The Rev. Gary Schexnayder, who served in various church parishes in the Diocese of Lafayette, passed away Thursday evening.
Schexnayder, 83, was retired and living at the Calcutta House, a hospice facility in Lafayette.
Born in Arnaudville on July 28, 1942, Schexnayder attended a summer internship at Our Lady of Help of Christians in Jennings and then enrolled at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., where he earned a bachelor’s degree in theology in May 1967. He was ordained on June 7, 1969, at St. John Francis Regis Catholic Church in Arnaudville by Bishop Warren Boudreaux…