Marine Corviole
05/08/2025 at 12:47
Because her sister Catherine would have celebrated her birthday this May 8, Françoise Laborde paid her a beautiful tribute in pictures on Instagram. The weather presenter has died for three months now, carried away by the disease.
For the very first anniversary since the disappearance of her sister, Françoise Laborde has grasped her social networks to share some souvenir photos. This May 8, 2025, Catherine Laborde would have celebrated her 74th birthday. The highly loved weather presenter died on January 28, following a long fight against a neurodegenerative disease.
“Today is your birthday. You would have been 74 years old. You are always in our hearts. With your Gabrèle and Pia daughters, with your older sister Geneviève … with the whole family who loves you. We miss you, ”wrote Françoise Laborde on Instagram, in this sad May 8. In addition to a first photo showing her with her sister, the journalist unveiled a nice family photo with her nieces Gabrière and Pia, born from Catherine Laborde’s relationship with the discreet Jimmy. The former presenter of the JT de France 2 also honored the coverage of Paris Match paying tribute to his late sister.
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During the funeral of Catherine Laborde, who held on February 6 at the Saint-Roch Church, in Paris, her sister Françoise was well surrounded to cope with this trying day. In addition to her nieces Pia and Gabrèle, their companions and their children, as well as their father Jimmy, the journalist was able to find Thomas Stern, the husband of Catherine Laborde. Many figures from the French audiovisual also came to say goodbye to the weather presenter, starting with her comrades from TF1 Anne-Claire Coudray, Sébastien Folin and Claire Chazal.
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Catherine Laborde, a fighter
It was surrounded by her family, in her house in Vendée, that Catherine Laborde died on January 28, at 73. It had been eleven years that she was fighting against a body dementia of Lewy, a neurodegenerative disease. “My darling, you left serenely in your house in Yeu’s island that you loved so much […]. And we could still laugh between sisters while evoking our childhood memories, talk about dad and mom and also sing the songs you love to. You gave us this immense gift to offer us the latest moments of conscience and lucidity, ”wrote his sister on his social networks.
A few hours after the announcement of the disappearance of her friend, Evelyne Dhéliat had entrusted her sorrow in Paris Match: “I knew that it was not going very well, but I still did not expect it to be so fast. It shocks. It was a fighter. Physically, she could give an aspect of fragility, she was very small, but what was it bewildered with temperament. »»
