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(201, 'en', 'node_search', ' protestant churches protestant churches ray fri 11182011 1110 time line   1846 in october  frederick a reynoir  and  louise hugon renoir  18011891 sold for 40 a lot on  reynoir street to the 1st baptist church of biloxi  trustees for the church were alexander bookton c taylor john herrington and jc woolworth the baptist church lot had 80feet on reynoir street and ran 88feet to the west it was bounded on the north by the l n railroad  john c bradford  acquired this property in july 1885 for 275 and conveyed it to  pauline trenchard querens  on nola in october 1885 for 450 the biloxi city park was situated on this lot for many years harrison co mississippi land deed bk 3 p 270 bk 21 p 18 and bk 21 p 30  1853 it appears that benjamin holley financed the first lodge of biloxi magnolia lodge no 120 af am in 1853 when the building was situated on the ne c of washington and main street on a lot 66 feet by 80 feet john brown was worshipful master at this time he was succeeded by james fewell in 1854 harrison co mississippi land deed bk6 p 437 and bk 7 p 136  1858 charles w whitall  18041858 new jersey native and rector of the protestant episcopal church at biloxi  died on october 18 1858 the daily picayune october 22 1858 p 2  1880 the methodist conference selecrted the reverend inman cooper to remain at biloxi for another year the pascagoula democratstar january 9 1880 p 3  1885 john c bradford  acquired the baptist church and lot on reynoir street opposite the l n depot in july 1885 for 275 from c taylor oscar d bowen george w andrews and st elder trustees of the baptist church he conveyed it to  pauline jeanne trenchard querens  18611928 on nola in october 1885 for 450 the biloxi city park was situated on this lot for many years harrison co mississippi land deed bk 21 p 18 and bk 21 p 30  1891 in late december  robert selby was appointed pastor of the methodist church  the biloxi herald decmber 26 1891 p 4  1892 jjw mathis pastor of the baptist churches at biloxi and handsboro  has a month s leave of absence and has gone withhis wife to citronelle alabama the biloxi herald january 30 1892 p 4 on may 18 1892 the new episcopal church of the redeemer at biloxi was consecrated to the memory of the reverend rg hinsdale by bishop thompson of mississippi and bishop sessums of louisiana harry t howard donated the land and building the biloxi herald may 21 1892 p 1 on july 26 1892 the great new orleans philanthropist  john henry keller  18301908 himself not a presbyterian donated lot 1 50 feet by 150 feet block 6 of keller s tract to the biloxi presbyterian church the church was located on east howard avenue east of the old biloxi public high school wl covel  18361926 was contracted to erect the small and modest building of the newly organized congregation the deacons and elders of the biloxi presbyterian church among them bemis o bailey 18981969 an ocean springs native  sold their property to the city of biloxi in late december 1940  for 3659 the new central junior high school was built on here on east howard avenue harrison co ms land deed bk 28 p 205 and deed bk 237 p 124 and he biloxi herald july 2 1892 p 1 and july 16 1892 p 4  1896 the reverend hm crain came to biloxi in february to be pastor of the 1st baptist church and also to minister to the baptist faithful at ocean springs he and mrs crain were domiciled in one of the cooper cottages on reynoir stret near front street the biloxi herald march 7 1896 p 8  1897   1899 reverend cf emery of the methodist church left biloxi on january 12th for his new assignment at edwards mississippi the biloxi daily herald january 8 1899 p 8 and january 13 1899 p 8 in december 1899  dr jb searcy  field editor of the baptist which he has been employed for several months has accepted the position of pastor of the 1st baptist church of biloxi  the baptist resulted from the consolidation of the baptist record of meridian and the baptist layman of winona the biloxi daily herald december 5 1899 p 8  1901 the new  baptist church is being built by thompson eistetter  architects and builders the reverend dr searcy is in residence editor note this structure was on lameuse street and washington street the biloxi daily herald january 6 1901 p 8  1904 in may  wkm dukate gave methodist minister hw van hook 1000 for the new church building fund the biloxi herald may 20 1904 p 6 ht howard past grand master  installed charles redding as worshipful master of magnolia lodge no 120 af am in late december the biloxi daily herald decemebr 19 1903 p 6  1905 from the biloxi daily herald october 30 1905 p 4  1906 the reverend jb searcy  18381900 a native of alabama and pastor of the 1st baptist church left biloxi for little rock arkansas on january 6th the reverend hc roberts of eureka springs arkansas wil replace him the biloxi daily herald january 6 1906 p 4 and 1900 harrison co mississippi federal census t623808 p 7b ed 30  1908 pastor henry c roberts  18531910 native of kentucky    left biloxi on january 2nd after two years at the 1st baptist church on washington and main street during his tenure here of constant and faithful service the church became debt free and had a net gain of fifty members reverend roberts relocated to silver creek lawrence county mississippi the daily herald january 2 1908 p 1 and 1910 lawrence co mississippi federal census t624747 p 5b ed 99 the reverend david warren bosdell  18711928 came to the 1st baptist church at biloxi from memphis tennessee in late september to replace reverend roberts he had married anne e gurganus 18761940 at mobile alabama in 1897 the biloxi herald september 25 1908 p 4  1909 reverend william megginson  18691954 and amy allen megginson  18711953 his spouse came to biloxi from edna texas in march and began his duties as pastor of the biloxi presbyterian church on april 1st he was officially recognized as pastor of the church on may 4 1909 the reverend megginson lived at 1716 west beach the daily herald march 20 1909 p 8 and may 3 1909 p 4 reverend william a roper   18681910 native of alabama who replaced henry c roberts at the 1st baptist church departed biloxi for kosciusko attala county mississippi in april 1909 he was offered an annual salary of 1500 to relocate the daily herald april 5 1909 p 4 and 1910 attala county mississippi t624732 p 26a ed 3 the christian science society of biloxi plans to erect a church on the corner of howard and seal avenues  a chapel will be put up for temporry use of the society contractor wt powell has completed the foundation from plans drawn by ac voak a local man the church will be an attractive bungalowstyle frame structure the biloxi daily herald may 14 1909 p 8 in may the first baptist church of biloxi selected the reverend james jesse smylie  18651950 of florence mississippi as their new pastor reverend smylie s tenure at biloxi was short as he resigned his post in midseptember 1909 biloxi was his first pastorate and smylie had been a methodist before becoming a baptist leaving biloxi he went to kentucky tennessee and louisiana doing evangelistic work in december 1909 the reverend jj smylie accepted the baptist pastorate at mansfield louisiana the reverend smylie and his spouse libbie k symlie 18681937 were the parents of at least eight children they and several of their children are buried in the rose hill cemetery at meridian lauderdale county mississippi the biloxi daily herald may 17 1909 p 4 september 13 1909 p 2 and december 10 1909 p 8 and 1910 desoto parish louisiana federal census t624512 p 8a ed 69  1910  the  lutheran community of biloxi met in the presbyterian church  and were led by martin haas president f greve treasurer and miss gertrude ott secretary they were  planning to erect a 3000 church building an acquire a lot the reverend george schlisser of pascagoula  was to be the pastor of the biloxi lutheran church the daily herald december 28 1910 p 1  fw williams  itenerant  negro apostolic preacher  returned to biloxi for the third time he planned to preach at the colored methodist church on main street near the l n rr he was run out of time the first time for allowing whites to enter his tent near division street on another occasion reverend williams was asked to leave when biloxi police discovered a woman lying prostrate on the floor of a small building surrounded by religionists of his mysterious faith she had been there for almost 24 hours under the power of god williams has travelled throughout alabama and mississipppio and as far as memphis he wears a smile that is guaranteed not to fade the daily herald december 29 1910 p 1  1913   pastor dw bosdell resigned his position at the 1st baptist church effective 31 december 1913 he elected to go to lucedale george county mississippi where a new church was to be erected the daily herald october 6 1913 p 1 and december 22 1913 p 4  1915  in late june the first evangelical lutheran church congregation meeting in the first baptist church of biloxi awarded a 2500 contract to harry haise and eric johansen to erect a bungalow style chapel  28 feet by 47 feet at jackson and thomas streets the completed chapel valued at 3500 was dedicated on september 26 1915 the  reverend ecbrink of illinois came to biloxi in 1914 to take charge of the newly developing congregation which had about 35 members at this time  the daily herald july 2 1915 p 2 and september 27 1915 p 1  1917 reverend byron holley  18511939 native of new york  came to the episcopal church of the redeemer at biloxi in june 1917  he had been rector of the grace church and st george s episcopal church in new orleans dr holley would be named president of the biiloxi hospital association in february 1919 and work actively at church missions in ocean springs and on point cadet in biloxi he and his spouse  elizabeth sanborn knapp  left biloxi in march 1921 for napa california the daily herald june 14 1921 p 3 and march 28 1921 p 1  1921 on november 3rd  ec gay conveyed a large lot on the southside of west howard avenue with 82 feet on west howard and running south 629 feet to an alley the extension of jackson street  to jw elder lyman bradford and nvboddie trustees of the 1st baptist church  the consideration was 2800 julius m lopez had sold the lot to ec gay on october 28 1921 harrison co mississippi chancery court deed bk 132 p 575  1922 the reverend hf tolle formerly at the main street methodist church is ill in jackson  he still has a large cottage at the seashore campground the daily herald june 12 1922 p 3 the 1st evangelical lutheran church on jackson and thomas streets dedicated its new altar and pulpit the reverend george hoffman was assited by bishop l schweickhardt of new orleans the daily herald june 12 1922 p 3  1923 in november the finance committee of the 1st baptist church of biloxi began planning to raise money for their proposed 50000 santuary on west howard avenue  james e greene of birmingham alabama was selected as their architect the daily herald november 17 1923 p 1  1928  the reverend sw noles  newly elected pastor of the oak street assembly of god church  assumed his duties in august other church officers elected were deaconsld wells jm jalanivich and a caldwell tony feldman sec and jm jalanovich treas trusteesle kinsey joseph cox and fc weaver the daily herald august 4 1928 p 2  1930 reverend jw holloway  the brother of reverend dp holloway also known at biloxi has assumed duties as pastor at the oak street assembly of god church  he succeeds the reverend wm stevens who left to take charge of the church at stonewall lorraine reverend holloway came here from mccomb where he had been the pastor last year priorly he was at laurel s assembly of god church for three years the daily hwerald august 25 1930 p 2  reverend o nussmann pastor of the first evangelical lutheran church  will speak at the rotary club on his experiences in india the dasily herald september 29 1930 p 2  1931 in june the reverend gc hodge of jackson replaced the reverend lewis harrison miller  18881949 as pastor of the 1st baptist church reverend miller a native of macon county north carolina was relocating to new york by 1940 he and his family were at chick springs south carolina his son lewis h miller jr 19192008 also became a baptist minister and usaf chaplain  claude p jones was pastor at the main street methodist church at this time the daily herald june 1 1931 p 2  1938   first evangelical lutheran church will celebrate its 25th anniversary of its biloxi organization next sunday  in 1915 the church building at thomas and jackson street was dedicated  in 1921 under the leadership of reverend george hoffman the work of the church was expanded to include activities of a back bay mission with chapels at chartres  bayview avenue  and oak street  resident pastors who have served the congregation in its history were reverend paul wobus reverend ec brink reverend hw hosto reverend george hoffman reverend r gruenke reverend e arndt reverend o nussmann reverend fj mehrtens and the present pastor the reverend th van dyck the daily herald november 9 1938 p 5  1939   reverend byron holley jr  18511939 native of rochester new york and rector of the episcopal church of the redeemer at biloxi from june 1917 to march 1921 died on may 2 1939 at burbank california he was preceded in death by fannie estelle campbell 18531905 his first spouse dr holley was survivied by elizabeth sanborn knapp his second wife his son robert campbell holley of hardwick georgia and daughter lucille holley wilson wife of robert h wilson the timespicayune may 12 1939 p 2  reverend clyde h gunn  19021980 who came to biloxi s main street methodist church in 1938 from morton scott county mississippi was reassigned to biloxi for another year  the daily herald november 20 1939 p 3  1941 in march the first presbyterian church under the leadership of the reverend ro flynn moved its little white church through the streets of biloxi from the 500 block of east howard avenue a distance of about 1 23 miles to the corner of west howard avenue and hopkins boulevard  the daily herald march 21 1941 p 1 and april 18 1941 p 6 with image  reverend henry reported that the foundation for the pass road tabernacle church was almost finished and that donations to erect the church continue to be received the daily herald april 12 1941 p 7  1942   1943   1944 the local church of the nazarene at biloxi was founded in 1944 the daily herald october 9 1948 p 2 reverend thomas a carruth appointed pastor of the main street methodist church the daily herald october 21 1946 p 1  1945     1946 the east end methodist church acquired a lot on east howard avenue  the reverend am ellison is working with the east end church  police chief laz quave recently joined the church and is taking an active interest in church work the methodists in biloxi are raising funds to erect two new churches the daily herald february 25 1946 p 7 in october the 8000  church of christ on keller place was under construction by contractor jp starks the daily herald october 15 1946 p 5  reverend thomas a carruth of the main street methodist church was joined by thomas mccurlery as his associate pastor in october the daily herald october 24 1946 p 7  1947 the church of christ moved into its new building at 212 keller place in early march  the 1500 squarefoot structure was built with concrete blocks concrete floors asbestos roofing and sheet rock ceiling by jp starks for 9000 the auditorium seats 240 congregants there were two sunday school classrooms and a 40 squarefoot baptistry with pool  at russell cc lee and robert e lee are trustees of the church and services have been held in the city hall for the past four years the daily herald february 27 1947 p 10  reverend lachlan cvass  b 1872 supply pastor of the first presbyterian church of biloxi for the past five years  retired to make his home at decatur georgia  the daily herald may 24 1947 p 2  joel f winkler  19231989 native of anderson indiana who had been pastor of the pass road gospel tabernacle of the christian and missionary alliance since june 17 1945 was ordained for the ministry at tampa florida at the annual conference held from september 30 to october 3 1947 in may 1945 joel had completed the three year course at the missionary training institute at nyack new york he died on june 21 1989 at kingman arizona the daily herald october 14 1947 p 5  1948   dr bz welch chairman of the main street methodist church building committee  announced plans for a  new sanctuary on hopkins boulevard  carl matthes was named architect the daily herald march 1 1948 p 2 on october 10th the church of the nazarene of biloxi under the leadership of reverend ej miller  joined a churchwide celebration of the 40th anniversary of the organization of the church of the nazarene as a protestant denomination the daily herald october 9 1948 p 2  the reverend maynard michael miller assumed his duties as pastor of biloxi s presbyterian church the daily herald november 27 1948 p 6  1949 the reverend james thomas leggett  18651949  pioneer methodist minister  died on june 24 1949 his internment was in the highlands cemetery at hattiesburg mississippi  1950 in march 1950 john t collins was taking bids to erect the back bay evangelical and reform mission building at chartres  bayview avenue  and fayard street  the 5000 squareft woodframed asbestos siding structure was to cost about 25000 the building was to have three assembly rooms 35 feet by 30 feet separated by folding patitions three classrooms kitchen bedroom and toilet facilities   the reverend victor t kissell  pastor  was in charge of the mission the daily herald march 29 1950 p 9    1951 the reverend grover cleveland hodge  18921980  celebrated his 20th year with the 1st baptist church of biloxi in early june  when dr hodge came to biloxi in 1931 the church had 464 members and a sunday school enrollment of 258 students in 1951 these numbers were 1220 congregants and 768 sunday school attendees gc hodge was presented with a lord elgin wrist watch by lh williams  alma hodge rose  his daughter and spouse of john rose  and pamela king rose  his granddaughter all of chattanooga tennessee attended the fete the daily herald june 2 1951 p 6 and june 4 1951 p 2  ground was broken in early june for a baptist mission at fernwood on pass road the new building was called the bowen memorial baptist chapel and the first congregation was organized by the reverend we bowen and the reverend fs dodge circa 1916  lt colonel richard l alexander had been pastor of the mission church since 1948  shroudsmogabgab of gulfport were architects for the concrete and stucco structure with a 150 person seating capacity the daily herald june 9 1951 p 8 and november 10 1951 p 12 the 1st methodist church will have homecoming day on sunday the daily herald june 9 1951 p 8  1952 on january 20th the west biloxi baptist church held its first service in its educational building situated on the corner of camellia and southern avenues in the greater biloxi subdivision  for the past four months the congregation had met in the homes of robert mcdaniels and corey ashcraft superintendent the reverend j hoffman harris assistant pastor fo the first baptist church of biloxi is serving as pastor  the daily herald january 19 1952 p 6  emmanuel baptist church on rodenberg avenue began as a mission of the handsboro baptist church in 1952 first services held in a house purchased there in august 1952 parishoners petitioned to become the emmanuel baptist church with 34 members in november 1953 built a twostory education building and the present day 2014 sanctuary was completed in 1957 the sun herald december 6 2014 p b7  dr wa tyson  native of georgia  arrived at biloxi in late june to become pastor of the first methodist church of biloxi  he and mrs tyson came from vicksburg to take up residence in the methodist parsonage on seal avenue the daily herald june 21 1952 p 2  1954 on july 25th  epworth methodist church laid the cornerstone for its new church on the nw c of walker and davis streets in biloxi s back bay section  mrs ben garlotte placed the mortar on the footings others in attendance were reverend eugene dyess paul balius lloyd bonnett charles higginbotham and ce mims  the epworth methodist church and moore community house were founded in 1925 by the reverend ww moore  the daily herald july 28 1954 p 16  1955 dr grover c hodge retired from his twentyfour year ministry at the 1st baptist church of biloxi in may 1955 the daily herald may 5 1955 p 1  1958  the jt leggett memorial methodist church  named for the reverend james thomas leggett  18651949 at the methodist seashore assembly grounds on west beach biloxi was dedicated on january 26 1958 it was erected on the former site of the another methodist tabernacle the church could seat 300 worshipers and and served also as a meeting place for conference wide activities including the annual pastor s school and the school missions of the wscs the sanctaury was designed by claude lindley of ocean springs and built by mj lang construction company the first pastor was the reverend jerry furr b 1929 native of pascagoula and the husband of marlene byrd the daily herald january 25 1959 p 3  1959 the  60000 east howard avenue baptist church on east howard avenue and maple street was dedicated on november 29th the brick and glass structure was 86 feet deep and 48 feet wide with a seating capacity of about 500 people including the balcony area the reverend leo c hoff  19132009 a native of brookhaven lincoln county mississippi had come to this biloxi church 2 12 years ago from the bunker hill baptist church near columbia mississippi the reverend hoff expired at norwood lincoln county mississippi on april 17 2009  the daily herald november 28 1959 p 6  1964 fred ferraez  native of new orleans and fortier high school graduate  was named pastor of the nazarene church at biloxi  reverend ferraez received his religious training a the bethany nazarene college at bethany oklahoma he had married frances pazaris  19292013 and they were the parents of 5 children the daily herald december 10 1964 p 12  1966 in march  reverend larry g rohrman   19382005 pastor of the temple baptist church at tuscaloosa alabama  accepted the head ministry of the 1st baptist church of biloxi  reverend rohrman was born in south texas and had attended baylor university and the new orleans baptist seminary his marriage to sonya o neal  a hattiesburg mississippi native and baylor university graduate had given life to michael scott rohrman and cindy lea rohrman  the family expected to be in biloxi by april 10th  reverend rohrman s prior religious duties had taken him to val verde texas and hattiesburg mississippi  larry g rohrman is believed to have passed on june 24 2005 at blountsville alabama the daily herald march 17 1966 p 1  1973 the reverend ernest sylvester flynt  19811973 native of mt olive mississippi and a retired baptist minister died at biloxi on october 13 1973 his 60 years of christian service had brought him to pastorates at kentucky indiana and mississippi on the coast es flynt had served 15 years as pastor of the handsboro baptist church 14 years as pastor of the east howard avenue baptist church and for 7 years at the west gulfport baptist church he was also responsible for organizing several churches on the coast with the last two at woolmarket and west gulfport reverend flynt was survivied by elizabeth j richardson flynt 18921975 his wife at biloxi and two daughters earline f bergin of ocean springs and ernestine f sumrall of handsboro the corporal remains of the reverend flynt and mrs flynt were in the floral hills cemetery at gulfport mississippi the daily herald ocotber 14 1973 p 2  1980   reverend glover cleveland hodge sr   18921980 died at biloxi on november 7 1980 he was pastor of the first baptist church of biloxi from 1931 to early may 1955 alma simmons hodge 18961995 his spouse expired in late june 1995 both internments were in southern memorial park cemetery at biloxi mississippi the daily herald may 5 1955 p 1 november 9 19080 p a4 and june 29 1995 p c2  1999 on october 14th  beau rivage resorts inc acquired the 1st baptist church of biloxi sanctuary and lot on west howard avenue  tc waller was chairman of the 1st baptist church deacons at this time harrison co mississippi chancery court 2nd jd land deed bk 347 p 6  church histories and cults brother isaiah brother isaiah 18471934 was born john cudney in ontario province canada  possibly no other event in the history of this region other than the founding of gulf hills in 1925 has left an indelible mark on the settlers along the placid waters of bayou puerto and the back bay of biloxi than the arrival of brother isaiah in june 1922 with the assistance of martin fountain jr 18821963 and his son wallace fountain 19031958 brother isaiah came to the mississippi gulf coast with his entourage from new orleans after arriving at the biloxi harbor with his fleet of seven vessels which included houseboats brother isaiah and followers settled on high ground near the mouth of bayou puerto a small estuarine stream situated west of gulf hills a newly developing resort community here they lived in tents and houses isaiah s group consisted of about twentyfive people they dressed in the fashion of the time but the men wore long hair and grew heavy beards women of the cult wore no facial enhancement the sexes lived separately  the daily herald june 10 1922 p 3 and june 24 1922 p 1   isaiah s disciples tilled the land primarily growing vegetables for their livelihood while brother isaiah preached and practiced his art of healing brother isaiah drove a limousine it was a hudson super six purchased in 1922 at new orleans by a man who had followed brother isaiah from california the anonymous donor claimed that a lifelong intestinal ailment had permanently disappeared after he received a handkerchief touched by the hands of brother isaiah  the times picayune january 25 1922 p 1   the albert e lee 18741936 the editor of  the jackson county times  related the following on july 1 1922 p 5   brother isaiah continues to attract hundreds of visitors to his camp on back bay many of whom go to him to be healed of their mental and bodily afflictions there is a conflict of opinion as to the ability of brother isaiah as a healer some say he performs miracles and some say he is just an ignorant old man with a deluded idea that he is endowed with supernatural power the editor of the times has not visited the camp nor attended any of the meetings being held by isaiah   also in early july 1922  the daily herald  reported that   ocean springs people still continue to visit brother isaiah nightly some for treatment others to witness meetings   the daily herald july 8 1922 p 2   in late november 1923 brother isaiah returned to north biloxi after a visit to the northwest at kirkland washington he had conducted meetings the local colony at this time numbered some seventyfive souls that tilled the soil and assisted brother isaiah in his daily affairs  the timespicayune november 26 1923 p 6    texas in early october 1922 brother isaiah left his st martin retreat to visit beaumont texas he planned to treat a lady patient there members of his cult have been traveling to and fro lumberton and other venues in south mississippi those who remain in the camp at st martin are farming  the daily herald october 10 1922    john cudney brother isaiah 18471934 was born john cudney in ontario province canada near niagara falls new york he believed that he was the 88th reincarnation of the prophet isaiah brother isaiah with his mother and sister amanda coldberg 18431920 landed at new orleans circa 1916 here they subsided on a houseboat moored to the mississippi river levee near audubon park in a few years brother isaiah was drawing thousands to the batture to hear his sermons and be cured by the miracle man as he became known  the oroville mercuryregister february 23 1985   in september 1857 amanda cudney and john cudney with abel cudney 18501900 and caroline cudney 18421857 their other siblings were living in the household of charles rosel 18301857 a farmer domiciled in filmore county minnesota territory this census gave michigan as the birth place for the cudney children september 1857 minnesota territory 18491905 census roll mn 18572line 3 the peripatetic brother isaiah had colonies at various places in the united states between 1922 and his demise in july 1934 the cudney cult had lived or visited in california washington mississippi louisiana texas and florida his short tenure on the mississippi coast was in western jackson county primarily in the area today which is called st martin here cudney and his faithful lived in tents and houses off of lemoyne boulevard in the vicinity of bayou puerto and on the rosemoney farm north of ocean springs where he preached and cured the afflicted as part of his legacy john cudney left a book  the city of new jerusalem  it was published at los angeles in march 1932 the 900 page volume contains more than 600 pages of sermons many of these were delivered at fort meyers florida the work also contains 110 pages of testimonials and many letters  the oroville mercury register february 23 1985    death john cudney passed in late july 1934 near oroville california unlike the followers of jesus who waited at the tomb and witnessed his resurrection on easter sunday there is no miracle here dejectedly the disciples of the dead man brother isaiah placed his remains in the earth completing the cycle as told by st paul man dust thou art and dust thou shall return  the jackson county times july 28 1937 p 2    the return in april 1937  the daily herald  reported that the camp of the saints has located on the mr davis place on the meunier property in north biloxi the followers of the late brother isaiah 18471934 which numbered about twelve and were primarily men decided that the biloxi area was an ideal location they were seeking a large farm to share crop the disciples of brother isaiah believed in making their livelihood from agriculture not from donations they did not plan to practice any form of healing like their deceased leader the religious cult had disbanded in 1936 in northern california the saints left biloxi in 1925 for fort meyers florida before relocating to raceland louisiana circa 1929 their journey had ended in oroville california  the daily herald april 20 1937 p 10   there are many octogenarians in this area who were taken to the tent of brother isaiah by their parents children and grandchildren of these people might inquire of them and get their own vicarious vision of brother isaiah  references  john m fletcher  the american journal of psychology    the miracle man of new orleans  vol 33 no 1 jan 1922 pp 113120 journals the daily herald   brother isaiah arrives   june 10 1922 the daily herald   brother isaiah works miracles in jackson county with colony   june 24 1922 the daily herald   brother isaiah goes to texas  october 10 1922 the daily herald   brother isaiah in california   august 8 1929 the daily herald   brother isaiah s followers return   april 20 1937 the jackson county times   local and personal   july 1 1922 the jackson county times   local and personal   september 16 1922 the jackson county times   brother isaiah is touring the states   september 16 1922 the jackson county times  death occurs in isaiah s tent   november 24 1923 the jackson county times   brother isaiah en route to biloxi  august 30 1924 the jackson county times   local and personal   april 4 1925 the jackson county times   faith works wonders   october 29 1927 the jackson county times   isaiah dies  july 28 1934 the jackson county times   brother isaiah dies in california   july 28 1934 jambalayathe crescent citycoast connection   once upon a timethe miracle man brother isaiah 18471934   april 1998 the times picayune   strange faith cures laid at door of tiny houseboat  march 11 1920 p 1 the times picayune   blind hope aroused to passion forces army of lame weak and sick to healing of new isaiah  march 12 1920 p 1 the times picayune   disbelief creeps in to discount triumph of cures by healer   march 13 1920 p 1 the times picayune   police declare hands off for brother isaiah   march 13 1920 p 4 the times picayune   healer s declined funds are sought  march 13 1920 p 4 the times picayune   wars of bloodshed decried and those of righteousness extolled by brother isaiah  march 15 1920 p 1 the times picayune   aged healer spends monday in pujol home  march 16 1920 p 1 the times picayune   patrolman says brother isaiah gave him relief  march 16 1920 p 2 the times picayune   blind workers desert shop and rush to brother isaiah  march 17 1920 p 1 the times picayune   biloxi kiwanians fight proposed river spillway    november 26  1923 p 6 the oroville california mercury register   brother isaiah founded new jerusalem here    february 23 1985 o   241 howard avenue  image made march 2012  east howard avenue baptist church 241 howard avenue   1959dedication the  60000 east howard avenue baptist church on east howard avenue and maple street was dedicated  on november 29 1959 the brick and glass structure was 86 feet deep and 48 feet wide with a seating capacity of about 500 people including the balcony area the  reverend leo c hoff  19132009 a native of brookhaven lincoln county mississippi had come to this biloxi church 2 12 years ago from the bunker hill baptist church near columbia mississippi the  reverend hoff expired at norwood lincoln county mississippi on april 17 2009  the daily herald november 28 1959 p 6  postkatrina in august 2011 the sixty more or less congregants of the east howard baptist church a member of the gulf coast baptist association were greeted by tom mims their new minister and tommy mims his son as their music director christen cauley was children s worship director devasted by hurricane katrina because of its low elevation on the southeast corner of howard avenue and maple street on biloxi s point cadet the church suffered a loss of participation as former residents of the area relocated to other areas in addition to his pastoral obligations tom mims is the director of the gulf coast rescue mission at biloxi the sun herald march 11 2012 p a9  references    the daily herald    east howard avenue baptist   november 28 1959  the sun herald    east howard baptist church feels the work of holy spirit   march 10 2012 p a9 978 views  ', 0);
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(202, 'en', 'node_search', ' catholic churches catholic churches ray fri 11182011 1114 timeline   1837 the diocese of natchez was established by the roman catholic church on july 28 1837  the mississippi register august 3 1962  1840 bishop john mary joseph chanche  17951852  1843 on august 15 1843 manette fayard leader 17911853 widow of thomas leader for 200 sold bishop of natchez john joseph chanche a lot of 12 acre on pass christian road howard avenue the tract was 150 feet deep with louis a caillavet to the west and augustine fayard to the east harrison co mississippi chancery court land dee d bk 1 p 355  1853 bishop james oliver van develde  17951855  1857   bishop william henry elder   1881    monsignor francis august anthony joseph janssens  18431897 was a dutchborn prelate who served as bishop of natchez 1881 1888 and archbishop of new orleans 1888 1897 francis janssens was born october 17 1843 in tilburg north brabant to cornelius john janssens and josephine anne dams he studied at the seminary of shertogenbosch from 1856 until 1866 when he entered the american college at louvain belgium with the view of dedicating himself to the american missions janssens was ordained to the priesthood on december 21 1867 arriving at richmond virginia in september 1868 he became rector of the cathedral in 1870 and served as vicar general under bishops james gibbons and john joseph keane on april 7 1881 janssens was appointed the fourth bishop of the diocese of natchez mississippi by pope leo xiii receiving his episcopal consecration on the following may 1 from archbishop james gibbons assisted by bishops thomas becker and john keane during his tenure he completed construction on the cathedral of st peter the apostle which had commenced forty years earlier janssens was promoted to the archbishopric of new orleans louisiana on august 7 1888 succeeding msgr francis xavier leray and was installed on the following september 16 during his tenure he convened the fifth archdiocesan synod in may 1889 founded more than twentyfive new parochial schools dedicated a new preparatory seminary at gessen in september 1891 and established the catholic institute for deaf and dumb at chinchuba in 1890 janssens significantly reduced the immense debt incurred by archbishop napoleonjoseph perche continuing the work of his immediate predecessor francis xavier leray he reduced it from 324759 to about 130000 his tenure also spanned the period of hardening racial divisions between whites and blacks he once said there is nothing in my administration of the diocese that worries me more than our colored people to see what is done by the protestants to capture them and how often they succeed believing that a separate parish would keep blacks within the catholic church and facilitate black leadership just as it had for irish and german immigrants janssens established st katharine s church in 1895 as the first parish designated for black catholics attendance however was optional it was however his expressed hope that anyone might occupy any pew or any seat anywhere in the church bishop janssens died on june 9 1897 aboard the steamer creole  bound for new york city aged 53 he is buried at st louis cathedral in new orleans the mississippi register august 3 1962  1889   thomas heslin  18471911 native of dernacross county longford ireland was appointed the 5th bishop of the see of natchez on march 29 1889 he expired at natchez on february 18 1911 the mississippi register august 3 1962  1900   1902 contract for the nbvm catholic church was let to jf barnes co  of greenville and biloxi for 15558 brick structure 132 feet by 55 feet 60 feet tall and bell tower 140 feet tall architect theo brune 18541932 of nola bid did not include overhead ceiling plastering and wainscoting the biloxi daily herald february 7 1902 p 1 in midseptember  bishop heslin blessed and christened the new church bell at the church of the nativity bvm donated by lazaro lopez  father blanc of bay st louis father aloysius of pass christian and reverend alphonse kettels of biloxi assited bishop heslin with the blessing the bell was given in the name of clara josephine lopez and sponsored by her siblings  master julius lopez and miss rowena lopez  the biloxi daily herald september 16 1902  1903   1904   1905   1906  in early january 1906 seven large stain  glass windows arrived at biloxi from germany to tbe placed in the sanctuary of the nativity bvm catholic church   julia dulion lopez  18571918 had donated these windows described as   equal to anything in the south   in memory of  lazaro lopez  18501903 her late husband frederick thornley of new york was employed to install the windows designed and built by reis and reis of munich germany   the biloxi daily herald january 6 1906 p 4 and january 9 1906 p 1    1908 our lady of good counsel  on cedar street at point cadet in east biloxi was dedicated in late january with father alphonse ketels in charge  frederick henry mccaleb  18461909 donated the land for the small church to the diocese of natchez in february 1908 the deed from mr mccaleb stated that  graves on said lot is not to be molested and reserve the right to have any of my family buried on said lot at all times   the biloxi daily herald january 30 1908 and harrison co mississippi chancery court land deed bk 102 p 121  1910 michael f murphy and spouse donated a large stainedglass window 18 feet tall and about 8 feet wide to nativity bvm catholic church  the window was the work of herr reiss the son of the acclaimed reiss of munich germany edward f brennan representing the mayer company of new yorklondonmunich installed the large light on the west sdie fo the church near the sanctuary the daily herald january 4 1910 p 1  1911   1912 on september 18th  sister mary aloysius cook president of the sisters of mercy st alphonsus council of nola conveyed for 2500 two lots one north and one south of their convent and situated  on the west side of reynoir street and south of west howard avenue to the catholic diocese of natchez  the daily herald september 27 1912 p 1 and harrison co mississippi land deed bk 102 p 123  1920 peter pitalo  18661947  donated a statue representing our lady of the assumption to st michael s church as a memorial to john joseph pitalo  18931918 his deceased son the daily herald june 25 1920  1921 the reverend alphonse kettels  18551921 native of st nicholas belgium and pastor of nbvm since 1897 expired at biloxi mississippi on july 11th father ketels came to the diocese of natchez in 1886 to minister to the people of delisle in the fall of 1920 he visited his four sisters in belgium in december 1921 bishop gunn appointed father peter keenan  18731937 to replace reverend ketels at nbvm the daily herald august 27 1909 p 1 july 12 1921 p 1 and july 13 1921 p 1      st john s catholic church  biloxi s 4th catholic parish was dedicated on december 18 1921 by bishop john e gunn the sanctuary was located on the corner of main street and bayview avenue father pj carey of st theresa s catholic church in north biloxi was appointed to minister to the catholics of back bay he had come to biloxi from bay st louis about two years prior the daily herald december 16 1921 p 1 192 4   richard oliver gerow  18851976 was born at mobile alabama he was appointed bishop of the see of natchez on june 25 1924 and consencrated bishop on october 15 1924 bishop gerow expired at jackson mississippi on december 20 1976 the mississippi register august 3 1962  1931 father pj mcglade  18931980  was appointed the pastor of the newly formed st john s parish on biloxi s back bay the daily herald september 4 1931 p 5  1937  on march 19 1937  eurilda glavan  19152002 became a novice in the  sisters of st joseph convent at st joseph academy in nola the daily herlad march 24 1937 p 2 the reverend jw mulroney was retained as pastor of our mother of sorrows catholic church  father mulroney was to have been transferred father john j albert of brooklyn new york was in charge of the parish while father mulroney was in rome city indiana visiting his ill sister he planned to return to biloix in august the daily herald july 20 1937 p 6  1940 kenneth lewis harris  19121964 native of biloxi  was ordained a roman catholic priest on may 18th at st john s catholic church in biloxi he died at new orleans on june 22 1964  the daily herald may 16 1940 p 6 may 17 1940 p 1 and may 18 1940 p 1 and june 22 1964 p 1      1947 sister mary clarissa  rsm daughter of mr and mrs chester rose  west 1st street and sister mary grace rsm daughter of earl pickard reynoir street arrived yesterday  sister clarissa will be at the convent of mercy on renoir street and sister mary will be at the holy angels nursery on east beach the daily herald august 9 1947 p 2  1948   father harry j pelous  19211994  harry j pelous  19211994 native of garden city louisiana and son of mr and mrs henry j pelous of biloxi  was ordained a catholic priest at st john the evangelist cathedral at lafayette louisiana on may 22 1948 he said his first solemn high mass at nativity bvm in biloxi on may 1948 father pelous died at lafayette loiusiana on february 18 1994 the daily herald may 22 1948 p 10  1950 father patrick scully  b 1926 a native of