Death Notice

Robert Jules Egnew

(March 30, 1944 – December 11, 2010)

A resident of Chesbrough, he died at 5:07 a.m. on Saturday, December 11, 2010 at Hood Memorial Hospital in Amite. He was born March 30, 1944 in Ponchatoula and was 66 years of age. Mr. Robert was a graduate of Ponchatoula High School and Southeastern Louisiana University and later retired from the State of Louisiana Department of Health with over 30 years of service. He is survived by his wife, Judy Hyde Egnew, Chesbrough; son, Kevin Egnew, Dallas, TX; sister, Joyce Kupper and her husband, Killian, Ponchatoula; 2 brothers, Andrew Arnold Egnew, III and his wife, Theta, Slidell, and Emmett Egnew and his wife, Nancy, Ponchatoula; aunt, Madeline Poche, Ponchatoula; mother-in-law, Ethel Hyde, Chesbrough; sister-in-law, Melanie Rick and her husband, Anthony, Amite; brother-in-law, Claude Hyde, Jr. and his wife, Sherry, Caledonia, MS; and numerous nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by parents, Andrew Arnold Egnew, Jr. and Anna Mercier Egnew; father-in-law, Claude Hyde, Sr. . Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Sunday and from 8 a.m. until religious services at 1 p.m. Monday, December 13, 2010. Services conducted by Deacon Michael Agnello. Interment Hyde Cemetery, Chesbrough.