Services for Thomas Francois, of New Orleans, are 11 a.m.Wednesday, Sept. 21 at R.E. Tyler Funeral Home Chapel with burialin Rose Hill Cemetery.

Family hour will be observed from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at thefuneral home.

Mr. Francois, 52, died Sept. 15, 2005, at King’s DaughtersMedical Center emergency room. He was born on Nov. 10, 1952, toHerman Francois and Henrene Butler Francois.

He was a porter at Baptist Hospital in New Orleans. He was amember of Asia Baptist Church in New Orleans.

Preceding him in death was his father.

Survivors are his mother, Henrene Butler Francois, of NewOrleans; his daughter, Quo Chandra Francois, of New Orleans; hisbrothers, Ronnie Francois, of Louisiana, Randy Francois, of NewOrleans, and Bobby Butler, of Houston, Texas; his sisters, RosieFrancois, of New Orleans, Shawanda Butler, of Biloxi, HermanetteGatlin, of Brookhaven, Donna Yamini, Carol Robinson and LindaFrancois, all of New Orleans; and two grandchildren.