This memorial website was created in the memory of our beloved Theodore Buquet Sr. who was born in Terrebonne Parish Louisiana on 5th May 1916 and passed away on 1st November 1986, 70 years of age. He cut sugar cane for 50 cents a day in his teens. He gathered moss to make a living, and hurt his back when the boat he was on shifted. He was a shrimp trawler, owned two work boats in the early Louisiana oil years. He was a roustabout for John P. Monterio Co. when he was dropped from a dragline pad, fell in the water, and the pad was dropped on him. Accident broke his back and suffered long afteer. While the pad was being let down, before he fell, the operator suddenly stopped the pad's fall and another man started rolling off. T J grabbed the man until the man grabbed on a chain, keeping the man from falling. T J saved the man, but fell himself. He was one of Terrebonne's and Louisiana's best shrimp trawler and his reputation spanned from Mississippi to Texas. After his accident and retirement, he bought a tractor and made a larger than necessary garden. His intent was to sell the produce, but he never did. He gave them away as he did with the fish he caught in a 16-17 foot Blue Bird outboard hull he also bought after retirement. He shrimped with the small boat that; thought it's manufactre name was "Blue Bird" T J named it the "Blue Bird." He was tough by a good father. He loved his daughters and treated his older sons just as he treated his deckhands. All business and no fun. Hi best friend was Tow White from Bobtown, about 8 miles below the Houma city limits line at the railroad crossing which drosses LA 57, at the old Houma Air Base.