Maudie Lee Woodruff

     A Mass of Christian burial to celebrate the life of Maudie Lee (Procell) Sepulvado Woodruff, 94, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, November 14, 2025 at St. Ann's Catholic Church in Ebarb with Father Joseph Madalla officiating. A burial will follow the service in the church cemetery. A visitation will be held on Thursday, November 13, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. with a rosary beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Kilpatrick's Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 9891 Texas Highway, Many, LA. 

     Maudie was born on March 30, 1931 to Sam Procell and Pollie (Leone) Procell, the ninth of eleven children. She passed away on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at Sabine Retirement and Rehabilitation Center in Many, Louisiana surrounded by her family. Maudie was a devout Catholic and a lifelong member of St. Ann's Catholic Church in Ebarb, Louisiana where she served as a member of the Altar Society and was devoted to the choir. In 1999, she was awarded the Diocesan Medal of Honor in recognition of her faithful service and many contributions to her Church. At the time of her death, she was the oldest member of St. Ann's Church and the Ebarb Community. 

     In 1968, when Toledo Bend Lake "came in," Maudie and her husband, Bert, built the first fishing camp on the north end of the lake- Sepulvado's Landing. She continued to manage the business until she retired in 2018 at the age of 87. 

     Maudie is preceded in death by her parents, her ten brothers and sisters, her first husband, Bert Sepulvado (d.1972), her second husband, William E. Woodruff (d.1995), her daughter Anna Maudine (Dena) Fletcher (d.2012), and her son-in-law, Harold L. Stewart (d.2025). 

     Left to cherish her memory are her children, Mary Yvonne Busby (Ronald), Margaret Joy Stewart, Bert Raphael Sepulvado (Mona), Victor Lee Sepulvado (Lee), Reba Rose Jones (Randy), Monica Lynn Ebarb (Dale), Pollie Ann Brandon (Ronnie) and Violet Maria “Mia” Curtis (Chris); her twenty-two grandchildren, thirty-four great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren, a host of nieces and nephews, as well as Joy Patrick Sepulvado (her other Joy) who was her friend, housekeeper and caretaker for the last twelve years. 

     Honoring her as pallbearers will be her grandsons, Gabriel Stewart, Nathan Stewart, Matthew Stewart, John Stewart, Seth Busby, Russell Busby, David Sepuivado, Richard Sepulvado, Aaron Sepulvado, Cody Ebarb, Heath Brandon, Jarred Brandon, Sam Brandon, Hunter Curtis and Bert Fletcher.  

     A very special thank you to Superior Hospice, Shanna and Bailey, her caregivers, Claire, Katherine and Shanika for their professional and compassionate care shown to our mother as well as the staff at Sabine Retirement and Rehabilitation Center.

    Services and care were provided to the family by Kilpatrick's Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Many, Louisiana.