kilbeggan county westmeath eire and a graduate of st patrick s college carlow ireland  assumed his duties as third assistant pastor at nbvm catholic cghurch at biloxi kilbeggan was known for its irish whiskey distillery  the daily herald october 11 1950 p 7 photo  1956  the see of natchez became the diocese of natchezjackson on december 18 1956  bishop ro gerow 18851976 was in office at the time  1959   ground was broken on january 12th for the new st john s church on lameuse street  the reverend michael fox 19181969 pastor henry f fountain jr 19242011 architect ralph marion contractor and ernest boney building committee the daily herald january 13 1959 p 2  1960 brother joseph otto csc 19311960  died september 20 1960 at indianapolis indiana where he had been teaching at cathedral high school sine 1957 brother joseph was a biloxi native the son of george otto 18791959 and mrs otto he graduated from notre dame high school in 1949 and entered the novitiate of the brothers of the holy cross brother joseph otto s corporal remians were interred at the university of notre dame south bend indiana the daily herald september 21 1960 p 2  1962 in late may  our lady of fatima contracted with the william craig company of gulfport mississippi to erect a 102 811 twostory masonry convent school building to be situated south of the elementary class room buildng slaughter smith pascagoula mississippi architects designed the eightbedroom facility for the catholic teaching nuns the daily herald june 1 1962 p 1  father paul hession  ca 19201993 of our lady of fatima parish celebrated his 20th anniversary as a roman catholic priest in midjune with a tea service assistant pastor lorenzo diamond and monsignor geoffrey t o connell of nbvm were in attendance the daily herald june 14 1962 p 7  1964 the new  st michael s catholic church was dedicated by bishop ro gerow  of the natchezjackson diocese on august 25th  the 500000 10300 squareft structure was designed by james t canizaro architect and erected by mcclendon building services of gulfport  construction commenced in october 1962 father herbert mullin was the pastor the daily herald august 24 1964 p 16 and august 26 1964 p 1  in september reverend morgan kavangh diocesan director announced that five newly ordained irish catholic priests  had arrived on the mississippi gulf coast  father patrick mcdermott  asst at nbvm  thomas white  asst olgbay st louis  john kelly  asst bvm  eugene clarke  st john sgpt and james o riordan  asst olgbay st louis the daily herald september 17 1964 p 23  1969 reverend monsignor michael j fox  19181969 died on marc 1969 at his home at cashel omagh county tyrone ireland a requiem mass was offered by bishop brunini for the repose of his soul at st joseph church at greenville mississippi where he was parish priest father fox had served as assistant pastor at st paul church in vicksburg and our lady of the gulf in bay st louis he was appointed pastor of st john s church at biloxi in 1956 and was later named pastor of st joseph church in greenville the daily herald june 21 1969 p 2  1973 in february  the reverend john robinson became pastor of st michael s catholic church  father robinson came to biloxi from laurel mississippi where he was pastor of the immaculate conception church for 6 and 12 years he was assistant at st michael s under father mullin from 19501952 father robinson was ordained in 1949 at st patrick s college carlow ireland he was born at killesshandra county cavan ireland the daily herald february 7 1973 p 8  1976  reverend monsignor geoffrey t o connell  died on may 9 1976  1977  the roman catholic diocese of biloxi was established on march 1 1977 when it was split from the roman catholic diocese of jackson  bishop joseph lawson howze dd was born august 30 1923 in daphne alabama was the first bishop of the catholic diocese of biloxi he was born lawson howze and took the name joseph when he converted to catholicism in 1948 he received his ba degree from alabama state university in 1948 after religious training at christ the king seminary at st bonaventure university in new york howze was ordained a priest for the roman catholic diocese of raleigh north carolina in 1959 he was named an auxiliary bishop of the roman catholic diocese of natchezjackson mississippi on november 14 1972 and was installed on january 28 1973 when the diocese of biloxi was created in 1977 howze was appointed as its first bishop he was the first african american bishop in the 20th century to head a diocese in the united states bishop howze retired june 6 2001  1981 brother placidus carroll csc 19021981 native of baltimore maryland died at biloxi mississippi on january 25 1981 he came to notre dame high school in 1947 and retired in 1976 his corporal remains were sent to notre dame at south bend indiana for internment the daily herald january 26 1981 p a2    1993 reverend monsignor paul hession died on september 15 1993  1995 the reverend paul alphonse gillis  nee gaulis 19181995 a native of raseniniai lithania died at ocean springs mississippi on august 14 1995 he was ordained on june 6 1946 in washington dc and his first assignment in mississippi commenced in september 1953 at st paul s at vicksburg father gillis retired in july 1988 while at the church of the holy spirit in vancleave jackson county mississippi the corporal remains of father gillis were interred at bassfield mississippi in the st peter catholic cemetery the sun herald august 18 1995 p b2  1996 bishop joseph b brunini  19091996 expired on january 7 1996 2000    archbishop eugene a marino  19342000 a biloxi native and  america s first roman catholic black archbishop  expired at new rochelle new york on 11 november 2000 he was selected by pope john paul ii on march 15 1988 for this position and installed at atlanta georgia on 5 may 1988 the sun herald april 30 1988 p a7 and november 14 2000 p a1 and p a5  2001   bishop thomas j rodi  a native of new orleans graduated from de la salle high school in 1967 and earned a bachelor of arts degree from georgetown university in 1971 he returned to new orleans where he earned a law degree from the tulane university law school in 1974 and then entered notre dame seminary where he received a master of divinity degree in 1978 bishop rodi was ordained to the priesthood on may 20 1978 and served as associate pastor at st ann and st christopher the martyr parishes in metairie and at st agnes in jefferson in 1983 he was appointed judge for the metropolitan tribunal which handles marriage cases he earned a licentiate in canon law from the catholic university of america in washington dc in 1986 and served as professor of canon law at notre dame seminary from 1986 to 1995 bishop rodi served as director of the office of religious education from 1988 to 1989 and as executive director of the department of pastoral services from 1989 to 1996 in addition to his other duties bishop rodi was named archdiocesan chancellor in 1992 and in 1996 he was named vicar general and moderator of the curia in 1992 he was named a prelate of honor a monsignor by pope john paul ii bishop rodi also served as administrator of st matthew the apostle parish in river ridge ministered in our lady of the rosary and st pius x parishes in new orleans and was pastor of st rita church in new orleans he was ordained a bishop and installed as bishop of biloxi on july 2 2001 bishop rodi was appointed archbishop of mobile by pope benedict xvi on april 2 2008 and was installed on june 6 2008  2004 reverend charles r loyacono  19232004 died on may 2 2004 at baton rouge louisiana  2008 reverend monsignor  james hannon  19202008 native of county galway ireland and ordained in june 1945 at st patrick s college carlow ireland expired on march 16 2008 at mississippi one of the founders of the st vincent de paul free pharmacy in biloxi buried evergreen cemetery at ocean springs mississippi the mississippi press march 19 2008 p a4 and the sun herald march 18 2008 p a2  2009 bishop roger p morin was named vicar general and moderator of the curia in the new orleans archdiocese june 15 2001 his episcopal ordination was april 22 2003 at st louis cathedral in new orleans a native of dracut mass he was born on march 7 1941 the son of germain j and lillian e morin after high school and college studies he earned a bachelor s in philosophy in 1966 from st john s seminary in brighton mass and continued theology studies at st john s for two years of graduate school he went to new orleans in 1967 to work in its new summer witness program conducted by the archdiocesan social apostolate when he returned to new orleans in 1968 he became director of the center a neighborhood social service organization run by the social apostolate he enrolled at notre dame seminary studying in the evenings and on saturdays in addition to his fulltime position at the center he was ordained to the priesthood by archbishop hannan on april 15 1971 in his home parish of st therese in dracut mass his first parish assignment was at st henry parish in new orleans in 1973 he was appointed associate director of the social apostolate and in 1975 became the director responsible for the operation of nine yearround social service centers sponsored by the archdiocese bishop morin holds a master of science degree in urban studies from tulane university and completed a program in 1974 as a community economic developer he was in residence at incarnate word parish beginning in 1981 and served as pastor there from 1988 through april 2002 in 1978 he was a volunteer member of mayor ernest dutch morial s transition team dealing with federal programs and then accepted a 1 a year position as deputy special assistant to the mayor for federal programs and projects he served the city of new orleans until 1981 when he was appointed archdiocesan vicar for community affairs in 1981 he assumed the fulltime position of vicar for community affairs with responsibility over nine agencies catholic charities social apostolate human relations alcoholics ministry apostleship of the sea cemeteries disaster relief hospitals and prisons he was named a monsignor by pope john paul ii in 1985 one of the highlights of his priesthood came in 1987 when he directed the archdiocese s preparations for pope john paul s historic visit to new orleans the visit involved thousands of community volunteers and coordination among national state and local religious and political leaders he also coordinated the events of the bicentennial of the archdiocese in 1993 in 1995 bishop morin received the weiss brotherhood award presented by the national conference of christians and jews for his service in the field of human relations bishop morin is a member of the usccb s committee on domestic justice and human development bishop morin s episcopal motto is walk humbly and act justly he has one brother paul and three sisters lillian pat johnson elaine joncas and susan spellissy his parents and his brother james are deceased he was installed as bishop of biloxi on monday april 27 2009 at nativity of the blessed virgin mary cathedral in biloxi the most reverend archbishop pietro sambi apostolic nuncio to the usa and the metropolitan archbishop of mobile the most reverend thomas j rodi presided at the ceremony the sun herald april 26 2009 p a13 and april 28 2009 p a1  2014 father peter f mockler  19482014 native of woodbrook newbridge ballinasloe county galway ireland died on january 30 2014 at lizana harrison county mississippi he studied at st patrick college carlow ireland and was ordained a priest for the diocese of natchezjackson on june 10 1973 he arrived in mississippi on aug 26 1973 the sun herald february 1 2014 p a4  priest and nuns   reverend kenneth lewis harris  19121964 was born at biloxi mississippi on february 16 1912 to fred harris 18891956 and carrie hecht harris 18891969 he was educated at gorenflo public school sacred heart academy and graduated from biloxi high school in 1929 kenneth entered the st bernard seminary at cullman alabama in september 1931 and remained there for two years  kenneth lewis harris  19121964 native of biloxi  was ordained a roman catholic priest on may 18 1940 he died at new orleans on june 22 1964  the daily herald may 16 1940 p 6 may 17 1940 p 1 and may 18 1940 p 1 and june 22 1964 p 1 father harris celebrated his first mass at st john s catholic church in biloxi on 26 may 1940 the daily herald may 27 1940 p 1 father harris expired at new orleans on 22 june 1964 at foundation hospital he had been teachiing at bel aire ohio until may 1964 some of his postingshad been chatawa natchez and hattiesburg in mississippi also california and new mexico  references  the daily herald new priest is native of biloxi may 16 1940 p 6 the daily herald fr harris say first mass may 27 1940 p 1 the hattiesburg american former local catholic priest dies in orleans june 23 1964 p 10  peter francis mockler father peter francis father pete mockler  19482014 age 65 years passed away on january 30 2014 at st ann s catholic church in lizana father pete was born on nov 4 1948 in woodbrook newbridge ballinasloe co galway ireland and he studied at st patrick college carlow ireland and was ordained a priest for the diocese of natchezjackson on june 10 1973 he arrived in mississippi on aug 26 1973 father pete s first assignment was as associate pastor of st john the evangelist in gulfport where he served from sept 1 1973 until sept 3 1978 he served at sacred heart pascagoula from 19781980 and on september 11 1980 he was named pastor of st ann parish lizana on jan 14 1988 he was appointed pastor of our lady of the gulf parish bay st louis in 2001 he was appointed pastor of st ann parish lizana for a second time and served there until his death father pete served on numerous diocesan boards and committees on dec 23 1977 he was named the first director of the diocese of biloxi s permanent diaconate program at the time of his death he was a member of the college of consultors the presbyteral board and the diocesan finance committee he was preceded in death by his father james mockler survivors include his mother mary mockler 11 siblings mary sonny ryan kathleen kevin mullins margaret johnny mullins bridie tony haverin fr paddy mockler eileen john o loughlin nora tommy bane ann john francis walsh michael mockler bernadette sophinne mocker and teresa martin mockler his aunt margaret quinn his cousin fr tommy conway and numerous nieces nephews grandnieces and nephews and other relatives there will be 2 services first a mass of christian burial will be celebrated at 3 pm sunday february 2 2014 at st ann s catholic church lizana where visitation will be from 1 3 pm a rosary will be recited at 230 pm second a mass of christian burial will be celebrated at 5 pm on tuesday february 4 2014 where visitation will be from 3 5 pm burial will take place on the grounds of st patrick s church in newbridge county galway ireland the riemann family funeral home gulfport is in charge of arrangements and an online guestbook may be viewed and signed at wwwriemannfamilycom  the sun herald february 1 2014 p a4 2127 views  ', 0);
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(208, 'en', 'node_search', ' o keefe family o keefe family ray mon 11212011 1612 the o keefe family the great potato famine of 18451850 brought death and misery to millions of impoverished irish roman catholics one of the positive actions of this near 19 th century genocide was the immigration and subsequent habitation of  edward ned keefe  18151874 later  o keefe  a native of bincher parish county tipperary ireland to ocean springs mississippi in the mid1850s here a middleaged ned o keefe and spouse  mary tracy  18321895 another irish expatriate commenced an irishamerican family that remains a viable part of ocean springs biloxi and the entire mississippi gulf coast lepre 1991 p 165 the ned o keefe family chronology at ocean springs is one of success determined toil perseverance and good business acumen in an environment probably untarnished with hibernian prejudice and because of its small size predominantly catholic society and high ratio of immigrants to indigenous people allowed edward ned o keefe to achieve his prosperity primarily as a teamster and drayage contractor to further ameliorate the local situation there were already several other irish families at ocean springs mississippi the ames colligans egans shanahans and sodens  the primal cottage the first known property acquisition at ocean springs by edward ned o keefe the family progenitor occurred in february 1859 when he paid andrew f ramsay 100 for lot 5block 26 culmseig map of 1854 this ground is situated on the northeast corner of rayburn and porter it is assumed that the first o keefe domicile was erected here o keefe purchased lot 4 block 26 which was contiguous and north of lot 5 in october 1867 from george a cox 18111887 it is interesting to note that margaret b foy d 1892 also from ireland lived just east of the o keefe family she settled here in february 1855 on the northwest corner of porter and jackson her nephew james lynch 18521935 was legated her twostory home and subsequently operated a store and the renown lynch academy which the jj o keefe children attended for some of their basic education jackson county ms land deed bk bk 7 p 272 and bk 1 pp 184185 and ellison 1991 p 35 the o keefe lots on the northeast corner of rayburn and porter were sold to eda miller wife of john voght miller in december 1883 for 400 and a note of 50 jackson county ms land deed bk 7 p 272 the j o keefe livery stablesituated on the north side of porter street between jackson avenue and washington avenue the o keefe livery stable served the jeremiah j jerry o keefe family and ocean springs for many years as a venue for drayage and transportation services the business commenced after the war of the rebellion by edward ned o keefe 18151874 an irish immigrant after ned s demise jerry o keefe 18601911 his only son continued in the livery and drayage business eventually becoming the town s undertaker probably in the early 1890s by 1926 the o keefe family had let the building to william f willy dale 18991990 here he commenced the dale motor company willy repaired motorcars and sold gasoline and petroleum products here for many years the building is extant and is use by the bradfordo keefe funeral homes  civil war after returning to ocean springs from the civil war in which he served with company alive oak rifles of the 3 rd mississippi regiment ned o keefe became a teamster and started a livery business he supplied transportation service to the multitude of visitors who arrived at ocean springs by steam packet and later railroad train when people passed on his carriages were used to transport their bodies to the local cemetery as well as their mourners before his demise in 1874 ned o keefe and his wife had two children jeremiah jerry joseph o keefe 18601911 and mary helen o keefe 18631878 howell 1991 p 440 and p 555  ned o keefe barroom brawl and death of leitzler an anectdotal story passed down through the o keefe family was that ned o keefe had killed a man at ocean springs in 2019 else jensine martin a fabuolous researcher and jackson county mississippi historian discovered this article in the daily picayune  scion of the timespicayune  on saturday night inst messrs  edward keith  o keefe and  blaze leitzler  had a difficulty  resulting in the death of leitzler   who received a fatal wound in the bowels and back with a pocket knife so far as we have been able to gather the particulars they are as follows ned keith went to the barroom of leitzler in search of a friend and when he knocked at the door leitzler answered opened the door and asked keith what he wanted keith replied that he came after his friend naming him and must see him but refused to go in and drink with leitzler  whereupon leitzler pushed keith away from the door at the same time telling him he did not care a d n for him or his friend they then clinched and fell to the ground leitzler being topmost and during the scuffle leitzler received the wounds from which he died a few hours after notwithstanding the best medical aid that could be procured in the town it is a lamentable affair they were both old citizens with families mr keith immediately took the  creole    steamer for east pascagoula where he at once gave himself up to the sheriff mr john c clark who delivered the prisoner to our sheriff last sunday who placed him in jail where he awaits his examination in jackson county the daily picayune october 26 1870  1878 yellow fever the 1878 epidemic started at new orleans in july and took nearly four months to run its course through the mississippi and ohio river valleys when it was over the nation recorded more than 100000 cases of fever and a mortality rate estimated as high as 20000 people particularly hard hit were the cities of memphis approximately 6000 deaths new orleans between 4000 and 5000 deaths and vicksburg where about 1000 victims fell to the pestilence fever cases and deaths occurred as far north as st louis on the mississippi river and louisville kentucky and gallipolis ohio on the ohio river the economic impact to the nation was over 100000000 due to the suspension of industry and trade lost wages medical attendance and relief for the thousands of sick and unemployed it is estimated that new orleans lost 15000000 during the crisis by late september 1878 health conditions in mississippi had gotten so grave that governor john m stone made a proclamation part of which read as follows   i jm stone governor of the state of mississippi do recommend that on friday the 30th day of september all christian people throughout the state repair to their respective places of worship and offer up their united petition in prayer to god that he will withdraw from our people this terrible affliction and that he in his infinite goodness and mercy will restore them to health and bring peace to their mourning households   since the yellow fever quarantine had shut off the people of ocean springs from the outside world conditions were very difficult the ocean springs relief society was formed in early september 1878 to assist those in need hh minor sr 18371884 was president robert a van cleave 18401908 treasurer and jm ames secretary the society collected 76725 with the howard association of new orleans the citizens of galveston texas and the moss point relief committee being the largest contributors there were approximately one hundred seventyfive cases of yellow fever recorded at ocean springs from the nearly six hundred people believed to have been here at the time from this population about thirty deaths were recorded many were small children and unfortunately  mary helen o keefe  18631878 died from the fever at ocean springs on september 5 1878 miss o keefe was probably buried at the evergreen cemetery in ocean springs o keefe boarding house plat the o keefe boarding house was located on the northeast corner of jackson avenue and porter street in lot 6 of block 27 of the culmseig map 1854 of ocean springs the structure was a twostory wood framed edifice with 2824 square feet of living area under roof there was a lower and upper gallery on the south and west side of the building of 1710 square feet the dining room was attached to the main building and had an area of 874 square feet the kitchen appears to have been detached and to the north of the building but was connected by a covered breezeway the lower floor of the structure was moved to 2122 government street in 1910 after the edifice present today was erected in 1909 by jeremiah j o keefe 18601911 as his family home today the former o keefedale building at 911 porter is utilized as the bradfordo keefe funeral home  o keefe boarding house in february 1881 mary tracy o keefe commenced her boarding house and store operations on the northeast corner of jackson avenue and porter street at ocean springs the structure was an attractive and hospitable inn it is very likely that the o keefe boarding house had a strong irish flavor and catered to hibernian families from new orleans and irish born railroad workers  the pascagoula democratstar february 4 1881 p 3  in january 1891 when alfred e lewis was erecting the artesian house a twostory edifice on jackson avenue and diagonally opposite the o keefe place jerry o keefe s boarding house was referred to a jerry o keefe s hotel  the biloxi herald january 10 1891 p 4  the o keefe boarding house property was purchased by ned o keefe in two parcels the first lot was bought from enoch n ramsay 18321916 in april 1867 and described as lot 6 of block 27 culmseig map of ocean springs and comprised 52 feet on jackson and 200 feet on porter in august of the same year ned keith acquired lot 5 of block 27 culmseig map of ocean springs from george a cox 18111887 this tract became the site of his livery stable  the pascagoula democratstar february 4 1881 p 3 and  jxco ms land deed bk 62 p 475 and bk 62 p 476 not all boarders in o keefe s inn were irish in august 1896 the  pascagoula democratstar  reported that one alphonse gauthreaux of donaldsonville louisiana   beat his board decamped stole a pocket book containing 500 and prayer beads shoes and some clothes whereabouts unknown the pascagoula democratstar   august 14 1896 p 3  in 1895 the o keefe family was tragically struck by fire on two occasions the most devastating occurrence was in february when mrs mary o keefe s gown caught fire from the hearth and she died as the result of her burns later in the fall of the same year the kitchen was badly gutted by a fire caused by a defective flue jerry o keefe gave a generous donation to the fire department which was very effective since this was the first fire fought with the assist of fifteen new fire wells which provided ample water  the daily picayune february 19 1895 p 9 and the pascagoula democratstar   september 20 1895    o keefe children although born at new orleans the children of jeremiah j o keefe 18601911 and alice cahill o keefe 18641921 were reared at present day 911 porter street john aw o keefe was a leader of men and made his career in public service and the military mary c o keefe was an outstanding educator and is memorialized with our mary c o keefe arts and cultural center on government street jeremiah j ben o keefe ii was a funeral home proprietor at biloxi and ocean springs jh jody o keefe was a sugar chemist and lost his life in a diving accident while working in cuba lr jeremiah j ben o keefe 18941954 joseph h jody o keefe 18971932 mary cahill o keefe 18931981 and john aw o keefe 189119  the jeremiah j o keefe family jeremiah joseph o keefe 18601911 called jerry was born at ocean springs on february 5 1860 he met his future wife alice cahill 18641921 a new orleanian whose family came to ocean springs for a visit and stayed at the o keefe lodge on porter street the couple wedded in the crescent city at st joseph s catholic church on april 3 1888 their children all born in the crescent city were edward j o keefe 18891890 john w a o keefe 18911985 mary cahill o keefe 18931981 jeremiah j ben o keefe ii 18941954 and joseph h jodie o keefe 18971932 nola mrb 13 p 105  the daily picayune april 1 1888 p 9  and the history of jackson county miss 1989 pp 301302 alice cahill was born at new orleans into an irish immigrant family her parents  thomas cahill  18191865 and  mary britton   18321906 an 1852 irish immigrant were also the parents of margaret cahill connors 18561931 m michael connors john l cahill 18581926 m margaret orrell 18551958 and ellen cahill hill 18621940 m stephen j hill 18611935 mary britton cahill expired on april 9 1906 at 2822 palmyra street at new orleans the daily picayune april 12 1906 p 7 margaret cahill connors died at the o keefe home at ocean springs on january 28 1931 her funeral was held at st alphonsus catholic church and transported to st patrick no ii cemetery in the crescent city for internment  the timespicayune january 29 1931 p 2  ellen cahill hill 18621940 passed on july 9 1940 in new orleans she had married stephen j hill who expired at 3117 jena street in december 1935 they were the parents of thomas j hill jr joseph s hill mary hill vogt and mrs charles r brennan her son thomas j hill jr once served as the clerk of the city commission council of new orleans  the timespicayune december 14 1935 p 2 and july 9 1940 p 2  after mrs ned o keefe s demise in february 1895 alice cahill o keefe in addition to rearing her children edward joseph o keefe 18891890 john aloysius william o keefe 18911985 m amelia castenara 19052000 mary cahill o keefe 18931981 jeremiah joseph ben o keefe ii 18951954 m teresa tess josephine slattery 18941995 and joseph hyacinth jodie 18971932 ran the family boarding business on porter street her husband jerry had already expanded his undertaking service to create the o keefe funeral service in 1892 although born at new orleans the children of jeremiah j o keefe 18601911 and alice cahill o keefe 18641921 were reared at present day 911 porter street edward joseph o keefe died in his infancy john aw o keefe was a leader of men and made his career in public service and the military mary c o keefe was an outstanding educator and is memorialized with our mary c o keefe arts and cultural center on government street jj ben o keefe ii was a funeral home proprietor at biloxi and ocean springs jh jody o keefe was an ocean springs businessman and sugar chemist and lost his life in a diving accident while working in cuba politically jerry o keefe was elected the first alderman from ward 2 in 1892 in the newly incorporated town of ocean springs and served in that office for two years he also was a road overseer in jackson county beat four being in charge of jackson avenue from the front beach to o keefe s corner on porter street and jackson avenue and from o keefe s corner to the illing place on washington avenue ellison 1991 pp 57  318 jackson avenue the 1885 o keefe castleseven gables  the o keefe castle also known as the o keefesaxon house and seven gables at present day 318 jackson avenue was erected by jeremiah j o keefe 18601911 circa 1885 on a lot acquired from kate peniston m jourdan d 1943 and augusta sophia m jourdan 18581952 of new orleans in 1855 the jourdanmcgehee families had become involved in the hostelry business at ocean springs as they owned the seashore house on jackson avenue and front beach opposite the ocean springs hotel jackson co mississippi land deed bk 11 pp 410412 and bellande 1994 p 25 the spinster jourdan sisters were the daughters of augustus w jourdan d 1860 and mary josephine mcgehee 18371878 mr jourdan was an attorney and in the hierarchy of the louisiana democratic party there is some degree of certitude that he was appointed by louisiana s governor to have the louisiana s napoleonic code modified to concur more readily with the english law of other states the timespicayune february 24 1949 p 13 augusta and kate jourdan were aristocratic women of new orleans augusta was a gifted writer and had been an honors graduate of the peabody normal seminary in the crescent city when she graduated in july 1878 she gave dissertations in latin and french she was a member of the quarante club one of the oldest and most prestigious women s literary organizations in america  the daily picayune july 7 1878 p 15 the daily city item july 14 1878 p 2 and the timespicayune february 24 1949 p 13  in the early years of the 20 th century augusta and kate jourdan settled in the saintmande district of paris they traveled to egypt from where augusta wrote essays of their adventures which were published in the daily picayune in june 1908 both woman died in france and their corporal remains were interred in the metairie cemetery with their parents  the daily picayune june 21 and june 228 1908 and the timespicayune  february 24 1949 p 13 and november 7 1952 p 2 miss mary c o keefe acquired this beautiful home from her siblings in july 1930 it was sold to cecile brodeur saxon 18931980 by mary c o keefe in august 1933 mrs saxon was the mother of rose annette saxon 19241998 who in march 1944 married miss o keefe s nephew lt jeremiah j o keefe iii b 1923 a young usmcr fighter pilot at camp pendleton ocean side california jackson co mississippi land deed bk 63 p 524525 and deed bk 66 pp 4648 and  the daily herald march 13 1944 p 7  miss mary c o keefe s great niece susan m o keefe snyder b 1952 and her spouse christopher t snyder acquired the o keefe castle in march 1982 in early 1997 paul campbell general contractor and carl germany architect were hired by the snyders to undertake a major interior renovation of their historic home with the heavens watching and the luck of the irush the snyder home was spared the wrath of karina in august 2005 jackson co mississippi land deed bk 730 p 116  the 1909 neoclassical mansion  circa 1940 it is believed that the 1909 jeremiah j o keefe home at present day 911 porter was modeled on that of the dr casehf russell edifice which stood on the southwest corner of washington avenue and porter street until it was demolished in the 1930s  the jackson county times september 29 1934 and  jk lemon 1993 in 1909 jerry o keefe built a large family home behind the o keefe boarding house this 2 12 story mansion of beauxarts polite design corinthian columns and wide galleries has become an iconic symbol of the o keefe family prosperity and financial calamity built on the colonial style with massive pillars at a cost approaching 10000 the jerry o keefe mansion was lauded in 1909 as a handsome addition to the numerous beautiful edifices situated in ocean springs  the ocean springs news november 27 1909 p 1  in 1964 miss mary cahill o keefe who at this time was domiciled on porter street two houses east of her childhood home related her memories of the 1909 o keefe home place as follows   as having beautiful lawns and tennis courts and as the scene of many gay young parties with the four children of jeremiah   o keefe  the house was filled with young people and the tennis courts were a popular place the house was originally surrounded by a picket fence and with wonderful oak trees and green lawns the marvelously attractive colonial house and all it was a real beauty spot   the ocean springs news august 6 1964 p 3  boarding house in 19091910 with the new o keefe family residence completed on west porter the old wooden o keefe boarding house was sold in july 1910 to samuel backous 18551921 a farmer from indiana who had recently returned to ocean springs from texarkana texas mr backous and his wife had sold their texas farm and planned to reside at ocean springs permanently in september 1907 they had purchased the nw 4 nw 4 of section 29 t7sr8w from ee clements of buncombe county north carolina jackson co mississippi land deed bk 32 pp 616617 and  the ocean springs news july 23 1910  the o keefe boarding house was moved to the backous place in 1910 the upper story was removed it is speculated that it was transported over the shell roads of ocean springs using a method popular at this time  when one wished to move a house he called his neighbors together and organized a hauling bee or halerie with a dozen yoke or oxen and three wagons they soon had the house underway with no difficulty first they took the beds off two wagons and in place of the regular coupling poles they used long logs perhaps thirty feet long they jacked up the house then ran poles under it next they chained them up to the two front pair of wheels thus supporting the house and it was ready to roll they hitched five or six yoke of oxen to each of the wagons and away they went across the open prairie  post 1974 p the backous family developed their twentyacre site on old county road now government street into a farm and pecan orchard and probably utilized the boarding house as a home only the first floor of the old structure was relocated to present day 2122 government street where it became the residence of mary anne lightsey clark the widow of alvah clark 19181990 the clark home was placed on the national register of historic places in 1987 as an individual listing it remains in the clark family bellande 1994 p 65 and kemp associates ltd 1996 p 15  william f willy dale   18991990 willy dale has been described as a   hard working good businessman and mechanical wizard  he was a passionate fisherman and speedboat racer here circa 1927 willy is shown with two drum that he caught in biloxi bay near gulf hills courtesy of h randy randazzoarlington virginia  willy dale unfortunately what has become ocean springs architectural jewel the former 1909 jeremiah j o keefe 18601911 home at present day 911 porter street was lost by his heirs during the great depression when it was repossessed in december 1938 by the home owners loan corporation a federal government corporation the family had a mortgage balance of 561217 on their prized residence when it was sold by this governmental agency to william f dale in december 1939 for 3850 jackson co mississippi land deed bk 71 pp 580581 and bk 74 pp 158160 william frederic dale 18991990 was born march 4 1899 at ocean springs he was known in the community as willy dale his parents were george william dale 18721953 and harriet hattie rose seymour 18761956 the daughter of narcisse seymour 18491931 and carolyn v krohn 18471895 they were married on december 9 1897 at the st alphonsus catholic church george w dale was baptized into the roman catholic church on june 27 1897 several months before his marriage to miss seymour lepre 1991 p 78  mechanical genius as a young man willy dale learned to repair automobiles in may 1926 he went into business as the dale motor company he opened a 3500 squarefoot garage on west porter in a structure which was once the locus of the jj o keefe livery stable dale s garage was of the most modern on the entire coast dale s machines and tools were mostly electrically powered state of the art for the period among his inventory of apparatuses were the electrical valve resurfacing and reseating tool electrical riveting countersinking machine for relining brakes cylinder hones aligning gauges for front wheels acetylene welding and cutting torch weaver wrecker for hauling in disabled vehicles air pump weaver tire change stand humpycooper rebabbiting machines and other appurtenances applicable to automobile repair at this time willy dale was the local chevrolet dealer he also sold texaco gasoline oil and greases and his porter street auto service business  the jackson county times june 12 1926  it appears that willy dale must have initially rented the o keefe livery stable lot east of the o keefe home on west porter because in august 1927 he obtained a lease from the o keefe family on the tract where he operated his garage and sold texaco products mr dale later vended shell gasoline here jackson co mississippi land deed bk 70 pp 196200  motorboat racing willy dale was a passionate man and motorboat racing and fishing were his salient avocations his ocean wave and ocean kid were the only competitive speedboats at ocean springs these watercraft were powered by a lockwood motor since willy s dale motor company was the agent for johnson and lockwood outboard motors willy raced his boats very successfully in the late 1920s at most of the gulf coast regattas as this was a very popular sporting event at this time during the wf dale ownership from 1939 to 1986 the o keefe home at 911 porter street was used primarily as a restaurant and lounge although it was once leased to perkinston junior college in the spring of 1941 willy dale hired clarence kornman 18901973 of biloxi to move the former o keefe residence back 32 feet from its former location mr dale planned to convert the structure into an apartment house with additional space for a restaurant and another business the daily herald march 3 1941 p 6 on august 31 1959 college classes began in the former o keefe home and dale s restaurant the regional junior college offered seventeen evening classes and one morning class in practical nursing which included a simulated twelvebed hospital subjects available for prospective scholars to enroll in the evening curriculum were english english literature algebra trigonometry general business accounting shorthand general psychology sociology american government world history personal health speech music appreciation and introduction to teaching admission to the perkinston classes was open to high school graduates or mature individuals demonstrating the ability to utilize the material offered by the lecturer  the ocean springs news may 27 1959 p 1 and august 27 1959 p 1   one of the great success stories of ocean springs was the return of the o keefe family residence on porter street to the family when they lost it in the late 1930s the jj ben o keefe jr family relocated to biloxi and resided on fayard street behind the o keefe funeral parlor at 601 west howard avenue a young jeremiah j jerry o keefe iii b 1923 and his sister alice o keefe sebastian 19222011 vowed that someday they would reclaim their former home in ocean springs alice o keefe sebastian september 13 1999 and  the ocean springs record july 3 1986 p 2 july 10 1986 p 2 and december 3 1987 p 1  this was accomplished in july 1986 when the wf dale family sold the o keefe mansion to gulf national life an o keefe family corporation the o keefe family held a homecoming party and celebrated with music food and friends at their new home in ocean springs on july 2 1986 at the o keefe fete long time owner willy dale commented in regards to his almost fifty year ownership of the property the first day was fun and the last day was fun jj jerry o keefe iii responded mr dale has taken real good care of this property for us jackson co mississippi land deed bk 863 p 159 and the sun herald july 3 1986 p a1  the egan doors were a wedding gift to jerry o keefe 18601911 from jefferson davis egan 18641907 his childhood friend from 1938 until 1971 the o keefe cutglass doors remained at ocean springs in miss mary c o keefe s cottage which was located on west porter between dale s garage and the ws van cleave store now the locus of five seasons a health store after miss o keefe s domicile was demolished to erect the villa maria in the early 1970s the doors were stored in biloxi they were installed on the o keefe mansion during its restoration which was completed in december 1987 an adjunct to this tale is that of the fabulous cutglass portals on the o keefe mansion that had been constructed by jefferson davis egan 18641907 the son of irish immigrants john j egan 18271875 and julia egan 18331907 as a wedding gift for his childhood friend jerry o keefe 18601911 from 1938 until 1971 the o keefe cutglass doors remained at ocean springs in miss mary c o keefe s cottage which was located on west porter between dale s garage and the ws van cleave store now the locus of five seasons a health store after miss o keefe s domicile was demolished to erect the villa maria in the early 1970s the doors were stored in biloxi they were installed on the o keefe mansion during its restoration which was completed in december 1987 ellison 1991 p 67 alice o keefe sebastian september 13 1999 and  the ocean springs record december 3 1987 p 1   the 1909 jj o keefe home on porter street was restored under the supervision of lloyd j vogt 19412002 a biloxi and new orleans architect and maria c bargas architect at ocean springs worked on the historical certification for the structure s placement on the national register of historic places it was opened in early december 1987 after a 1 million dollar restoration the edifice became the funeral parlor for bradfordo keefe funeral home which it has continued to do so to the present day  