Virginia Victoria Gouin

Mrs. Virginia Victoria Gouin of Gulfport passed away peacefully at home on August 7th, 2025. She was one of twelve children born to Gordon Wesley Winter, Sr. and Susie Catherine Winter. Virginia was born on April 15th, 1939, in Summerville, SC where she grew up and later met her husband Raymond who was stationed at the Air Force base in Charleston. They soon married and started their very full life traveling with the different Air Force assignments where they met many lifelong friends. When Raymond retired, they made Gulfport their home.

Virginia’s greatest joy was taking care of her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. If she had one on her lap, you would have heard her sing “You Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine”. She was most interested in others, wanting to know how they were doing. She worked for a while at Audrey’s Hair Salon as a stylist and also in sales at Gayfers Department Store.

Raymond and Virginia enjoyed taking many different cruises to the Caribbean and Alaska. Hawaii was also one of their favorite travel spots. They enjoyed life so very much. They loved their friends and kept them close.

Virginia was predeceased by her parents and also her husband of 66 years, Raymond Lucien Gouin.

She is survived by her children, Robert Raymond Gouin and wife Karen and Cynthia Ann Gouin Harris and spouse Norwood “Woody”; grand-children, Jason Robert Gouin and wife Heather; Rebecca Nicole Gouin Whittet and husband Joey; Richard Terry Harris II and wife Melody and Christopher Jacob Harris. Her surviving great-grandchildren are Grant Whittet IV, Kallie Whittet, Cooper Gouin and Callan Gouin. She has one surviving sibling, Thomas Winter of South Carolina.

The funeral service will be at the Pass Road Chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home on Friday, August 22, 2025, at 11:30am, where friends may visit one hour before the service. Interment will be in Biloxi National Cemetery. Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home, 15th Street, Gulfport, is honored to serve the family of Mrs. Virginia Victoria Gouin.