 Son Lawrence "Black" Ardoin is also a musician who played in the family band, but left in the early 1980s to form his own group called French Zydeco Band.Three of Bois Sec's grandchildren (Dexter, Sean, and Chris) are also musicians.On May 16, 2007 Bois Sec died at the age of 91 of natural causes in a nursing home in Eunice, Louisiana.