the sun herald july 3 1986 p a1 and the ocean springs record december 3 1987 p 1    the entrepreneurial o keefe brothers at ocean springs from about 1913 and throughout the 1920s the o keefe brothers john aw o keefe jj ben o keefe ii and jh jodie o keefe continued aggressively in their entrepreneurial projects in addition to the funeral parlor they were involved in a ford automobile dealership livery and drayage coal delivery construction materials gasoline retailing and a taxi and limousine service   white house tract the locus of many of the o keefe brothers commercial activities in ocean springs were centered on their valuable commercial lot situated on the southeast corner of washington avenue and robinson street opposite the l n depot in february 1906 jeremiah j jerry o keefe 18601911 their father acquired the white house property from mary artemise rodriguez marie 18401912 the widow of antonio marie 18321885 a spanish immigrant mariner and pioneer settler of bayou puerto now gulf hills the consideration was 1100 for the tract which had one hundredseventy feet on robinson street between cash alley and washington avenue and ran south two hundred twentyfive feet jackson co mississippi land deed bk 35 p 642 the white house tract was located just east of the commercial hotel which was situated on the southeast corner of washington avenue and robinson street it had been erected by r obert a vancleave 18401908 in 1880 this event was noted in the pascagoula newspaper as  van cleave s new hotel on the depot grounds is going steadily forward to a speedy completion and gives employment to a number of workmen he seems to believe in the right way of doing things that is employing home folks when he has work to be done   the pascagoula   democratstar   january 16 1880 p 3  the first person to develop the white house tract was charles ernest schmidt 18511886 and laura coyle schmidt 18571931 his spouse in february and august 1877 they acquired this land from ew and mary t clark of philadelphia pennsylvania charles e schmidt was born in new orleans of ernst schmidt and euphrosine schoser immigrants from baden german charles e schmidt came to ocean springs and met laura coyle the daughter of an immigrant menorcan father francisco coyle 18131891 and magdalene ougatte pons 18131904 they married in october 1874 at st alphonsus catholic church their son francis ernest schmidt 18771954 later owned a bakery on washington avenue from 19011938 and served as ward one alderman 19151922 and 19251929 and mayor of ocean springs from 19351938 a son of fe schmidt charles ernest schmidt 19041988 would write  ocean springs french beachhead  1972 the first and only comprehensive history of the city and also serve as mayor 19611965 two other sons frank o schmidt 19021975 and harry j schmidt 19051996 would become prominent physicians on the mississippi gulf coast jackson county ms land deed bk 3 pp 103106 and lepre 1991 p 303 the journal du jour  the pascagoula democratstar  had the following items published between 1879 and 1881 concerning the schmidt s white house  mr charles e schmidt commonly called handsome charlie has opened a retail family grocery store and says he will sell goods as cheap as anybody schmidt keeps almost everything good to eat in his store and at his other establishment white house everything good to drink   november 7 1879   when you go to ocean springs call at the white house and see charlie and frank   november 7 1879   last saturday in the early evening the kitchen of the white house caught fire proprietor charles e schmidt had help from friends in battling the blaze postmaster vancleave brought two garden and house sprinklers   november 26 1879   the white house is the place to get liquid refreshments   february 4 1881 p 3   white house and the vahle egan livery situated on the south side of robinson street opposite the l n depot these buildings and land were owned by mary a rodriguez marie 18401912 after charles e schmidt 18511886 built the white house the vahle egan livery burned in early december 1900 the same evening that the ocean springs drug store on washington avenue and porter street was torched by alleged arsons casper vahle 18691922 and herman nill 18631904 his brotherinlaw and proprietor of the ocean springs drug store soon departed ocean springs to commence commercial enterprises at biloxi and then gulfportthen a new port town rapidly developing west of mississippi city jj jerry o keefe acquired the white house tract from madame marie in 1906 and demolished the white house in 1911 the o keefe brothers would develop this tract and acquire adjacent land between 1913 and the late 1920s the white house is the structure east of the vahle egan livery from along the gulf dyer 1895 in august 1881 charles e schmidt made the decision to sell the white house he advertised it in  the pascagoula democratstar  of september 2 1881 as follows  for sale white house billiard and beer saloon with fixtures is offered for sale at a great bargain the white house is opposite and near the depot apply to chas e schmidt  in november 1881 the schmidt family sold the white house to antonio marie for 1200 after antonio marie died intestate in december 1885 madame marie began leasing the white house in october 1887 she entered into a two year contractual agreement with john vogt miller the rent for the first four months was set at 500 per month and 800 per month for the remaining twenty months mr vogt expected madame marie to repair the doors windows and blinds of the building jxco ms land deed bk 6 p 19 and bk 11 pp 1012 madame marie allowed herr vogt the use of the following articles in her building  20 beer glasses 8 chairs 1 baseball club and deer horns 2 round tables 1 large mirror 2 plaster images 1 marble top wash stand damaged 1 ice stand and 1 beer closet 1 door off  by december 1892 the vahle family formerly of new orleans took a long lease on the white house property and built a livery stable here just west of the white house casper vahle 18691922 the proprietor oversaw the erection of the 1200 squarefoot barn in march 1894 richard egan 18581896 joined casper vahle to form vahle egan  the pascagoula democratstar    december 28 1892 p 3  in 1895 charles l dyer in  along the gulf  stated that while visiting ocean springs  the firm of vahle egan furnished us with carriages upon all occasions and we were rather surprised to find in a town of this size such a finely equipped livery stable messrs casper vahle and richard egan are both young enterprising energetic business men and have built up a fine trade since their partnership which commenced in march 1894 previous to this both members of the firm had conducted livery stables of their own they have a number of fine driving horses and several speedy matched pairs and a number of carriages to select from among which are tallyhos three and twoseated surries buggies wagonettes transfer wagons and they also have several teams for heavy hauling after the untimely death of richard egan in 1896 the business appears to have dissolved as soden illing were operating a livery at this location in 1898 by 1900 mrs marie had moved to biloxi in december of that year she entered into another lease agreement with casper vahle this lease was for five years january 1901 to january 1906 and called for a 500 per month rental vahle must have decided to purchase the white house from artemise marie as the deed records of jackson county indicate mrs a marie of biloxi sold the frame building known as the white house and a certain parcel of land situated on the south side and opposite the l n railroad depot to casper vahle on december 12 1900 jackson co ms land deed bk 22 pp 208209  the fire casper vahle and herman nill 18631904 his brotherinlaw and owner of the ocean springs drug store on the northwest corner of washington avenue and porter street were victimized by vandals in early december 1900  the pascagoula democratstar  of december 7 1900 reported its demise in ocean springs locals as follows  the most distressing scene witnessed in our town for a long time was the burning of the ocean springs drug store and vahle s livery stable monday night the fire was discovered about midnight by walter davis the night operator for the cumberland telephone exchange which was on the second floor of the drug building the fire alarm being given the two companies responded immediately and by heroic efforts saved the illing house a switzer s store and mrs ma case s property from similar fate the flames spread so rapidly that nothing was saved from the drug store and had it not been for the rain during the evening which made the housetops wet several other buildings would probably been lost mr herman nill proprietor of the drug store and his family were in new orleans at the time and the place was temporarily in charge of dr ea riggs who lost everything in his office which was also a room in the building the drug store was insured for 3900 in the home insurance company of new york probably half its value with the stock there was no insurance on the livery stable the telephone exchange was completely destroyed but will be installed again as soon as possible  caspar vahle and herman nill and his family left ocean springs shortly after the conflagrations and settled at gulfport on february 10 1906 madame marie sold the white house property to jeremiah j jerry o keefe 18601911 jxco ms land deed bk 35 p 642 several years later jerry o keefe demolished the white house on robertson street it had apparently deteriorated with age and neglect its demise was related in  the ocean springs   news  of august 19 1911  the dilapidated old lady that has stood for years opposite the depotantiquated relic of byegone days is now being torn down by the owner jerry o keefe the old structure was at one time one of the principal business places of the town it was known as the white house and was a hotel and barroom old residents tell of great doings at the old tavern of late years it has fallen into decay and has not been inhabited for a long time something more substantial and ornamental will doubtless be built in its place   ocean springs livery stable and ford agency by july 1914 john and ben o keefe were local agents for the ford automobile and prestolite an exchangeable acetylene gas tank for the running lights of an automobile the o keefe brothers through their ocean springs livery stable provided transportation at ocean springs in their stable of motor cars was a cadillac touring car and large enough to accommodate seven passengers in comfort they advertised in the local journal as follows  j o keefe the ocean springs livery stable undertaking modern automobile service fine cars careful drivers reasonable charges ford agents prestolite tanks refilled all orders promptly attended to telephone 46  the jackson county times september 26 1914 p 1   they sold rural mail carriers walter armstrong 18781945 and fred newcomb 18801932 their ford automobiles mr armstrong delivered the us mail to the laruelatimer communities while newcomb handled the east beachfontainebleauvancleave route  the ocean springs news august 1 1914  the o keefe brothers sold their ford agency to wb hollingsworth who had come to ocean springs in march 1915 from south bend indiana mr hollingsworth rented the john b honor place on front beach for one year in november 1915 orey young son bought out the hollingsworth garage and ford agency  the ocean springs news november 4 1915 p 1  in october 1915 fred davidson 18851915 a native of illinois and the son of jerome t davidson 18451918 and jessie montgomery davison 1859pre1930 bought the buick overland and hudson agencies from wb hollingsworth who returned to the hoosier state the davidson family acquired present day 420 martin avenue the mestiersheehan house in february 1917 at this time there were fiftytwo automobiles at ocean springs dr ol bailey 18701938 had bought nine since 1906  the ocean springs news  october 11 1915 p 5  o keefe brothers commercial hotel tract jerry o keefe and sons owned a large tract on robinson street and later the northeast corner of washington avenue and robinson street in the years between 1906 and 1944 here they operated a ford automobile dealership livery and drayage service coal delivery business sold and transported construction materials gasoline retailing and operated a taxi and limousine service in december 1953 wendell palfrey 18961956 constructed a 2100 squarefoot arkansas tile building on a portion of this land which he leased to the us postal service the building was later the location of the salmagundi gifts shop which closed in january 2014 salmagundi was founded circa 1963 by lois marye robertson raum 19261967 and pam smith of pascagoula in the farmers and merchants bank building on washington avenue the business later moved across the street into the former us post office on the southeast corner of robinson and washington jeannie steveson the last proprietor acquired the business from mary and bob costa circa 1991 the ocean springs gazette january 16 2014 p 1  commercial hotel tractsalmagundi gifts  view south from l n tracks down washington avenue between 1913 and 1920  van cleavecommercial hotel  18801920 robert adrian van cleave 18401908 was a founding father of the town of ocean springs he arrived at ocean springs in 1867 from yazoo county mississippi with his new bride elizabeth r sheppard 18421912 she was the stepdaughter of entrepreneur george a cox 18121887 with mr cox who came to ocean springs in the early 1850s van cleave established a store on bluff creek to trade with the charcoal burners in that area this commercial venture led to the development of the present day village of vancleave the hotel was called the commercial hotel when it was destroyed in a large conflagration on early in the early morning of october 26 1920 hf russell a protege of van cleave sold the hotel tract to ben o keefe and jody o keefe on may 18 1921 for 1500 jk lemon jr 19141998 remembers as a boy that circa 1925 the o keefe brothers had a livery stable automobile service station and a taxi service on robinson avenue the former hotel lot was utilized as a parking area the commercial hotel tract was situated on the southeast corner of washington avenue and robertson street just west of the o keefe white house parcel which had been acquired in february 1906 the commercial hotel was erected in 1880 by ra van cleave 18401908 and was destroyed by fire in the early the morning of october 26 1920 after flames were discovered in the commercial hotel immediately fire alarms consisting of fire bells pistols and engine whistles were sounded unfortunately the entire structure was consumed by fire in only a few minutes guest on the second floor made a hasty departure into the cool autumn darkness although winds were light firemen had difficulty securing a convenient water supply and the building was quickly lost to the conflagration the farmers and merchants bank building opposite the inn on the west side of washington avenue had window damage from the intense heat originating from the hotel fire although the structure was fully covered by fire insurance hf russell 18581940 the owner stated that he would not rebuild on the site commencing with the ocean springs hotel in 1905 and the shanahan house in 1919 the commercial hotel became the third ocean springs hotel to be lost to fire in these early years of the twentieth century  the jackson county times october 30 1920 p 1   hf russell sold the vacant commercial hotel lot on may 18 1921 to jeremiah j ben o keefe ii 18941954 and joseph h jody o keefe 18971932 for 1500 this acquisition now gave the o keefe brothers one hundredten feet on washington avenue and approximately three hundred front feet on robinson avenue opposite the l n depot unarguably a most advantageous location for business and commerce jk lemon jr 19141998 remembers as a boy circa 1925 that ben o keefe had a livery stable automobile service station and a taxi service on robinson avenue the former hotel lot was utilized as a parking area jackson co mississippi land deed bk 50 p 400 jj ben o keefe ii held the commercial hotel property on washington avenue until october 1944 when he conveyed it to isabel hodges 19021981 here in december 1953 wendell palfrey 18961956 constructed on a 2100 squarefoot arkansas tile building which he leased to the us postal service the lot and structure cost 27500 it was completed by et hoffis general contractor in late april 1954 and turned to oscar t davis 18941963 postmaster of ocean springs in june 1954 the new post office had its main entrance on washington avenue and a side portal on robinson street congressman william meyers colmer 18901980 was the primary speaker at the late april dedication of the new post office jackson county ms land deed bk 106 p 120 and 140 pp 484488 and  the gulf coast times december 10 1953 and january 13 1954 p 14 and april 28 1954 p 1  the old us post officepalfrey structure is extant at 922 washington avenue as poppy s a unique gift boutique which was formerly located on west porter salmagundi under the proprietorship of jeanne and jack stevenson natives of mobile operated here from about 1991 until they closed the portals in january 2014  the ocean springs record october 6 2005 p a4 and the ocean springs gazette january 16 2014 p 1    o keefe transfer company after acquiring the commercial hotel tract the o keefe brothers promptly built their office and garage fronting on washington avenue in late june 1921 the building was onestory and 2500square feet in area  the daily herald june 23 1921 p 5  in july 1923 the o keefe brothers were awarded a contract for hauling materials for the construction of that portion of us highway no 90 the old spanish trail known locally as the million dollar highway between moss point and the mississippialabama state line they had just acquired six ford trucks which had been specially built for heavy duty tasks  the jackson county times july 7 1923 p 5  in late august 1927 the o keefe s formally opened their new liberty pep gasoline pumps at their filling stations as an inducement for their clientele to use the new petroleum fuel they gave one gallon of motor oil free with each five gallons of petrol purchased  the jackson county times local and personal august 27 1927    o keefe service station in 1925 jj ben o keefe ii 18941954 acquired a lot on the nw c of government street and bellande avenue a gasoline service station was erected here which was leased to liberty oil standard oil of kentucky and sold to wofford oil in this vintage made by george h granitz 19091981 from the mcleod lodge f am building one can observe the former o keefe structure being utilized by george t rehage 18781937 a native of nola mr rehage was a tailor and operated a dry cleaning business here at 1011 desoto center right one can observed the home of we ed wilson 18731926 and ida fayard smith wilson 18841978 and the wilson cash and carry store just east of their residency the texaco gasoline pump on the north side of government is probably that of philip j wieder 18871985 courtesy of the first presbyterian church of ocean springs in late august 1927 the o keefe s formally opened their new liberty pep gasoline pumps at their filling stations as an inducement for their clientele to use the new petroleum fuel they gave one gallon of motor oil free with each five gallons of petrol purchased  the jackson county times local and personal august 27 1927   the o keefe s also supplied construction materials in the form of cement lime plaster gravel and sand for the erection of the 1927 ocean springs public school on government street on october 9 th 1999 a historical marker was dedicated on the former school grounds in honor of miss mary cahill o keefe 18931981 the sister of the o keefe brothers and former school superintendent for whom the building is now named  the jackson county times september 10 1927    601 west howard avenue o keefe funeral parlorsituated at 601 west howard avenue opposite nativity bvm catholic church jj ben o keefe ii 18941954 acquired the frank voivedich residence in march 1923 on june 4 1923 mr o keefe commenced his funeral business in biloxi which had been started by jj jerry o keefe 18641911 his father at ocean springs circa 1890 the o keefe funeral home was demolished in 1960 to erect a modern commercial building which was leased to goodyear who operated a tire sales and automobile repair business here for many years the o keefe family sold their large land holding on howard avenue fayard and thomas streets in may 1994  o keefe funeral servicebradfordo keefe funeral home in march 1923 jj ben o keefe 18941954 acquired for 6800 the frank voivedich and josephine fayard voivedich property at 601 west howard avenue and fayard street opposite nativity bvm catholic church the tract had 84 feet on west howard avenue and ran south on fayard street for 122 feet by early june 1923 the frank voivedich residence had been refurbished and transformed into the o keefe funeral service a modern funeral parlor equipped to do a general undertaking business and conduct funerals ben o keefe planned to continue his large business interests in ocean springs and had joseph jody o keefe his brother assisting him there harrison co ms land deed bk 135 p 351 and the jackson county times may 19 1923 p 5 and june 16 1923 p 5 the o keefe brothers commercial activities increased dramatically in june 1923 when they received the contract to haul materials to build the last section of us highway no 90 through jackson county from moss point to the alabama state line they acquired six large specially constructed ford trucks for the work the jackson county times july 7 1923 p 5 in may 1957 jj jerry o keefe iii acquired the bradford funeral home and all property ambulances etc from paul s bradford and ruth gates bradford the merger of the bradford funeral home and o keefe funeral service was not completed until july 1960 the company now called bradfordo keefe funeral service was situated at the former bradford funeral parlor on east howard avenue where improvements and additional parking had been acquired on the north side of the street harrison co ms land deed bk 422 pp 317326 in 1960 the former o keefe funeral parlor at 601 west howard avenue was demolished and a 6500 squareft goodyear service center was built on its former location in addition to selling new tire the goodyear enterprise did front end alignments and wheel balancing as well as replacing mufflers and tail pipes general electric appliances were also sold  the daily herald june 17 1960 p 2 and november 2 1960 p 12  mrs theresa tess slattery o keefe made a 15year lease with goodyear in may 1971 and the building and land were sold in may 1994 to james e sablich et ux by tess o keefe and sons dr john b o keefe and joseph ben o keefe harrison co ms 2 nd jd land deed bk 21 p 271 and bk 273 p 204 in 1964 bradfordo keefe built the ben o keefe chapel at ocean springs it was located on the northwest corner of government street and pine drive the chapel was later closed but became the temporary city public library in 19941995 in august 1997 the structure was dedicated as the  new hope center  a joint venture between the gulf coast ymca and the o keefe foundation  the ocean springs news august 6 1964 p 3 and the ocean springs record august 7 1997 p 1    1929 buyout shortly after the october 1929 wall street crash ben o keefe acquired the interest of his siblings in the o keefe funeral service of biloxi which had opened on june 4 1923 at 601 west howard avenue opposite the nativity bvm catholic church and the o keefe transfer and gasoline filling station enterprise on the southeast corner of washington avenue and robinson street at ocean springs ben o keefe assumed about 28000 in mortgages and other debt he also gave up his rights title and interest to several tracts of land at ocean springs and new orleans among them were the jj o keefe family home at present day 911 porter the o keefe castle also called the saxon house and seven gables present day 318 jackson avenue the old livery stable on porter street the white house tract on robertson street and the mary c o keefe domicile on porter street which was sold in february 1970 to the catholic charities housing association in to erect the villa maria jackson co mississippi land deed bk 63 pp 511515 and bk 371 p 506 this vintage image was very probably executed at biloxi mississippi between 1937 and 1940 the event is also unknown but was of a major importance as it is composed of the governor of mississippi the head of the mississippi national guard the elected municipal leadership of biloxi and three harrison county board of supervisors lr biloxi city commissioner john a swanzy 18811965 governor hugh lawson white 18811965 unknown beat i supervisor walter l nixon sr 18951960 unknown adjutant general john wa o keefe 18911985 biloxi city commissioner fa tucei 18891954 and mayor louis j braun 18901951 john wa o keefe elected mayor of biloxi in august 1934 to succeed r hart chinn 18881972 mayor o keefe announced in early february 1936 that he would resign as biloxi s mayor on february 10 to take the position of adjutant general of the state of mississippi he had been selected for the position in november 1935 by elect governor hugh l white  john a w o keefe john aloysius william o keefe 18911985 was born at new orleans on february 24 1891 the son of jeremiah j o keefe 18601911 and alice cahill o keefe 18641921 at this time the o keefe family was domiciled in the o keefe boarding house on the northeast corner of porter street and jackson avenue at ocean springs mississippi the o keefe family had settled here in the late 1850s when irish immigrants edward ned o keefe 18151874 a native of bincher parish tipperary county ireland and mary tracy o keefe 18321895 acquired land on the northeast corner of porter and rayburn jxco ms land deed bk 7 p 272 and lepre 1991 p 165  education john a o keefe attended local schools and the jesuit college at new orleans there is a high degree of certitude that he attended the lynch academy a private school at ocean springs operated by james lynch 18521935 an irish immigrant and merchant this is corroborated by the 1900 federal census which notes that john a o keefe is a student residing with his parents and siblings on porter street 1900 jackson county mississippi federal census t623 812 p 2b ed 45 mr lynch s school was situated on the northwest corner of porter and jackson avenue opposite the jj o keefe home at present day 911 porter in early december 1896 james lynch advertised his private school in  the ocean wave  as follows  preparatory school to the general school instructions already offered i will add a course of elementary classics and french algebra and geometry stenography and typewriting as a preparatory for college or commercial studies for particulars apply to  james lynch  jackson avenueocean springs mississippi john a o keefe s sister mary cahill o keefe 18931980 who would establish herself as an excellent educator of the french and english languages in the school systems of shreveport and monroe louisiana and at biloxi and ocean springs mississippi was an attendee of the lynch academy miss o keefe became superintendent of public schools at ocean springs in 1929 and held this position until 1945 she was also the first woman appointed to the board of trustees of perkinston junior college  the daily herald april 6 1945 p 3 c 6 and charles l sullivan october 28 2006  by 1901 john a w o keefe was in new orleans and under the tutelage of the jesuits he was promoted from first sergeant to first lieutenant in the jesuit cadets young o keefe received his ab degree from the college of the immaculate conception at new orleans in 1911 the college of the immaculate conception of new orleans was divided into loyola university and jesuit high school john aw o keefe graduated from tulane university in 1911  the pascagoula democratstar december 3 1901 and the daily herald 50 th anniversary souvenir golden jubilee 1934 p 50    family john a o keefe married amelia nicki castanera 19052000 the daughter of captain frank b castanera 18701934 and amelia desporte 18801953 in december 1929 amelia castenera was the queen of les masques a biloxi mardi gras krewe in 1927 and taught school at biloxi  the daily herald february 12 1927 p 1  in 1937 john and nicki o keefe adopted a jackson mississippi born baby girl and named her patricia mary o keefe 19372009 patricia m o keefe was born on september 27 1937 she was a graduate of the immaculate seminary at washington dc and a 1959 graduate of chestnut hill college at philadelphia pennsylvania patricia married ensign badger conley smith iii on july 4 1959 in the walter reed memorial chapel at washington dc ensign smith had graduated from st john s college washington dc and the us naval academy in 1959  the daily herald july 8 1959 p 8  patricia mary o keefe married frank obrimski in may 1965 she worked for the library of congress for fifteen years patricia died on september 20 2009 at garrett park maryland she and frank obrimski were the parents of margaret obrimski bonacorda and sharon obrimski portillo the history of jackson co ms 1989 p 302 and  the sun herald october 4 2009    the o keefe s troubled thirties joseph h jody o keefe  18971932 jody o keefe worked as a sugar chemist primarily in cuba although he had worked at a sugar beet factory in mt clemons michigan in the fall of 1927 at the time of his demise on august 1 1932 he was the assistant superintendent of the matanzas sugar company at matanzas cuba jody o keefe fractured several neck vertebrae in a diving accident while swimming in matanzas bay his older brother john aw o keefe 18911985 was also a sugar chemist in his early life ocean springs produced several more sugar chemists louis jeanbaptise mestier 18831954 and eugene w illing 18951978 lr jeremiah j ben o keefe 18941954 top row jody o keefe sitting mary cahill o keefe 18931981 and john w o keefe 18911985 courtesy of maureen o keefe ward  jodie s death the o keefe family like many other americans faced the depression with determination and hope several years after the infamous october 1929 stock market crash their brother joseph hyacinth jodie o keefe 18971932 died on august 1 1932 from neck and cervical injuries incurred while springboard diving at matanzas bay cuba miss o keefe and her new orleans friends mrs jt nix rosary nix and james t nix had just visited jodie at matanzas where he was a sugar chemist and assistant manager of the matanzas sugar company they were on a caribbean cruise and the vessel had stopped in havana for a few days  the daily herald august 2 1932 p 1   joseph hyacinth o keefe 18971932 was born at new orleans on february 13 1897 the son of jeremiah j o keefe 18601911 and alice cahill 18641921 joseph h o keefe was called jody he was a graduate sugar chemist from loyola university at new orleans young o keefe began his career in the sugar industry in 1920 with most of his technical work at sugarhouses in cuba when the sugar season ended in the caribbean tropics he would return to ocean springs to work in operated family enterprise history of jxco ms 1989 p 302 prior to entering the sugar refining business young jodie o keefe was employed by a large oil company in caddo parish louisiana in june 1918 he returned to the family home at present day 911 porter avenue in ocean springs from this assignment in the shreveport area of north louisiana  the jackson county times june 15 1918 p 5  in may 1923 jody was helping ben with his business interests at ocean springs ben had bought an old home in biloxi on west howard avenue opposite the nativity of the blessed virgin mary to open a modern funeral parlor  the jackson county times may 19 1923 p 5  in 1925 jodie o keefe worked in cuba until midjuly when he returned to ocean springs he was the assistant superintendent of two sugar refineries cuba produced more than 5000000 tons of sugar this year  the jackson county times july 181925 p 3  in april 1927 jh o keefe returned from central espana of the matanzas sugar company in cuba he had been here since december 1926 as first assistant superintendent of the refinery o keefe reported that sugar production was down but the price for the commodity was sufficient to make the industry profitable  the daily herald april 19 1927 p 9  jody traveled widely in his profession and in october 1927 went to the northern climes of michigan where he was employed at a large sugar beet factory in mt clemens northeast of detroit o keefe returned from michigan in december 1927  the jackson county times october 9 1927 p 2 and december 27 1927 p 5  john w a o keefe flew to havana cuba via atlantamiami to recover his brother s corpse he accompanied jody s corporal remains on its return to america via new orleans they sailed from cuba aboard the united fruit company s freighter  cataga  the daily herald august 5 1932 p 2  jodie h o keefe s funeral was held on august 9 1932 in ocean springs it was one of the largest ever held on the mississippi coast a requiem mass was celebrated at st alphonsus catholic church by father joseph h chauvin 18671959 with assistance from four biloxi priests fathers o sullivan mcglade maloney and mulrooney hundreds were in attendance in respect for ben o keefe jody s brother funeral directors from coast cities and mobile conducted the funeral services arthur lang of gulfport was in charge he was assisted by ha fails moss point calvin dees perkinston and joseph thompson and james duffee of mobile  the daily herald august 9 1932 p 2  jody o keefe s corporal remains were carried to the evergreen cemetery at ocean springs on august 9 1932 for interment  the daily herald august 9 1932 p 2  cwa and the o keefe airfield while in business at biloxi john w a o keefe continued his involvement in the military at this time he held the rank of captain in the us army air corps reserves in april 1932 captain o keefe was sent to the air corps headquarters in new york for two weeks duty  the daily herald april 11 1932 p 2  in 1933 john w a o keefe was appointed civil works administration aeronautics advisor for mississippi the cwa was part of president franklin d roosevelt s new deal to combat the lethargic american economy of the depression it also was an economic failure and was disbanded by april 1934 in march 1934 john aw o keefe had retired as the grand knight of the biloxi council knights of columbus relating that his active position as cwa aeronautics advisor and his third term as grand knight as salient reasons  the daily herald march 20 1934 p 5  in november 1934 the town of newton mississippi and the newton county american legion post dedicated their new 12000 airport in honor of major john aw o keefe former cwa aeronautics adviser for mississippi the event was highlighted by a visiting us army air corps aircraft from maxwell field alabama national guard planes from birmingham and eighteen commercial southeastern united states including a trimotor airship mayor john summers of newton made the presentation to major o keefe us senator byron pat harrison 18811941 also spoke at the dedication the newton county airfield is no longer called o keefe field it is now known as james h easom field it is located at 266 o keefe road one mile southeast of newton mississippi  the daily herald november 13 1934  biloxi mayor john aw o keefe was elected mayor of biloxi in july 1934 to succeed incumbent mayor robert hart chinn 18881972 called hart chinn chinn had born on april 9 1888 at vandalia audrain county missouri the son of james buchanan buck chinn 18571912 and martha ella hart 18571938 in 1890 buck chinn came to biloxi to start the biloxi milling company with fellow missourians eg burklin rd chinn and mr brewton in april 1893 the biloxi milling company commenced operations making flour and meal  the biloxi herald january 7 1893 p 8 and april 22 1893 p 1  r hart chinn   r hart chinn  18881972 called hart was unarguably the most controversial and belligerent politician ever to serve the people of biloxi he was first elected mayor of biloxi after mayor john j kennedy 18751949 resigned from office in june 1933 to become comptroller of customs at new orleans mr chinn became biloxi s mayor by winning the august 25 1933 general election incumbent mayor chinn lost his reelection bid to john wa o keefe 18911985 in august 1934 after mayor o keefe resigned in february 1936 to become mississippi s adjutant general hart chinn lost to louis j braun 18901951 in the april 1936 election to replace mayor o keefe who had relocated to jackson mississippi hart chinn did serve another term as biloxi s mayor in the early 1950s after a brief military career during ww i lt hart chinn returned to biloxi where he made his livelihood as manager of the fosterfountain packing company he married mrs vera l dukate bond 18861977 on november 11 1918 at camp sherman ohio  the daily herald november 14 1918   vera dukate was the daughter ofwilliam k m dukate 18521916 a native of fredericksburg washington county indiana and linda rose lienhard 18591939 born in harrison county mississippi the daughter of peter j lienhard 18121873 a swiss immigrant and malinda b seaman 18261890 linda rose and mr dukate had married in her mother s residence at biloxi mississippi on april 27 1878 the dukate children were  elbert l dukate  18811943 m corrine desporte 18821973  eula t dukate  18821894  vera l dukate  18861977 m brantley a bond 18801966 and r hart chinn 18881972  leola may dukate  18881967 m william l ewing 18881967  irma dukate  18901974 m daniel j gorenflo 18881965 and beulah l dukate  19001983 m carl e matthes 18961972   the pascagoula democratstar may 3 1878 p 3 and lepre 1991 p 99    vera dukate bond was the mother of two daughters vera leola bond 19091989 m leslie baltar grant 19081986 and whillamene linda bond 19111998 m hawthorne eddy in july 1933 mayor john kennedy 18751949 of biloxi resigned his position to accept the post of comptroller of customs new orleans louisiana for the gulf district which included mississippi alabama arizona louisiana new mexico and texas his recommendation for this federal position had come from us senator byron patton pat harrison 18811941 of gulfport mississippi and appointment by president franklin delano roosevelt 18821945 r hart chinn was elected mayor of biloxi at the august 25 1933 general election in the democratic primary held earlier mayor chinn ran against walter h skeet hunt 18871960 and dr george f carroll 18841962 during chinn s brief first tenure as mayor of biloxi he became involved in a heated argument on august 22 1934 at a biloxi city council meeting with city commissioner john a swanzy 18811965 r hart chinn struck mr swanzy in the head with a paperweight mayor chinn and william parks his secretary was also involved in the altercation with commissioner swanzy r hart chinn was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill by the harrison county grand jury  the daily herald    august 22 1934 p august 24 1934 p 1 and october 3 1934 p 1    o keefe s mayoral campaign the 1934 biloxi mayoral election was held at biloxi on july 17 1934 john w a o keefe ran against r hart chinn mayor incumbent and defeated him by three hundred fiftysix votes there were 2029 total votes cast in the mayoral election john w a o keefe had campaigned with enthusiasm and based his candidacy on five issues reduction of taxes industrial development to spur employment harmony between elected officials for the greater good of biloxi hard work and endeavor and honesty in the office of mayor mr o keefe related to the electorate that he would not waste time with trite conversation but would toil diligently to place biloxi where it belongs he promised if elected that   you ll find biloxi a better place to live in four years     the daily herald july 18 1934 p 1 july 10 1934 p 1 and july 14 1934 p 1  mayoral candidate o keefe was not meek on the stump he criticized his opponent at several public forums repeatedly future mayor o keefe related that mr chinn was often absent from his office and that chinn had attempted to obfuscate the election by introducing issues with other men communities and states o keefe was alluding to the rumor running amok at biloxi that senator huey p long of louisiana was involved behind the scenes in the biloxi mayoral race the louisiana conservation commission had an office in biloxi at this time and it was alleged that they supported r hart chinn when asked about this huey long stated that he didn t even know that louisiana had a conservation office in biloxi  the daily herald july 12 1934 p 1    washington nationals arrive at biloxi in 1935 this vintage image was made in the winter of 1935 at the l n depot at biloxi mississippi biloxi mayor elect john aw o keefe and city commissioners f a tucei and john a swanzy are welcoming clark griffith 18691955 president and owner of the washington nationals of the american league the nationals held their spring baseball training at biloxi for several years during the early 1930s clark griffith arrived here in midfebruary to complete arrangements for the opening of the 1935 baseball spring training session lr mayor john w a o keefe 18911985 frederick a tucei 18891954 city commissioner clark c griffith 18691955 owner washington nationals john a swanzy 18811965 city commissioner image by anthony v ragusin 19021997 from the ray l bellande historical imagery archives and  the daily herald february 19 1935 p  city commissioners with john aw o keefe the biloxi voters elected two city commissioners john a swanzy 18811965 a longtime incumbent and fa tucei 18891954 a political newcomer mr swanzy swept into office in the first primary  the daily herald august 14 1934 p 1    captain castanera expires the summer heat and intensity of the mayoral election were stilling boiling in biloxi when nicki c o keefe lost her father on august 21 1934 captain frank b castanera 18701934 had been born in pascagoula mississippi and received a jesuit education at spring hill college in mobile he settled at biloxi in 1893 and organized the biloxi and ship island tow boat company in february 1897 with jb roberts the steam tug  biloxi  built by the taltavull shipyard for frank b castanera was used in the towing operations along the mississippi coast circa 1900 he was in the retail lumber and general supply business in biloxi in 1905 he was appointed a member of the ship island bar pilots association and served as a pilot between ship island and gulfport until the commencement of world war i  the daily herald august 21 1934 p 1   during the great war he offered his services to the government as a member of the us shipping board while at sea duty in the postwar years castanera met with a many adventures on the seas two notable events at this time of his life reported in the biloxi news of april 25 1926 were the saving of the life of an ill seaman by radio diagnosis with a land based physician and the rescue of the abandoned norwegian steamer  johanne dybwad  in the stormy north atlantic  the biloxi news april 25 1926 p 1 and may 2 1926 p 7   captain frank b castanera had married amelia desporte 18801953 at biloxi on june 30 1897 in addition to amelia c nicki o keefe their other children were eugene ernest castanera 18981932 ursula c provensal 19001991 married sidney w provensal 18881977 delauney castanera 19031935 married louise tremmel and theodore castanera 19051978 married bessie welch 19141989 harrison co mississippi circuit court mrb 11 p 211  the biloxi battlerjohn a o keefe  in august 1934 john a o keefe had been elected mayor of biloxi defeating incumbent r hart chinn by a wide margin when