Floyd "Bojo" Joseph LeMaire

Floyd “Bojo” LeMaire, 77, died peacefully on August 23, 2025, at Maison du Monde Living Center. A memorial service officiated by Deacon Bryan Istre will be held at 1:00 PM on Sunday, August 31, 2025, at Vincent Funeral Home of Kaplan.

A visitation will take place at Vincent Funeral Home of Kaplan on Saturday, August 30, 2025, from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM with a rosary being prayed at 6:00 PM. The visitation will continue Sunday, August 31, 2025, from 9:00 AM until the services at 1:00 PM.

Bojo was born on September 25, 1947, the youngest of 7 siblings. He was raised near the intracoastal canal south of Gueydan. He moved to Kaplan as a young adult. Bojo worked as an offshore roughneck, a rice farmer, a heavy machinery operator, an alligator hunter, and a nutria/muskrat trapper, often depending on the time of year.

For a long period of his adult life, he owned and operated Beaux Gator Farm between Kaplan and Abbeville, one of the early alligator farms in Louisiana in the mid-1980s. Bojo enjoyed hosting tourists and class field trips, teaching guests about raising alligators, gathering and hatching alligator eggs, and alligator conservation. He also was on some local TV programs that highlighted his alligator hunting and farming. When the show Swamp People came out many years later, Bojo’s family and friends joked that he missed becoming semi-famous by a couple of decades.

Bojo was a very giving man. He would drop everything to help friends and family when they needed anything at all. For years, when his sons were students at Maltrait Memorial School, he was known for the very popular fried alligator booth – he and his friends would fry alligator all weekend long at the two annual school festivals to help support the school.

Bojo also loved to cook for family and friends, as it was one of his ways of showing love. Some of his sons’ friends would joke that if he was cooking his famous chicken fricassée and asked if you wanted eggs in it…you should definitely say yes!

For decades, Bojo enjoyed duck and goose hunting with family and friends near where he grew up. At the camp, he loved cooking and entertaining, and he was notorious for cracking jokes and laughing loudly (with a wide-open mouth).

After his son Cole got sick and eventually required total care, Bojo spent the majority of his time over the next 7 years caring for Cole. He was so dedicated to Cole’s care that he rarely left his side, and his perseverance in an extremely difficult situation was a testament to his love.

Shortly after Cole died, Bojo was blessed with twin granddaughters, Colette and Chloe. His smiles, laughter, joy, and canaille nature with them showed that he still had the capacity for love and happiness, despite having recently lost a 2nd child. He loved teaching the girls Cajun French words, sometimes even the ones they shouldn’t have known. Colette and Chloe will always have fond memories of their Paw.

In his last years with dementia, he had great care - first with loving caregivers at home, then at Maison du Monde Living Center, and finally with Traditions Health hospice services. His family and friends are grateful to all who cared for him compassionately, just as he cared for others.

He is survived by his son, Dr. Chad LeMaire; daughter-in -law, Amanda LeMaire; granddaughters, Colette and Chloe LeMaire, of Houston, Texas; and his sister, Irene Guidry of Gueydan, Louisiana.

He was preceded in death by his daughter, Tiffany LeMaire; his son, Cole LeMaire; his parents, Sevegnier LeMaire and Celina (Vidalier) LeMaire; and his five brothers, Ernest, Gabriel, Norris, Doris, and Sevegnier Jr.

All funeral arrangements are being conducted by Vincent Funeral Home – Kaplan (337) 643-7276.