New Roads, LA - Mary Alice Marionneaux Lieux, born February 7, 1933 in Plaquemine, LA died peacefully and entered into the Kingdom of God on January 27, 2026. Visitation will be on Saturday, February 7 at Niland's Funeral Home in New Roads from 8:30 to 10:30 am followed by the Mass of the Resurrection at 11 am celebrated by Rev. Miles Walsh. Burial to follow at St. Mary Cemetery.

Mary Alice was a graduate of Livonia High School. She received a B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and M. Ed. in Supervision from LSU. She did post graduate work at Nichols State University and LSU. Mary Alice was a devoted educator who began her teaching career at Opelousas Elementary and Livonia Elementary. On November 23, 1957, Mary Alice married Theordore Richard (Ted) Lieux. Her teaching career was put on hold after her marriage as she and her husband began their family. In 1963, at the request of the Sisters of St. Joseph, she returned to the classroom. She spent 8 years as a teacher and 15 years as middle school principal at Catholic of Pointe Coupee. She retired in 1990 after 4 years as a teacher at Holy Family in Port Allen.

She is survived by her three children, Sr. Lynne Lieux, RSCJ, Margaret Alice Lieux Pavlovich (Steve), and Theodore Richard Lieux, Jr., MD (Lea Ann). She is also survived by her four grandchildren who were the delight of her life: Caroline Lieux Sowell, MD (Erik), Theodore R. "Ted" Lieux, III (Anna Claire), Molly Lieux Furrow, MD (Michael) and Jack Lieux, and her great grandson, John Sowell. She is also survived by her brother, James Marionneaux (Imogene) and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Theodore R. "Ted" Lieux, her infant daughters, Jane Elizabeth and Anne Marie, her parents, John Esper Marionneaux and Maria Alice Gravois Marionneaux, and her eldest brother, John Esper Marionneaux, Jr.

The family would like to express their deepest gratitude to physicians, Lara Falcon, MD and Joseph Deumite, MD; her caregivers, Mary Ann Battley, Louise Joseph, Joyce Dixon, Janice Temple and Iotomeos Butler, and the nurses and staff of St. Joseph Hospice. In lieu of flowers and masses, the family asks that memorial donations be made to St. Augustine Catholic Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 548, New Roads, LA 70760.