time came for the watch to change at the biloxi city hall in early january 1935 mayor chinn refused to leave office claiming that o keefe and the other newly elected city councilmen john a swanzy and fa tucei 18891954 were not qualified electors as they had been late in paying city taxes chinn also alleged that john w a o keefe was a registered voter in both jackson and harrison counties  the daily herald january 7 1935 p 3  a few minutes past midnight on january 7 1935 mayorelect o keefe and his cabinet took the oath of office administered by judge george b wink on biloxi s point cadet immediately thereafter mayor o keefe who at the time was a major in the mississippi national guard commanding the 3 rd battalion 114 th field artillery and his armed followers took the biloxi city hall by force ousting chinn supporters among them police chief george bills mayor o keefe brought a cot with him and slept in his office during the crisis week  the daily herald january 7 1935 p 1 and p 3  the o keefe contingent soon discovered that r hart chinn had absconded with the city books and records making it nearly impossible to manage the daily operations of the municipality chinn excused this act as he believed that he was protecting them from the o keefe led mob that he had heard would invade city hall in the early morning hours of january 7 th when chinn refused a court order to return biloxi s records he was cited for contempt of court the net result of this chaos at biloxi which lasted about two weeks was that chinn was fined 100 and ordered to pay court costs  the daily herald january 24 1935 p 1    car wreck in early march 1935 mayor o keefe spouse nicki c o keefe amelia desporte castanera 18801953 his motherinlaw and dorothy daspit 19081937 an ocean springs school teacher and native of houma louisiana were traveling west to new orleans for a mardi gras celebration while driving the beach road through pass christian the steering mechanism of mayor o keefe s automobile failed and the vehicle struck a tree nicki c o keefe broke her hipbone while her mother and mayor o keefe suffered cuts and bruises miss daspit was not seriously harmed in the accident  the jackson county times march 9 1935 p1    general john wa o keefe general john wa o keefe mayor john a o keefe of biloxi became adjutant general of mississippi on january 22 1936 hugh lawson white 18811965 the mississippi governorelect had promised o keefe this position in his administration for the mayor s influence and political support during his campaign for the office to lead mississippi mayor o keefe s announced to his constituency that he would resign as biloxi s mayor on february 10 1936 to lead the state s 2000 national guardsmen the salary was 2700 per year mayor o keefe succeeded thomas grayson also from biloxi and an appointee of governor martin sennett mike connor 18911950  resignationadjutant general with the inauguration of hugh lawson white 18811965 in january 1936 as the governor of mississippi john a o keefe became adjutant general of mississippi the governorelect had promised mayor o keefe this position in his administration for his influence and political support during his campaign for the office to lead the people of mississippi mayor o keefe s appointment as adjutant general was confirmed by the mississippi senate in executive session on january 22 1936 although he did not announce his retirement as biloxi s mayor until february 10 1936 to lead mississippi s 2000 national guardsmen his salary as adjutant general was 2700 per year john wa o keefe succeeded thomas grayson also a biloxian and an appointee of governor mike connor o keefe and family found an apartment on west capitol street in jackson   the daily herald october 17 1935 p 2   and the daily herald november 8 1935 january 22 1936 p 1 and the jackson county times february 1 1936 p 1  in august 1936 adjutant general o keefe and 2175 officers and troops of the 155 th infantrymississippi the 156 th infantrylouisiana the 106 th quartermasters regimentmississippi and other louisiana national guard units spent two weeks training at camp beauregard near alexandria louisiana the medical detachment from biloxi was led by lt eldon l bolton md 19101990 the quartermasters unit from ocean springs was in charge of lt walter holloway and company m out of gulfport with captain glenn rutledge in command were also encamped the daily herald august 24 1936 p 2 in september 1939 adjutant general o keefe was grand marshal of the mississippi delegation in the national american legion parade at chicago in august ben hilbun of laurel mississippi and the newly elected american legion state commander had made the first announcement of general o keefe s selection as grand marshal for the illinois event  the jackson county times august 5 1939 p 1    lurline schrieber hall marion lurline schrieber hall  b 1920 called lurline our guest contributor today was reared on east porter street near vancleave avenue by her parents joseph louis dode schrieber 18731951 and etta augusta clark 18881979 lurline is pictured with the oyster boxes that her father built for biloxi s seafood factories in the 1920s dode schrieber was an interesting man he was multitalented and made his livelihood at various times as a carpenter boat builder and oysterman dode schrieber made an amazing contribution to the chronology of ocean springs in the fall of 1949 when he was interviewed in the twilight of his life by captain ellis handy 18911963 then a writer for   the gulf coast times  captain handy s column  know your neighbor  was published between july 1949 and november 1949 it included interviews with some of ocean springs most notables antonio john catchot 18641954 john edward catchot 18971987 henry l girot 18861953 john wc mitchell 18711952 alfred peter moran 18971967 fred j ryan 18861969 and george washington smith 18571953 the vancleave bradford davis and many more pioneer families and individuals were highlighted by mr handy in addition to details of his own schrieberletzler family dode schrieber related much about the unpublished events of the mid and late 19 th century chronology of ocean springs for any local genealogist or history buff the handy and schrieber reports are a must marion lurline schrieber hall b 1920 now a resident of east letohatchie alabama attended the ocean springs public school in the 1920s and 1930s graduating with the oshs class of 1937 her personal recollections of miss mary cahill o keefe her former teacher and principal follows  mary o keffe a hometown girl became the principal circa 1930 of ocean springs high school this was a complete surprise since there had never been a female head of the school mr chandler resigned when i was in the fifth grade and we not only had to get used to a lady at the helm but a strict lady she let it be known from the beginning that she would stand for no foolishnessshe gave us rules to follow and we knew we had to live by them she showed no favoritism but expected courtesy from each of us and we knew exactly what she expected from us miss o keefe was always fair but stern   during the time my class was in the eighth grade which was during the tight financial years of the depression we only had school for eight months of the year due to the shortage of money the teachers agreed to the eightmonth term and we compressed nine months of learning into eight  mary o keefe who was known in ocean springs as mamie had to take on a few teaching chores herself she taught our english class and always addressed us as my dear child her first instructions to us were when i call the roll you are to answer prepared or unprepared if you answer unprepared i will expect an acceptable reason i will not accept excuses i will accept reasons and they must be good ones  rest assured you could count the unprepared responses with the fingers of her one hand her next admonition to us was not to say yes mame or no mame when addressing her we were requested to say yes miss o keefe or no miss o keefe even when reprimanding us miss o keefe spoke to her students as my dear child  each day at noon when we were dismissed for lunch miss o keefe stood at the foot of the stairssometimes at the girls stairs and at other occasions the boys stairwell this was to discourage the stomping of feet as we descended we never knew which stairway she would select and even the high school boys refrained from loud stomping yes the sexes were segregated even on the playgrounds one had to ask permission from the teacher on playground duty to cross over an imaginary boundary separating the sexes even if a ball was accidentally sent crossed the barrier this form of segregation was enforced primarily to prevent larger boys from unintentionally running into smaller females and possibly inflicting bodily injury miss o keefe captained a taut ship during the depression ocean springs high school was never removed from the list of accredited schools and colleges she provided the curriculum that would enable her students to attend college or make a livelihood of ones choosing after graduation she operated the school in a most outstanding manner steering her students on a straight course with caring yet with authority someone once said that miss o keefe was trying to excel in order to prove that a local girl was capable of managing an exceptional school even though many people thought that a female was incapable of doing it during the years that miss o keefe was our valued mentor her brother was killed in a diving accident for a year she wore mourning black in fall and winter and white and lavender in spring and summer mrs weyerstall made her clothes and they were lovely this was her outward expression to us for her deep love for her departed brother jody  miss mary c o keefe was a lady who demanded respect and she returned respect if it was earned she had the best interests of her students at heart and worked continuously to obtain the very best for ocean springs high school to name our old school building for her would certainly be an appropriate and deserving tribute   lynch academy and marker the lynch academy a private school was located on the northwest corner of jackson avenue and porter street james lynch 18521935 an irish schoolmaster lived here taught school and also managed a dry goods and grocery store mr lynch served as an alderman and later town clerk from 19171929 in the image note the us highway 90 sign in september 2006 workmen in the employ of brad lemon a resident of 509 ward avenue discovered a small concrete marker with the designation lynch academy 18901916 inscribed into its surface the lemon house was built circa 1928 by pj wieder 18871985 it is not known who made the lynch academy marker or how it got to the wiederlemon home on ward avenue  early education miss mary c o keefe attended st alphonsus school and the lynch academy both located on jackson avenue in ocean springs the lynch academy was located on the northwest corner of porter and jackson directly across the street from the o keefe residence james lynch 18521935 the school master was himself irish probably a native of county cavan eire  the daily herald april 6 1945 p 3 the jackson county times july 6 1935 and the pascagoula democratstar august 27 1897  former mayor and local historian charles ernest uncle ernie schmidt 19041988 paints a vivid image in his description of master lynch s teaching methods which follows  his curriculum was grounded in the fundamentals of language and ciphering that is reading writing parsing and constant drilling tables addition multiplication and division up to the 19 th informality was the order when a lesson was learned it was heard if satisfactory the pupil was advanced if not he was set down to study it again   discipline carried over from a past age a slap on the head with a closed book restored order the old man s explosive expletives were something to be avoided a wrong answer as to the product of 13 times 16 would draw a thunderous balderdash or if the pupil failed completely he would likely be assessed as a confounded mope    schmidt 1972 p 69 may 29 1904 was a special day in the spiritual life of mary c o keefe she and other young contemporaries received the roman catholic sacrament of holy communion at the st alphonsus church on jackson avenue among those in her holy communion class were henry beaugez moses beaugez 18911973 deo bertuccini 18931979 paul bertuccini leila catchot lena eglin gilbert 18901928 elizabeth joachim john king josephine mon ella ryan blanche von rosambeau 18921982 gertrude soden mcgregor 18931987 mamie starks b 1891 tom starks 18921917 george van court and alice white 18901960  the progress may 28 1904 p 4  miss o keefe completed her high school education at st mary s dominican academy at new orleans her brother john a o keefe 18911985 was attending jesuit high school concurrently he was appointed captain of company djesuit cadets in december 1905  the pascagoula democratstar november 3 1905 and december 8 1905  john a o keefe would go on to a distinguished career in politics and the military he served the city of biloxi as its mayor in 1935 before being appointed as adjutant general of mississippi by governor hugh lawson white  the pascagoula democratstar november 3 1905 and december 8 1905 and the daily herald september 16 1985 p a2  at the dominican academy graduation exercises in late june 1910 miss o keefe was awarded five gold medals for excellence in various academic disciplines she matriculated to sophie newcomb college at new orleans in the fall of 1910 and after taking a private examination was admitted to the sophomore class  the ocean springs news october 15 1910 p 4 and june 25 1910  miss o keefe graduated from newcomb college in 1913 in 1917 she was voted president of her 1913 class for life  the jackson county times july 7 1917  a peripatetic career north louisiana  19131923 after her stellar academic accomplishments in the scholastic halls of new orleans finest educational institutions miss mary c o keefe went to shreveport louisiana to teach french at the high school level she spent the summer of 1914 at ocean springs and departed in september 1914 to resume her position as professor of french in the central high school  the ocean springs news september 26 1914  at this time it was extremely common for single schoolteachers to room and board with local families at shreveport miss o keefe found shelter on fairfield avenue with the roman catholic family of john b slattery 18441927 a prominent attorney and widower his spouse mary ellen herron a native of wisconsin had expired in 1899 they were the parents of four sons and two daughters alice o keefe sebastian september 13 1999 although mr slattery s daughter teresa tess josephine slattery 18941995 had met jeremiah ben joseph o keefe ii 18941954 while on a seashore summer holiday to visit mary c o keefe at ocean springs in 1919 it was his journey to shreveport for the thanksgiving holiday of the following year that sealed their fate at ocean springs ben had been the steady escort of the widow carrie johnson garrard 18861968 but he was smitten with miss slattery and they were wedded at shreveport s st john berchman s roman catholic church in april 1921 mary c o keefe was the maid of honor in her brother s wedding she appropriately carried killarney roses alice o keefe sebastian september 13 1999 and  the jackson county times september 20 1919 and may 7 1921 p 3    mary cahill o keefe this image was made for the biloxi beacon the 1924 biloxi high school annual miss o keefe s career as a foreign language instructor began at shreveport louisiana in 1913 and she retired from her profession while at ocean springs in april 1945 as superintendent of education during her tenure as school superintendent at ocean springs miss o keefe instilled in the community the value of excellence in education and raised the level of learning to a higher standard as well as being an inspiration to her students to excel in their chosen vocations after graduation in mary cahill o keefe s beloved memory the 1927 ocean springs public school was named the mary c o keefe cultural center of arts and education fondly called the mary c in december 1998 by the city of ocean springs a mississippi historical marker for this purpose was dedicated on the former school grounds on october 9 1999  shreveport years until the summer of 1918 miss o keefe continued her educational career at shreveport routinely spending her summer and christmas holidays at ocean springs  the ocean springs news december 30 1915 the jackson county times september 15 1917 and january 5 1918  in 1918 however she passed the civil service examination and spent that summer working in government service at washington dc miss o keefe returned from washington to ocean springs in early september 1918 again she went dutifully to shreveport to teach french that fall  the jackson county times may 25 1918 p 5 and september 7 1918 p 5  the academic year of 19181919 also brought miss o keefe a new wrinkle in addition to her french language classes she coached the girls basketball team 1919 was also the memorable year that miss tess slattery from shreveport came home with mary c o keefe for a summer holiday at the seashore in ocean springs they returned to shreveport in september 1919  the jackson county times april 5 1919 may 31 1919 and september 20 1919    monroe louisiana  19211922 miss o keefe left her position as head of the modern language department in the shreveport louisiana school system after the 19211922 academic year during the late spring of 1921 she attended the annual alumni reunions of newcomb college and st mary s dominican academy miss o keefe was elected president of her dominican academy high school class she reported to monroe louisiana in october 1922 to teach french at the high school there she returned to biloxi in june 1923 for her annual summer holiday  the daily herald october 21 1922 p 5 and june 23 1923 p 5 and the jackson county times june 18 1921 p 3    biloxi mississippi   19231926 miss o keefe did not return to monroe louisiana in the fall of 1923 evidently this assignment wasn t agreeable as she commenced the 19231924 school year at the biloxi central high school on september 10 1923 she had been elected to teach french to the students here  the jackson county times june 16 1923 p 5 and september 15 1923 p 5  in early june 1924 miss o keefe departed ocean springs for a globetrotting summer of adventure discovery and learning she visited friends at washington dc and new york before embarking for the continent via ocean liner from montreal dr margaret bowden had feted her with a luncheon at the pickwick club in new orleans before leaving america in late august  the jackson county times june 14 1924  in europe mary cahill o keefe spent several weeks in the larger european capital cities london rome paris and brussels took a trip along the shores of the mediterranean sea by motorcar visited the battlefields of france and had an audience with pope pius xi in addition to visiting all the cities and points of interest on the continent it is believed that miss o keefe took courses in french at the sorbonne while in paris  the jackson county times august 30 1924 p 5 and the daily herald september 5 1924 p 3  after the 19241925 school term had ended miss mary c o keefe and margaret dacey who taught girls physical education at biloxi high school left the mississippi gulf coast in june 1925 for chicago where they were joined by miss cunningham the biloxi educators were guests of the edgewater beach hotel in the windy city from chicago miss o keefe and miss dacey went to detroit and niagara falls before arriving at new york city to attend columbia university miss o keefe returned home to ocean springs from columbia in late august better prepared to teach languages at biloxi high school in the fall  the jackson county times june 20 1925 july 4 1925 p 1 and august 29 1925 p 3  although she was rated as one of the best instructors in the school miss o keefe resigned her position at biloxi high school in january 1926 she cited health reasons for her leaving the classroom her tenure here in the modern languages department had been for three and onehalf years  the jackson county times january 29 1926 p 2  by july 1926 mary c o keefe s health had been restored sufficiently for her to travel to chicago for two weeks to attend the eucharistic congress she was a guest at a reception in honor of the crown prince and princess of sweden  the jackson county times july 10 1926    miss mary c o keefe s cottage located on the north side of west porter street between jackson avenue and washington avenue miss o keefe acquired this structure with acreage in august 1925 with her three brother john aw o keefe jh jody o keefe and jj ben o keefe they conveyed the cottage and other tracts to her sole ownership in july 1930 miss o keefe s cottage was a memorable venue for her great nieces and great nephews and many eclectic friends memories of it were evoked by maureen o keefe ward as follows  the words aunt mary immediately conjure up specific and rich memoriesapproaching her neat white picket fence which wasn t so high that it scared a child walking up onto her tiny front screen porch and immediately confronting her colorful blackbeard figurines by the andersons the historical significance of which aunt mary was always happy to dramatize with great verve and then entering through the front door into the wonderland of her small but beautifully appointed white frame house aunt mary and her petite house were always in perfect orderfrom antique wicker furniture covered in cozy pillows to elderly oriental rugs topped by glassfront cabinets filled with jewellike demitasse cups and saucers gathered patiently on her world travels to the paintings and lovely della robia sculpture on the walls through to her tiny dining room kitchen and bedroom   she loved to host my sisters and me at tea parties during which we got to select our favorite cup and saucer from which to sip sitting around her dining room we would nibble and drink and converse with our best manners on display without ever needing to ask aunt mary always called forth our most perfect behavior we didn t want to risk her displeasure    miss o keefe s cottage  19251971 in august 1925 mary c o keefe jj ben o keefe 18941954 joseph h jody o keefe 18971932 and john aw o keefe 18911985 acquired for 1200 a lot and improvements fronting on west porter from daniel dick 19001971 this was the site of miss o keefe s cottage where she would reside for the next fortysix years jackson co mississippi land deed bk 56 pp 349350 the mary c o keefe s cottage was situated primarily on lot 3 of the seidenstricker tract in lot 12 of block 27 of the culmseig map of ocean springs 1854 this lovely oakshaded site was located on the north side of west porter between jackson avenue and washington avenue miss o keefe s 523acre irregularlydimensioned lot had a front of 94 feet on porter and went north 262 feet on the eastside and had 143 feet on the western perimeter it is postulated that miss o keefe s cottage was erected here in the late 19th century probably by the herman nill family of new orleans who had purchased this tract from ag tebo 18481929 in march 1891 jackson co mississippi land deed bk 17 p 355 caroline vahle nill 18621949 and herman nill 18631904 had sold this property to sallie grayson orrell 18661948 in january 1903 for 1200 the vahles had built a twoand onehalf story building on their lot on the nw corner of washington and porter in 1893 here mr nill ran a drugstore and let offices to local doctors in what was an apparent arson local vandals destroyed nill s building in december 1900 by 1903 the nill family had relocated to gulfport mississippi jxco land deed bk 25 p 521  the ocean springs record july 22 1993 p 18 july 29 1993 p 17 and august 5 1993  sallie grayson orrell was the daughter of judge thomas w grayson 18251904 and anne hyde grayson 18321906 her father was the fourth mayor of ocean springs 18971898 sallie married john c orrell jr 18621931 in november 1889 he was the son of john c orrell 18301917 a north carolinian who established the turpentine industry in western jackson county during reconstruction by 1900 jc orrell jr was a baggage master for the l n railroad and rearing three daughters lucille orrell 18931910 lillian orrell 18951931 and irene orrell 18981920 on porter street the jc orrell jr family left ocean springs for 208 state street in mobile before 1917 as they were residing here when his father died in november 1917  the mobile press register december 1 1917 p 8  mrs sallie g orrell conveyed their porter street cottage to daniel dick 19001971 for 1200 in august 1924 mr dick was born at ocean springs the son of eugene dick 18681918 and mary cecile seymour 18691953 eugene married marie e starns 19011971 the daughter of mr and mrs jp starns of bogalusa louisianajackson co mississippi land deed bk 54 pp 181182 and the daily herald december 16 1933 p 2  it was from daniel dick that the nillorrell house was acquired by mary c o keefe ben o keefe john a o keefe and jody o keefe for 1200 in august 1925 mr dick left ocean springs and made his livelihood at los banos merced county california his brother carl mexi dick 19092000 resided in san ramon california where he expired on september 22 2000 in july 1930 mary c o keefe acquired three parcels of land at ocean springs from her brothers ja o keefe jh o keefe and jj ben o keefe the cottage property on west porter was included in this sale miss o keefe had to assume a mortgage of 1250 held by miss josephine friar 18831958 jackson co mississippi chancery court cause no 5649 jackson co mississippi land deed bk 63 pp 524525 and jackson co mississippi land deed bk 56 pp 349350 miss o keefe sold her porter street cottage to the catholic charities housing association in february 1970 it was removed when the villa maria was erected in midtown ocean springs between april 1970 and september 1971 jackson co mississippi land deed bk 371 p 506  villa maria considered the coast s first skyscraper and still one of the tallest buildings on the mississippi coast the villa maria is located on west porter street in ocean springs this 198 unit 13story 25 million dollar apartment complex was erected by the catholic charities housing association commencing in april 1970 and being completed in september 1971 the ribbon cutting was held on november 28 1971 structures along washington avenue and west porter street were demolished to erect the structure miss mary c o keefe sold her cottage on west porter to catholic charities and moved into the villa maria she expired here on january 22 1980 ocean springs 19271930  miss o keefe joined the faculty of the new ocean springs public school in the fall of 1927 she taught english her first year at the facility for 11500 per month or 103500 per year  the jackson county times september 24 1927 p 1  although mary c o keefe never married she led an active social life and appeared to be peripatetic by nature she had family and friends in new orleans and traveled there often for parties football games and the mardi gras season the year 1928 wasn t one of her better ones as in late february miss o keefe was badly bruised and shaken up in a car accident on her way to new orleans to view the carnival her car had skidded in loose gravel and overturned miss o keefe s friends pierre f donnes jr 18781938 and louise sic donnes 18851938 also received minor injuries  the daily herald february 28 1928 p 4 and the jackson county times february 25 1928  pierre f donnes jr was a new orleans born architect and yacht designer he built a home in gulf hills at present day 6200 ridge road which is extant and generally remembered as the warren jackson 18861972 home since it remained in the jackson family from september 1936 until october 1973 in june mary c o keefe was recovering from an appendectomy at hotel dieu in the crescent city  the jackson county times june 23 1928 p 2  in the spring of 1929 mary o keefe was elected superintendent of the ocean springs public schools she was to succeed professor sterling chandler at the commencement of the fall semester  the jackson county times march 16 1929 p 3  prior to the new school term miss o keefe and miss salome bailey later watkins the daughter of dr ol bailey attended for several weeks a lecture course at columbia university in new york city miss bailey went initially to visit with relatives in atlanta and met o keefe en route to new york  the jackson county times august 24 1929  new homes another woe of the 1930s for the o keefe family as previously mentioned was the loss of their family homestead the 1909 o keefe mansion on porter street in ocean springs it was forfeited to a government mortgage agency in december 1938 in march 1923 ben o keefe acquired the frank voivedich property on west howard avenue and fayard street he planned to make commercial use of this tract during the summer mr o keefe was operating a funeral parlor and burial business building in ocean springs  the daily herald march 27 1923 p 2  ben and tess o keefe and their family alice mary o keefe sebastian 19222011 jeremiah j jerry o keefe iii b 1923 dr john b o keefe 1925200 and joseph b o keefe 19301999 relocated to biloxi when mrs tess o keefe acquired a home and lot on fayard street from josephine fayard voivedich 18621940 in july 1937 this residence was in the rear of the o keefe funeral parlor at 601 west howard avenue harrison co mississippi land deed bk 216 pp 2930 during the final year of ww ii ben and tess o keefe and young ben moved into the old hopkins place at 823 west beach boulevard mrs o keefe acquired this home on a 23 acre tract on the east side of hopkins boulevard and fronting the mississippi sound for 20000 in february 1945 from dr ralph hopkins of new orleans harrison co mississippi land deed bk 273 pp 2930 in july 1945 the main street methodist church of biloxi purchased about one acre of land north of the o keefe home for a new sanctuary in early march 1948 dr bz welch chairman of the main street methodist church building committee announced plans for a new sanctuary on hopkins boulevard carl matthes was named architect in early january 1949 ground was broken to erect the new 200000 methodist church on hopkins boulevard harrison co mississippi land deed bk 276 pp 569570 and the daily herald march 1 1948 p 2 and january 7 1949 p 2 in november 1960 several years after jj ben o keefe expired in his biloxi beach front domicile mrs tess o keefe and her son dr john b o keefe sold 823 west beach boulevard to gulf towers inc by early november gulf towers a tenstory 2 million apartment building at 824 central beach boulevard was ready to break ground barlow and plunkett designed the structure for gulf towers inc lead operated by charles crisler jr a jackson attorney and jerry j o keefe a biloxi businessman howie construction of jackson mississippi was the general contractor harrison co mississippi land deed bk 471 pp 5758 and the daily herald november 5 1960 p 1 after the villa maria was opened on west porter street in september 1971 miss o keefe moved there and was a resident until her demise in january 1980  preview image prior to the first 1699 landing at ocean springs miss mary cahill o keefe was the director of the first 1699 iberville landing celebration at ocean springs which was held in conjunction with the coast wide pageant of march 1719 1939 miss elinor wright 19131953 the niece of hl hunt dallas oil tycoon and who would later married orwin j scharr 19142002 researched and wrote the script for the iberville landing other members of the planning committee for this event were iola f davidson 18831963 gertrude w mcclure d 1971 henrietta m gladney 19001978 virginia t lee 19011986 ap moran 18971967 and mayor charles bennett 18841971 in addition the daughters of henry l girot 18861953 and mabel judlin girot 18901956 were involved in the celebration with rose annette saxon mary handy and henry weyerstall lr henry weyerstall 19131987 beryl girot riviere 19162010 sally girot williams staley 19131961 georgine girot nicholson 19181998 rose annette saxon o keefe 19131987 mary handy lackey and ap fred moran 18971967 in his first of many appearances as iberville the french canadian soldier of fortune courtesy of beryl girot riviere  ocean springs 19311945  it would appear that miss o keefe didn t let the depression years at ocean springs interfere with her social life and summer holiday travel she went abroad in the summer of 1931 with vera malter nix 18911979 the wife of dr james t nix 18871945 and her daughter rosary nix hartel 19142000 they were accompanied by miss mildred van kamp of augusta georgia as previously related mary c o keefe cruised the caribbean sea with her dear friends the nix family of new orleans in the summer of 1932 and visited her brother jodie o keefe 18971932 at matanzas cuba shortly before his demise  the daily herald times august 11 1931 p 2 and august 2 1932 p 1  the following information summarizes some of mary c o keefe s activities during the captioned years 1934 in january 1934 miss o keefe attended the ball and supper dance of the athenians mardi gras organization at new orleans  the jackson county times february 3 1934  in april 1934 she went to two plays at new orleans during her weekend visit with friends  the jackson county times april 21 1934  1935 miss o keefe was the guest of dr james thomas nix and mrs spouse of new orleans she assisted in the receiving line at a yuletide dance given at the new orleans country club for their daughter miss rosary nix miss alice o keefe her young niece accompanied miss o keefe to the nix soiree  the jackson county times december 28 1935  1936 in july 1936 mary c o keefe left ocean springs and spent her summer vacation traveling her initial stop was at jackson mississippi where she visited with her brother major john a o keefe from mississippi miss o keefe stopped at winnetka illinois to see mrs fb thomas the culmination of this journey was montreal where she was the guest of mrs e valliquette  the jackson county times july 25 1936    1939 miss o keefe was the director of the first 1699 iberville landing celebration at ocean springs which was held in conjunction with the coast wide pageant of march 1719 1939 miss  elinor wright  19131953 the niece of hl hunt dallas oil tycoon and who would later married orwin j scharr 19142002 researched and wrote the script for the iberville landing other members of the planning committee for this event were  iola f davidson  18831963  gertrude w mcclure  d 1971  henrietta m gladney  19001978  virginia   t lee  19011986  ap moran  18971967 and  mayor charles bennett  18841971  the jackson county times january 28 1939 p 1  1940 in march 1940 miss o keefe was honored with membership in delta kappa gamma a national honorary educational fraternity a salient qualification for membership in delta kappa gamma was extraordinary achievements in the field of education miss o keefe had demonstrated outstanding leadership as during her short tenure as school superintendent the ocean springs public school had increased enrollment the elementary school had been reclassified from b to a the high school had become fully accredited and the school district had also been enlarged at this time mary c o keefe held memberships and offices in the following organizations jackson county teachers association vicepresident harrisonstonejackson junior college trustee jackson county high school accrediting commission member examining board of jackson county member newcomb alumnae coast club president junior red cross of jackson county chairman  the jackson county times march 30 1940 p 4  miss o keefe spoke to the ocean springs rotary club in november 1940  the jackson county times november 16 1940 p 1  1942 when miss rosary nix 19142000 was betrothed to stephen c hartel 19042003 a new orleans attorney in july 1942 miss o keefe was invited to the nuptial ceremony and was the houseguest of dr james t nix and vera m nix her parents the nix s edifice was situated at 1407 south carrollton in the crescent city rosary was a graduate of the academy of the sacred heart barat college at lake forest illinois and had attended newcomb college and columbia university she had been the queen of osiris and nereus and a maid in several of the larger new orleans carnival organizations the timespicayune july 1 1942 p 19  sibley s wall  19051963 following the retirement of miss mary cahill o keefe in july 1945 the os school board hired mr ss wall silbey s wall 19051963 was a native of decatur newton county mississippi mr wall came to ocean springs in the fall of 1945 from pascagoula where he had been since 1942 he was a graduate of mississippi southern college and had coached and was previously superintendent at beulahhubbard now newton county high school and vancleave high school superintendent wall resigned in 1950 to accept position with the new york life insurance company ss wall was succeeded as ocean springs school superintendent by the following nolan e taconi 19501971 allen t curry 19711990 dewey l herring 19901999 anna p hurt 19992006 robert hirsch 20062012 and bonita colemanpotter 2012present day  1943 ocean springs school superintendent mary cahill o keefe and brother colonel john o keefe 18911985 went to the pensacola naval air station to attend the graduation of their nephew lt jj jerry o keefe iii b 1923 naval aviator  the jackson county times july 3 1943  usmc lt jerry o keefe learned well in flight training as on his first combat mission in the south pacific theatre during wwii he destroyed five japanese aircraft it should be noted that jerry o keefe s father jj ben o keefe ii 18941954 was also a marine he left ocean springs for new orleans in late july 1918 with jasper colligan 18991951 to join other recruits bound for basic training at an eastern camp ben s departure left joseph h jodie o keefe 18971932 in charge of the family businesses livery and undertaking in addition jerry o keefe s son jj jody o keefe iv 19462007 served in the usmc from 19641967  the jackson county times april 28 1945 p 1 july 27 1918 and the history of jackson county mississippi 1989 p 303  1945 mary c o keefe resigned from her position as superintendent of the ocean springs public schools prior to the fall session of the 19451946 school term under her sixteenyear administration the public school of ocean springs maintained high academic standards and reached new levels of proficiency the elementary section advanced from a b to an a classification the high school became fully accredited and pupil enrollment increased by 33 per cent in the near future miss o keefe planned to work on a part time basis in the local school system  the daily herald april 6 1945 p 3   prior to her retirement from the field of education miss o keefe was recognized on may 22 1945 by her faculty and students she sat in the high school auditorium while the student body sang   good morning to miss o keefe   gifts of flowers photographs of the schools achievement during her administration and others from the band and faculty were bestowed on her miss o keefe spoke briefly to her pupils saying   that she had always wished to sit and enjoy a program in the auditorium and at last was realizing that desire  after thanking everyone for their gifts she concluded her comments with   the greatest gifts of all were carried in her heart place there by pupils whom she had taught    the jackson county times may 26 1945 p 4 and the daily herald may 28 1945 p 8  in june 1945 miss jessie boyd 18811963 who was a life friend of miss o keefe and career red cross relief worker was feted by her loyal friends at a buffet supper held at the gulf hills country club mary c o keefe presented miss boyd with several savings bonds as gifts from the guests who included miss ethel rice 18871969 mr and mrs george young miss bernadine wulff 18991992 mrs ed clothilde bailey campbell 19011995 mrs chester davis mrs john knippie and mrs john vera wulff cook 19061992  the jackson county times june 16 1945 p 1  mary c o keefe was succeeded as superintendent of the ocean springs public school by sibley s wall 19051963 a native of decatur newton county mississippi mr wall came to ocean springs from pascagoula he was a graduate of mississippi southern college and had coached and was previously superintendent at beulahhubbard now newton county high school and vancleave high school  the jackson county times july 28 1945 p 1  retirement years 19461980  miss mary c o keefe s retirement years are presented from information casually observed in local journals of the captioned interval as follows  1947 in june miss mary c o keefe returned to ocean springs after a delightful visit with colonel john a o keefe at bethesda maryland mrs l macweeney of rye new york and mrs john knipple in philadelphia pennsylvania  the jackson county times local and personal june 7 1947 p 8  19501952 miss o keefe entertained family and friends from new orleans shreveport and biloxi at gulf hills with a luncheon the young children of the visiting families were sent to the dude ranch to ride horses  the gulf coast times august 25 1950 p 8  in the fall of 1950 miss o keefe spent two months in the east visiting relatives and friends at bethesda maryland washington dc and philadelphia in maryland she stayed with colonel john o keefe s family and at washington dc miss helen bliss at philadelphia miss o keefe was entertained by john and ena knippel mrs knippel was the supervisor of music in the public school of philadelphia  the gulf coast times december 15 1950 p 1  mary c o keefe went to the sugar bowl game at new orleans with the ben o keefe family of biloxi kentucky 101 led by paul bear bryant defeated no 1 ranked oklahoma sooners 100 by the score of 137 miss mary stayed over for a short visit with her dear friend vera malter nix  the gulf coast times january 12 1951  in february 1951 miss o keefe traveled to bethesda maryland to visit colonel john o keefe her brother he had just had a serious eye operation  the gulf coast times february 22 1951 in november 1952 a tea was given for miss ann o neil  the gulf coast times november 27 1952 p 6  jeffrey h o keefe jeffrey h o keefe called jeff was a great nephew of miss mary cahill o keefe and with his siblings maureen o keefe ward and jeremiah j jody o keefe iv 19462007 shared some of their recollections of aunt mary with the author miss o keefe has been posthumously recognized as mississippi s first female school superintendent and also memorialized by having the 1927 ocean springs public school renamed the mary c o keefe cultural center for arts and education in her honor miss o keefe had a profound positive influence on her students and many credit their successful marriages and careers to her strict discipline and high ethical and academic standards 1957 miss o keefe broke a bone in her left foot resulting from a fall her foot was placed in a cast  the ocean springs news january 24 1957  19591962 miss o keefe came out of retirement for a few years and taught french at the sacred heart academy in biloxi she is remembered during this interval by her great niece maureen o keefe ward as always dressed very elegantly with touches of lace here and there or a beautiful pin on her lapel spiffy spectator pumps and stockings maureen o ward september 9 1998  1970 miss o keefe sold her cottage property on west porter to the catholic charities housing association on february 20 1970 the villa maria a sevenstory building which houses a retirement community was built north of her property construction commenced here in april 1970 jackson county mississippi land deed bk 371 p 506 and the ocean springs record april 16 1970 p 1  1980 mary c o keefe was living in the villa maria at time of demise on january 22 1980 her corporal remains were cremated and interred in the o keefe family burial plot at the evergreen cemetery in ocean springs miss o keefe s obituary relates that she was a former president of jackson county teachers association and former member of the board of trustees of the mississippi gulf coast junior college her university associations included being an alumna of dominican and newcomb colleges of new orleans a member of the iota chapter of delta epsilon sigma alpha and delta kappa gamma of which she was a charter member of the zeta chapter miss o keefe worshiped at st alphonsus roman catholic church where she was also a member of the altar society  the ocean springs record january 24 1980 p 3  family remembrances several of miss o keefe s great nephews and a great niece now submit their childhood recollections of their wonderful aunt mary or tante marie as she might have preferred being the unabashed francophile that she was jj jody o keefe iv   19462007  i remember that as a child we used to visit aunt mary at her home on porter street she had a very exquisite collection of demitasse cups and saucers she loved to make us cafe au lait we would usually sit on her porch and sip it while she would tell us stories about jean lafitte bluebeard and other pirates and stories about other fascinating or exciting characters she also taught us to sing frere jacques in french hickory dickory dock and other nursery songs once she invited me to lunch with one of her friends at allman s restaurant at the foot of the old ocean springsbiloxi bridge she embarrassed the hell out of me because she and her friend both kept commenting throughout lunch about how pretty i was and how long and beautiful my eyelashes were not good news or well accepted by a boy about five or six years of age september 4 1999  jeffery h o keefe  b 1956  my memories of aunt mary differ drastically from other folks i have heard that she ruled with an iron fist at the school i remember going to her house where the villa maria s asphalt parking lot is today she was always so pleasant and loved to visit aunt mary had those cut glass doors which now hang on the funeral home on the front of her house for many years she had some beautiful antiques in her home september 2 1999  maureen o keefe ward   b 1945  the words aunt mary immediately conjure up specific and rich memoriesapproaching her neat white picket fence which wasn t so high that it scared a child walking up onto her tiny front screen porch and immediately confronting her colorful blackbeard figurines by the andersons the historical significance of which aunt mary was always happy to dramatize with great verve and then entering through the front door into the wonderland of her small but beautifully appointed white frame house aunt mary and her petite house were always in perfect orderfrom antique wicker furniture covered in cozy pillows to elderly oriental rugs topped by glassfront cabinets filled with jewellike demitasse cups and saucers gathered patiently on her world travels to the paintings and lovely della robia sculpture on the walls through to her tiny dining room kitchen and bedroom she loved to host my sisters and me at tea parties during which we got to select our favorite cup and saucer from which to sip sitting around her dining room we would nibble and drink and converse with our best manners on display without ever needing to ask aunt mary always called forth our most perfect behavior we didn t want to risk her displeasure  during summertime when our many shreveport cousins came to visit she d invite two or three tables of us to her house for an afternoon of canasta and iced tea or lemonade and cookies in addition to expecting proper manners she thought the welltrained great niece ought to know how to play bridge canasta heartsye gods even battle go fish and old maid she taught us carefully and joined the raucous girlish fun as we mastered her tutelage in later years i got to know her as a formal teacher she taught my sacred heart classmates and me french for several years trilling her rrrr s with great gusto and openly admiring charles de gaulle and everything francais since we were typical young teenyboppers though i imagine that her majestic figure perfect posture fine clothes and bluewhite hair made a far more lasting impression on us than her french vocabulary and culture lessons i was very sad when her home was torn down to make way for villa maria though aunt mary apparently was at peace with the move and cheerfully adorned her two rooms there with furnishings from the old house our routine during those years was to drive over each sunday at noon deliver a plate of our warm dinner to her and chat awhile at least on the days when she didn t come across to biloxi and join in the family meal we were sad when she developed shingles and difficulty breathing and started mentioning to our mother that she was ready to go home making it clear that she wasn t describing her apartment at villa maria i m sure tante marie is elegantly adorning heaven now and having teas with mama ceci and nannaw from time to time  september 5 1999   to be continued  3010 views  ', 0);
