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Doughnut-shop owner, Carnival club member dies at 67
Robert Zullo Senior Staff Writer
Edward Herron
HOUMA — From Carnival clubs to the restaurant that occupied most of his time, Edward Ronald Herron Sr.’s life revolved around people.
And at his Tuesday night wake, the dozens he met over 35 years as a businessman in Houma returned the favor.
“We’ve both been in business and I know we met a lot of people over the years, but I didn’t realize how many people actually knew him until we waked him the other night,” said his wife of 45 years, Valarie Herron. “I just could not believe the people that were coming out of the cracks.”
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Herron, who died of a heart attack July 18 at 67, was a founding member of the Selucrey Sophistocats marching club and owned what is now Big Eddie’s Café on Park Avenue for decades.
Herron’s uncle by marriage is Gilbert Copeland, the older brother of famed New Orleans restaurateur Al Copeland. Herron and his wife moved to Houma from the New Orleans area in 1974 to run one of Copeland’s doughnut shops on Barrow Street. They opened their own place, the Bayou Donut Shop, on Park Avenue two years later.HOUMA — From Carnival clubs to the restaurant that occupied most of his time, Edward Ronald Herron Sr.’s life revolved around people.
And at his Tuesday night wake, the dozens he met over 35 years as a businessman in Houma returned the favor.
“We’ve both been in business and I know we met a lot of people over the years, but I didn’t realize how many people actually knew him until we waked him the other night,” said his wife of 45 years, Valarie Herron. “I just could not believe the people that were coming out of the craDoughnut-shop owner, Carnival club member dies at 67“He wasn’t educated to be a bookkeeper or a lawyer or anything like that, so he followed what he knew best,” Valarie Herron said.
But it was a career that suited him, according to Arthur Sevin, a childhood friend who grew up with Herron in New Orleans’ 9th Ward.cks.
