Tanya Kathleen Fluitt, 54, died Monday, Aug. 19, 2024.
She was a native and lifelong resident of Calcasieu Parish. She graduated from DeQuincy High School and then received her Bachelor’s Degree in Large Animal Science from McNeese State University. She had served as President of The Calcasieu Orchid Society.
Survivors include her siblings, David M Loop of Winnie, Texas, and Lindy Loop of Beaumont; her step-children, Jessica Stenbeck McAleer and husband John of Galveston, Texas and Charles “Bubba” Stenbeck and wife Abigail of Lake Charles; and four grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Clyde Fluitt and Virginia Kathleen Leaton; grandparents, Clyde C Fluitt and Pansy Jewell Ruth “JewJew.”
A Celebration service was held Monday, Sept. 16, at Hixson-Sulphur Memorial Funeral Home led by Hixson’s Celebrant, Jody Tyler. Burial was in Rigmaiden Cemetery in DeQuincy.
