Obituaries

Christopher Pratt

Christopher Pratt

Sep 3, 2007

Mr. Christopher Wayne Pratt, 17, of Woolmarket, passed away in his sleep and joined his Nona in Heaven on Monday, September 3, 2007. Christopher was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on September 27, 1989 at Biloxi Regional Medical Center. He was a member of the Cedar Lake United Methodist Church. Christopher loved to fish and hunt. He was a very talented...

Dr. Frank  G. Gruich, Sr.

Dr. Frank G. Gruich, Sr.

Sep 1, 2007

Dr. Frank G. Gruich, Sr. was born into this life on March 12, 1920, on Point Cadet, Biloxi. He was born through death into everlasting life on September 1, 2007 at Biloxi Regional Medical Center. Dr. Gruich surmounted huge challenges from working in his grass roots in the shrimp factories to launching his life’s love and passion for knowledge and...

Sandra Kay Barnes

Sandra Kay Barnes

Aug 31, 2007

Mrs. Sandra Kay Collins Barnes, 54, of Gulfport, MS, died Friday, August 31, 2007, in Gulfport. Mrs. Barnes was a native of Danville, Arkansas and had been a resident of the coast for the past 40 years. She was a former real estate broker and co-owner of Barnes Wholesale Cars in Gulfport. She enjoyed her family, pets and gardening. Mrs....

Audrey Holliman Owen

Audrey Holliman Owen

Aug 30, 2007

Audrey Holliman Owen, 88, of Biloxi, died Thursday, August 30, 2007 in Biloxi, MS. Mrs. Owen was born in Biloxi, MS on January 31, 1919. She retired from Keesler Air Force Base and was a member of the Biloxi Sports Hall of Fame for basketball. Mrs. Owen was preceded in death by her husband of 59 years, Earl D. Owen,...

Lexi Marie Sherwood

Lexi Marie Sherwood

Aug 30, 2007

Infant Lexi Marie Sherwood, nine months, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Thursday, August 30, 2007, in Ocean Springs. Lexi was a lifelong resident of Ocean Springs. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandmother, Karen Sherwood. Survivors include her parents, Brandon and Melissa Sherwood of Ocean Springs, paternal grandfather, Blair Sherwood also of Ocean Springs, maternal grandparents, Rusty and...

Dennis Arthur McGrury, Sr.

Dennis Arthur McGrury, Sr.

Aug 30, 2007

Mr. Dennis A. McGrury, Sr., age 68, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Thursday, August 30, 2007, in Ocean Springs. Mr. McGrury was a resident of Ocean Springs since 1972. He served in Vietnam in the U.S. Air Force and retired after twenty years of service. He also retired from UPS after twenty years, was a member of the VFW and...

Jerry W. Bell

Jerry W. Bell

Aug 26, 2007

Mr. Jerry W. Bell, age 74, of Ocean Springs, died Sunday, August 26, 2007, in Ocean Springs. Mr. Bell was a resident of the community for fifty one years and was very active on various church committees at the First United Methodist Church of Biloxi. He loved woodworking, was a charter member of the Fort Bayou Volunteer Fire Department, a...

Lee Charles Morris, Jr.

Lee Charles Morris, Jr.

Aug 26, 2007

Mr. Lee Charles Morris, Jr., 82, of Biloxi, MS, died Sunday, August 26, 2007, in Ocean Springs. Mr. Morris was born in Biloxi and remained a lifelong resident of the coast. He was a U. S. Navy Veteran of WW II and the Korean Conflict and retired from South Central Bell Telephone Company. Mr. Morris was a member of Nativity...

Carl C. "Kelly" Kellermann, Jr.

Carl C. "Kelly" Kellermann, Jr.

Aug 26, 2007

Mr. Carl "Kelly" Kellermann, Jr., 54, of Gautier, MS, died Sunday, August 26, 2007, in Gautier. Mr. Kellermann was born in St. Paul, MN and had been a resident of the coast for the past 30 years. He was chief engineer with McAllister Brothers and a veteran of the U. S. Air Force. He was of the Catholic faith. Mr....

Hortense "Tonsie" Lapeyrouse Gaude'

Hortense "Tonsie" Lapeyrouse Gaude'

Aug 26, 2007

Hortense "Tonsie" Lapeyrouse Gaude' was born May 4, 1903 in Thibodaux, Louisiana. One of eleven children born to David Louis Lapeyrouse and Marie Bourgeois Lapeyrouse, she lived in Thibodaux until her marriage to Robert P. Gaude' of Biloxi in 1925. She was a resident of Biloxi for the remainder of her life. Tonsie had three children: Robert, Jr., Shirley, and...