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hazards  the mississippi press november 24 1996 p 4a   in 1905 tung nut trees were imported from china and first cultivated in a cemetery at talahassee florida by 1936 more than half of the 50000acres of domestic tung nut trees were growing in south mississippi the welldrained moist slightly acidic soil of cutover timberlands in the gulf coastal plain of south mississppi made this an ideal region for tung nut tree cultivation  the jackson county times august 22 1936  certain sections of stone and harrison counties were sites of pioneer tung nut cultivation  timeline 1906 the  first tung oil tree in mississippi was planted by aristede hopkins in 1906  on hopkins boulevard the daily herald july 28 1933 p 1  1931 the american tung oil production corporation of new york through their local representative  thomas h hawkes is reported to have established an extensive nursery near carriere mississippi for growing tung trees to be planted in 1931 and 1932  the corporation has secured acreage to establish tung tree groves for 6000 acres of trees from the seedlings produced at the carriere nursery  in addition  lamont rowlands  18771958    an extensive land owner about 10 miles north of picayune mississippi  is reported to be planting 4000 acres of tung tree seedlings here  the daily herald january 28 1931 p 1  1933 biloxi s anthony v ragusin wrote an article on the tung oil industry that was published on february 12 1933 in the memphis commercial appeal newspaper  the daily herald february 15 1933 p 2  1934 lamont rowlands  18771958 of picayune mississippi and a pioneer in the tung oil industry will head a delegation to warm springs georgia in november to make an appeal to president roosevelt to require the federal land bank at new orleansto make loans to farmers desirous of planting tung oil orchards the daily herald october 23 1934 p 8  1935 the great southern hotel at gulfport mississippi was the venue for a meeting held in early april by tung oil growers and promoters the daily herald april 5 1935 p 1  1936 proposed tax on tung oil dropped  the daily herald june 2 1936 p 1  1938 the tung oil planting and milling company inc of new orleans acquired the old smith foundry building on 14th street and 32nd avenue they planned to convert the structure into a plant to process the ting nut and soy beans the daily herald february 2 1938 p 1  1939 sherwinwilliams announced its development of dehydrol  as a substitute for tung oil the product is made from castor oil the daily herald november 17 1939 p 2  1941 in march the first 10000gallon rail tank car of tung oil was shipped from the mill of lo crosby and sons at picayune pearl river county mississippi to a chicago buyer it was planned to ship a similar size tank car every ten days crosby had acquired 100 tons of tung nuts at 60 per ton and had contracted to purchase 1800 tons of nuts tung oil was selling on the new york market for 28 cents per pound the daily herald march 11 1941 p 7  1944 american production of tung nuts increased from 9300 tons in 1939 to 9300 tons in 1943 and the value of the product went from 15 cents per pound to 39 cents per pound in this time period mississippi led the nation with 78200 acres of trees florida had 28250 acres lousiana27900 acres georgia8100 acres alabama3800 acres and texas550 acres the daily herald may 31 1944 p 4    1947 in early may  edward c gay of gulfport mississippi was reelected president of the american tung oil association at its convetion at pensacola florida other officers chosen were samuel s tomlin vicepres atlanta representing the eastern section of the tung belt charles w goodyear jr vice pres bogulsa louisiana representing the western section and marshall ballard jr sec treas lumberton mississippi more than 150 growers and millers from six tung producing states were at the gathering the daily herald may 3 1947 p 1 it was decided at the may 1947 at the pensacola gathering of tung oil growers and millers from alabama georgia flordia mississippi louisiana and texas that the 1948 convention would be held at gulfport mississippi the daily herald may 5 1947 p1  1948 first mississippi produced tung oil began to flow in late january at the american tung oil mill at the landon community situated four miles north of gulfport and near us highway no 49 the plant processed nuts from groves in george greene harrison jackson hancock harrison perry and stone counties in mississippi and mobile and baldwin counties in alabama the daily herald january 29 1948 p 1 and june 2 1949 sec ii p 1  1949 mississippi produced 43600 tons of tung nuts valued at 2834000 a record harvest the daily herald september 5 1952 p 17  1951 cold weather in midmarch resulted in about half o f louisiana s tung nut crop valued at 15 million dollars to have been destroyed mississippi s tung nut crop was not seriouly harmed by the chill the cold snap was the worst to damage the louisiana tung crop since 1939 unofficial government estimates predicted that the 1951 tung crop would double the production of 1950 with mississippi producing 40000 tons louisiana 30000 tons and florida 25000 tons the daily herald march 16 1951 p 1  1952 plan to recruit workers in the tung harvest the daily herald october 4 1952 p 7  1953 mississippi s tung production in 1953 was estimated to be about 100 per cent of 1952 s 60000 tons this unusual repeat was attributed to new tung orchards which were planted with better varieiries developed by the new tung laborotory pearl river county was the salient locus of the new tung orchards the daily herald august 14 1953 p 1  1964 the tung industry was planning their 31st annual meeting  the daily herald september 3 1964 p 6  j riley rankin of poplarville mississippi was named tung oil man of the year  the daily herald september 25 1964 p 9  references  mississippi gulf coast yesterday today 16991939   federal writers project in mississippi works progress administration gulfport printing company gulfport1939 pp 3031 the daily herald   theo bechtel is rotary speakertung oil trees   december 3 1930 p 1 the daily herald   plan tung oil tree expansion   january 28 1931 p 1 the daily herald   tung oil trees   may 1 1931 p 2 the daily herald   show interest in tung trees   january 23 1933 p 3 the daily herald   tung oil article   febuary 15 1933 p 2 the daily herald    will appeal to president   october 23 1934 p 8 the daily herald    importance of tung oil is stressed by us experts   april 5 1935 p 1 the daily herald   plan development of tung tree groves   january 13 1936 p 2 the daily herald    tung production sets new record   october 30 1936 p 2 the daily herald   tung meeting set for coast   december 7 1937 p 1 the daily herald    tung oil group  tung oil planting and milling company of nola  buy building  in gulfport february 2 1938 p 1 the daily herald   mcneil favored for tung oil experiment   may 18 1938 p 5 the daily herald   studying tung oil fields   december 31 1938 p 2 the daily herald    large tung oil shipments move from picayune  march 11 1941 p 7  the daily herald    tung oil becomes 1000000 crop  march 11 1944 p 4  the daily herald   dantzler farm in success community added to district   october 25 1946 p 10  the daily herald   tells of growth of tung oil industry   november 1 1946 p 4 the daily herald   ed gay reelected american tung oil president   may 3 1947 p 1 the daily herald   gulfport to be site of 1948 tung oil convention   may 5 1947 p 1 the daily herald   6000 tung trees reported in harrison county   september 17 1947 p 5 the daily herald   wants antidumping act invoked against tung oil imports   october 27 1947 p 1 the daily herald   new plant produces first tung oil in harrison county   january 29 1948 p 1 the daily herald   colmer introduces tung nut measure   february 13 1948 p 1 the daily herald   tung group scans 8point plan   may 27 1949 p 1 the daily herald   history of tung trees oil told ymbc address   june 1 1949 p 9 t he daily herald   landon tung mill serves 29576 acres of tung treesharrison alone has 2420 acres   june 2 1949 sec ii p 1 the daily herald    louisiana tung crop is heavily damaged   march 16 1951 p 1 the daily herald   tung oil import bill introduced by rep colmer   june 12 1951  the daily herald    mississippi is the largest producer of tung nuts   september 5 1952 the daily herald    plan to recruit workers in the tung harvest   october 4 1952 the daily herald   coast delegation  rep colmer dmiss  asking tung oil imports be barred   march 13 1953  the daily herald   tung crop 80 per cent of last year   august 14 1953 the daily herald   tung support price 5213   october 31 1957  the daily herald    gulfport vegetable oil company2nd largest tung oil producing plant in world   february 25 1959 p 14  the daily herald    tung industry convention edgewater hotelbiloxi is set sept 2829   august 26 1959 p 21  the daily herald   to feature tung oil research at  tung convention edgewater hotelbiloxi   september 19 1960 p 9  the daily herald   tung men want quotas placed on import tung oil   october 24 1961 p 1   the daily herald   tung industry planning 31st annual meet    september 3 1964 p 6  the daily herald   j riley rankin is tung oil man of the year   september 25 1964 p 19  the jackson county times    tung oil trees thrive in jackson county soil   september 7 1929 p 1 the jackson county times    tung oil to be studied at m neil station   august 22 1936 p 1  the mississippi press    tung industry begins revival in state   november 24 1996 p a4  the sun herald   tung oil pays anew   november 1 1998 p h1 3393 views  ', 0),
(214, 'en', 'node_search', ' lamey family lamey family ray tue 12202011 1147  lamey family the familial name  lamey  has been noted in archival documents as  lami   lame    lamie lammy lamais lanie  and  lemme  the progenitor of this family in america was jacques lamy the son of jacques lamy ca 17401770 and marguerite de rossiere he was born at meaux france east of paris jacques lamy came to north america in french colonial louisiana as a soldier he married marie helene moreau the daughter of joseph moreau and marine jeanne dauphin sergeant lamy was discharged in 1763 having served in the company of captain trente he lost his life in february 1770 when the  pere de famille  sank on a voyage to france de ville 19 p in 1761 jacques and marie helene lamy had a son jean batiste lamy 17611804 a daughter euphrasie lamy was born in november 1769 jean b lamy married isabel baudin the daughter of louis baudin and louisa lorendine laurendine their youngest son alexandre antoine lamy 18041890 was the founder of the lamey family on the mississippi gulf coast alexandre antoine lamy  in a civil ritual performed in 1827 alexandre antoine lamy 18041890 married marguerite constance ladner 1812ca 1844 the daughter of johnbaptiste ladner and mariejosephe morin moran their union was blessed in the catholic church on may 4 1836 the issue of this marriage were born on dauphin island alabama  j albert lamey  18281850  william lamey  18291850  lucy lamey  18311850  arsene marie lamey  b 1834 and  philip lamey  18351880 after the demise of marguerite c lamey ca 1844 alexandre a lamey married darthula latimer 18271876 a native of indiana and the daughter of elisha latimer 17921860 and mary jane ewing 17921877 their children were edward lamey b 1845  peter abijah lamey  18471932 married  sarah h hamilton  18581933 in february 1883  antoine lamey  18491929 married  louisa rhodes wells  18481910 in august 1878  james lamey  18521870  elizabeth lamey  18521929 married  frederick   fritz hosli  18431882 in january 1871 and  william j jeff rushing  18611938 in september 1883  anna lamey  18531878 married  peter cannette  18541930 in february 1874 elise lamey 18581870 and mary lamey 1860pre 1870  philip lamey philip lamey 1837pre1907 married catherine katie hudson 1851pre1900 on october 17 1866 their children were  anthony lamey  18621938 married aline krohn post 1900  philip e dink lamey  18701953 married  annie hosli   18691949 in november 1894  zeolide lamey 18731931  married  wc parks  in may 1903  john lamey  18791946 married  elsie irma krohn  18921928  william lamey  18801945 married  rosa newman  18801908 in february 1899 and  josephine lamey  18841907 harrison county ms circuit court mrb 5 p 69 mrb 6 p 268 mrb mrb 10 p 274  philip e dink lamey philip dink lamey 18701953 and annie hosli 18691949 the daughter of henry hosli and barbara hosli 18331900 had married in harrison county mississippi in november 1894 their children were  john clifton lamey  18951971  philip e lamey ii   19001981  margaret edwina l riggle  19051980  william jasper buck lamey  19081980 and  george a lamey  19091985 harrison county ms circuit court mrb 10 p 274  lamey ferry the lamey ferry was situated very near the present day lamey bridge on the tchoutacabouffa river it was operated by antoine lamey 18491929 the son of alexandre a lamey and darthula latimer lamey antoine lamey called anthony married louisa rhodes wells 18481910 the second spouse and widow of berry wells 18121876 she was a mississippi native born of a kentucky father and missouri mother antoine lamey and louisa r wells wedded on august 21 1878 their children were ella lamey 18791880 richard lamey 18841936 and florian lamey 18881948 harrison county ms circuit court mrb 7 p 24 berry wells hailed from kentucky and had settled in eastern hancock county now harrison county circa 1836  1913 christmas eve mishaps it could have been a very sad 1913 christmas for the settlers in the area near the lamey ferry hosli road in october 1911 annie and philip lamey conveyed a strip of land to harrison county mississippi to straighten hosli road this transaction was described as beginning on the west side of the tchoutacabouffa river near the ferry landing and leaving the hosli road about fifty feet from the river thence go north for a distance of about threequarters of a mile where it will intersect said hosli road the width of the same from beginning to termination to be thirty feet all being in section 33 t6sr9w harco ms land deed bk 97 p 469  lamey s bridge and road improvement prior to 1913 there were two circuitous routes from biloxi to ramsay springs one could either travel the cedar lake road or go through jackson county to the east neither path was in a direct line to the spa in august 1913 the new road which would become mississippi highway no 15 from north biloxi to ramsay springs which would erase twelve miles from the present way was under construction fw elmer county supervisor reported that road construction in harrison county beat one and beat five were progressing well with the utilization of convict labor to grade and surface the road grading from bate s still to lamey s ferry was completed and five miles north had been surfaced on the southern route from lamey s ferry to the johnson store the stumps had been cleared and the roadbed surfaced with clay and shell a number of older roads were being widened and improved  the daily herald august 20 1913 p 1 and august 27 1913 p 8  in july 1913 the harrison county board of supervisors let a 6300 contract to the austin brothers of atlanta georgia to erect a structure across the tchoutacabouffa river to replace the lamey ferry in november 1913 board member fw elmer sr was appointed to oversee construction of the bridge  harco ms board of supervisors minute bk 10 p 274 and p 391  the steel bridge that was being erected across the tchoutacabouffa river at lamey s ferry was expected to be in operation by the first of december 1913 another bridge across hurricane creek was planned  the daily herald august 20 1913 p 1  in february 1914 annie and philip lamey sold another thirtyfoot wide strip of their land to the people of harrison county for improvements this conveyance was described as beginning at the southwest corner of p lamey s property known as hosli road thence running in a southerly direction to the tchoutacabouffa river and continuing across said river to the intersection of the aforesaid hosli road on the south side of the river in section 33 t6sr9w the above description is intended to cover what is known as  the site of lamey bridge and approaches thereto   harco ms land deed bk 108 p 47 at its april 1914 meeting the harrison county board of supervisors accepted the completed work and paid the austin brothers for the tchoutacabouffa river bridge philip lamey was appointed bridge keeper for one year and paid 30 per month for his services  harco ms board of supervisors minute bk 11 p 6 and p 10  1925 land purchase in february 1925 annie h lamey acquired an additional forty acres of land the nw 4 of the se 4 of section from jh johnson the consideration was 640 in march 1927 she and philip lamey sold to marjorie bouvier rickey that portion of the nw 4 of the se 4 of section 33 t6sr9w lying east of the tchoutacabouffa river harco ms land deed bk 156 p 206 and bk 169 p 370 in september 1903 jh johnson began acquiring land in section 33 t6sr9w when he paid george wells 240 for eighty acres the s 2 of the se 4 harco ms land deed bk 56 p 568 in june 1905 jh johnson bought from percy j wetzel for 800 eighty acres the n 2 of the se 4 of section 33 t6sr9w harco ms land deed bk 69 p 567  1952 land donations in september 1952 philip lamey began land donations to his children those receiving acreage were coot l riggle dorothy d hebert and william j lamey a description of the philip lamey donations follows   coot l riggle margaret edwina l coot riggle received thirty acres more or less being that part of the nw 4 of the nw 4 of section 33 t6sr9w lying west of mississippi highway no 57 harco ms land deed bk 359 p 305  dorothy hebert philip lamey gave dorothy hebert one acre more or less lying south of the tchoutacabouffa river in the ne 4 of the sw 4 of section 33 t6sr9w and fifteen acres more or less in the se 4 of the sw 4 of section 33 t6sr9w lying east of the tchoutacabouffa river harco ms land deed bk 359 p 306  william jasper buck lamey also in section 33 t6sr9w william j lamey 19081980 called buck was given the ne 4 of the nw 4 se 4 of the nw 4 w 2 of the ne 4 ne 4 of the sw 4 less oneacre south of the tchoutacabouffa river and the nw 4 of the se 4 less nine acres sold to marjorie bouvier rickey although not mentioned in this donation the lamey cemetery was included in the lands of buck lamey harco ms land deed bk 359 p 307  buck s will before buck lamey passed in april 1980 he legated his real property consisting of two hundred thirtyfive acres in section 33 t6sr9w to audrey cleo cruthirds lamey 19111997 his spouse his contingent beneficiary was daughter helen louise lamey moore b 1942 the buck lamey lands all in section 33 t6sr9w were described as the nw 4 of the ne 4 sw 4 of the ne 4 ne 4 of the sw 4 north of the tchoutacabouffa river se 4 of the nw 4 west of lamey bridge road and that part of the nw 4 of the nw 4 east of lamey bridge road harrison county ms chancery court case no 10074july 1980  corrected warranty deed in april 1981 the description of buck lamey s lands all in section 33 t6sr9w which were willed to his wife were corrected as follows the ne 4 of the nw 4 se 4 of the nw 4 w 2 of the ne 4 ne 4 of the sw 4 less one acre south of the tchoutacabouffa river nw 4 of the se 4 less nine acres sold to rickey east of the tchoutacabouffa river and ten acres more or less in the nw 4 of the nw 4 east of mississippi highway no 57 harco ms 1 st jd land deed bk 109 pp 607609  helen s inheritance in april 1981 audrey c lamey conveyed to herself and helen louise lamey moore as joint tenants with the right of survivorship the following lands in section 33 t6sr9w the ne 4 of the nw 4 se 4 of the nw 4 w 2 of the ne 4 ne 4 of the sw 4 less one acre south of the tchoutacabouffa river nw 4 of the se 4 less nine acres sold to rickey east of the tchoutacabouffa river and ten acres more or less in the nw 4 of the nw 4 east of mississippi highway no 57 harco ms 1 st jd land deed bk 109 pp 349350 upon audrey lamey s death in july 1997 helen l moore goff inherited the family lands in section 33 t6sr9w the lamey cemetery is situated upon this acreage  lamey cemetery 2002 in 2002 helen l moore goff has offered her two hundred plus acres of land for sale developers have been creating subdivisions in this area for years and her land is valuable because of its desirable location on the tchoutacabouffa river and its propinquity to biloxi in june 2002 she and the family decided to enlarge the lamey cemetery from its present area to a larger outline stakes have been set and the land will be surveyed soon references   ray l bellande   wellsmulholland cemetery   mississippi coast historical and genealogical society quarterly volume no 27 no 1february 1991 nat cassibry ii  early mississippi coast families   the ladner odyssey  mississippi coast historical and genealogical society quarterly special issue no 6january1988 winston deville  louisiana troops 17201770  press ville platte louisiana197 jerome lepre sc  early mississippi coast families   the cannettemoore family  mississippi coast historical genealogical society biloxi mississippi1983 jerome lepre sc  early mississippi coast families   the krohn family  lepre new orleans1989 pp 52 54 and 55 jerome lepre sc  catholic church records diocese of biloxi  volume i diocese of biloxi mississippi biloxi mississippi1991 jerome lepre sc  gulf coast genealogy the fountain family  lepre new orleans louisiana1992 joseph o manuel jr   notes on the lamey family   mississippi coast historical and genealogical society quarterly volume no 11 no 1february 1975  chancery court cases harrison county mississippi chancery court case no 10074   the last will and testament of william jasper lamey aka buck lamey   july 1980 journals the biloxi daily herald   city news parkslamey   may 16 1903 the biloxi daily herald deaths february 12 1907 the daily herald new bridges for new roadway to ramsay springs august 20 1913 the daily herald   good progress made in road work    august 27 1913 the daily herald john seymour has narrow escape in a ferry accident december 27 1913 the daily herald lamey child dies june 4 1925 p 3 the daily herald burns prove fatal to girl august 25 1928 the daily herald peter cannette dies january 13 1930 the daily herald ira hosli killed by brotherinlaw in north biloxi april 6 1932 the daily herald   ira hosli s funeral   april 8 1932 the daily herald   pb lamey dies   december 27 1932 the daily herald   tony lamey dies   july 28 1938 the daily herald   mrs annie lamey dies   october 29 1949 the daily herald   loren lamey   december 27 1963 the daily herald   mrs linda ann hebert   february 16 1981 the ocean springs record   bayou puerto a pregulf hills chronology part xiii  july 7 2000 the sun herald   fred pappy schlegel   september 23 1987 the sun herald   nell marie mckenzie   july 21 1996 the sun herald   ronald d robinson jr   january 20 1997 the sun herald   eddie john hebert sr   october 14 1997 the sun herald   samuel edward moore   july 7 2000 the sun herald   elnora joyce schlegel   july 4 2006 the sun herald the sun herald personal communications  ej hebert jr june 4 2002 helen lamey moore goff 13296 lamey bridge road june 4 2002 2283928402  william moore june 4 2002 charles simon june 11 2002 899 views  ', 0);
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donal snyder oshs1941 and james stevens bhs   2012 inductees cliff kirkland barry lyons chris taranto1961 william and shirley windham    2013 inductees doug barberbhs1969   howard dickey battlemc1990   peter roy lee elderbhs1964   kenneth lyons sr  bhs1947  dennis malpassnd1961  henry spud wieniewitzmp1970  and richard lew   wimpy wintherbhs1966   doug barber  a current sports writer at the biloxi sun herald barber has covered athletics for more than 32 years earning numerous awards for his coverage of high school college and professional athletics barber graduated from biloxi high school in 1969  howard dickey battle  a fourthround draft choice of the toronto blue jays in 1990 out of mercy cross battle ended up playing 13 seasons of professional baseball he appeared in 29 games in the mlb with the blue jays philadelphia phillies and atlanta braves battle excelled at basketball football and baseball in high school for the crusaders and turned down a football scholarship at tulane to play pro baseball  peter roy lee elder  a graduate of biloxi high elder made his mark as a baseball scout during stints with the new york yankees and san francisco giants after serving his country in vietnam elder earned five world series rings elder is still a scout for the giants  kenneth lyons sr  lyons joins his sons kenny and barry as inductees in the biloxi sports hall of fame lyons was the outstanding defensive player for biloxi high in 47 and was well known as a member of the biloxi semipro football team the galloping gaels he was also a premier player in fastpitch adult softball games held at the biloxi veteran administration fields lyons was also a volunteer coach during the 60s 70s and 80s  dennis malpass  b 1943 a graduate of notre dame malpass was the catcher of 2012 inductee chris taranto who set the national prep record with nine nohitters in 1961 malpass played football at kansas before returning to the region to play baseball at perkinston and tulane while at tulane he was named the team mvp and earned a spot on the western division allsec team he has earned a phd in chemistry and is a leader in the petrochemical industry with more than 80 us patents and technical articles in scientific journals  henry spud wieniewitz  a 1970 graduate of moss point high wieniewitz played baseball at perkinston and mississippi state before going on to coach both at mississippi state and at the prep level wieniewitz was a teacher coach administrator and director of athletics during a 30year career with biloxi public schools he is also credited for helping start the biloxi sports hall of fame  richard lew wimpy winther  a 1966 graduate of biloxi winther earned numerous accolades at bhs before going on to star at ole miss where he was named an allamerica selection while centering for archie manning winther also played in the senior bowl in 71 before being drafted by the new orleans saints he also played for the green bay packers and in the world football league read more here  http wwwsunheraldcom 201308254900538 barbersixothersinductedi    biloxi sports hall of fame 2014 inductees   joseph m joe allen decease an outstanding allround athlete joe was a member of the biloxi high 1962 state championship football team allen was best remembered for his outstanding coaching career he was the mississippi track coach of the year in 1976 and 1978 he was recognized as an exceptional leader whose organizational and communication skills ensured his success as a coach his track teams at biloxi high won two state titles  frank yankie barhanovich deceased yankie dropped out of school in 1931 after 8th grade to start earning a living in biloxi he participated in sandlot games and recreational sports before playing with a minor league baseball team in lake charles louisiana he built a successful insurance business but stayed involved in youth sports across the city he helped start the shrimp bowl was the mississippi state softball commissioner for 10 years president of the biloxi doll toy fund and served as a city councilman prior to his death in 1988 even though hurricane katrina virtually destroyed the stadium named after him it was later repurposed and redesigned by the salvation army as part of the ray joan kroc center and was rededicated in his name two years ago he was an energetic promoter of all things biloxi including bringing elvis presley to perform here  mike craft a threeyear letterman at defensive tackle for bhs in the mid1960s craft was named all big8 conference in 1966 and played in the mississippi high school all star game in 1967 he was heavily recruited by the top universities in the southeastern conference but accepted an offer from his older brother troy who was then a graduate assistant for legendary head coach thad pie vann to play at usm mike craft enjoyed an outstanding career in hattiesburg and was inducted into the usm mclub sports hall of fame last year  troy craft a twoyear letterman at defensive end for biloxi high in the early 1960s troy was standout on the 1962 big8 championship team he was a threeyear starter at usm at a time when freshmen weren t allowed to play varsity ball in college as a twoway end and was selected to play in the 1966 bluegray game he was inducted into the usm mclub sports hall of fame in 1987  rusty biloxi bomber derouen with an amateur record of 14936 derouen was one of biloxi s most successful youth boxers best known for his devastating punches during his professional career he compiled a record of 349 with 26 kos his most memorable bout was a 1994 matchup with world champion hector macho comacho the bomber fought all over the world from south africa to london to vegas he was perhaps best remembered locally for his numerous bouts inside the biloxi dome venue at the biloxi belle in 199394  richard johnston lettering in football baseball basketball and track at bhs johnston was an all big8 conference selection and named allstate in 1954 he lettered at usm from 195758 being a us marines reserve during that time and was a centerlinebacker on the undefeated 1958 national championship small college team johnston was such an outstanding player at usm that the los angeles rams drafted him after his junior year after graduation johnston turned down pro football and established a business career even more successful than his sports career  brian j kozlowski a twotime golden gloves state boxing champion kozlowski was even more impressive as a baseball player at biloxi high mississippi gulf coast community college and the university of southern mississippi he was the baseball mvp at bhs in 1980 hitting 439 in the regular season and pitching a nohitter he had a 378 career batting average at perkinston where he helped the bulldogs to a 1981 state championship at usm brian was the starting catcher for 111 of 115 games and was the leading hitter in 1984 breaking the school record for most singles in a season  jackie laird a native of bassfield laird was one of biloxi high s most successful basketball coaches compiling a career record of 436273 with an uptempo game that typically wore down teams that held an advantage in height laird won class 5a state championships in 1989 and 1990 he recorded ten seasons with at least 20 wins a former player at usm laird was inducted into the mclub sports hall of fame in 2000  anthony bo lamey although he started his athletic career in youth baseball in biloxi lamey became one of the most outstanding high school football players in city history he lettered three years at notre dame high school for charles hegwood he was a dominating blocker as a guard and a devastating tackler at linebacker he received the amos alonzo stagg award and the most valuable lineman award while also being named the gulf coast conference s most valuable lineman bo was heavily recruited and signed to play at tulane where he once again was a standout until his career was shortened by knee injuries  gregory j greg nordstrom from 8th grade through 12th nordstrom was one of the most successful high school golfers in history playing for mercy cross nordstrom won an unprecedented five consecutive individual state championships from19871992 it is a feat never accomplished before or since in the united states according to the national high school sports record book no other golfer has ever won more than four consecutive state titles in any classification  charles michael mike patrick deceased a threeyear foursport letterman in junior high patrick confined his talents to football and baseball at biloxi high while there he emerged as one of the best punters in the state earning a scholarship to mississippi state university in 1971 he set a thenschool record 84yard punt and was selected to the playboy magazine allamerican team in 1974 he signed a free agent contract with the new england patriots in 1975 and played four seasons in the nfl he kicked a team record 62yard punt his rookie year and finished his career as the no 5 ranked punter in team history  gerald joseph richards a starting center and linebacker at biloxi high from 19561958 richards was a prominent player in the infamous 1958 biloxigulfport game that ended with a bench clearing brawl that forced a disruption of the series he was named all big8 after his senior season and played in the mississippi high school allstar game he signed a scholarship to play at mississippi state but his career was interrupted by two years active duty in the navy he returned to state in 1963 and helped the bulldogs to a liberty bowl championship that year  rene joseph trochesset sr deceased a 1934 graduate of biloxi high trochesset was another of biloxi s best amateur boxers he played football at bhs and thenperkinston junior college but distinguished himself as a collegiate boxer he went undefeated and won state boxing championships at perkinston in 19361937 and won the ncaa heavyweight boxing championship at lsu in 1939  andy welter a longtime volunteer coach of biloxi youth sports since age 16 welter was a standout baseball pitcher at biloxi high mississippi gulf coast community college and southeastern louisiana a twoyear varsity letterman at biloxi welter led the indians with a 61 record and was named team most valuable pitcher his senior season in 1981 he pitched two years at perkinston with an 83 record at southeastern louisiana he led the team in wins strikeouts era and innings pitched each of his two years his career record was 158 and he was named first team all gulf star conference after his senior season  references  the biloxi d iberville press   biloxi sports hall of fame to be revivied   june 28 2012 p 1 the sun herald  biloxi sports hall of fame to add 29 members   august 15 2012 p b1 the sun herald  nominations still be accepted for biloxi sports hall   june 20 2013 the sun herald   biloxi sports hall of fame add seven members    august 11 2013 the sun herald   barber six others inducted into biloxi sports hall of fame    august 25 2013 the sun herald   biloxi sports hall of fame adds 14 new members    september 1 2014 p 1b  biloxi sports time line 1903 the buffaloes a local football squad  was preparing to play a team from pensacola and springhill ernest iler was team manager joseph kennedy team captain and the reverend dr wc lindsay referee other players were cottam champlin will luxich dolph hunter charles allabaugh fred bourdon horace redfield ed james henry treloar walter weatherby and joseph henley the biloxi daily herald january 10 1903 p 8  biloxi high school 1927 state champions   1926 the biloxi high school football squad was crowned state gridiron champions  having tied the undefeated  sunflower county agricultural high school from moorehead  at greenville mississippi on december 6 1926 by a score of 77 the game went five quarters although the indians were outweighed 24pounds per man  coach tranny lee gaddy  18941975 mississippi a m college 3sport letterman led the team coach gaddy died at jackson mississippi on october 12 1975 the daily herald december 7 1926 and october 13 1975 p a2  1927 the 1927 biloxi high school baseball team won 17 games and lost none to make a claim as state champions squad members were marcel bellande chester juanico  1928 willis carvin was named golf professional at the fernwood county club in pike county missisippi the facility has over 100 memebers and serves the residents of mccomb summit magnolia and fernwood the daily herald may 16 1928 p 2  1930 biloxi high school played mississippi s first night football game on september 26 1930 defeating the lamar county aggies 580 before a crowd of about 2000 spectattors who came from all coast points to seee this inaugral sporting event captain chester juanico led the indians the daily herald september 22 1930 p 3 and september 27 1930 p 3  1940 peter giaruso  19131997  boxing coach  at st michael s cyo is training five young biloxi fighters  joseph brosh eddie bellman marvin lofton junior dalgo and chester comeaux  joseph brosh had recenly won the southeastern championship in his 98pound weight class the daily herald september 20 1940 p 8  1942 vic s bowling alley opened in early june with mayor louis braun rolling a strike on the frist ball the eight lane facility was owned by vic passera jr  19121980    and managed by howard sheldon the influx of soldiers at keesler field was a strong impetus for erecting the facility the daily herlad june 1 1942 p 3  1960 ernest v landaiche  18951966 proprietor of  bayview lanes  on lameuse and bayview avenue opened his new bowling alley  on january 19 1960 it was formally dedicated january 3031st the daily herald january 19 1960 p 6 and january 28 1960 p 27  1973 the mississippi senior golf association held its annual tournament at the broadwater course in biloxi mississippi mickey j bellande won his 10 th senior state championship  1975 coach tranny lee tl gaddy  18951975 native of itawamba county mississippi who joined biloxi high school as head football coach and athletic director in 1926  was honored ap ril 18 1975 with a coach tl gaddy day and appointed honorary mayor of biloxi for the day  a resolution paying tribute to coach gaddy was made part of the city records and a copy placed in the biloxi high school trophy case during his years as head coach at biloxi until 1931 he brought big 8 championship sic and other honors to the school coach gaddy died at jackson mississippi on october 12 1975 he was enshrined in the mississippi the daily herald october 13 1975  biographies marcel mickey bellande  19091982  norman duplain  19302010  carroll e peck williams  19001977  marcel j bellande  marcel joseph bellande was born september 24 1909 mickey as marcel was called succeeded in athletics and business at biloxi high school in the late 1920s he excelled in football basketball track and baseball in middecember 1932 mickey graduated from spring hill college at mobile with a degree in commerce at spring hill he had an outstanding baseball career and shortly after receiving his diploma he signed a professional baseball contract with the cleveland indian organization as a shortstop his professional baseball sojourn