Adeline Brossette “Aline” Lincoln, a retired elementary school teacher, died Tuesday, September 18, 2018, at the same New Orleans home where she was born almost 95 years ago. She is remembered by her family, friends, and students for her intelligence, stout heart, determination, radiant smile, and steadfast devotion. She is survived by her son Raymond Andrew Lincoln Jr. (Claire); a daughter Karen Theresa Lincoln ( Ken); a granddaughter, Jessica Morgan Atkinson; three great-grandchildren, Trent Lee Atkinson, Amelie Madison Hanford, and Eloise Treme Maier; and numerous nieces, nephews, and other relatives. She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond A. Lincoln Sr. ; her parents, Justin A. Brossette and Annie Kelly Brossette; her siblings, Justine Brossette, John M. Brossette, Justin G. Brossette, Thomas L. Brossette, Margaret Almeda Brossette Levy, Mary Rita Brossette Alonzo, Anna C. Brossette, John J. Brossette, and Theodosia Brossette Youngblood. Adeline Brossette was born Oct. 23, 1923, the last of 10 children, at the home of her father, a well-known marble mason of Parisian descent, and her mother, a grandchild of Irish immigrants. As a young child, she watched Justin Brossette turn the modest Bywater house into a marble masterpiece, little realizing that she should spend most of her long life there. Adeline graduated from John McDonogh High School in 1940 and , as a result of winning a citywide Spanish contest, was awarded a scholarship to Newcomb College. She attended Newcomb but withdrew in 1942 to marry her husband and begin her family life. Her first child was born in 1944, and she and her husband and son moved to her widowed father’s house in 1947. In the 1950s she sold cosmetics at D. H. Holmes on Canal Street. After her second child was born in 1960, Mrs. Lincoln embarked on a 30-year career in education, and in the process completed her undergraduate studies at LSUNO (now UNO). She taught at St. Louise de Miarillac School in Arabi and at Borgnemouth Elementary School in Meraux. She loved teaching, loved her students and was loved and respected by them. Years after they had left school, she could remember their names and faces. Her favorite subjects were math and science, especially astronomy. A lifelong star gazer, she could readily identify planets and constellations in the night sky. Everything in the natural world piqued her curiosity. In 1968, her father and surviving siblings sold the “marble house” to her and her husband. In the 1970s, she enjoyed family vacations to Houston, the Smokey Mountains, the Grand Canyon, the Rocky Mountains, New England, Virginia, and Washington D.C. She retired in 1992 to continue caring for Raymond Sr., also a marble mason, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer 19 years before. That same year they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Raymond Sr. died the following year. As a widow, Mrs. Lincoln lived alone in her house for 20 years, enjoying her family visits, her flower gardens and (for many years) her faithful German shepherd, before suffering the first of a series of falls and other setbacks beginning in 2013. She spent her final five years at her son’s home in Metairie, with frequent visits to her daughter’s
home in Lacombe. Adeline’s family would like to thank all the private caregivers and the people of Heart of Hospice for their tireless assistance in caring for her. A funeral Mass will be held Saturday, September 22 at noon at Blessed Francis Seelos Church 3053 Dauphine St., with visitation at the church from 10 A.M. until the service. Interment will be in the Brossette family tomb, built by Justin A. Brossette, in Cypress Grove Cemetery. ARRANGEMENTS BY JACOB SCHOEN & SON FUNERAL HOME. Condolences may be left at www.schoenfh.com.
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