Bobby Harris Lott

Bobby Harris Lott

Aug 24, 2007

Mr. Bobby Harris Lott, 76, of Vancleave, MS died Friday, August 24, 2007, in Vancleave. Bobby was a resident of the Gulf Coast for 47 years. He recently converted to the Catholic Faith and was a member of St. John's Catholic Church in Gulfport. He supported the Knights of Columbus in Columbia, MS. Bobby loved his family and friends. He...

Margaret Evelyn Heise

Margaret Evelyn Heise

Aug 23, 2007

Evelyn Heise, 80, of Biloxi, MS died Thursday, August 23, 2007 in Biloxi. Margaret was a resident of Biloxi for the past 54 years. She has worked as a secretary for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Baptist Association. She also worked for 13 years as a medical secretary at Keesler A.F.B. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Biloxi...

William  Lloyd Witham, Sr.

William Lloyd Witham, Sr.

Aug 21, 2007

William L. Witham, Sr., Lt. Col. U.S.A.F. Retired, 85, of Ocean Springs, MS. died August 21, 2007 in Ocean Springs. He served 20 years in the United States Air Force retiring in 1963. As a pilot he flew many types of aircraft, including B-24's, B-25's and C-54's. He retired from the Civil Service in 1983 after 20 years where he...

Tommie Germany McCaleb

Tommie Germany McCaleb

Aug 20, 2007

Tommie Germany McCaleb, age 89, of Broussard, LA, died Monday, August 20, 2007 in Broussard. She was born in Neshoba County, Ms and was a longtime resident of Gulfport having moved to Layfayette following Hurricane Katrina. She was preceded in death by her husband, Louis Stewart McCaleb; a sister, Oletta Stoner Belk; and a brother, Chester Germany. Mrs. McCaleb is...

Joseph (Joe) Rosetti

Joseph (Joe) Rosetti

Aug 20, 2007

Mr. Joseph (Joe) M. Rosetti, age 79, of Biloxi, MS, went to live in God's eternal garden on August 20, 2007. Mr. Rosetti, also known as "Rosy", was born September 6, 1927, at home on First Street, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Joe began working at age 13 as a shrimper alongside his father. He worked in the piping department at Ingall's...

DENNIS KEITH BROWN

DENNIS KEITH BROWN

Aug 20, 2007

Dennis Keith Brown, 69 of Biloxi passed away on Monday, August 20, 2007 in Biloxi. Dennis was born in Grand Rapids, MN in 1938 to the late Wendell Brown and Luverne Brown Welte. Dennis grew up in Marble, MN and graduated from Greenway High School in Coleraine, MN He served for four years in th U.S. Navy. He worked at...

Ann Taft Bosse'

Ann Taft Bosse'

Aug 19, 2007

Ann Taft Bosse', mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, born February 18, 1920, in California, Pennsylvania, died peacefully August 19, 2007 at G.C. Medical Center after complications related to hip surgery. She was 87. A 55 year resident of Biloxi, Ann medically retired from the Civil Service at Keesler Air Force Base Hospital in 1976 where she had worked as a Pathology Department...

Paul Allen Dennis

Paul Allen Dennis

Aug 18, 2007

Retired M/Sgt. Paul Allen Dennis, 72, was born in Spencer, NC on November 23, 1934. He moved to Portsmouth, VA at the age of five where he attended local public schools. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1954. Paul served in the U. S. Army from 1957-1959. He joined the U. S. Air Force in 1961. During his...

Gerald Joseph Romero

Gerald Joseph Romero

Aug 17, 2007

Mr. Gerald Joseph Romero, 77, a native and lifelong resident of Biloxi, died August 17, 2007, at his home with his family after a four year battle with cancer. Mr. Romero was preceded in death by his mother, Agnes Savoy Rushing, his father, Dorthy Romero, and his son, Russell Joseph Romero. He is survived by his wife of 51 years,...

Constance Trahan Butterfield

Constance Trahan Butterfield

Aug 17, 2007

Mrs. Connie Trahan Butterfield, age 73, of Navarre, FL., formerly of West Warwick, RI., passed away unexpectedly in Florida on August 17, 2007. Born in Mississippi, Mrs. Butterfield attended Biloxi High School. She met her future husband while he was stationed at Keesler Air Force Base. They married and moved north to Rhode Island where they raised their son and...