Family and friends have spent much of April celebrating Joyce Cormier Dugas Andrus and her 101 years of life. Andrus was born on April 18, 1923, in the small community of Ellis to Henry Cormier, Sr. and Mary Daigle Cormier. She lived in Lacassine for a short time before moving with her family to Mermentau, where she still lives to this day.