included stints in the three i middleatlantic and new yorkpennsylvania leagues marcel bellande s greater success and fame in athletics would come in the golf world he set a mark in mississippi golf annals which may never be duplicated by being the only man to win all three mississippi amateur golf titles ie state open state amateur and state seniors mickey captured seven state senior crowns between 19641974 five national four ball senior titles of the seven years he competed at pinehurst north carolina and claimed numerous club championships along the mississippi gulf coast and new orleans he was awarded numerous honors in the sporting world among these honors are induction into the sports hall of fame of spring hill college in 1974 induction into the mississippi sports hall of fame in 1975 and also the gulf coast chapter of the national football foundation and hall of fame in 1979  the sun herald march 5 1982    biloxi high school at biloxi high school mickey bellande was a four sports participant he was an outstanding football and baseball athlete but also excelled in basketball and track in the fall of 1925 tl gaddy became the coach at biloxi high school coach gaddy was a native of newton mississippi at mississippi a m now mississippi state university he earned twelve varsity letters in the four major sports after a stint at tupelo high school gaddy came to the mississippi gulf coast to manage the sports program at the gulf coast military academy he came to biloxi after a successful sports program here tl gaddy was also an umpire in the cotton states league and history teacher  the daily herald june 20 1925 p 3    1925 mickey bellande began his high school baseball career in the spring of 1925 the team played eleven games winning six in an inauspicious start young bellande played in two games and went hitless in two trips to the plate  the daily herald may 22 1925 p 6    1926 bellande was a member of the 1926 biloxi high track team he was a fine miler and won the gulf coast region track meet in this event  the daily herald may 29 1926 p 1   in the fall of 1926  biloxi high school changed it moniker from the  yellow jackets  to the  redskins   the new school colors became maroon and white replacing the former black and gold  coach tranny l gaddy 18941975 was responsible for the change  the daily herald september 1926 p  the biloxi high school football squad was crowned state gridiron champions  having tied the undefeated sunflower county agricultural high school from moorehead at greenville mississippi on december 6 1926 by a score of 77 the game went five quarters although the indians were outweighed 24pounds per man  the daily herald december 7 1926    1927 the biloxi high indians baseball nine ended the 1927 campaign with a 140 whipping of the gulfport tigers the team posted fifteen victories and no defeats and was declared the gulf coast regional champion mickey bellande played shortstop and with carvin at second base formed a good double play tandem  the daily herald may 12 1927 p 8   won big six title and went 170 for the season  the daily herald may 30 1927 p 3   mickey bellande participated with the 1927 biloxi high track team he again ran the mile in a dual meet with hattiesburg high in april 1927 he won the event in a time of five minutes and six seconds biloxi thrashed their opponent 93 to 13  the daily herald april 30 1927 p 8   on may 23 1927 the indian track and field squad won the first annual big six conference track meet at hattiesburg the big six was composed of biloxi gulfport hattiesburg jackson laurel and meridian mickey bellande placed second in the mile run and was a member of the winning mile relay team the biloxi team was composed of freddie steinwinder granville stag foster hayward cook marcel bellande bill joyce james read william marsh bernard schwartz jose betancourt and louis saucier  the daily herald may 231927 p 3 and may 26 1927 p 8    1928 springhill college mickey bellande left biloxi with earl rain ghost mattina granville stag foster and burnett mabry for spring hill college at mobile alabama in the fall of 1928 to play football for coach barb daly they were all members of biloxi s 1926 state football championship squad the spring hill 1929 football season was very successful as they lost only one contest on the gridiron mickey was lauded by a biloxi sportswriter as follows    the plunging ability of mickey bellande and burnett mabry tore opposition lines to shreds and their defensive ability and interference work have made both invaluable cogs in the badger motor   the daily herald december 7 1929 p 2   mickey suffered a neck injury on the gridiron which ended his football career  amateur baseball   summer of 1927 played shortstop with the sablich barbers who won the 1927 biloxi city league championship in late may 1927 bellande led the league with a 688 batting average the team had won five games and lost four at this point  the daily herald may 28 1927 p 3    spring of 1928 on march 25 1928 mickey played shortstop with the sablich barbers and had two hits in five trips to the plate in their 164 win over the visiting loyola wolves of nola bellande scored three runs and committed an error  the daily herald march 26 1928 p 3   on april 8 1928 marcel bellande played in an exhibition game with a team of biloxi high school players representing the sablich barbers their foe was the gulfport tarpons a professional club of the cotton states leagueclass d based at gulfport although the biloxi boys were soundly defeated 70 by the tarpons at the new biloxi stadium bellande played errorless ball at shortstop and had two of the four hits made by his team against the professional hurler coach cotton knaupp of the tarpons lauded the young competitors and said that  bellande on short juanico on third and mattina on first looked good to me as coming ball players   the daily herald april 9 1928 p 5    summer of 1928   brookhaven mickey bellande went to brookhaven mississippi in the summer of 1928 where he managed the city golf club he returned to biloxi in late august and signed to play shortstop with the biloxi bakers at the end of the baseball season bellande was also preparing to leave for spring hill college where he was to play football in the fall  the daily herald august 25 1928 p 2    summer of 1 929 in the summer of 1929 marcel j bellande played shortstop for the biloxi sea gulls in the mississippi coast league at the completion of first half action biloxi and the cubs of ocean springs were tied for the league lead in a one game playoff held at the gulfport fair grounds on june 16 th ocean springs bested the sea gulls 53 bellande went one for four but committed an error on defense  the daily herald june 17 1929 p 6   ocean springs went on to also win the second half of league play to earn the overall league championship their season ended on september 1 st with a 3 to 2 victory over pass christian  the daily herald september 2 1929 p 3    spring 1930 mickey bellande was scheduled to make his varsity debut with the spring hill college badgers in an exhibition game against the washington nationals led by walter johnson at biloxi on march 19 1930 three of bellande s former biloxi high school teammates earl mattina granville foster and burnett mabry were also starters for the badgers from mobile rain and a holiday caused the contest to be cancelled  the daily herald march 18 1930 p 8 and march 20 1930 p 8    opelousas louisiana 1930   earl mattina bottom row third from left and mickey bellande bottom row 5th from left note springhill shirt on coach bill daly also burnett mabry may be on top row 4th from left    summer of 1930 mickey bellande played for the biloxi boosters of the mississippi coast league for half the 1930 baseball season before he and teammate earl mattina joined their spring hill coach bill daly on his semipro team at opelousas louisiana mickey collected 13 hits including 3 home runs as he batted 565 in five games for the boosters  the daily herald may 28 1930 p 8 and the daily herald january 31 1931 p 3   the biloxi booster tied with the gulfport tarpons for the first half of the 1930 mississippi coast league championship which forced a one game playoff to determine the champion the contest was played at biloxi on june 1 1930 the boosters destroyed the tarpons 176 bellande scored 2 runs drove in two runs and had 2 hits in five trips to the plate he had a bad day at shortstop as he committed three miscues  the daily herald june 2 1930 p 12   bellande and mattina s return to biloxi and the boosters was anticipated in midjuly 1930 as the local journal announced that  mickie bellande and earl mattina expected to join club in a few weeks    the daily herald july 3 1930 p 8  by july 23 rd mickey and earl were still in acadian country coach sablich and hightower were attempting to have them return to biloxi pronto with the season coming to a rapid close the biloxi boosters wanted to infuse the squad with these fine infielders  the daily herald july 23 1930 p 3   mattina and bellande the young diamond warriors arrived from louisiana to biloxi in early august 1930 and were expected to be in the lineup for the final and deciding game of the second half of the mississippi coast league the biloxi boosters were tied for the league lead with the ocean springs cubs  the daily herald august 8 1930 p 11  the deciding contest between the two nines was held at ocean springs on august 11 1930 neither first sacker earl mattina nor shortstop mickey bellande appeared in the lineup for the biloxi boosters who lost to the cubs  the daily herald august 1930    professional baseball   spring 1931 during spring training spring hill played several exhibition baseball games on the mississippi gulf coast against squads from the american association against baltimore at gulfport mickey bellande went 1 for 4 in a 31 loss he faired better in the washington nationals contest played before his friends and peers in biloxi shortstop bellande hit a homerun and two doubles driving in all his team s runs in a 73 defeat delivered by the professionals  the daily herald march 16 1931 p 3 and march 21 1931 p 3   in an interview with the times picayune  billy evans general manager of the cleveland indians optimistically related that mickey bellande s baseball skills were at a level that it was possible for him to go directly to the major leagues from college bellande had another year at spring hill college in mobile  the daily herald march 26 1931 p 8   mickey bellande leaves for cleaveland tryout  the daily herald june 1 1931 p 3   played at decatur illinois in the threei league where he batted 274 in fifty games  the daily herald march 13 1935 p 8 and the sunday timessignal zanesville ohio february 9 1947    1932 played at quincy illinois in the threei league batted 290 in 64 games had 14 doubles i triple and 6 home runs when the league was dissolved he played at williamsport pennsylvania in the new yorkpennsylvania league batted 260 in 57 games delivering 5 doubles 5 triples and one homerun  the daily herald february 10 1933 p 8 and march 13 1935 p 8    katherine ruth ann fickes on december 7 1932 in the rectory of the st john s catholic church at biloxi mickey married his high school sweetheart katherine ruth ann fickes 19112006 the eldest daughter of roscoe logan fickes 18861979 and emma christine hinricks 18881971 both illinois natives like her father kate was born at matoon illinois while mrs fickes hailed from tuscola the fickes family had come to biloxi mississippi in the fall of 1926 the result of mr fickes transfer here as manager of the commercial department of the gulf cities division of the southwestern gas and electric company the fickes family settled at 1003 west howard avenue at matoon he had been with the public utilities division of the central illinois public service company mr fickes was active in the school board and matoon lions club during his tenure there harco ms chancery court mrb 44 p 136 and the daily herald november 30 1926 p 2   kate fickes was a 1927 graduate of biloxi high school and attended mscw and arkansas state college the young couple started life in the bills apartments on reynoir street mickey planned to resume his professional baseball career in march 1933 by reporting to spring training with the new orleans pelicans of the southern league  the daily herald december 8 1932 p 2     from the timespicayune  march 10 1933 p 9    1933 when the new orleans pelicans played the washington senators in a spring training contest at biloxi in midmarch 1933 mickey bellande was in the lineup at shortstop although the pelicans lost 112 bellande had a single and drove in a run his defense was flawless as he handled ten chances without error while completing two double plays  the daily herald march 18 1933 p 6   the pelicans had acquired mickey from the cleveland indians baseball organization in 1932 he was farmedout to williamsport pennsylvania  the daily herald march 15 1933   in 1933 mickey bellande played for the toledo mud hens and was known as mike bellande jim thorpe 18871953 was a mudhen in 1921 while casey stengel 18901975 was with the club in 1926 1927 1928 1929 and 1931    1934 mickey bellande played third base at zanesville ohio in the midatlantic league zanesville won the league championship and bellande name to the league allstar team and a factor in the team s late drive to win the pennant in fact after five games in the playoff series with dayton the dayton ducks lead the zanesville greys 32 in games in the sixth game dayton led zanesville 52 in the ninth inning bellande capped a late rally with a single driving in the winning run to ties the series at 3 games all the deciding game the following eve was deja vu the ducks led the greys 31 in the eighth inning zanesville scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth to clinch the midatlantic league championship in that decisive frame the greys mickey bellande again singled and drove in the go ahead run to cap another late inning rally  the times picayune november 15 1934 and the sunday timessignal zanesville ohio february 9 1947  bellande had returned to biloxi by late september from zanesville ohio  the daily herald september 28 1933 p 3    1935 in midmarch 1935 mickey bellande left biloxi for deland florida to join the minneapolis millers of the american association for spring training bellande transferred to the millers from zanesville ohio where he played third base  the daily herald march 13 1935 p 8   in may 1935 marcel and kate bellande were residents of scranton pennsylvania earlier in the 1935 baseball season he was a member of the new orleans pelicans but joined scranton of the pennsylvanianew york league on may 5 th and hit a round tripper in his first at bat by midmay mickey was batting 325 bellande played 127 games with scranton finishing the season with a 287 batting average and fielded 956 at second base  the daily herald may 18 1935 p 2 and the sunday timessignal zanesville ohio february 9 1947    1936 marcel bellande s final season in professional baseball was at williamsport pennsylvania with the williamsport grays of the new yorkpennsylvania league he and kate had spent the winter at biloxi and arrived at williamsport in late april bellande had had an outstanding season at scranton pennsylvania in 1935 and expected a pay increase from williamsport he and manager mike mcnally 18931965 finally settled on a salary after mickey returned two contract offers unsigned mickey was over two weeks late in reporting to the team because of his contract dispute the daily herald march 25 1936 p 8 april 16 1936 p 6 and april 30 1936 p 5 mickey bellande finished the 1936 baseball season at williamsport and batted 297 in 131 games and fielded 951 at second base a business opportunity at biloxi appeared a more secure future than baseball therefore mickey terminated his professional sports career to join roy p bellande his older brother in the wholesale beer business  the sunday timessignal zanesville ohio february 9 1947    1937 residences in december 1937 mickey and kaye moved into a new house on the southwest corner of hopkins and division street at biloxi it was a fiveroom bungalow situated on a lot 60 feet by 100 feet the division street property was purchased from the metropolitan life insurance company through local realtors perkins fayard  the daily herald december 4 1937 p 6 and harco ms land deed bk 224 pp 99100    a daughter kaye bellande was born in 1946 kaye resides in three rivers michigan with her husband jim foster and twin sons brad and brian foster b 1980 jim is a hospital administrator and a biloxian in april 1951 mickey and kate bellande acquired for 35000 cash the home of alphonse j wegmann and wife on kensington drive east of kafb on the back bay at biloxi the purchase included lots 121314and a part of lot 15 of square 1 of the oak park subdivision harco ms land deed bk 341 p 508 their home on division street was bought by roy j quave for 10000 in may 1951 harco ms land deed bk 344 p 484 kate bellande acquired full ownership of their kensington home in may 1974 when mickey assigned his interest to her harco ms 2 nd jd land deed bk 48 p 348 after his demise in 1982 she bought a patio home in the evergreen subdivision near sunkist country club mrs kate bellande leased her back bay residence until she conveyed it to fred r schwan jr in june 1993 harco ms 2 nd jd land deed bk 256 pp 655656  1938 in 1938 mickey bellande joined his brother roy in the beer distributing business in biloxi he retired upon its sale in 1979 mickey was always in top physical condition as he led an active athletic life style he was capable of hooking a large game fish or shooting sub par golf at the occasion of his untimely death from brain cancer on march 5 1982 his corporal remains were interred at the southern memorial park at biloxi    amateur golf career  1940 in early may  gene yousko  19081964 medalist  beat mickey bellande  19091980 with a birdie on the last hole of their 36hole final match for the biloxi golf club championship bellande trailed youko by five strokes beginning the second eighteen holes and rallied to twice even the match  anson holley defeated robert gilly  to win the first flight and  kos jackson bested carl budinich  for 2nd flight honors  the daily herald april 29 1940 p 6 and may 6 1940 p 2    1941 1941 was an excellent year for the competitive golf game ofmarcel bellande in january he won the biloxi christmas holiday tournament with victories over wv joyce we beasley ed rankin and wheeler farish gulfport s top ball striker in late january he set the amateur scoring record at the biloxi country club firing at four under par 66 bellande had three birdies and an eagle while playing with james mustard biloxi pro ub koen ed rankin and bill beasley  the daily herald january 13 1941 p 2 and january 27 1941 p 2   in march 1941 mickey bellande won the annual stag day tournament at the biloxi golf course by shooting a par round of 70 his closest competitors were we beasley with a 75 and giles peresich who shot a score of 77 in the afternoon bellande teamed with john bolding and gus novanty in a match against club professional jim mustard and newly turned pro chick harbet from michigan with an energetic gallery in tow the fivesome played eighteen holes on a cold wintry afternoon the two professional golfer won 2up  the daily herald march 10 1941 p 2    biloxi country club 5 th annual coast amateur in midmarch mickey bellande was medalist of the 5 th annual mississippi coast amateur championship at the biloxi country club shooting a two under par 68 after besting gus novotny of chicago 8 and 6 and ben downing of lsu the 1940 western junior champion 2 and 1 bellande met former alabama amateur champion gordon smith jr of mobile in the finals he lost to smith in the 36hole final match by a 2 and 1 margin  the daily herald march 8 1941 p 5 march 10 1941 p 2 and march 11 1941 p 6   bellande was expected to be a strong contender for the great southern country club title in june clinton c blackwell local sportswriter prophetically wrote that bellande had  finally developed that confidence in himself that will make him one of mississippi s topnotch golfers   the daily herald march 10 1941 p 2    1942 gulf hills country club 6th annual coast amateur  the 1942 mississippi coast amateur tournament was held in early march at the gulf hills country club near ocean springs mississippi mickey bellande of biloxi reversed his 1941 loss in this venue to gordon smith jr of mobile as he defeated smith 2 and 1 in the finals  the timespicayune march 10 1942 p 10   1946  wheeler farrish kay bellande foster only child born in october 1946 at biloxi  1947   1948 1948 us amateur championship at the new orleans country club in midaugust 1948 marcel bellande qualified for the twohundred ten man field us amateur golf championship which was to be held at memphis in late augustseptember gardiner dickinson of the lsu golf team led the regional qualifiers in the 36hole format by followed by bellande charles rosen ii and junius j jay hebert 19231997 of lafayette julius boros fired at five under par 135 at great neck new york to win the metropolitan area regional bellande lost to james g jackson of kirkwood missouri in the first round of the match play event william willie turnesa 19142001 was the eventual winner of the 1948 us amateur with a 21 victory over raymond e barnes  the daily herald august 19 1948 p 2 and august 30 1948 p 3    1950 1950 state open champion mickey bellande began the 1950 golf mississippi championship series in midjune by competing for the mississippi amateur championship at the great southern country club at gulfport he lost in the quarter finals to youthful eddie merrins b 1934 of meridian 3 and 2 merrins was crowned champion after his victory over ham carothers of greenwood  the daily herald june 12 1950 p 8  the 1950 mississippi state open golf tournament was held in midaugust at hattiesburg mississippi in midnovember mickey bellande shared medalist honors with mr farish of gulfport and went on to win the great southern country club championship  the daily herald november 13 1950 p12    1951 in september mickey j bellande teamed with eddie merrins of meridian to play in the deep south four ball golf tournament at alexandria louisiana merrins and bellande reached the finals by besting the defending champions jimmy mcgonagill and gene vinson of shreveport they lost 2 up in the finals to jimmy coleman of jackson mississippi and lamar loe of tallulah louisiana the daily herald september 4 1951 p 6 in november mickey bellande lost to anson holley a cousin 4 and 3 while defending his great southern club championship  the daily herald november 1951 p11    1953 johnny revolta  19111991 gulf hills professional and  mickey j bellande   19091982 biloxi amateur played two birmingham alabama golfers  sam byrd  pga touring professional and  al jamison  one of alabama s top amateur golfers in a four ball match at gulf hills on march 1 1953 the revoltabellande team prevailed over the visitors the eighteenhole scores were as follows revolta68 bellande77 byrd73 and jamison 73  the daily herald march 2 1953 p 15 and the gulf coast times march 5 1953 p 1   in late october 1953 mickey j bellande won the gulf coast amateur tournament t the great southern club in gulfport mississippi he had won this event three times and lost last year to giles peresich in a playoff bellande defeated ce anderson of gulfport 4 and 3 in the 36hole finals the daily herald ocotber 26 1953 p 16  1955won mississippi state open   1956 mickey bellande defeated his cousin  anson holley for his fourth gulf coast amateur championship in november with a 5 and 4 win  on his way to vistory bellande beat arthur st amant of kafb 5 and 4 al deemie of kafb 3 and 2 and giles peresich of biloxi 4 and 2 the daily herald photo november 11 1956 p 23  1959 sunkist 5 th annual midwinter invitational champion january 2931 1959    1960 mga senior champion   1962 sunkist midwinter champion marcel bellande played in the seniors division of the 1962 sunkist midwinter championships he won by fourteen strokes over his nearest competitor if bellande had played in the open class he would have won second place  1962 mga senior champion     1963 state amateur championship held at greenwood mississippi in midjune mickey bellande state senior champion he lost 2 and 1 in the second round to brad hovious of oxford the state junior title holder  the daily herald june 15 1963 p 17    1963 mgasenior champion   1964 in january 1964 named man of the year by biloxi junior chamber of commerce  the daily timesnew january 31 1964 p 1   mickey bellande captured the sunkist midwinter invitational with a victory over c rea of meridian and memphis state university the timespicayune february 10 1964    1964 state amateur championship in midjune 1964 at the edgewater golf club in biloxi mississippi mickey bellande beat don fruge an eighteenyear old from meridian mississippi 43 in the 36hole finals for the state amateur championship fruge was the state junior champion bellande shot 68 on the first eighteen holes he had lost 1 up in 37 holes to bobby harrell of laurel in the 1962 amateur finals at hattiesburg  the clarion ledger june 15 1964 p 4      1965   1965 mga senior champion   1966 mickey j bellande w on the pinehurst senior four ball title in early march with curtis person 19101997 of memphis curtis person was one of the best amateur golfers ever he was enshrined in the tennessee hall of fame in 1971 mickey j bellande a board member of the hickory hill country club at gautier mississippi in january 1966  the ocean springs record january 27 1966 p 1   in midapril 1966 mickey j bellande shot a five under par 66 to win medalist honors in qualifying for the broadwater country club championships at biloxi he had won this honor nine times between 1941 and 1965 wheeler farish was the club champion in 1942 1945 1946 and 1948 giles peresich won in 1951 1952 and 1953  the daily herald april 20 1966 p 35   mj bellande traveled to tuscon arizona in september 1966 to participate in the usga seniors golf tournament he lost 32 to dexter daniels of winterhaven florida the daily herald september 30 1966 p 35  1967 mickey j bellande won the pinehurst senior four ball title in early march with curtis person of memphis medalist lakewood county club new orleans louisiana september 11151967  mga senior champion in october 1967 marcel bellande defeated fd copeland of newton to capture the 1967 mississippi seniors title at colonial country club in jackson mississippi bud mckinney of dallas was the defending champion  the clarion ledger october 21 1967 p 11    1968 mickey j bellande won the pinehurst senior four ball title in early march with curtis person of memphis  1969   mga senior champion   1970 medalist broadwater beach cc biloxi mississippi april 13 1970  1971dnp   1972dnp   1972 mga senior champion   1973   1973 msga senior the mississippi senior golf association held its annual tournament at the broadwater course in biloxi mississippi mickey j bellande won his 10 th senior state championship  1973 sunkist fourball   1973 metairie senior held at the prestigious metairie country club at new orleans in march medalist with a 71 in the finals he bested former tulane university football coach andy pilney 31  1974 sunkist midwinter placed second to bruce hollowell of springfield missouri hollowell shot a 210 while bellande posted a 218 for three rounds on the sunkist course  the daily herald march 4 1974 p 16    1976 7th annual broadwater fourball  mickey bellande and john o connell of new orleans placed second in the 7th annual broadwater fourball championship at the broadwater sea course at gulfport they lost to dick mcmurray and mike flanagan both from jackson mississippi the daily herald april 16 1976 p b2  1978 sunkist spring festival in late april  mickey bellande and mike magee captured the 1978 sunkist spring festival at biloxi in a sudden death playoff against anthony dartezphil rothemel and fred demourelle and hf campbell the daily herald april 24 1978 p b5  avid sportsman hunting dogs at cates in jackson county mississippi  2006 kate fickes bellande expired at biloxi mississippi on october 6 2006  references    1900 the biloxi daily herald   birth   september 29 1909  1920s the daily herald   biloxi high team has good average   may 22 1925 the daily herald   gaddy coach biloxi high   june 20 1925 the daily herald  the daily herald   biloxi wins dual track meet from hattiesburg hi   april 30 1927 the daily herald   graduation awards   may 29 1926 p 1 the daily herald   gas company commercial manager arrives   november 30 1926 the daily herald   biloxi injuns add big six crown to titles   march 30 1927 the daily herald   biloxi indians cop title by victory over gulfport   may 12 1927 the daily herald   biloxi school adds track title to finish season   may 23 1927 p 3 the daily herald   first big six conference champions photo   may 26 1927 p 8 the daily herald   bellande lead sin biloxi city league batting 688   may 28 1927 p 3 the daily herald   biloxi indians run wild over moss pointers 440   october 10 1927 p 3 the daily herald   barbers take loyola team   march 26 1928 p 3 the daily herald   high schoolers play hard but lose to finny tribe   april 9 1928 the daily herald   mick bellande returns   august 25 1928 the daily herald   spring hill coming with former biloxi high stars   march 22 1929 p 12 the daily herald   biloxi and ocean springs to meet in titular title   june 10 1929 p 5 the daily herald   ocean springs wins first half championship title   june 17 1929 p 6 the daily herald   ocean springs is champion by winning in both halves   september 2 1929 p 3 the daily herald   four biloxians valuable cog in spring hill machine   december 7 1929 p 2 the daily herald     august 25 1928 the daily herald     august 25 1928 the daily herald     august 25 1928  1930s the daily herald   spring hill college to use four biloxian against washington   march 18 1930 the daily herald   exhibition game called off team leaving tonight   march 20 1930 the daily herald   tarps and boosters finish on top first half standing   may 26 1930 the daily herald   pos bertucci wins first half individual batting   may 28 1930 the daily herald   boosters beat tarpons for first half league honors   june 2 1930 p 12 the daily herald   covering the coast   july 3 1930 p 8 the daily herald   covering the coast   july 23 1930 p 3 the daily herald   booster are reinforced with mattina and bellande  august 8 1930 p 11 the daily herald   covering the coast   october 21 1930 the daily herald   fred marberry ready to work sunday against louisville bellande stars while  spring  hill loses to washington 73   march 21 1931 p 3 the daily herald   covering the coast   march 26 1931 p 8 the daily herald   bellande leaves for tryout with cleveland club   june 1 1931 p 3 the daily herald   bellande and powers with toledo mud hens who meet baltimore and washington   march 19 1932 the daily herald   bellande gets double   march 25 1932 p 6 the daily herald   bellandefickes   december 8 1932 the daily herald   bellande sold to minneapolis club   february 4 1935 p 6 the daily herald   covering the coast   february 10 1933 p 8 the daily herald   biloxi boy in lineup   march 15 1933 the daily herald   atlanta looks like team to beat in southern loop   march 18 1933 p 6 the daily herald   covering the coast   september 28 1933 p 3 the daily herald   bellande leaves for spring camp   march 13 1935 the daily herald   bellande making good   may 18 1935 the daily herald   bellande holdout with williamsport   march 25 1936 p 8  the daily herald   bellande returned unsigned papers   april 16 1936 the daily herald   arrive at williamsport   april 30 1936 the daily herald   mickey bellande back   september 21 1936 the daily herald   bellandes in new home   december 4 1937 the times picayune   probable utility man for pelicans  photo     march 10 1933 the times picayune   bellande on allstar 9   november 15 1934  1940s the daily herald   gene yousko and mickey bellande in finals of tourney   april 29 1940 the daily herald   gene yousko wins over bellande in finals of tourney   may 6 1940 the daily herald   bellande winner of biloxi golf tourney   january 13 1941 the daily herald   bellande sets new amateur mark at biloxi golf club   january 27 1941 the daily herald   bellande pace setter in stag golf tournament   march 10 1941 the daily herald   marcel mickey bellande shoots sub par round to capture medalist honors   march 8 1941 the daily herald   mickey bellande and gordon smith in 36hole finals of biloxi country club   march 10 1941 the daily herald   ramblin round   march 10 1941 the daily herald   gordon smith captures biloxi golf crown   march 11 1941 the daily herald   farish bellande win golf match   september 24 1946 p 5 the daily herald   bellande subject of ohio article   february 28 1947 the daily herald   pascagoula new coast loop club   february 28 1947 the daily herald   mickey bellande qualifies in us amateur tourney   august 19 1948 the daily herald   bellande loses in golf tourney  us amateur at memphis     august 30 1948  the timespicayune    biloxi medal honors won by bellande  march 8 1941 the timespicayune    mickey bellande defeats gordon smith 2 and 1 in coast amateur   march 10 1942 the sunday timessignal zanesville ohio   timelyhitting mickey bellande now is successful business man at biloxi   february 9 1947  1950s the daily herald   teenage golfer wins state amateur title   june 12 1950 the daily herald   bellande wins in state open golf tournament   august 14 1950 the daily herald   bellande farish share medalist honors in tourney   november 13 1950 the daily herald   mickey bellande merrins lose out in la golf meet    september 4 1951 the daily herald   defending champ  mj bellande  given skids in golf tournament   november 1951 the daily herald   gulf coast team wins four ball match sunday   march 2 1953 the daily herald   bellande claims amateur title   october 26 1953 the daily herald   prep for state open   august 19 1956 p 18 the daily herald    mickey bellande wins gulf coast amateur golf crown   november 12 1956 p 23 the gulf coast times   johnny revolta mickey bellende  sic  foursome winners   march 5 1953 p 1  1960s the clarion ledger   mickey bellande wins first amateur open   june 15 1964 the clarion ledger   bellande wins in seniors   october 21 1967 the daily herald   mickey bellande claims seniors golf event at sunkist country club   january 16 1961 p 12 the daily herald   bellande defeated in state amateur   june 15 1963 p 17 the daily herald   bellande is medalist in state amateur   june 12 1964 the daily herald   bunts boots and bounces   june 13 1964 the daily herald   bellande is state amateur golf champ   june 15 1964 the daily herald   bunts boots and bounces   september 14 1964 the daily herald   gulf coast golf   april 20 1966 the daily herald   bellande defeated thursday   september 30 1966 the daily herald   golf on the gulf   march 5 1969 the daily timesnews   man of the yearbellande  january 31 1964 p 1 the ocean springs record   board members are elected at hickory hills   january 27 1966 p 1  the state timesadvocate  baton rouge   set course record  february 5 1962 the timespicayune    bellande wins in midwinter   february 10 1964 the timespicayune    mickey bellande wins miss amateur golf title   june 15 1964  1970s the daily herald   bellande is nominee for sports hall   january 30 1973 p 19 the daily herald   hollowell wins at sunkist  march 4 1974 p 16 the daily herald   bellande holds impressive mark   september 28 1974 p c4 the sun herald   bellande lee to be inducted into hall   february 9 1975 p b6 the daily herald   mcmurray flanagan win broadwater fourball title   april 16 1976 p b2 the daily herald   bellandemagee capture sunkist tourney crown   april 24 1978 p b5  the sun herald   suds story   august 26 1979 p c1  1980s the sun herald   prominent biloxian bellande dead at 72   march 5 1982 the sun herald   a great man   august 7 1988 p d1 the sun herald   bellande cup starts saturday   november  the sun herald  the sun herald  the sun herald   1990s   2000s the sun herald  mrs katherine kate bellande   october 9 2006 p a4     norman duplain norman duplain  19302010 age 80 years of biloxi died at memorial hospital in gulfport on september 21 2010 a mass of christian burial will be held at 300 pm on friday sept 24 at our lady of fatima catholic church in biloxi with visitation at 200 pm prior to the service a native of biloxi mississippi norman was born on august 8 1930 to the late laurent duplain and marie louise duplain savoy as a boy he served at the altar at saint michael s catholic church he graduated from biloxi high school where he lettered four years in football basketball and track and was named best best boy athlete an all big eight running back norman also set a state record and won the mississippi state championship in the 440yard dash he was later inducted into the biloxi sports hall of fame norman earned a football scholarship to mississippi state university where he lettered four years in football and track and was a member of kappa sigma fraternity norman remained an active member of the m club and an enthusiastic bulldog fan for the rest of his life he is best remembered for an 85 yard record kickoff return in honor of his daughter s birth and he was a member of state s sec recordsetting mile relay team in 1997 the all american football foundation presented norman the unsung hero award norman received his degree in general education in 1953 and was commissioned into the army where he served as a paratrooper with the distinguished 508 airborne regimental combat team he quarterbacked his army post team to three championships and was named to the allarmy team three times as coach and captain of the post rifle team norman won two excellence in marksmanship awards legs and led his soldiers to a national championship after his service norman operated successful businesses in belzoni where he is still fondly remembered for his smooth moves on the dance floor when camille struck in 1969 norman s love of biloxi and her people led him to spearhead the delta s efforts to donate and deliver truckloads of supplies in the 1970 s he returned to biloxi as owner and operator of hugo s restaurant and he later helped bring gaming to the coast as executive host for the president casino an outstanding golfer norman won numerous golf tournaments including two humphreys county country club championships the annual yugoslavian invitational championship in biloxi the gold medal classic in las vegas the american cancer golf tournament in orlando fl and six mississippi senior olympic championships a devoted member of the elks club and the fleur de lis society norman loved to play pool and cards and enjoyed entertaining friends and family with card tricks and sleight of hand when katrina struck norman at age 75 and enjoying retirement stepped up again and used his ingenuity and culinary skills to provide hot meals to his neighbors as they rebuilt their homes the city of biloxi recognized his efforts with a certificate of appreciation through adversity and joy norman is most remembered by his family and friends for his ready grin his wonderful cajun cooking and his fierce loyalty to those he loved in addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his daughter christy duplain ware his soninlaw delaney ware of clinton and stepdaughter carol ann welch and her husband mark survivors include his wife lavada duplain daughter mary love wynne and her husband larry of alexandria va stepdaughter cheryl glover and her husband billy of memphis tn stepson jimmy ellis and his wife gwen of biloxi grandchildren regan wynne of los angeles ca elizabeth landers of springfield va christian ware and his wife mindy of clinton and brandon ware of virginia beach va stepgrandchildren kim madigan carey welch and michael mceachern a greatgrandson and two stepgreatgranddaughters the family appreciates the outpouring of prayers and support and wishes to thank the doctors and staff at memorial for the wonderful care and kind attention that was shown to norman over the past weeks memorials may be made to the american cancer society or st vincent de paul of our lady of fatima arrangements are by riemann family funeral home biloxi references the sun herald norman duplain september 23 2010     carroll e williams carroll everitt peck williams  19001977 was born at biloxi mississippi on november 7 1900 to carroll cal williams 181959 and anna cox 18771941 a native of bayou la batre mobile county alabama his siblings were elmer dominic williams 18981985 m cornelia champagne irma augusta williams m george j sablich james e williams 19061979 m lydia snookie duffel stanley 19161992 mae williams 1911 m horace s williams 19192007 and bernard williams 19141984 peck williams married ophelia langlinais 1995 a native of youngsville lafayette parish louisiana parents of marion wiliams roland williams glenn j williams and beverly jane williams m ivan pancho kovacevich 19281986  references  the daily herald     19 p the daily herald     19 p the daily herald     19 p the daily herald     19 p the daily herald     19 p the daily herald   ce williams noted biloxian dies at age 76   october 23 1977 the daily herald     19 p the daily herald     19 p  the sun 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rosa pria 18731945 appear to have been the first of the 20th century italian expatriates to arrive at st martin probably about 1902 they immigrated to the united states in 1894 from palermo sicily his brother alberto nunzio terretta 18681954 came to america in 1897 before coming to jackson county mississippi the terretta brothers lived at brooklyn new york their parents were antonio terretta 18371927 and catherine giaccona 18391930 who must have joined them in jackson county after 1910 frank terretta and rosa pria had one adopted son anthony terretta 19131996 who was born in louisiana rosa married anthony rodriguez 18551928 after her husband died in june 1917 tony rodriguez had been wedded to josephine miller 18611914 the daughter of george barney miller c 18201860 and marie delphine bouzage b 18231860 josephine was the mother of amelia r fountain 18791949 daniel rodriguez 18851964 and augustine r fountain 18871958 rosa pria outlived several other husbands and died at independence louisiana after ww ii her remains were interred at tangipahoa parish in july 1903 frank terretta bought five acres of land near miguel rodriguez and eugene bosarge in section 15 t7sr9w from louis raymond anthony lepoma 18661923 and tony terretta 18371927 were his partners included in the land trade were lots 57 of the francis fountain tract 1 lepoma was residing at st charles parish louisiana as late as april 1910 when laz lopez 18771918 acquired these tracts from them frank terretta also purchased five acres of land from samuel m tracy 18471920 on the east side of the old martin fountain tract in february 19102 he planted pecan trees here when a small nursery grown tree cost about seventyfive cents later peter arnold bought the orchard and harvested 4000 pounds of pecans in july 1911 the terretta brothers bought ten acres of forested land from jacob husley 18631948 along the west side of reynoir road now brittany 3 anthony lepoma 18661923 who was married to maria terretta 18831941 the sister of frank and nunzio terretta bought the west five acres of this tract in november 1915 it fronted on race track road  lepoma anthony lepoma 18661923 was born at naples italy in the old country the lepoma name may have