07/21/2025
Marcelite Maria
Olivier Rayon
RAYNE - A Memorial Mass was held Saturday, July 12, 2025, at 11 a.m. at St. Theresa of the Child of Jesus Catholic Church in Duson, for Marcelite Maria Olivier Rayon, 28, of Rayne, who died on Monday, June 23, 2025, at Ochsner Medical Center in Jefferson.
The Mass was celebrated by Rev. Paul Onuegbe.
Inurnment and a “Celebration of Life Memorial Gathering” will be held at the Rayon Family Cemetery in Church Point at a later date.
Marcelite was a native of New Iberia where she graduated from New Iberia Senior High School in 2014. She was in the Gifted and Talented Program throughout her school years.
She was a devoted wife and stay at home mother of two boys. She worked at a variety of jobs, daycares, retail stores, and Tabasco Factory, and also enjoyed organizing birthday and holiday celebrations. She loved crafting and hand-making birthday and holiday gifts for family members, along with singing, music and photography.
She is survived by her husband, Tyler Rayon of Rayne; her parents, Lennis Joseph Olivier III and Pamela Pepper Olivier of New Iberia; maternal grandmother, Helen Istre Pepper of Rayne; two sons, Steven Christopher Ward Jr. and Koah Joseph Gray Olivier, both of Rayne; a bonus daughter, Jordan Faye Ward Theriot of St. Martinville; two brothers, Lennis Joseph Olivier IV and wife Lei “Sue” Zhang Olivier of Morgantown, West Virginia, and Trey M. Olivier and fiancee Julien Lasseigne of New Iberia; niece, Ravyn Angelynn Olivier; and two nephews, Bentley Jude Touchet and August Dayne Gabriel Olivier.
She is preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Lennis Joseph Olivier Jr. and Rozetta Dugas Olivier; maternal grandfather, Joseph William Pepper Jr.; and a brother, Dayne Christopher Olivier.
Heritage Funeral Director of New Orleans 504-915-2460 is in charge of the arrangements.
