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LeBlanc died of a massive [[stroke]] while a patient at Abbeville General Hospital, where he had been admitted for emergency surgery for a gastric [[ulcer]] three days earlier.<ref name=obits/>
LeBlanc died of a massive [[stroke]] while a patient at Abbeville General Hospital, where he had been admitted for emergency surgery for a gastric [[ulcer]] three days earlier.<ref name=obits/>
Services were held on October 23, 1971, at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville. LeBlanc was a member of the Catholic Church and had donated the land on which St. Theresa Catholic Church of Abbeville stands. He was interred in the St. Mary Magdalen Parish Cemetery. Survivors included his widow, the former Evelyn Hebert (1897–1992), the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Hebert and a teacher whom he wed in 1919; four sons, Dudley J. LeBlanc, Jr. (1922-2005), of Lafayette, Roland Francis LeBlanc, Sr. (born 1925), and Morgan E. LeBlanc (born 1938), both of Abbeville, and Jean B. LeBlanc (also born 1938) of Baton Rouge; two daughters, Mrs. Kay Jarrell (born 1927) of Lafayette and Mrs. Bertha Anne (James) Curley (born 1934) of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]; two brothers, Oliver J. LeBlanc, the Lafayette Parish clerk of court, and Paul V. LeBlanc of New Orleans, and twenty-four grandchildren. Two other brothers preceded him in death: Preston LeBlanc and Raoul (Ralph) J. LeBlanc (1898–1970).<ref name=obits>Obituaries of Dudley J. LeBlanc, ''The Baton Rouge Advocate,'' October 23, 1971; ''The Lafayette Daily Advertiser,'' October 22, 1971; ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' October 23, 1971.</ref>
Services were held on October 23, 1971, at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville. LeBlanc was a member of the Catholic Church and had donated the land on which St. Theresa Catholic Church of Abbeville stands. He was interred in the St. Mary Magdalen Parish Cemetery. Survivors included his widow, the former Evelyn Hebert (1897–1992), the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Hebert and a teacher whom he wed in 1919; four sons, Dudley J. LeBlanc, Jr. (1922-2005), of Lafayette, Roland Francis LeBlanc, Sr. (born 1925), and Morgan E. LeBlanc (born 1938), both of Abbeville, and Jean B. LeBlanc (also born 1938) of Baton Rouge; two daughters, Mrs. Kay Jarrell (born 1927) of Lafayette and Mrs. Bertha Anne (James) Curley (born 1934) of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]; two brothers, Oliver J. LeBlanc, the Lafayette Parish clerk of court, and Paul V. LeBlanc of New Orleans, and twenty-four grandchildren. Two other brothers preceded him in death: Preston LeBlanc and Raoul (Ralph) J. LeBlanc (1898–1970).<ref name=obits>Obituaries of Dudley J. LeBlanc, ''The Baton Rouge Advocate,'' October 23, 1971; ''The Lafayette Daily Advertiser,'' October 22, 1971; ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' October 23, 1971.</ref>