Aimée Lee Barrilleaux

Aimée Lee Barrilleaux November 11, 1987 – August 13, 2026 The world got a little less colorful when Aimée Lee Barrilleaux left it — although anyone who knew Aimée knows she would probably insist that everyone else simply needs to step up their game. Born November 11, 1987, in Chalmette, Louisiana, Aimée carried New Orleans with her everywhere she went. It was in her personality, her loyalty, her sense of humor, her ability to make a friend just about anywhere, and probably at least a little bit in her refusal to do anything quietly or conventionally. Aimée understood something many people spend a lifetime figuring out: family has very little to do with DNA and everything to do with who shows up. And Aimée built herself one hell of a family. At the center of that family was her husband, Zach, along with her beloved fur baby, Drake; her cousins Jamie Smith, Kaylin Smith, Cassidy Wall, and Timothy Wall; her nieces and nephew, Savannah, Adalyn, Mallory and Rhett; and the “framily” she gathered along the way — Jason and Jacque Anders, Bailie and Genny Timmerman, Nathan and Blaike Medlin, Kirsten and Matt McCoy, Lionel Christian, Chelsea Houck, and far too many others to ever fit into an obituary — which may be one of the greatest testaments to the way Aimée lived. She collected people wherever she went, and once she loved you, you were hers. Waiting for her on the other side are loved ones who went before her, but we have to believe some were especially quick to meet her: her grandmother Nancy, her beloved Aunt B, and her dog, Tillman. We can only imagine the reunion. Cancer may have changed the ending of Aimée’s story, but it does not get credit for writing it. Aimée wrote her own story — in classrooms, friendships, in her New Orleans roots and South Carolina memories, in a sailor named Zach, in dogs she adored, in kids who loved their Aunt Aimée, and in a chosen family big enough to prove that sometimes the people we find along the way are the greatest gift we’re ever given. Aimée leaves behind a world full of people who are better, louder, funnier, more loved, and certainly more colorful because she was here. A lasting message that her family is grateful she left them with: “We don’t just live once, we live every day — eat the cake, wear the shoes, burn the special candle. Every day is a special day.” So remember her exactly as she was. Tell the inappropriate stories. Wear the bright colors. Love people fiercely. Show up for them. Make the ordinary days count. Remember that love is love and love always wins. And every once in a while, cause just enough trouble that someone has to say, “Aimée would have loved this.” Because if there is one thing Aimée Lee Barrilleaux never needed help doing, it was leaving an impression. Arrangements for a celebration of life are being made for a later date. Mountain View Funeral Home is serving the Barrilleaux-Anders family.

Aimée Lee Barrilleaux

November 11, 1987 - August 13, 2026