Obituaries
Henry Sidney Goings
Feb 16, 2008
S/Sgt. Henry Sidney Goings, U. S. Air Force Retired, 75, of Biloxi, MS, died Saturday, February 16, 2008, in Biloxi. Mr. Goings was born in Franklinton, LA and had been a lifelong resident of the Gulf Coast. He was a retired U. S. Air Force Veteran of Vietnam and a life member of V.F.W. Post #2434. Mr. Goings was preceded...
Gordon Elbert Jones
Feb 15, 2008
Gordon E. Jones, 80 of D'Iberville, MS died Friday, February 15, 2008, in Ocean Springs. Gordon was a member of Cedar Lake United Methodist Church. He served in the U.S. Army, loved to work in his yard and visit with his family. He was the Gulf Coast Golf Champion when he was 16. Gordon graduated from Biloxi High in 1945....
Jenny Lacap
Feb 15, 2008
Jenny Lacap,52, of Gulfport died Friday, February 15, 2008 in Gulfport. Jenny was born in the Philippines. She graduated from Harrison Central High in 1974 and the American Beauty College in 1975 and was presently employed with the Beau Rivage Casino. She was always beautiful, glamourous, fabulous, and bubblicious. She was preceded in death by her father Fabio Lacap and...
Eddie Eugene Stafford, Jr.
Feb 15, 2008
Mr. Eddie E. "Tinker" Stafford, Jr., 84, of Biloxi, MS, passed on to his maker Friday, February 15, 2008, in Gulfport. Mr. Stafford was a lifelong resident of Biloxi and retired from the U. S. Postal Service after serving in several management positions in Biloxi. He was very proud that he was a member of a family with a combined...
Dorothy Renault
Feb 14, 2008
Mrs. Dorothy "Dottie" Renault, 57, of D'Iberville, MS, passed away Thursday, February 14, 2008, in Ocean Springs. Mrs. Renault was a native of Natchez, MS and had been a resident of the coast for the past 15 years. She loved to fish, bowl, go to Camp and collect pigs. She went on annual family cruises and loved her castle. Mrs....
Helen Rushin
Feb 14, 2008
Helen Grace Henry Rushin celebrated her final victory Thursday, February 14, 2008, in Birmingham, Alabama. Born October 27, 1909, Ms. Rushin lived in many places but called Ocean Springs, Mississippi home. A loving wife, mother and grandmother, she touched many lives in her long journey home and those who knew her will always remember her loving smile and gentle eyes...
David Howard Prahl
Feb 14, 2008
Lieutenant David H. Prahl, born November 11, 1966, in Syracuse, New York, passed away Thursday, February 14, 2008, in Biloxi, MS. In 1984 he began his community service in the U. S. Air Force as a Security Policeman. David continued his police career in Inlet, NY and later by joining the Biloxi Police Department where he had an honored and...
Luther Phillip Basque
Feb 14, 2008
Luther Phillip Basque, age 78, of Gautier passed away on Thursday, February 14, 2008 in Gautier. Mr. Basque was a graduate of Ocean Springs High School and a lifetime resident of Ocean Springs and retired from the roofing and sheet metal business. He owned Basque Sheet metal and Roofing. He loved to fish and play golf, loved to ride around,...
Inez Marie Borries Conovich
Feb 14, 2008
Inez Borries Cavalier-Conovich, 95, passed away on Thursday, February 14, 2008 in Biloxi. A native of Biloxi, she spent her entire life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She was a member of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church and attended Sacred Heart School in Biloxi and Ladies Auxiliary VFW. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Gus Cavalier, Sr....
Josephine Mary Bartsch
Feb 14, 2008
Mrs. Josephine Mary Bartsch, age 80, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Thursday, February 14, 2008, in Ocean Springs. Mrs. Bartsch was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, Robert Bartsch. Survivors include three daughters, Catherine Bartsch of Twin Mountains, NH, Mary Bartsch of West Babylon, NY, and Elizabeth (Jerry) McNew of Ocean Springs, MS., two sons, Paul Bartsch...
