Daughter of Pierre and Estelle Eunice (Gauthier) Goudeau.

Blanche Clarisse Goudeau was born 13 Dec 1871, the second child of Pierre Floreval Goudeau and Estelle Eugenie Gauthier. She was born at the Cedar Grove Plantation at Borodino on the Bayou des Glaises, several miles above Bordelonville, in Avoyelles Parish. The Cedar Grove Plantation was originally the plantation of her maternal grandfather, Leon François Gauthier II (b. 1822), an important local official who had served as Justice of the Peace, a member of the Police Jury, Parish Tax Collector, Sheriff and a member of the State Legislature before the War.

From her earliest years, she was very devout and devoted to the Virgin Mary. One story that is told about her when she was very young involved a dispute her father became involved in while the family was living at Cedar Grove Plantation. Her father, who had received a grievous insult from some man, returned home, loaded his pistol and left the house on horseback to meet the man for a duel. Blanche's worried mother, trailed by her children, followed on foot, imploring her husband to reconsider. Blanche's mother stopped and told Blanche to return home, kneel before the little statue of the Blessed Virgin, and pray for her father's safety.

But, when Blanche's mother reached town, she was surprised to see Blanche catching up with them. Her mother asked her, "Didn't I tell you to go pray to the Blessed Virgin?"

Blanche responded that she had returned home and prayed as instructed, but the Virgin Mary spoke to her and told her not to worry, as their father would be unharmed. The words she used in quoting the Blessed Virgin were not words that little Blanche would have used. Instead, she spoke in very correct continental French, which of course proved that she did not make it up.

In 1874, Blanche moved with her parents and siblings to Lake Charles, Louisiana. To her siblings and many nephews and nieces she was always known as "Nany Blanche." In her later years, she found homes with several of her sisters, and in her final years before her death she lived in the Fort Worth home of her sister Estelle Normand.

She died on 16 May 1961 in Fort Worth, and was buried in Forest Park Cemetery, in Houston.