Jacob Durand Landry, dearly loved father, father-in-law, grandfather and brother, passed away peacefully surrounded by some of his children on December 3, 2020 in Austin, Texas.
He had many nicknames throughout his life including Buck, Jake, Papa and Pere. He was born on February 12, 1941, in New Iberia where he grew up in a family of eight children raised by his loving parents, Jacob S. and Stephanie Landry. His childhood home in Olivier was an idyllic, peaceful, bayou paradise where the whole family often gathered together for years to create lasting memories. Jacob graduated from Catholic High School in 1959 where he was a scholar, athlete and won the Torch Award. He was the first to earn the Eagle Scout rank with Paul Schwing as his Scout Master for Troop 133. After completing his freshman year of college at Notre Dame, he came back to his beloved Louisiana to complete his undergraduate studies followed by his law degree at Tulane University. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Tulane. He met and married Sherry Brown Landry while in law school and they settled in New Iberia to raise their five children. He spent the majority of his law career in the New Iberia law firm, Landry, Watkins & Bonin, founded by his father. He served as an Assistant District Attorney in the 16th Judicial District for several years, he received the Outstanding Young Lawyer of Louisiana award in 1980 and he served as president of the Louisiana Bar Association in 1987 (18 years after his father served in the same role). After their youngest child graduated from high school, they moved to New Orleans and then to Austin, Texas, following Hurricane Katrina.