Haynie Francis Dubuisson
Feb 13, 2008
Mr. H.F. "Dubie" Dubuisson, age 85, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Wednesday, February 13, 2008, in Ocean Springs. Mr. Dubuisson was born in Gulfport and was a lifelong resident of the coast. He served in the US Navy and was a veteran of WWII. He was a member of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Ocean Springs, a member of the...
William Wallace Ray
Feb 13, 2008
Mr. William W. "Bill" Ray, age 86, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Wednesday, February 13, 2008, in Pascagoula. Mr. Ray was a resident of the community for 59 years. He was a Master Salesman for the Pontiac Division of the General Motors Corporation for 30 consecutive years, was active with the Ocean Springs High School Booster Club, sang gospel songs...
Louise Martinez
Feb 11, 2008
Mrs. Louise Martinez, age 77, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Monday, February 11, 2008, in Ocean Springs. Mrs. Martinez was a native of Greenville, MS., and a resident of the coast since 1953. She was a former member of Eastlawn Baptist Church in Pascagoula. She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph Parr and Josephine McGraw Parr, three sisters,...
Donald Allen Smith
Feb 10, 2008
Donald A. Smith, age 60, of Ocean Springs passed away on Sunday, February 10, 2008 in Ocean Springs. Don was a native of Mississippi and a resident of Ocean Springs for the past 26 years. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, University of Mississippi Law School and joined the Mississippi State Bar Association in 1972. He...
Frances Marion Ramsay Shoemaker
Feb 9, 2008
Mrs. Frances Ramsay Shoemaker, 89, of the Ramsay Community, died Saturday, February 9, 2008, in Gautier. Mrs. Shoemaker was born in Lucedale and was a lifelong resident of the Gulf Coast, residing in both the Edgewater Gulf Hotel and Edgewater Park. She was a longtime member of the First United Methodist Church in Gulfport and was serving on the Board...
Nell Louise Akins Holland
Feb 8, 2008
Mrs. Nell Louise Akins Holland, 85, passed away Friday, February 8, 2008, in Biloxi, MS. Mrs. Holland was born in Howison, MS, and resided in Biloxi for over eighty years. From 1943 - 1960 she worked for the Army Air Corps Engineers while the Corps was overseeing construction of Keesler Air Force Base. From 1961 - 1974 she worked in...
Wallace Long Johnson, Jr.
Feb 8, 2008
Wallace Long "Ironshirt" Johnson, Jr., age 57, of Gulfport, died Friday, February 8, 2008 in Gulfport. He was born in Haleyville, AL and had been a resident of the Coast since moving here from Houston, TX in 1999. He was the former owner of Trade Winds Motor Company in Biloxi and Houston. "Ironshirt" enjoyed life, especially deep-sea fishing and casinos....
Evelyn Rosalie Brosh Ledet
Feb 8, 2008
Mrs. Evelyn Rosalie Brosh Ledet, 75, of Biloxi, MS, died Friday, February 8, 2008, in Biloxi. Mrs. Ledet was a native and lifelong resident of Biloxi. She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, the French Club, V.F.W. Auxiliary and LaPetite Club. Mrs. Ledet was preceded in death by her husband, Mr. Wilber "Cocoa" Ledet, Sr.; parents, Joseph and...
Melissa Kaye Lambert
Feb 7, 2008
Mrs. Melissa Kaye Lambert, age 37, of Ocean Springs, MS., went to be with God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ on Thursday, February 7, 2008, after a hard fought battle with cancer. Melissa was a very special woman who loved and was greatly loved by her family. She would do anything necessary to take care of them, no...
Walter Anderson
Feb 7, 2008
Walter Anderson a resident of D'Iberville, MS passed away in Mobile, AL on February 7, 2008, after a long illness. Walter was born in Idaho Falls, ID on May 10, 1926. Walter served in the United States Navy during WW II from Nov. 1943 to Aug. 1946. He served in the Pacific Theater on the Cape Esperance Escort Carrier CVE88....
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