 Her final book, "Clovis Crawfish and Silvie Sulphur," was published posthumously in 2004.Fontenot worked over three decades as a journalist beginning in the early 1940s, writing features and book reviews for several Louisiana and Mississippi newspapers, including a period as women's news editor for one paper.She also hosted a radio show on KSIG-AM in Crowley, Louisiana and taught kindergarten classes.