Obituaries
Shawn Sumrall
Apr 24, 2007
Mr. Shawn Edward Sumrall, age 21, of Ocean Springs, MS., passed away on Tuesday, April 24, 2007, in Pascagoula. Mr. Sumrall was born in Mobile, AL., and a lifelong resident of Ocean Springs. He attended Ocean Springs schools and graduated in 2006. Mr. Sumrall was a member of the Lemoyne Baptist Church and was employed at Applebees Restaurant in Ocean...
Charles Jerry Williams
Apr 24, 2007
Mr. Charles Jerry Williams was born Dec. 26, 1940 to Cephus and Classie Lee Williams in Silver Creek (Arms) Mississippi. He was preceded in death by his father, Mr. Cephus Williams, Sr., his mother, Classie Fortenberry Williams; wife, Sadie H. Williams; daughter, Jasper L. Williams; brother, Thomas Carol Williams and grandson, Randy R. Williams. Jerry confessed Christ at an early...
John Joseph Caranna
Apr 24, 2007
Mr. John Joseph Caranna of Biloxi died Tuesday, April 24, 2007, in Biloxi. He was born in Gulfport, MS on January 1, 1920. Mr. Caranna was a member of the First Naval Construction Battalion serving in the Pacific in WWII, but his broad background of experience ranged from teaching and public relations to business ownership and management. He spent twenty-five...
Henry Midell Simmons
Apr 23, 2007
Henry Simmons, born in Moss Point on October 23, 1922, went to his Lord after a long battle with cancer at age 84. He was a long time resident of Ocean Springs. He was a 32 degree Mason, a member of McLeod Lodge in Ocean Springs for 56 years. A member of First Baptist Church. He loved his family and...
Mary Elaine Mabry
Apr 23, 2007
Mrs. Mary Elaine Mabry, age 83, of the Latimer Community, passed away on Monday, April 23, 2007, in Biloxi. Mrs. Mabry was a veteran nurse at Howard Memorial Hospital and a long-standing member of St. John's Episcopal Church. She loved to garden and cook for her family and to play games and cards. Mrs. Mabry was preceded in death by...
Pam McClamma
Apr 23, 2007
Pam McClamma, age 49, of Pass Christian, died Monday, April 23, 2007 in Gulfport.She was born in Hamilton, Indiana and had been a resident of the Gulf Coast for 25 years. She was employed with Memorial Hospital at Gulfport for over fourteen years. She was a member of Christ United Methodist Church of Long Beach. She was preceded in death...
Alvin Austin LeDuke, III
Apr 22, 2007
Mr. Alvin Austin LeDuke, III, 58, of Biloxi, MS, died Sunday, April 22, 2007 in Ocean Springs. Mr. LeDuke was a native and lifelong resident of Biloxi. He was a 1966 graduate of Biloxi High School where he was a member of the "Pride of Biloxi" Marching Band and a graduate of the Perkinston Campus of the Mississippi Gulf Coast...
Elizabeth Blom
Apr 20, 2007
Mrs. Elizabeth Blom, born in Wayne, Pennsylvania and a longtime resident of Huntington, NY, died April 20, 2007, in Biloxi, MS. Mrs. Blom had been a resident of Biloxi since 1996. She was an office manager and bookkeeper for a number of businesses in Huntington, NY, retiring from the billing department of Huntington Hospital in 1992. Her family wishes to...
Mary E. Frost
Apr 19, 2007
Mrs. Mary E. Frost, 86, of Biloxi, MS, was called home Thursday, April 19, 2007. She will be remembered by all that love her as a woman who never met a stranger. Mrs. Frost was born July 4, 1920 in Norman, Oklahoma and was a longtime resident of Biloxi. She was a member of J. T. Leggett Memorial United Methodist...
Louise Aline Sanchez Nolte
Apr 19, 2007
Mrs. Louise Aline Sanchez Nolte, 88, of Biloxi, MS, passed away Thursday, April 19, 2007. Affectionately known as "Gran", she will be remembered for her devotion to her Catholic faith and love of family and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gregory N. Nolte, Sr.; parents, John and Katherine Sanchez; siblings, John, Edward, Robert, Thomas, Richard, Mary...
