Tony) grandchildren. They reside in Gray, LA.