Donald Ray Landry

Donald Ray Landry, 80, of Lake Charles passed away Tuesday, June 25, 2019 in a local hospital following a brief illness. 

Mr. Landry was a native of Lake Charles, lived fifty years in Houston and returned to make Lake Charles home again in 2002.  He attended LaGrange High School and served in the United States Navy.  He retired from National Oilwell Varco with nearly thirty years in Maintenance Operations.

During his younger years he enjoyed hunting, spending time at his camp and creating abstract art; later years, the outdoors, working with his plants, flower gardening and creating landscape oil paintings.  Mr. Landry always loved riding his motorcycle and especially loved taking his beloved Destiny for a ride.  His passion was music, playing drums, having entertained many over the years with his own band and later in the church band.  A Christian with love of the Lord, he was a member of Living Way Pentecostal Church.  Mr. Landry will be most remembered for his love of family, his spirit, kind heart, generous nature and love of animals. 

He leaves to cherish his memory, his first love, whom he dated when she was seventeen and was reunited following great lives with great love and the loss of their spouses, his wife of three years, Faye Weaver of Lake Charles.  He also leaves one son, Kenneth Paul Landry of Humble, TX;  one daughter, Ronda Landry Westergren and husband Eric of Moss Bluff; three grandchildren, Donald Paul Landry, Simon Westergren and Zachary Westergren; step-children, Robbie Howard of Moss Bluff, Missie Howard Hebert of Lake Charles, Blaine Weaver and Cammi Weaver Quinn, both of Moss Bluff; eleven step-grandchildren and his beloved dog, Destiny.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Lothen and Daisy Dugas Landry and one brother, Luther Paul Landry.

Funeral services will be at 5:00 PM Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 in the Johnson Funeral Home Chapel.  Reverend Brent Keating will officiate.  Visitation Monday will be from 5:00 PM until 9:00 PM and will resume Tuesday from 2:00 PM until the time of service in the funeral home.