Obituaries
Virginia Dale Spiers
Nov 23, 2009
Mrs. Virginia Dale Spiers, age 74, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Monday, November 23, 2009, in Ocean Springs. Mrs. Spiers was a lifelong resident of the community and a 1953 graduate of St. Martin High School. She was a very Christian and Godly wife and mother. She was preceded in death by her parents, Thomas and Mary Jo Dawkins Hartfield...
Peter "Pete" Patano
Nov 23, 2009
Mr.Peter "Pete" Paul Patano, 90, of Biloxi, MS, passed away on Monday, November 23, 2009, in D'Iberville. Pete was born June 7, 1919, in Chicago, IL. He was a loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather. He was an Air Force veteran, long time resident of Biloxi, and a member of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church. His...
Donald W. "Don" Wilson
Nov 23, 2009
Donald W. "Don" Wilson, TSgt Retired USAF age 72, of Ocean Springs, MS., passed away on Monday, November 23, 2009, in Ocean Springs, surrounded by family and friends. Don was born on June 30, 1937, in Guymon, Oklahoma, to Woodrow W. and Ruby Jo Wilson. He attended schools in Biloxi acquiring a GED after enlisting in the Air Force. He...
Rita Louise Andrews
Nov 23, 2009
Rita Louise Andrews, 87, of Gautier, MS, died on Monday, November 23, 2009. Mrs. Andrews was a native of Biloxi and resident of Gautier for the past 63 years. An active partner with her husband, they established, owned and operated Mary Walker Marina in Gautier for over 50 years. She was a loving wife, mother, homemaker, business woman and a...
Rita Louise Andrews
Nov 23, 2009
Rita Louise Andrews, 87, of Gautier, MS, died on Monday, November 23, 2009. Mrs. Andrews was a native of Biloxi and resident of Gautier for the past 63 years. An active partner with her husband, they established, owned and operated Mary Walker Marina in Gautier for over 50 years. She was a loving wife, mother, homemaker, business woman and a...
Ronald Harry Hooke
Nov 22, 2009
Ronald Harry Hooke, age 72, of Biloxi, MS. died Sunday, November 22, 2009, in Biloxi. Mr. Hooke was a native of Boston, Massachusetts and was a coast resident for 51 years. He served in the United States Air Force during the Korean Conflict. He drove for the Yellow Cab Company for over 20 years and worked as a security guard...
Louis Barlow II
Nov 22, 2009
Louis "Bill" Barlow, 56, of Biloxi, MS passed away on Sunday, November 22, 2009 after his battle with cancer came to an end. Bill was born and raised in Biloxi and attended local schools until his sophomore year of high school. After moving to McComb, MS, he graduated from Gibson High School with the class of 1970 and attended Southwest...
John (Tommy) Thomas Munro
Nov 20, 2009
John (Tommy) Thomas Munro, born in New Orleans, LA, April 19, 1931 died November 20, 2009. He is the son of the late Jack and Lucille Munro and had been a long standing resident of Biloxi since 1940. He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1953 with a Bachelor Science. He became president of Munro Oil and Paint...
Pierce "Hedge" Hedgecoth
Nov 19, 2009
Pierce "Hedge" Hedgecoth, 74, of Ocean Springs, MS died on Thursday, November 19, 2009. Mr. Hedgecoth was a native of Crossville, TN and had been a resident of the Coast for over 50 years. He was a member of the "Ole Biloxi Marching Club", a USAF Veteran, employed with Civil Service at KAFB as an instructor. Mr. Hedgecoth also worked...
Carl Fred Wilson
Nov 17, 2009
Mr. Carl Fred Wilson, age 90, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Tuesday, November 17, 2009, in Ocean Springs. Mr. Wilson was a native of Monticello, MS., and a coast resident since 1968. He was a retired M/Sgt in the US Air Force, a decorated veteran of WWII serving as a Bombardnier on a B-17 crew. He was a Mason, a...