been spelled lipuma immigrated to usa in 1890 he met maria terretta 18831941 a sicilian in new york they resided in michigan and louisiana laplacekenner area where he worked in animal husbandry the lepomas arrived at st martin circa 1911 in 1920 tony lepoma made his livelihood as a fisherman he and mary had a very large family ross lepoma 18991963 anthony lepoma jr 19001926 roy lepoma 19051963 sam lepoma joe lepoma 19071957 lee r lepoma 19091959 jeanette l landry 19101978 catherine l stiglets frances l monteleone katherine lepoma bellew b 1913 josephine l vassalli 19151963 madeline l lanz 19171963 james lepoma 19201945 and vincent lepoma 19231975 the lepoma children were born at new york louisiana and mississippi tony lepoma jr 1900 1926 operated a small store in the front yard of his home on the east side of reynoir brittany mrs mary terretta lepoma commenced the st joseph altar in the st martin community this was a sicilian custom and an annual fete was held on march 19th to honor st joseph the patron saint of carpenters during the middle ages a drought and then famine brought the people of sicily to their knees praying to st joseph for relief st joseph had provided the christ child bread and they wanted him to do likewise for them if their prayers were answered the suffering sicilians promised to share food with the poor their prayers were answered the st joseph altar is built by the men the women prepare seafood pasta vegetables sesame seed cookies and fig cakes italian bread is baked in the forms of crosses st joseph s staff and other symbols of this holy occasion the food to be divided among those in need is placed on the altar which is decorated with flowers and candles the green fava bean is also served when dried roasted and blessed it is transformed into the lucky bean tradition relates that you will never be broke as long as your person carries the lucky fava bean after mrs lepoma passed on her daughter catherine stiglets continued the tradition at her home today mrs lepoma s granddaughter janice l fountain and her sisterinlaw jackie landry prepare the st joseph s altar at the lee landry home in the st martin community alberto nunzio terretta 18681954 was married to maria gagliano 18681954 also a native of italy their three children catherine t galiano 1900c 1975 lucy t cannette 19031973 and anthony joseph terretta 19072005 were born at brooklyn new york at brooklyn nunzio terretta made his livelihood cleaning ships boilers he became dissatisfied with the work there and came south to new orleans  anthony j terretta  19072005 the oldest child catherine terretta married joseph galiano who resided in the vieux carre and sold produce at the french market lucy terretta married julius cannette 18971983 and they resided at st martin anthony joseph terretta was married to mona louise khayat 19091973 of biloxi mona was the daughter of assad a khayat 18751929 and mona butrous 18781922 both syrian immigrants mona was the sister of eddie khayat 19111993 who served on the jackson county board of supervisors for thirtytwo years after her demise anthony wedded the widow lynn v mayo carr 19192006 a native of clarke county mississippi mona went to hollywood in the early 1930s and played minor roles in several motion pictures she was in the lives of a bengal lancer starring gary cooper in 1935 joseph giametta  18571935 biloxi cemeteryoctober 2012 giametta giuseppe joseph giametta 18571935 and camella terretta 18681944 arrived in the united states from canada in 1915 mrs giametta was a twin sister to nunzio terretta the giamettas had immigrated to canada in 1895 their children anna borne giametta m beaugez 18981986 charles giametta 19001970 m theresa decarlo 19011937 catherine giametta m dauro 19041970 pauline giametta m dauro 19061970 and josephine giametta m fountain 19071982 were born in canada joseph giametta acquired a small tract of land on race track road east of the trochesset strip from joseph schmid in july 1915  charles giametta  19001970 biloxi cemetery october 2012 in 1931 charles giametta bought a lot on the east side of his father s land adjacent to the trochessets he was married olena cannette 19001920 who died of the pandemic spanish influenza after her demise giametta wedded theresa decarlo 19011937 of new orleans who died in childbirth his last wife was josephine chiniche giametta moved to bay st louis circa 1945 where he worked for the l n railroad as a bridge tender these italians families worked very hard in their fields which they had cleared of pine trees and stumps these sons of the mediterranean fertilized with a mulch made from decaying shrimp hulls the hulls were obtained from the refuse piles at the seafood factories along the north shore of back bay at biloxi they also used horse manure gathered at the stables in biloxi and the dried droppings of stock animals which roamed the area these immigrant farmers grew vegetables and fruitsweet potatoes beets tomatoes okra peppers okra corn shallots garlic beans gourds cantaloupes figs pumpkins sugar cane etc they bought some of their seeds from the quave store on the west end in addition they raised some livestock particularly goats from whose rich milk they drank and made cheese after the crop matured and was harvested the italian men loaded it in horse drawn wagons and headed south to biloxi here they peddled their fresh organic produce along the city streets sweet potatoes went for 100 per bushel basket and okra for a nickel a dozen the terrettas didn t own a scale to weigh their green wares it was common to see mr nunzio terretta with his stripped umbrella sitting high on the seat of his wagon crossing the old wooden back bay bridge his son anthony terretta who was born in 1907 and presently resides at pascagoula relates a story about his father and uncle joseph giametta  the housewives of biloxi called my father nunzio sweetie peppa he spoke broken english and would cry sweeta peppa as his produce rig rolled through the dirt and shell roads of the working class neighborhoods of biloxi his brotherinlaw joseph giametta spoke very little english his produce wagon followed terretta s when nunzio would announce his presence to the neighborhood with his calling card sweeta peppa joe would follow with mea too ah  on his return to st martin nunzio terretta would kindly stop and give grateful school children who were heading home from their classes a ride in his hopefully empty produce wagon the italian families were self reliant they baked their own bread dried tomatoes to prepare tomato sauce made pear and blackberry wine and brewed a malt beer occasionally they would take the excursion train to new orleans for indigenous provisions at the quality grocery store on decatur street olive oil dried figs and five pound boxes of spaghetti were purchased christmas was often celebrated with an undecorated pine tree their children received apples and oranges as gifts in good times a small wooden toy might appear under the tree mrs terretta made small cakes in the shape of crabs and shrimp filled with figs some of the italian women worked in the local seafood factories they would rise in the wee hours of the morning with the factory whistles blaring and walk miles from their homes on race track road to their jobs on back bay some worked at the quave factory in north biloxi descendants of all three families still reside in the st martin community with the lepoma name being the most ubiquitous  references  the daily herald    charles giametta  may 23 1970 p 2 the daily herald    former biloxian in picture march 2 1935  p 2 the timespicayune    st joseph s celebration has roots in sicilian culture   march 9 1986 p 5 personal communication viola m batiaseptember 1996 toney terretta st martinseptember 1996 anthony terretta pascagoulaseptember 1996 lynn mayo carr terretta pascagoulaseptember 1996 tony lepomaseptember 1996 pauline demetryoctober 1996  bassbasso vincent bass  18181915 was born at trani on the adriatic sea married bridget clancey  18321910 on may 5 1871 in harrison county mississippi children  francis paul bass  18631930 m rosa dwyer  irene bass  18651941 m michael j banks 18591941  eran   bass  18671902 m nixon  francis p bass francis paul bass  18631930 married rosa dwyer children  william bass  18901956  vincent paul bass  18911947  agnes adele bass  19041977 m anthony bernard rousseau 19081951  frank paul bass jr  19041977  references  the biloxi daily herald    local and personal   january 30 1900 p 8 the biloxi daily herald    city news   february 28 1900 p 8 the daily herald   mrs bridget bass   february 21 1910 the daily herald   vincent bass is claimed by death at ripe old age   august 20 1915 the daily herald    man is crushed beneath wheels of fire enginetony rousseau fatally injured en route to fire   march 14 1951 p 1 the daily herald    mrs agnes rousseau   december 8 1969 p 2 the daily picayune    a patient s leap   january 26 1900 p 10  capuano  capuano tomb 6th additionbiloxi cemetery jennie coci 18631941 was born at travinia italy and came to america circa 1870 eventually settling at new orleans she married luigi capuano 18621908 also an italian immigrant at nola on december 28 1902 they were the parents of three children  corinne capuano  19041962 m christopher a tucei 18941949  francis elizabeth capuano   19051972 m sidney e manuel 19011962 and  philip j capuano  19061968 m bessie toups 190720021910 orleans parish lousiana federal census t624521 p 3b ed 91 in 1908 the capuano family was domiciled at 3119 tulane avenue at the corner of lopez street here they operated a retail grocery store and saloon after the demise of luigi capuano in early february 1908 the family fortunes declined rapidly the acme of their misfortune was the destructive conflagration that occurred in june 1908 adjacent to the capuano businesses was a laundry run by wah kee a chinese the fire commenced here and jumped to the capuano property and damaged the building and totally destroyed their stock and goods mrs capuano and her children narrowly escaped the burning structure their loss was estimated at 3600 but was partially insured the daily picayune june 9 1908 p 5 by late july 1908 mrs capuano and her son applied for a judgement of bankruptcy in the us district court their liabilities were 6218 and assets 4900 the daily picayune july 26 1908 p 7 in 1911 mrs capuano relocated her family to biloxi mississippi she married nicholas martino 18601942 an italian immigrant widower shoemaker the martino family lived and worked on delauney street in biloxi children  southern memorial parkbiloxi mississippi  philip j capuano philip joseph capuano   19061968 was born on september 26 1906 at new orleans louisiana he came to biloxi in his youth and made his livelihood as proprietor and manager of a barbershop in downtown biloxi the daily herald february 21 1968 p 2 philip married bessie marie toups  19072002 born may 29 1907 at westwego jefferson parish louisiana in harrison county mississippi on march 16 1924 bessie marie toups was the daughter of ellis toups and dorcina foret harrison co mississippi circuit court mrb 35 p 557 and the sun herald october 16 2002 p a6 philip and bessie marie capuano resided at 530 porter avenue in biloxi here they reared their three children  louis ellis capuano  19252005 m jeanette s cerinich b 1928  philip j capuano jr  19282009 m victoria ray  doris rita capuano m christopher j lawrence and fred l ison 19141999 and joseph capuano  19351935 harrison co mississippi circuit court mrb 35 p 557 philip j capuano was a member of the italianamerican society and had been president at one time philip was active in the knights of columbus alhambras and the barber s union the daily herald february 21 1968 p 2 mr capuano was survived by his spouse a daughter mrs fred ison at stone mountain georgia two sons philip j capuano jr and louis e capuano both of biloxi a sister mrs frances elizabeth capuano manuel 19051972 widow of sydney e manuel d 1962 of biloxi and 13 grandchildren bradfordo keefe funeral home of biloxi directed the capuano funeral a mass was said for the repose of his soul at nativity bvm catholic church with internment in the biloxi cemetery sic the daily herald february 21 1968 p 2 and february 23 1968 p 2  children louis e capuano louis ellis capuano sr 19252005 age 79 years of biloxi ms died friday january 14 2005 in slidell louisiana mr capuano was a native and lifelong resident of biloxi he was retired from liberty national life insurance company and served in the u s navy during ww ii he was a lifelong member of nativity b v m catholic cathedral and a member of the italianamerican club he attended biloxi public schools during his retirement years he enjoyed photography recording weddings and special events mr capuano was a beloved husband father and grandfather   preceding mr capuano in death was his daughter stephanie capuano 19562000 and his parents philip capuano sr and bessie toups capuano survivors include his wife of 57 years jeanette cerinich capuano of biloxi a daughter laurie capuano herring and her husband jody of picayune three sons louis e capuano jr and his wife linda of santa rosa ca peter p capuano and his wife karen and nick j capuano and his wife kathy all of gulfport a sister doris ison of lawrenceville ga his brother philip capuano jr of biloxi twelve grandchildren dawn capuano brumfield christie capuano lisa capauano tabor louis capuano iii alarra capuano nelson joseph capuano paul capuano peter capuano ellen capuano jason balius justin herring and mark herring and six greatgrandchildren chad brumfield caitlin brumfield locklin balius kylee capuano tyler herring and paityn herring visitation will be sunday january 16 2005 from 6 to 9 pm at the howard avenue chapel of bradfordo keefe funeral homes in biloxi mass of christian burial will be monday at nativity bvm catholic cathedral at 12 noon where friends may visit one hour before service time entombment will follow in southern memorial park the sun herald january 16 2005 p a8  references  the daily herald mrs martino dies july 28 1941 the daily herald n martino dies january 5 1942 the daily herald philip capuano february 21 1968 the daily herald capuano rites february 23 1968 the daily picayune capuano february 9 1908 the daily picayune no clue to origin of fire june 9 1908 the daily picayune bankruptcy july 26 1908 the sun herald fred l ison november 1 1999 the sun herald stephanie j capuano march 22 2000 the sun herald bessie capuano october 16 2002 the sun herald louis e capuano sr january 16 2005 the sun herald philip j capuano jr may 17 2009   august corso family august corso  18731943 was born on april 24 1873 at taormina messina province sicily he arrived at new orleans from palermo sicily on may 15 1889 his known siblings that came from sicily from taormina are  josephine corso  18781961 m john fallo 18691952  salvador corso sr  181957 m ada ford 18761956 and corso m nancy verges 18731900 au gust married lena runfalo 18771951 august and lena left new orleans after 1900 and settled at 510 lameuse street at biloxi mississippi here he made his livelihood as a wholesale produce merchant and retail merchant on april 11 1916 at biloxi august corso declared his intention to become an american citizen he was naturalied on june 21 1919 at biloxi mississippi their children were  salvadore j corso  18961952  anna corso  18971979  francis corso  19031994 m albert pickard 19051979  frank corso  19051945  joseph august corso  19071954 m marjorie kulivan 19131994  anthony j corso  19101987 m helen knox 19181972  children salvadore j corso   francis corso francis corso  19031994 was born august 14 1903 at biloxi mississippi she married albert e pickard  19051979 on december 2 1925 in harrison county mississippi children albert francis pickard m julia maria allen harrison co mississippi circuit court mrb 37 p 400 francis died on july 27 1994 she was preceded in death by her spouse albert e pickard who passed on 1979 the sun herald july 28 1994 p a2  frank corso   joseph a corso joseph august corso  19071954  helen knox corso anthony j corso anthony j corso  19101987 married helen knox 19181972 the daughter of fred knox and helen fountain in harrison county mississippi on january 23 1937 they resided at 711 caillavet street in biloxi where they reared three children anthony j corso jr b 1943 glen f corso m sheila ann wathern and lana kay corso m jerry herbert weiss harrison co mississippi circuit court mrb 47 p 470  references  the daily herald   august corso dies   december 17 1943 the daily herald   mrs corso dies   october 1 1951  the daily herald   joseph corso dies   february 26 1957  the daily herald   helen knox corso   february 21 1972  the sun herald   marjorie kulivan corso   july 6 1994 the sun herald   francis corso pickard   july 28 1994 the timespicayune   corso   july 4 1954  southern memorial park frank p corso family frank paul corso 18981986 a native of trapani italy the son of mr and mrs leonardo corso in 1908 he immigrated to america arriving at new orleans louisiana frank was naturalized at biloxi mississippi on february 20 1922 and received certificate no 1511918 southern district courtsouth mississippi petition of naturalization no 289 mr corso was educated at new orleans and brookhaven mississippi he came to biloxi in 1919 from mobile alabama and began a wholesale cigar and tobacco business in 1924 starting with a small warehouse and one truck frank p corso married pearl agnesharvey 19011989 a native of north biloxi mississippi in harrison county mississippi he was named biloxi s outstanding citizen for 1956 the daily herald january 1 1957 p 1  linda sue thornton  19392014 and jimmy corso  19351990  james c corso  james c jimmy corso 19351990 was born at biloxi mississippi to frank paul corso 18981986 a native of trapini italy and a 1908 immigrant to america who arrived a nola and pearl harvey 19011989 a native of north biloxi mr corso was the president of frank p corso inc a local vending company which he had been employed by for more than thirtyfive years he attended notre dame high school and spring hill college mobile alabama and the harvard business school in cambridge massachusetts jimmy was a member of the gulf coast carnival association and ruled the 1980 carnival as king iberville he was a member of the biloxi elks lodge the biloxi yacht club and nativity bvm catholic church jimmy corso married linda sue thornton 19392014 in harrison county mississippi on november 18 1961 they were the parents of three children james c corso jr m joan marie knox victoria faith corso m michael edward hart and paulette hope corso m kevin scott mcqueen harrison county mississippi circuit court mrb 120 p 324 james c corso was preceded in death by his parents and a brother frank p corso jr 19311990 he was survived by his spouse three children and two sisters bessie marie corso m mr caluda of nola and elizabeth liz ann corso m john schappert joachim jr and stephen blake knox a grandson riemann memorial funeral home of biloxi directed mr corso s funeral services which included a service at our mother of sorrows catholic church in biloxi followed by internment in the southern memorial park cemetery at biloxi mississippi linda sue thornton corso died on january 4 2014 references  the daily herald   lions loving cup presented frank p corso   january 1 1957 p 1 the daily herald   salvador corso sr   may 24 1957 p 2 the sun herald   president of biloxi vending company dies in pascagoula   february 25 1990 p b2  fallo family john fallo and josephine corso  biloxi cemetery september 8 2012  john fallo  18691952 was born in new orleans to joseph fallo and josephine fallo 18501917 a native of ustica italy he married josephine corso  18781961 a native of taormina palermo province sicily they moved to biloxi mississippi circa 1905 children  emile fallo m angelina diliberto  salvadore joseph fallo  19021942  jacob j jake fallo  19061990 m eva borries inez ramsey 19081982 and mary price pruett  anthony j fallo  19071989 m ruth wentzell 19091965 and yvette fountain camp  john b fallo  and dominic a fallo  19111996 m lucille slay 19122005   john jack a fallo john anathonar fallo  19282014 was born in biloxi on february 9 1928 jack went to be with the lord on june 2 2014 jack and his wife started and ran the family business fallo s dry cleaners in ocean springs for 55 years jack was a wonderful husband to paula fallo married for 64 years and a supportive father to sons mike and jeff family and friends were his highest priority in addition to his family jack also enjoyed socializing with friends over coffee he had strong religious convictions and was a member of saint francis xavier seelos catholic church in biloxi paula baudry fallo jack was preceded in death by the love of his life and wife of 64 years  paula baudry fallo 19292013   and their son  michael t fallo  he is survived by his son jeffrey c fallo sr and his wife karen of vancleave jack leaves six grandchildren including jc fallo and his girlfriend lizz chambers of ocean springs michelle rene fallo gibson and her husband chuck of wichita ks brandy fallo cunha and her husband john of saucier jeffrey fallo jr serving in the  us navy  brittany fallo and her boyfriend kyle nelson of vancleave and kolby fallo of vancleave in addition to great grandson eric of wichita stepgreatgranddaughter jackie cunha of saucier and many nieces and nephews the fallo family would like to thank everyone for your prayers thoughts and well wishes a mass of christian burial will be held at 10am on saturday june 7 2014 at saint francis xavier seelos catholic church in biloxi friends may visit 9am until 10am interment will follow at crestlawn memorial park in ocean springs the howard avenue chapel of bradfordo keefe funeral home is in charge of arrangements  references  the daily herald   mrs  josephine fallo  esposito is claimed by death   june 18 1917 the daily herald   salvador corso sr   may 24 1957 p 2 the sun herald   paula fallo   february 18 2013 the sun herald   jack anthonar fallo   june 5 2014 the sun herald   businessman  jack a fallo  was jazz drummer on weekends   june 7 2014  martino   mattina bartlo mattina   bartlo mattina  18581943 was born in italy he married catherine vergets 18651920  references  the daily herald bartlo mattina dies january 3 1942 p 2     randazzo   runfalo   references   taranto family biloxi cemetery   image made august 2012 the taranto family of biloxi mississippi may have been founded by anthony taranto 18571927 and rosalea fallo 18541932 both born at ustica italy they arrived at new orleans lousiana bertween 1865 and 1870 their children were josephine taranto 18781967 m lawrence romeo 18701932 concetta taranto b 1880 salvador taranto 18811939 john taranto b 1883 frances rose taranto 18861954 m saverio j tedesco and olivia taranto 18981904  josephine taranto josephine josefina taranto 18781967 was born at new orleans louisiana on october 15 1878 she married lawrence lorenzo romeo 18701932 in harrison county mississippi on june 10 1896  harrison co mississippi circuit court mrb 11 p 16 lawrence romeo was born to antonio romeo 18231898 and angeline romeo 18281910 on november 11 1870 at riposto cantania province sicily circa 1890 he came to biloxi with his parents and two siblings louis romeo d 1896 and sarah romeo 18661927 m louis grasso d pre1900  the romeo family lived at 437 magnolia street at biloxi mississippi lawrence made his livelihood as a retail merchant selling fruit and animal feed and as an oysterman his business in 1914 was located at 204 west howard avenue the romeos lived very close to john taranto and julius taranto who were domicled at 438 and 440 croesus streets respectively lawrence and josephine taranto romeo were the parents of five children  lawrence romeo jr 19011968 m ellen cannette 19041998 juliette romeo 19021976 m fedele marchioni 18921980 joseph romeo 19061976 m gladys listenwalter 19081989 angela romeo 19112000 m jerome edward edward hilton 19101984 and julius dominick romeo 19161919    concetta taranto   salvador taranto salvador taranto was born at new orleans 18811939 on he married they were the parents of three children salvadore sav taranto 1989 m annette dubaz rosalie fournier adelaide chinn  john d taranto   references  the daily herald 50 th golden jubilee number biographical and historical 18841934  the daily herald gulfportbiloxi mississippi1934 the biloxi daily herald latest city newsromeotaranto june 13 1896 p 8 the daily herald mrs angeline romeo november 9 1910 the daily herald the daily herald the daily herald   anthony taranto dies   may 2 1927 p 2 the daily herald     thomas   taranto youth injured    september 29 1930 p 2 the daily herald    lawrence romeo sr dies   april 7 1932 p 2 the daily herald   mrs taranto buried  october 12 1932 p 2 the daily herald   s taranto dies   april 10 1939 p 5 the daily herald the daily herald the daily herald   sj tedesco buried   october 9 1948 p 2 the daily herald   john taranto dies at biloxi residence   december 3 1949 p 6 the daily herald the daily herald the daily herald the daily herald the daily herald   mrs  frances rosie taranto  tedesco dies after long illness  march 16 1954 p 6 the daily herald the daily herald the daily herald the daily herald the sun herald   salvadore sav taranto   may 8 1989 p a4 the sun herald   angela romeo hilton   february 7 2000 the sun herald   fedele marchioni jr   march 7 2004 p a7  tedesco   references  the sun herald   miss rosalie t leah tedesco  february 17 1991 p b2  uchello the uchello family at gretna and new orleans louisiana and biloxi mississippi originated at san giuseppe jato in palermo province sicily with the immigration of calogero uchello 18601943 and maria patellaro 18731951 to new orleans louisiana after 1900 the uchello family initially settled in and around gretna jefferson parish louisiana where they were truck farmers during the prohibition era some of the uchello sons became involved in the illicit movement of spirituous alcohol in louisiana and mississippi in later years on the mississippi gulf coast gaetano guy n uchello 18951962 salvador f sam uchello 19081996 and louis c uchello were involved in illegal casino style gambling in several night clubs on the biloxi strip  children   gaetano n uchello   gaetano guy nick uchello  18951962 was born in palermo province sicily he married agnes rouse three children carlos uchello paul uchello and dianne uchello guy died at gulfport mississippi on december 27 1962 he was survivied by three brothers julian uchello at algiers louisiana sam and louis uchello of biloxi and three sisters clesi of dallas texas rosina uchello wilgus and florence uchello ernst both of gretna louisiana the timespicayune december 27 1962 p 2  salvador f uchello salvador francis sam uchello  19081996 was born november 20 1908 at gretna jefferson parish louisiana he married helene uchello 19111974 a native of new orleans one child  samuel francis uchello jr  b 1948 m in august 1970 at rockville maryland to elizabeth anne nagel  the timespicayune august 22 1970 section iv pp 56 mr sam f uchello had been a resident of biloxi mississippi since 1946 he had lived at new orleans and pass christian mississippi before 1940 sam was a member of nativity bvm catholic church and was a veteran of world war ii serving with the us coast guard he was an owner of the gay paree with guy uchello 18951962 and others the gay paree was a night club and casino on the biloxi strip on us highway no 90 the timespicayune december 1 1961 sec iii p 21 and the sun herald february 21 1996 p c2 after his wife passed sam married annie bell denson in harrison county mississippi on january 14 1984 he expired at biloxi on february 19 1996 harrison co mississippi circuit court 2nd jd mrb 27 p 382  annie bell denson uchello   19252004 native of stone county mississipp was assaulted in her home and expired from her injuries at biloxi on february 29 2004 she had been the wife of james adron denson 19212000 and lived at mantachie itawamba county mississippi annie came to biloxi in 1980 and married salvador sam f uchello jr 19071996 in harrison county mississippi on january 24 1984 he passed on february 22 1996 the sun herald march 2 2004 p a1 and p a5 and harrison co mississipi 2nd jd circuit court mrb 27 p 382  louis c uchello louis carl uchello 19091996 a native of gretna louisiana was the son of italian immigrant farmers who moved to the coast more than 60 years ago and became a selfmade businessman uchello first opened the grove nightclub at the corner of debuys road and us 90 and later opened the harbor light restaurant which was destroyed by hurricane camille he built the sun tan motel still in operation today on us 90 the sun herald july 28 1996    louis carl uchello married helen st pe 19121997 two children louis c uchello jr 19322002 m johnnie louis brister and dorothy crapo and jocelyn uchello m mr turnbough   florence uchello born at gretna louisiana in april 1937 she married harold leo ernst the son of mr and mrs charles ernst  references   the daily herald   helene uchello   april 24 1974 the sun herald   salvador f sam uchello   february 21 1996 the sun herald   louis c uchello   july 28 1996 the sun herald   helen st pe uchello   1997 the sun herald   annie denson uchello   july 28 2002 the sun herald   louis c uchello jr   october 13 2002 the sun herald   elderly woman killed in assault at biloxi home   march 2 2004 p a1 the sun herald   annie denson uchello   march 2 2004 p a5 the timespicayune   over the river   may 2 1937 the timespicayune   action against gaming asked   december 1 1961 2119 views  ', 0),
(228, 'en', 'node_search', ' comfort family comfort family ray mon 7092012 1147 comfort family louise milles comfort 18881989 and edward comfort 18831969   courtesy of joycelyn comfort barlowmarch 2012 edward comfort 18831969 was born in louisiana probably new orleans it appears that he may have been an orphan as a person with his name and approximate age was an inmate at the waif s industrial home at beauvoir in 1900 this institution was founded by dr reverend alfred e clay 18521900 a native of chester england and a methodist episcopal south minister in new orleans reverend clay was president of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to children and the waif s home on clio street in the crescent city he expired at his home in new orleans in early september 1900 sd moody replaced reverend ae clay at the beauvoir waif s home  the daily picayune september 2 1900 p 4 and the biloxi daily herald september 4 19001 p 8 and october 14 1900  edward comfort married louise milles 18881989 in harrison county mississippi on january 30 1907 the wedding took place at the home of louise milles ferdan the wife of julius ferdan 18711931 at 420 delauney street the reverend cb crawford of the episcopal church of the redeemer performed their nuptial ceremony the newly weds planned to live on main street in biloxi mississippi  the biloxi daily herald january 31 1907 p 1 and harrison co mississippi circuit court mrb 18 p 536 louise milles was a native of mississippi and the daughter of joseph milles 18551900 an 1870 austrian immigrant and louise knoch 18661920 native of nola and the daughter of john knoch 18301913 and christine weiss 18251923 john knoch was born at hamburg germany and lived at nola for 57 years christina weiss was a native of hessedarmstad germany they were living at 4914 constance street in the crescent city when they expired on january 19 1913 and june 26 1923 respectively lepre 1991 p 80 and  the daily picayune january 26 1913 p 22 and the times picayune june 28 1923 p 22  louise knoch had married joseph millis 18551900 or milles at nola in september 1883 he was known as mexican joe and was killed in an accident at ship island in july 1900 while loading lumber on the teodora de larriniga  a british steamship out of liverpool england the joseph milles family lived on magnolia street he was a member of the gulf coast timberman s association and the spanish benevolent association louise knoch milles remarried in january 1902 to julius ferlan 18711931 an austrian immigrant oyster boat captain  the biloxi daily herald july 21 1900 p 8 and harrison co mississippi circuit court mrb 13 p 344  viola comfort 19081999 and william sydney davidson 189931941  viola comfort edward comfort and louise milles comfort were the parents of viola comfort 19081999 she was born at biloxi mississippi on february 16 1908 viola comfort had married william sydney davidson 18931941 called sydney in her parent s home at 209 keller place on october 7 1925  the daily herald october 8 1925 p 2  sydney davidson was the son of william m davidson 18551905 a biloxi native and margaret ledden 18631925 who was born at new orleans and the daughter of jeremiah ledden and margaret o brien she had come to biloxi circa 1885 the william davidson family resided at 514 bohn street when she expired on april 4 1925 mrs davidson was survived by four children alethia e davidson 18901965 married alfred g brunet 18901948 william sydney davidson 18931941 married viola genevieve comfort 19081999 harold james davidson 18941982 married louise faye bellande 18981974 and calvin arnold skinny davidson 19011971 married audrey virginia harrison 19122003 margaret l davidson s corporal remains where interred in the biloxi cemetery a daughter olga davidson smith 18991920 preceded mrs davidson in death having expired on january 20 1920  the daily herald april 6 1925 p 3  viola c davison and sydney davidson were the parents of two children joycelyn davidson b 1928 m george earl barlow 19282012 and kenneth comfort davidson b 1931 m mary elizabeth fabacher b 1932 and mary ott tremmel sydney made his livelihood as a lineman for the mississippi power company they davidson family also were domiciled at 209 keller place sydney passed on july 26 1941  the daily herald july 28 1941 p 5   joycelyn louise davidson and george earl barlow 19282012  joycelyn l davidson married george earl barlow 19282012 at biloxi mississippi on june 20 1948 they were the parents of craig sydney barlow m pamela jane pisarich and george e barlow jr harrison co mississippi circuit court mrb 77 p 317 and harrison co mississippi 2nd jd circuit court mrb 23 p 232 george was born in aberdeen sd and had been a resident of biloxi since 1950 he was an usaf veteran of wwii and a member and former vestryman at the episcopal church of the redeemer former member of the jaycees and reverlern carnival association he was employed at american national life insurance company for over 30 years mr barlow is survived by his loving wife of 64 years joycelyn davidson barlow two sons george butch barlow jr kathy and craig s barlow pam one sister margaret blackmon four grandchildren bradley samantha barlow brennan barlow mike barlow and amber barlow and brotherinlaw dr kenneth mary ott tremmel george expired on june 26 2012 and his funeral service was held at the episcopal church of the redeemer on thursday june 28 2012 the howard avenue chapel of bradfordo keefe is in charge of arrangements with internment in the biloxi cemetery the sun herald june 27 2012  kenneth comfort davidson kenneth comfort davidson b 1931 attended biloxi schools and matriculated to loyola university at nola where he studied dentistry he married mary elizabeth fabacher b 1932 the daughter of john birchman fabacher 181982 and edna wade 18991988 on september 3 1955 in the most holy name of jesus catholic church at nola dr davidson served two years in the us army in the dental corps at fort chaffee arkansas he and mary beth and their two children returned to the mississippi coast in july 1959 the davidson family settled in gulf hills and kenneth built a dental office at ocean springs by december 1970 the family relocated to 1364 west beach to the william wilson sutcliffe 18501934 1898 home at 1364 west beach in biloxi known children stephan fabacher davidson m charlotte leone kirkpatrick  the times picayune august 25 1955 p 63 and the daily herald july 21 1959 p 14  edward comfort expired at biloxi mississippi on august 24 1969 mrs comfort lived until january 24 1999 their corporal remains were interred in section 6 of the biloxi cemetery  references  the biloxi daily herald   rev alfred e clay   september 4 1900 the biloxi daily herald   city news   october 14 1900 the biloxi daily herald   marriagescomfortmilles   january 31 1907 the daily picayune   rev alfred e clay dead   september 2 1900  the daily herald   davidsoncomfort   october 8 1925  the daily herald   wm sidney davidson dies   july 28 1941 the sun herald   george e barlow   june 27 2012 250 views  ', 0);
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(229, 'en', 'node_search', ' ray l bellande ray l bellande ray thu 7262012 1444  ray l bellande ray l bellande b 1943 is a biloxi mississippi native he is the great grandson of antoine v bellande 18291918 born at marseille france and marie harvey 18401894 of back bay now d iberville bellande attended biloxi parochial and public schools he matriculated at new mexico tech in 1961 and graduated with a bs degree is petroleum geology from mississippi state university in 1965 bellande was employed by humble oil exxon tenneco and others before becoming an independent geologist and oil operator at lafayette louisiana in 1980 his hydrocarbon exploration and development endeavors has brought him to many petroleum provinces bellande has resided or worked in louisiana california alaska texas indonesia malaysia singapore mississippi and alabama ray l bellande resides at ocean springs mississippi home of his ancestors where he has written since may 1993 a weekly historical column sous les chenes for  the ocean springs record  in addition he has published several books  the bellande cemetery a history and register 1990 from marseille to mississippi a bellande family history 1991  and  ocean springs hotels and tourist homes 1994   bellande also wrote the text for  ocean springs the way we were 19001950   in 1996 ray l bellande was the first commandant of the fort maurepas society he is currently vicepresident of the jackson county historical society and the mississippi coast historical and genealogical society he is a member of the following mississippi historical society life member ocean springs genealogical society life member pioneer america society friends of the mary c o keefe cultural center fort maurepas society jackson county historical society jackson county genealogical society jackson county tricentennial commission ocean springs chamber of commerce american association of petroleum geologist and gulf hills tennis club ray l bellande is an active participant in community preservation and cultural affairs he serves on the ocean springs historical commission and museum board his hobbies include tennis hiking windsurfing and gardening  memories of back bay 19471961  may 21 2020 born in the new biloxi hospital on front beach during ww ii while my father served in the uscg at the algiers naval station nola the alton l bellande family would settle at 1051 lameuse street in 1947 we had a short stay in the harrison court a 175unit apartmentlike complex for nco families it was situated on back bay between benachi avenue and keegan s bayou and opened for occupancy in february 1942 the daily herald february 25 1942 p 4 arbitrarily i would place the boundaries of the back bay community as follows north by back bay east by lee street south by division street and west by keegan s bayou at this time back bay was a bluecollar neighborhood composed primarily of fishermen and seafood factory laborers ancillary industries like boat building machine and repair shops and hardware stores were common along the waterfront other commercial activities were the neighborhood grocery stores barrooms barbershops and movie houses  grocery stores on lameuse street one could walk south towards biloxi s primary commercial district on howard avenue and would encounter fourfive grocery stores in only three blocks there was the nelson higginbotham and anna earl boney trochesset stores on the northwest and northeast corners of elder street wick s grocery was next to the st john s convent just north of bradford street josephine pisarich malpass had a small store on the southwest corner of lameuse and bradford and bob s robert mcdaniels grocery was located on the northeast corner of lameuse and division street other notable grocery vendors were menard s on back bay leo todaro s on main and division bill byrd and haven foretich on fayard street and vick s on division street it was not uncommon to see mother s playing nickel slot machines in some food venues  barrooms although my family was in the beer business i was to young to legally imbibe alcohol i can remember being 15 or 16 years of age and walking into barrooms and get a cold one make mine falstaff jack and he did biloxi was a special placeno doubt and one with a proliferation of saloons bars taverns barrooms lounges poolrooms etc no one went thirsty for a jax dixie goebel s miller high life schlitz or bud no lite beers for these macho men if you loved coor s beer you were s out of luck as it was strictly a western beer at this time in september 1961 i had my first taste of coor s in an arroyo in socorro county new mexico my sober self and the remainder of our underage freshmen class had smuggled a keg into this dry desert creek bed to celebrate our first week in school my response was where s the beer this must be ice water falstaff will do that to you very hoppy makes very happy we certainly had more bars than churches on back bay it s hot in the mississippi sound and louisiana marshes during the shrimp season when the luggers returned with a hole full of wild gulf shrimp and the captain and crew had sold their catch and settled their finances it was time to relax and have drinks with family and fellow shrimpers on bay view avenue one could gather at what was the neighborhood s iconic barroom the fisherman s hangout of nellie creel a rather appropriate name you say further east was the dixie cafe aka mama lou s her place was special and i ll say no more further west and at the northern end of caillavet street was perry s cafe hear or here they had the best red beans and rice on monday on division street we had the shady oaks of babe rodolfich and sie simon s night club sie befriended two of america s future musical greats hank williams and elvis presley say no more at this time dizzy dean former st louis ace thrower was televised on saturday afternoon announcing the national baseball game of the week in his arkansas southern drawl our best selling brew falstaff sponsored the game watched by millions of diamond fans dizzy would marry a stone county lass and spend his retirement in the wiggins area it wasn t unusual for him to pro bono a few cases of falstaff from our warehouse on bohn street for a fishing trip in the gulf  barbershops our neighborhood had at least three barbershops ike champagne and bruce s which i believe was a moniker for broussard were on back bay and eddie vuyovich was on reynoir street mr allen on church street now astronaut haise street was a backyard barber with the best pricelike 50 cents  memories of back bay 19471961 part ii may 28 2020  the social life of a youth growing up on back bay was rather meager there was school a city park sports church scouting clubs and an occasional birthday party or dance very few teens had automobiles but the fortunate were charitable and drove the less fortunate to weekends wasted at the many clubs driveinns and other hangouts between rodenburg avenue and pat harrison now veterans boulevard  a catholic education the back bay section of biloxi had five schools two