Edith Salassi O'Brien

Edith S. O’Brien, age 85, passed peacefully on Thursday, November 22, 2012 at Driftwood Nursing Center in Gulfport. Edith was born December 8, 1926 to Walter Washington Salassi and Ruby Lee Russell Salassi. She grew up in Vicksburg where she attended Jett Elementary School and graduated from Carr Central High School. Edith met her husband, Charles, after he returned from World War II and married in 1947 then moved to Pascagoula in 1957 where they reared four children. Edith was an active member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Pascagoula. She worked for the Pascagoula Police Department and volunteered at Singing River Hospital. Mrs. O’Brien was preceded in death by her parents, brothers; George Arnold Salassi, Edward Bernard Salassi, Otto Russell Salassi. Survivors include her sons; Charles D. O’Brien, Jr. and his wife Kathy, Paul O’Brien and his friend Ernest Gurly, Joseph C. O’Brien and his wife Chris, her daughter; Mary Anne Dizaye and her husband Rushwan;a sister, Ruth Ellen S. Warndof; brothers,Robert Hermen Salassi, Richard Rodney Salassi; and grandchildren; Victor C. O’Brien, Maggie O’Brien, Katherine Dizaye and Alice Dizaye. A funeral service will be on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 12:15pm at Bradford O’Keefe Funeral Home, 15th St in Gulfport where friends may visit from 10:00am until service time. Edith will be laid to rest with her husband, Charles, at 1:30pm at Biloxi National Cemetery. Bradford O’Keefe Funeral Home, 15th St. Gulfport, is in charge of arrangements. View and sign register atwww.bradfordokeefe.com