Richard Philip Conley
Nov 16, 2009
Richard Philip Conley, age 78, of Ocean Springs, MS passed away on November 16, 2009 at home. Richard was born on September 13, 1931 in Portland, Maine to Thomas and Catherine Conley. He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, Tom and Don Conley and a sister Jean Cornicelli. Richard served four years in the U.S. Air Force....
Betty Elaine Tague
Nov 15, 2009
Mrs. Betty Elaine Tague, age 74, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Sunday, November 15, 2009, in Ocean Springs. Mrs. Tague was a native of Iowa and a resident of the coast since 1957. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ervin Tague and a daughter, Kimberly Tague. Survivors include a daughter, Malia M. McGowan, three sons, Steven J. (Mary)...
A. F. May
Nov 15, 2009
Mr. A. F. May, 83, of Woolmarket, died Sunday, November 15, 2009, in Biloxi. Mr. May was born in Mendenhall, MS, and had been a resident of Woolmarket since 1988. He was a retired welder and a member of Biloxi River Baptist Church. Mr. May is survived by his wife, Edith Edwards May of Woolmarket; daughter, Lynda (James) Griffin of...
Annabelle K. Hilbert
Nov 15, 2009
Annabelle K. Hilbert, age 91, died peacefully at her home in Gulfport on the morning of November 15, 2009. Mrs. Hilbert was born May 1, 1918 in Philadelphia. PA. She graduated from Olney High School in 1935 and from Temple University in 1939. After teaching high school in Clayton, NJ for three years, she married the love of her life,...
Evelyn Dianne Allen
Nov 15, 2009
Evelyn Dianne Allen, age 58, of Gulfport, died November 15, 2009 at her home in Biloxi. Born Dianne Fruges on June 17, 1951 in Gulfport, she attended Gulfport Holiness Church. Dianne is survived by Don Allen, her husband, who shared 30 years of heartfelt memories. Also survived by two sons, Andrew (Becky) Page of Gulfport; Samuel (Tammy) Page of Biloxi...
Anthony "Tony" J. Gagliano
Nov 15, 2009
Anthony J. (Tony) (A. J.) Gagliano, Jr., 54, took the hand of our Lord late Sunday afternoon, November 15, 2009. He was surrounded by his family and friends at his home in Ocean Springs, Ms. Tony was born on June 28, 1955, at Luke AFB in Arizona. He was a graduate of Ocean Springs High School Class of 1973 and...
Phillip Drake Johnson
Nov 14, 2009
Infant Phillip Drake Johnson, 6 weeks old, of Moss Point, MS, died Saturday, November 14, 2009, in Vancleave. Phillip was born in Mobile, AL. He is survived by his parents, Phillip Johnson and Jessica Shumock of Moss Point; sisters, Allysan Shumock and Brooklyn Johnson; maternal grandparents, Jerry Shumock and Sherri Sellers of Moss Point and step-grandfather, Robert Roberts of Moss...
Rose Marie Hansen Franko
Nov 14, 2009
Mrs. Rose Marie "Mutsy" Hansen Franko, 74, of Biloxi, MS, passed away Saturday, November 14, 2009, in Ocean Springs. Mrs. Franko was born in Biloxi and remained a lifelong resident. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and her spouse. She is survived by her daughters, Deborah Nagy, Rita Knotts, and Tammy Davenport; son, Curtis Wright; sisters,...
Helen Wilder Skelton
Nov 13, 2009
Mrs. Helen Wilder Skelton, 77, of Biloxi, MS, died Friday, November 13, 2009, at Biloxi Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Skelton was born September 29, 1932, in Biloxi. She was the daughter of Benjamin David Wilder and Irma Daniels Wilder. Members of her family came to Biloxi in the 1800s, and she was a resident of Biloxi all her life. Graduating...
William Bernard Quinn
Nov 12, 2009
William B. Quinn, 81, of Ocean Springs, MS died November 12, 2009 in Ocean Springs, MS surrounded by family. William was born December 24, 1927 in Faribault, Minnesota. He attended High School in Hackensack, MN then enlisted in the Navy in May of 1945. He attended college at Community Colleges in Minneapolis, MN and later at Bemidji State University in...
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