Mildred Mae Bourn
Apr 19, 2007
Mrs. Mildred "Bibbie" Holland Bourn, 84, of Biloxi, MS died Thursday, April 19, 2007 in Biloxi. Mrs. Bourn was a lifelong Apostolic Pentecostal member of the First Penecostal Church of Biloxi. She is preceded in death by her husband of 66 years, Joe F. Bourn, two sons, Rev. Charles Bourn, Rev. Joel Bourn and a daughter, Deta Bourn Bourriague, as...
ALTHEA PARKER RODRIGUEZ
Apr 19, 2007
Althea Mary Parker Rodriguez, born December 8, 1912, died April 19, 2007. She was born on Croesus Street in Biloxi, MS. Althea is preceded in death by her parents, Raymond and Nettie Parker, her husband of 44 years, Daniel Rodriguez, her siblings R.J. Parker, Ida Mae Florence, Julius Parker, Mary Swetman, Jack Parker, her daughter Patricia Hurlbert, her grandsons Bobby...
Gerald "Boo-Boo" Broussard
Apr 17, 2007
Mr. Gerald "Boo-Boo" Broussard, 73, of Biloxi, died in the early morning hours on Monday, April 17, 2007. A lifelong resident of Biloxi, he was the epitome of Biloxi "Cajun", and was born and lived his life on Point Cadet, working 60 years of his life doing what he loved best, fishing the local waters of the Mississippi Sound. During...
Carole Murrell Jones
Apr 17, 2007
Mrs. Carole M. "Carole Jo" Jones, age 62, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Tuesday, April 17, 2007, in Ocean Springs. Mrs. Jones was a lifelong resident of the community and loved to be around her friends. She had a very outgoing personality and loved life. She was preceded in death by her father, Lionel Murrell. Survivors include two daughters, Tiffany...
James Holcombe
Apr 16, 2007
James Malcolm Holcombe, 85, died April 16, 2007 in Ocean Springs. He was a native Biloxian, born in the shadow of the Lighthouse. Having been born in 1922 just northwest of it on property then owned by his grandparents, John L. and Isabella Fayard Lestrade. It was the same parcel of Land Grant #5 granted to his great, great, great...
Suzanne Strangi
Apr 16, 2007
Miss. Suzanne Strangi, 46, of Biloxi, MS, and formerly of Jacksonville, FL, died Monday, April 16, 2007, at her family home in Biloxi. She was born September 29, 1960 and graduated from Biloxi High School. Miss. Strangi is survived by her mother, Suzanne "Sue" Strangi; her sisters, Lee Ann Dubaz and her husband, Gary, Mary Beth Broussard and her husband,...
Henry Chester Fortner, Jr.
Apr 16, 2007
Mr. Henry Charles Fortner, Jr. passed away on Monday, April 16, 2007 after a long illness. Mr. Fortner was born on September 5, 1957. Rusty as he was known by all, was a lifelong resident of Biloxi. He was a commercial fisherman. He was preceeded in death by his father, Henry Charles Fortner and Ella Tauzin Fortner. He was also...
Charles George Rumsey
Apr 15, 2007
Mr. Charles George Rumsey of Ocean Springs, MS, died Sunday, April 15, 2007, in Ocean Springs. Mr. Rumsey was a native of Cicero, Illinois and had been a resident of Ocean Springs for the past 47 years. He served in the U. S. Army Air Corps as a B-29 pilot during WW II. He was a member of St. Alphonsus...
Wilbur Trahan
Apr 14, 2007
Wilbur “Willie” Trahan, 64, passed away on Saturday, April 14, 2007 at Memorial Hospital , Gulfport, MS. He was born in Welsh, Louisiana and was a long time resident of Gulfport. He will be deeply remembered as a devoted American citizen and protector of democracy, a loving husband, father, grandfather, and good friend to many of "his" Veterans. As a...
Lartha Anglin Marroy
Apr 14, 2007
Mrs. Lartha Anglin Marroy, 61, of Long Beach, MS, passed away Saturday, April 14, 2007. She will be remembered by all that love and miss her as a devoted wife, mother, grandmother (“Granny”), sister, aunt, “Nanny”, and a wonderful friend to many. Mrs. Marroy was born on September 16, 1945 in Panama City, FL. She is a longtime resident of...
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