were public and three parochial gorenflo and mf nichols a colored institution were public while st john s notre dame and our mother of sorrows also colored were catholic educational facilities my academic career commenced in september 1949 with a memorable fall down the front steps of our small bungalow on lameuse street this was a time when most schools began the day after labor day which is in september and the first monday as i recall schools in the rural areas of harrison county ended their school year in the spring a few weeks prior to their urban counterparts this allowed students in these agricultural areas to assist in the spring planting and other agrochores my first grade teacher was sister nathaniel at st john s catholic school the building was old wooden and virtually not insulated our misery didn t last long as the following year the new st john s elementary school was built in 19501951 bishop ro gerow dedicated the sixclass room brick structure on 6 may 1951 this parochial school was situated north of the parish rectory on bradford street between lameuse street and main street it no longer exists st john s parish is now called blessed francis xavier seelos the daily herald may 6 1951 p 10 biloxi s initial st john s catholic school was dedicated on september 3 1926 on the nw c of bay view avenue and main street in a former public school called the back bay ward school there were four grades with sister mary joseph and sister elalia in charge  the daily herald september 4 1926   the  back bay ward school  was donated to the city of biloxi on september 6 1898 the land for this educational facility was provided by william f gorenflo 18441932 the building was erected with funds provided by william k m dukate 18521916 a school in this section of biloxi was desperately needed and sincerely appreciated by the back bay residents   the biloxi daily herald september 7 1898 p 4 at st john s we were taught by the sisters of mercy interesting name for educators this holy order had come to biloxi before 1888 as they were operating the convent school on reynoir street it was the predecessor of the sacred heart academy notre dame high school began in september 1943 in the dantzler house on west beach near porter avenue and the biloxi lighthouse the new notre dame high school near keegan s bayou opened in september 1953 in a new 220000 building with a 40000 residence for its male teachers brother rex csc was principal the daily herald  august 21 1943 p 6 september 2 1943 p 7 and  september 1 1953 p 1 today saint patrick s although no longer in biloxi but a satellite of the tradition a 4800acre real estate development in north central harrison county functions as a coeducational catholic academy with similar goals as it predecessors sacred heart notre dame and mercy cross these are small classes high academic and moral standards a familial cohesiveness and school pride coincidentally st patrick s opened in 2007 on land donated by joseph canizaro a 1954 graduate of notre dame high school and successful nola banker and realtor mr canizaro has also been proactive in the development of william carey universitytradition campus and the mgccc bryant center a nursing educational facility which will vastly increase its current programs  games we played i would attend st john s for six years although not consecutively my best memories are on the playground the acme of recess was to gather on the lawn of the rectory on bradford street and play king of the hill this area of biloxi lies in the drainage basin of bayou auguste and is relatively lowso what in biloxi isn t topographically low you ask well there is a low ridge that runs in front of the rectory that is about threefeet higher than the street this was our hill sides or classes were chosen to defend and others to attack it got pretty rough at times getting pushed or shoved off the hillbut fun for school kid it was also common to have several marble games in progress before classes during recess lunch and after school marbles was a big deal one could play boxese or ringese ringese was more difficult as the marbles were placed in the center of a circle drawn in the dirt shooters had to fire at a marble and hit it with enough force to propel it from the ring if you weren t happy you could always pick up your marbles and go home dodge ball was fun the girls played hopscotch and jumped rope the playground was relatively small and it wasn t unusual to break a window in the old wooden school which then served as an auditorium and meeting hall  the football team circa 1954 it was decided that st john s field at football team it was coached by two former exceptional biloxi athletes james jimmy h cook and jack pickich most of the players were enrolled in the elementary school but as i recall we may have had a few ringers or older skilled players to add depth since we were an independent nonleague team it was difficult to schedule opponents as i recall we did play the d iberville bteam in their cow pasture across de la baye the team was disbanded after the second season but was a good introduction to organized sports  st john catholic school football ca 1954back bay park  lr bottow rowdonnie lacoste jimmy cook uk patrick h roberts 19442009 tony corso mickey j bellande uk uk uk steve bowen 19432005 jimmy manduffie ed conway middle row  ray l bellande   jules galle ronnie roberts jack acevedo uk uk larry gilbert parker joe joe arceneaux wallace tiblier joseph hungerford roland roberts uk top rowjack pickich 19211974 father peter killen uk pete alley and james h cook 19201997  memories of back bay 19471961 part iii june 4 2020   st john s elementary revisited i reminisce again about st john s because here in the second grade i chose my future career when i entered college in the fall of 1961 i learned to my dismay that many of my cohorts were here with no clue as to what their life s work would entail i queried them you mean you don t know if you re gonna be an engineer teacher or hippie reply yup this early revelation resulted from sitting in the back corner of the classroom i was a shy child and didn t want the teacher to ask me to recite or to be questioned this was also the location of our class library in this niche i began to read the library books to escape the boredom of education there was a cache of children s books on mineral resources iron coal gold etc i became fascinated with gold and the great discoveries of it made in a california the yukon territory and alaska this was my ahah hour i wanted to become a geologist study rocks and minerals and learn where to discover them in the earth s strata in 1953 at the saenger theatre i saw thunder bay an adventure movie with james stewart and gilbert roland thunder bay was not historically accurate but a creative story about the first exploratory well drilled off the coast of louisiana and the resulting chaos and protest generated by the local shrimpers led by gilbert roland teche bossier environmentalists don t fret there was no oil spill or blowout and the fishermen and drillers found common ground and the ending was cool regardless this film reinforced my interest in earth science another event in the path to becoming a geologist was della simms mccaughan b 1928 our 10th grade biology instructor at biloxi high school della was entertaining and inspirational as a teacher i ate my first caviar sans champagne in her class she was always motivating but especially in annual science fair preparations my project in the spring of 1959 was a model of an offshore drilling platform anchored to the sea bottom with its derrick and machinery drilling into strata the objectives of the borehole were the oil and gas bearing reservoirs that trap oil on the top and flanks of a salt dome research and data provided by petroleum geologists in jackson added to the educational value of the display joyfully it won first place in earth science iv category at the state fair in jackson the daily herald april 29 1959 p 10 well i did become a geologist but never found any gold although we did discover black gold a moniker for oil my career journey in the oilfield was peripatetic allowing me the opportunity to live in texas california louisiana and mississippi the reward of being employed by an international company exxon led to assignments in indonesia singapore and malaysia with short stays in alaska and canada and a consulting job with saga petroleum norwegian based oil company exploring in south mississippi and alabama we dug two ultra deep holes over 18000 feet near lumberton mississippi and north of grand bay alabama it was a fulfilling career and i often dream of finding that really giant oilfieldin back bay no less  two final thought on st john s some of us became altar boys our responsibility was to serve with the priest in celebrating the mass although as an altar boy we didn t learn latin but we had to read it from a card in response to the priest s dialog i was fortunate to have studied latin for twoyears at biloxi high school it was an enlightening experience and i finally understood english syntax after nine years of schooling in our native tongue no sentence diagrams in latin and we were fortunate to have had two very excellent language gurus catherine foxworth clower 18971981 and frances hooker horner 19162013 i was the class clown and spent many afternoons of penance writing on mrs horner s blackboard for my silly antics additionally i would ask educators today to reinstate latin into the high school curriculum a latin word no less it s value in understanding english etymology and grammar are priceless my final comment is to share my knowledge with you of a very special lady louise j mallard 19001975 our 2nd grade teacher she may have been biloxi s first female lay instructor as nuns were becoming a rare item miss mallard was a remarkably talented and eccentric woman in addition to being an educator she possessed skills as an artist socialite thespian folk dancer and civic leader her grandfather prudent mallard 18091879 a native of france settled at nola and became a furniture maker par excellence caption april 1959 science fairunder the tutelage of della simms mccaughan several of her biology sophomore students at biloxi high school were winners at the annual mississippi state science fair in the capitol city depicted is ray l bellande first place in earth science iv with a working model of an offshore drilling rig boring into strata in search of oil and gas bearing reservoirs trapped above and on the flanks of a salt dome a common oil trapping structure in mississippi louisiana and texas other mccaughan students winning at this state science fair were colonel michael n zalocusky 19432015 and edward sparky sbardella who became a medical doctor  memories of back bay 19471961 part iv june 11 2020   remembering gorenflo school after five years at st john s my mother had a disagreement with st john s management and decided that we should attend public school since the bellande family lived less than two blocks from the gorenflo school that was a relatively easy decision and transition no more catechism except we were expected to attend after school classes once a week at st john s to continue our catholic education i was fortunate to attend the 6th grade class of miss priscilla ritch 18931972 she and her older sister mary alma ritch 18901964 called miss alma were both spinster teachers who had started their careers in public education at the back bay ward school and transferred to gorenflo when it opened in the fall of 1924 alton l bellande 19121970 my father had also been a student of these remarkably enduring educators at the former back bay school on main street and bay view avenue miss priscilla ritch was an excellent teacher i had moved to the front row in her class probably as a result of the alphabet b as in bellande and had my share of recitations we had never been taught music reading at st john s but after a few months of listening and following the notes do re mi etc i generally understood how the solmization scale worked one of miss ritch s teaching tools was a mathematical challenge to the entire class she would randomly chose a number then add to it or multiply it by another integer and then divide that result and continue the process at her digression the pupil that could follow her tortuous numerical path to its conclusion would declare the answer and be rewarded with an atta boy or an ever an atta girl all of these numerical calculations were made mentally and i still retain the capacity to solve simple math problems in my brain as a result of these daily exercises these were times of no pcs hand calculators and an apple was something to bribe the teacher or keep the doctor away do you want to hear about discipline well principal alma ritch had the big paddle and sister priscilla had the sewing machine or needle i was introduced to the needle one afternoon at this time we had another teacher who taught us social studies in her classroom we would have to change rooms which i believe was training for the regime of junior high school our next level in the educational process regardless while returning to miss ritch s classroom from the other brilliant mind moi decided to show off and balance his text book on his empty cranium well miss ritch was appalled by this sight and although a small woman in stature her arm was long enough to place her hand with index finger poised vertically to deliver short jabbing rhythmical blows to that area of my shoulder near the collar bone ouch that hurts pain equals gain if you learn from your mistakes ah that gorenflo schoolyard and the memories of the thousands of playtime hours are forever indelibly forged into my balding ram all of our activities were unorganized and unsupervised we had game rules and set up field boundaries for each sporting event surprise no one had ever heard of soccer or futbol in the spring and summer there was baseball or softball on the grass as no formal field or diamond existed for any sport here in 1955 i was playing catcher once and one of the babuchna boys johnny as i recall was at bat he took a round house swing that missed the ball but connected with my forehead i m sure that i had a mild concussion but this was a time when one rarely sought medical attention was there even an er i went home with my head severely aching for several days during recovery the fall and winter were our football seasons which were invariably the touch variety children from near and nearer would gather after school and on weekends to play the playground leaders chose teams and the game winner was based on a score mutually agreed before kickoff as first team to score 42 points or seven touchdowns wins there were no extra points are goal posts and boundaries were marked with sticks coats and invariably one side of the field was the sidewalk on lameuse street dennis malpass was our yard star he went on to play college football at kansas and later baseball at tulane the rest of us were fair to mediocre junior and high school jocks the southern end of the gorenflo schoolyard slowly graded into a shallow branch or streamlet before it gently rose to meet bradford street this area was the headwaters of bayou auguste which drained this area of back bay mrs yusko lived to the west and there was a small cache of cypress trees and other arboreal characters in her rear yard infrequently someone would brave her wrath and attempt to collect a cypress knee to make a lamp base we would catch minnows in the ditchstream and occaisionally enter the large culvert under lameuse street for no good reason then there was the sundial this object was placed in the south side gorenflo schoolyard in the spring of 1932 by the  american legion auxilliary in memory of the late william f gorenflo  18421932 nina lee gorenflo and pat and lonnie o neal great grandchildren of the benefactor unveiled the monument the school orchestra under the supervision of professor carnovale played the star spangled banner the daily herald may 25 1932 p 2  william frederick gorenflo  18421932 was native of bay st louis mississippi and a biloxi seafood pioneer civic leader public servant and philanthropist the gorenflo public school was designed by biloxi architect carl e matthes 18961972 and was erected by the collins brothers george collins and william collins contractors its area of educational responsibility included all north of the l n railroad from caillavet to lee street including the east side of caillavet and the west side of lee north of division bounded by caillavet and seal avenue land for the gorenflo school consisted of about 65 acres conveyed by john c bradford from his large lameuse street tract to the trustees of the biloxi city schools wf gorenflo 18421932 wj grant 18751932 elbert l dukate 18811943 susan snell tonsmeire 18791953 and lille bourdon devitt 18841951 for 10000 harco ms land deed bk 138 pp 466467 in the fall of 1924 three new biloxi public schools were dedicated between november 18th and 20th in this order dukate school on east howard avenue gorenflo school on lameuse street and the lopez school beween benachi avenue and porter avenue the latter was being completed by ac samford contractor gulfport and montgomery the daily herald november 14 1924 p 1 and 2 here in 19231924 gorenflo a public school building designed by architect carl e matthes 18961972 was erected by the collins brothers its area of educational responsibility included all north of the l n railroad from caillavet to lee street including the east side of caillavet and the west side of lee north of division bounded by caillavet and seal avenue  memories of back bay 19471961 part v june 18 2020   back bay play time in the 1950s children especially boys had many opportunities to enjoy themselves playing outdoors with the exception of radio and incipient television reception of poor quality this was a decade that had virtually none of the high technology gadgetry that now exits anyone ever hear of a slide rule the bellande family didn t possess a television until 1955 and it had very poor reception from wdsu which came on air in december 1948 out of nola these were the times of black and white screens with lots of snow and manual station changes from the easy chair no rad surfing dudes the radio was king and there were many good afternoon adventure programs that sparked the imagination such as sky king and sgt preston of the yukon mush you huskies preston commanded his sled dogs as he kept law and order traversing the klondike gold mining camps near dawson city and other areas throughout the yukon territory including white horse these were times that the neighborhood schoolyard and public parks were venues for touch football pickup softball and baseball and half court basketball less wellknown games for example hounds and deer a nocturnal sophisticated adaptation of hide and seek and the belt line where the stronger older belt or rolled newspaper wielders would form parallel lines and strike the weaker or younger boys that were commanded to run the gauntlet fun you decide the back bay neighborhood like most of biloxi had a public park or playground it s origin can be linked to john comstock bradford who began began acquiring land at biloxi mississippi as early as august 1847 when he bought a large tract on the back bay of biloxi from louis a caillavet 17901860 and spouse margaret fayard caillavet 17871863 the parcel was described as having 180feet on back bay and 20 arpents 3840 feet deep augustine fayard was to the west the lands of adele delauney to the south and james w elder to the east the consideration was 200 for this approximate 16 acre tract harrison co mississippi land deed bk 3 p 420 the northern portion of the large bradford tract ie that area of biloxi north of division street east of reynoir street south of the back back of biloxi and west of lameuse street became the loci of the following late 19th and 20th century developments bradford street elder street bradford elder sawmill back bay fire company back bay community center and park gorenflo public school leckich fayard seafood harrison county health center bayview theatrebayview lanes a bowling alley and bay view drugs  biloxi recreation department the biloxi city recreation department was lead by james d hadaway b 1928 who had been appointed recreation superintendent in early october 1952 was a tour de force by the summer of 1953 biloxi had supervision and programs established at ten city locations which were either parks or playgrounds back bay parkcharles floppy boone and george chop chop vuyovich west endcoach wd wiles and kay baltar lopez school playgroundjames garner bay terracecharles moniot miramar playgroundrobert wold st michael sleroy picard and gay nell knight moore community houserobert bellman elmer streetameral hunter sarah young and james daniels main street community housevernon bradford nichols playgroundwillie joe pearson in addition crafts were taught by madelyn curtis a gorenflo elementary teacher and hugh lancaster operated the movie projector sunday band concerts were held on the lawn at the biloxi community house on east beach featuring local high school bands and the keesler afb band the daily herald october 11 1952 p 1 june 11 1953 p 12 and june 2 1954 p 15 the recreation department for biloxi s youth also arranged tennis and square dance lessons and created summer baseball and softball programs little league american legion selective biloxi park and playground teams in baseball and the slow pitch softball hot stove and stove pipe leagues for adults these adult league softball games were held at the back bay and stmichael s diamondsthe daily herald june 18 1953 p 10 and april 27 1954 p 15  1953 little league baseball you know you are a trilobite if you played little league baseball at biloxi when it commenced in the spring of 1953 well this fossil did and i ll relate my fading memory of this historic event the biloxi recreation under the supervision of james d hadaway held tryouts at the lee street diamond which was the venue for the biloxi high school baseball and american legion teams to compete here youngsters were observed as to their batting and fielding skills by managers and coaches and player selections were made the bats were made of real wood and the uniform consisted of a cap and tshirt the team name was in felt letters that had to be ironed on by your momma in the 1954 season real baseball uniforms were issued to biloxi s little leaguers the daily herald april 7 1953 p 13 the initial season was introduced with eight teams in two leagues the shrimp and oyster on may 8 1953 biloxi s first little league games were played at lee street the shrimp league teams were shorty s shell sumrall service wadlington s appliance and the exchange club the oyster teams were mavar packing company dejean packing company cruso canning company and southern shell the daily herald may 9 1953 p 14 the 1953 little league season culminated  on 30 august  with two games at the va diamond in west biloxi biloxi s first championship team was shorty s shell as they bested oyster league champion mavar packing company 125 the daily herald august 28 1953 p 18 and august 31 1953 p 16 allstar teams for the respective leagues were selected at the season s climax the oyster league team was represented by ray ayers paul polly babuchna wendell wimpy cavalier dennis dartez larry fountain alfred hilton wilbert holland anthony mazarra dennis malpass robert morrison johnny ryan sherman shemo sanders george giggles sekul henry seymour julius scooter taranto and bobby walter members of the shrimp league allstars were as follows glenn allen roger demet wayne gehrmann teddy gibson max jordan vincent visco kuluz anthony mattina warren migues alton migues melvin raley terry tiger raley gerald richards otis tis st amant chris taranto jimmy wallace and billy walters the daily herald august 28 1953 p 18 our team dejean packing company was coached by leroy picard we won 14 games but finished second in the oyster league in a game  on 10 august  that was a must win to unseat league leader the mavar packers their hurler larry fountain had a 70 lead and had retired fifteen dejean batsmen until the last inning yes yours truly singled to right field with two outs in the final frame spoiling fountain s perfect game larry had a laudatory pitching performance striking out eleven the daily herald august 12 1953 p 16 1954 mavar packing companybiloxi commenced little league baseball in the spring of 1953 this vintage image was made in 1954 when the players were outfitted with baseball uniforms rather than a tshite with ironed on letters kneeling lr john hilton phillip phil dalgo 19431993 jeremiah jody j o keefe iv 19462007 uk john johnny n higginbotham 19442001 standing lr coach ernest cavalier 19161972 kenneth higginbotham ray l bellande robert seville gerald lamey uk rick stewart david l conway 19461996 and coach harold beans allen  memories of back bay 19471961 part vi june 25 2020   tennis there was a tennis court in the back bay park as early as 1928 in march of that year the biloxi tennis club held its midwinter tournament the contest was played on biloxi s four courts central community house on east beach biloxi high school court back bay court and the biloxi hotel court biloxi s top tennis players at this time were henry van waesberg wallace chapman albert e bessey lee janin ml michel jr norman moran alice lee latil and louise curet the daily herald march 8 1928 p 14 albert e bessey 18951996 was a most remarkable individual in his retirement from the usps he taught tennis privately and through the auspices of the biloxi recreation department my recollection of biloxi tennis in the 1950 s is somewhat vivid there was only one public court that was functionalbay terrace thanks to the usaf for allowing biloxi s netters to use the keesler afb just inside the forrest avenue gate we would generally walk from our back bay neighborhood to keesler to play in the 1950s the military police at the gate would see our wooden racquets and wave us passage through the open portal in the late 1950s the biloxi high school tennis team led by coach tj smith would practice and play interscholastic matches at the air base tennis center as i recollect thee were about 18 laykold courts times have changed in regards national security and biloxi now has several public tennis venues for its citizens the better local netmen that i remember were mr bessey and stanley bessey his son the duffey brothers joe and charles fred mannino toxey luckey and tony poulos under albert e bessey s tutelage younger players like mike trochesett ronnie kettering bo ahern mike felsher and chevis swetman developed their net skills while recalling outstanding biloxi athletes of this time several come to mind for their multisport skills george l sumrall anthony mozaro johnny ryan robert morrison harold breal joe gill ron peresich dennis malpass vincent kuluz clem dellenger and  bowling  there was time in america when bowling alleys were man caves akin to pool halls and bluecollar barrooms the game was generally found in large urban centers in the higher latitudes where winter was conducive for indoor activities like curling handball boxing and bowling st louis chicago detroit and new york city produced quality keglers during 1920s and 1930s there is a high degree of certitude that bowling came to biloxi because of keesler field this new army air corps base had brought many soldiers from northern climes who were schooled in the sport in june 1941 the  us army air corps activated station no 8 aviation mechanics school  at biloxi mississippi the first contingent of recruits about 2000 young americans arrived at biloxi in august 1941 and were bivouacked in tents with hand set pins an atmosphere of dense cigar and cigarette smoke and the odor of stale beer permeating the air one could only be in the brown bowling center on reynoir street opposite the saenger theatre my first recollection of brown s was in the late 1950s it was the last sunday in december 1958 that the baltimore colts and new york giants were playing for the nfl championship at yankee stadium and i watched the finale of what has been called by sports aficionados as the greatest football game ever played courtesy of mr brown on his small tv set in his cramped office the colts won in sudden death seventeen men on the field that day as a coach player or owner would eventually be enshrined in the nfl hall of fame at canton ohio players you might recall were unitas berry moore donovan and marchetti of the colts and huff gifford tunnell maynard brown and robustelli from the giants before j luther brown helen m brown and victor b pringle victor incorporated the brown bowling center in august 1948 biloxi s bowles were rolling at  vic s bowling alley  operated by victor joseph passera sr 18881948 of nola vic s was situated on the ground floor of the carpenter s union no 1667 building it had been erected in 19411942 at 419 reynoir street and opened in late may of 1942 with  mayor louis j braun  18901951 throwing a strike on his first ball at the eight lane facility the daily herald january 22 1942 p 2 march 18 1942 p 9 june 1 1942 p 3 and august 24 1948 p 6  keesler field keesler field built its first bowling alley in 1942 opposite the base chapel by early july the building had been completed and workers were awaiting bowling equipment shipped from st louis the facility was open day and night and cooled by fans a game or ten frames also called a line was to cost 15 the 12lane bowling alley opened for business on 16 september the facility was especially built for ncos but officers were permitted to bowl several hours each week pin boys were recruited from civilian and military civilian ranks interest was extremely high in the sport as several squadrons had already committed teams league play the daily herald july 8 1942 p 6 and september 16 1942 p2  bayview lanes the bayview lanes opened for keglers on january 19 1960 it represented a new platform in the sport which took bowling from backstreet to mainstreet at this time bowling centers were being built throughout america that catered to families and sporting women in an atmosphere that was more pleasant and appealing than the older man caves that had long earmarked the game the jax beer bowling team from nola made an appearance during the bayview lanes commencement celebration ernest v landaiche 18951966 proprietor already had plans to add eight additional lanes to building he was also planning a 24lane bowling center on west beach boulevard in front of his beach drivein theater  the daily herald  january 19  1960 p6 and  january 28  1960 p 27    the building was  formerly the 1946  bayview theatre  of douglas i smith 19011979 and  had been designed by  collins and cost over 60000 the theatre area was 50 feet by 100 feet with a seating capacity of almost seven hundred persons  the daily herald  november 28  1946 p 1   i was mere lad of seventeen when the bayview lanes opened for play in january 1960 by ernest v landaiche 18951966 a native of st john the baptist parish louisiana the original alley had eight lanes and was financially very successful and soon grew to twenty lanes here i honed my kegling skills with my peers kenny and johnny higginbotham bobby jackson weldon and eldon the babuchna twins and guy neff jr the bayview lanes became a magnet for families league bowlers and biloxi s top rollers among these locals pros were don viator percy higginbotham and george higginbotham dominic leperi alex kuljis hubert hubie barnes john babuchna and several military ringers from kafb guy neff sr leo perrault and andy anderson unfortunately the bayview lanes were destroyed in a horrific conflagration on 29 november 1962 the site later became a parking lot for the boom town casino during biloxi s gaming boom construction of the early 1990s the daily herald november 30 1962 p 1 biloxi soon had two additional bowling centers the beach bowl and the surf bowlarama which also opened in 1960 the beach bowl was on the biloxi strip near the sunnsand it had 24 lanes and survived camille in fact it was reopened as early as 28 august 1969 the surf bowlarama a luka kuljis family endeavor situated on point cadet was not as fortunate the kuljis enterprise opened 10 december1960 with 16 lanes alex kuljis 1959 mississippi state champion managed the camille gutted facility and it never reopened the daily herald august 12 1960 p 18 august 28 1969 p 2 and november 26 1960 p 17 and december 9 1960 p 29 bayview laneslocated at bayview avenue and lameuse street this 16lane bowling center which opened in january 1960 was destroyed in a horrific conflagration on 29 november 1962 the site later became a parking lot for the boom town casino during biloxi s gaming boom construction of the early 1990s the daily herald november 30 1962 p 1  memories of back bay 19471961 part vii july 2 2020   boy scouts the boy scouts of america at biloxi became established on 24 july 1918 by professor wilbeforce leach 18701949 at 1045 west howard avenue his home charles redding jr was assistant scoutmaster for troop i mr leach became principal of biloxi high school in late august 1918 succeeding wt harris troop i was very active in selling liberty bonds for the nations support during the great war the daily herald august 1 1918 p 3 august 28 1918 p 3 and october 17 1918 p 3 scouting at biloxi in the mid1950s was very well organized and participation by the youth of the queen city a 19th century moniker was exemplary in 19541955 my brother and i joined bsa troop 213 which was sponsored by the knights of columbus gulf coast council no 1244 it was founded in june 1907 the biloxi daily herald may 30 1907 p 1 bsa troop 213 was led by j kline coquet 19111969 scoutmaster albert d orville 19262018 assistant scoutmaster they were ably assisted by harold beans allen edward l porky blomberg jr 19362005 robbie ladner and glen d orville 19342001 we met in the knights of columbus hall when it was located on beach boulevard between lameuse street and main street the east wing of the riviera hotel was to the west and a vacant lot west of the k c hall served as a parade ground at this time our troop may have been the largest in biloxi with about 70100 scouts but troop 212 led by aj stanovich b 1929 and ernest c hart 19302010 was comparable in size and our strongest rival for scouting awards which were held at the court of honor a bimonthly event in the biloxi community house on east beach some of the young men of troop 213 that i recall are gerald h blessey and walter blessey peter hubbell george and pat collins george davis king walker tucei eugene peresich iii larry higginbotham dennis and joe landry guy and mike green william g collins jackie sherrill jb todaro gordon and barry gollott jimmy and david desporte ross bertucci robbie ladner mickey cannette gregory nolte eric lightner and sandy steckler  patrols within a boy scout troop there are patrols which are composed of six to ten scouts the patrol has a leader who is usually older and an experienced scout and assists the scoutmaster in planning and organizing troop functions patrols have names which are chosen by its members during my scouting tenure troop 213 had the following patrols bat bob white comanche dakota panther seminole sioux and woodpecker i often relate to people especially younger generations that scouting was one of the most influential and valuable experiences of my life albeit for only three years to quote unarguably biloxi s most enduring and influential scout leader aj stanovich once a scout always a scout the life lessons acquired from scouting especially through it system of advancing in rank from tenderfoot to eagle scout by completing requirements for merit badges include the following community volunteering knot tying first aid orientation which includes map reading compass use and the sun and stars especially polaris north star as a directional aids primitive camping and the survival skills to survive on berries seeds plants and to locate potable water swimming and lifeguard rescue techniques and cpr watercraft usage such as rowing canoeing sailing and kayaking and pioneering skills to erect simples structures by lashing logs to build bridges towers and shelter these life lessons can and do save lives and lead to an understanding of nature and the conservation of our disappearing green space and forest canopy  camp wilkes camp wilkes was situated in the naval reserve park on back bay and dedicated in early june 1938 and named for eugene p wilkes 18851980 publisher of the daily herald earlier the  city of biloxi had leased the ne 4 of naval reserve park to boy scouts camp inc eugene p wilkes president  the site included 11 buildings a pier built for scout purposes the tract was surrounded by a fence harrison co ms land deed bk 221 pp 566567 and city of biloxi minute bk 17 pp 399400 and the daily herald june 7 1938 p 1  1942 move with the development of keesler field commencing in 1941 camp wilkes was relocated north of back bay in the fall of 1942 to a 75acre tract which exists today surrounded by subdivisions in the 1950s it was isolated south of popps ferry road with virtually no habitation from north biloxi d iberville to the popps ferry bridge several pecan orchards and a few houses were all to seen at this time the daily herald december 9 1942 p 7  camporee a camporee in the mid1950s was a weekend in the spring and fall at camp wilkes where scouts in the biloxiocean springs district competed for awards in many scouting skills each patrol met at the camp wilkes gate on a friday afternoon and hiked into the woods with all the food shelter and bedding in their backpacks to select a campsite shelters surplus us army pup tents were pitched latrines dug and soon supper was on the fire being under 12 years of age culinary skills were very limited seems like we warmed up many cans of beans and vienna sausage over those smoky campfires we also learned that unopened cans left in a fire would soon explode my first night in a pup tent was very miserable i had never attempted to sleep on the ground prior to this coolchilly april night in 1953 although i had a blanket maybe two it was very cold and no one had suggested a sleeping bag remember that one had to hike several miles and transport everything but water to survive for two nights in the piney woods of camp wilkes dawn arrives seemly never someone had brought eggs and what was created in that frying pay was no breakfast at tiffany s or anywhere  memories of back bay 19471961 part viii july 9 2020   camporee  saturday morning of the camporee brought the judges to inspect our camp and grade the patrol for its campsite selection tent and bedding fire pit and latrine construction at this juncture i must selflaud meat preservation requires ice or refrigeration unless smoked or salted to solve this issue i selected a cylindrical metal can that would fit into a backpack and also be large enough to transport meat probably pork chops and bacon for the camporee dry ice was the medium for preservation while hiking into camp wilkes the first day it proved to be quite heavy and cold on my back regardless it was avantgarde and probably surprised the judges i don t believe it was ever attempted again the saturday afternoon was spent in various competitions on the parade ground the one that i best recall was the fire starting to boil a can of water the winning solution to this test is to use lighter pine also called heart pine that resinous saturated part of the tree that would ignite readily with intense heat patrols were timed from the commencement of efforts for ignition until the water boiled out of the containment vessel into the fire by sunday noon most of the camporee participants were totally exhausted ribbons were awarded to patrols that had earned them returning to lameuse street i strongly remember being ravenously hungry at the lunch table following a long hot bath i slept about twelve hours  summer camp during summer vacation local boy scouts also had the opportunity to enjoy freedom from their parents and siblings by attending a week session at camp wilkes we lived in rustic wooden cabins with few amenitiesno ac nor running water and iron bunk beds the swimming hole was the upper reaches of back bay served by a pier generally the water salinity rose at this time due to the paucity of summer rainfall which invited what we called sea nettles or more properly jellyfish to drift into the area from the gulf one will not forget the stinging red welps inflicted by the tentacles of these unwelcome invertebrates to share more of our local 1950s biloxi slang we learned from our elders and others that bass the fish were green trout sand burrs were rockachaws cobia were lemon fish a doggie from dog tag was an nco airman at kafb a whitney was a queer or homosexual your choice as gay or coming out of the closet were yet to come into popular or common use a yankee was anyone living north of hattiesburg well i just made this one up for a smile a true yankee is a new englander as we all should know by now i also had my first miracle or spiritual experience at camp wilkes in the late afternoon campers would engage in a contest resembling king of the mountain except the mountain was a large floating barrelsupported raft the objective was to get on the raft and remain there without being pushed back into the water on any late evening there might be ten boys on the raft and twenty in the water it was no water ballet as i attempted to rise from the turbulent bay water to the raft someone forcibly pushed my head below the surface and i came up under the raft woe is me i knew i going to drown and to this blessed day i do not remember how i recovered from this potential watery demise it suspect that have we all have experienced one of these angelic moments on one more than one occasion i have counted at least five seriously frightful experiences from a highspeed aquaplaning adventure on us interstate no 55 to flying into the still air turbulence of a commercial airliner in a turboprop plane and experiencing a violent 360 degree spin i now understand the meaning of nine lives how many do you have left entertainment at summer camp was limited there was a canteen in the afternoon were scouts could purchase soft drinks potato chips and candy health foods were yet to be discovered maybe in the evenings a movie was shown or a talk given in the cafeteria there was definitely a weekend before camp dismissal that the order of the arrow a select group of scouts performed before a large campfire for campers and their parents and guests they were dressed as native americans and performed purported native dances around the fire to everyone s amazement and enjoyment prior to summer camp prospective campers were asked to have their mother s make them a breechcloth to wear to the ceremony one of the mother s obviously did not google breechcloth as her son was absent an integral part of the garment that would be the ones covering the well you know him embareassed the youngster was escorted to his cabin on his way to the ceremony and properly fitted in 1957 i left the boy scouts without completing all of the requirements to become an eagle scout football and the social distractions that accompany one s first year in central junior high school resulted in my withdrawal from troop 213 it wasn t sex drugs and rock and roll but more like playboy aspirin and fats domino i will repeat an earlier statement that scouting is an incredibly educational experience and valuable lessons learned will be useful in one s life as an example in 1956 a biloxi teenager while riding his motor scooter collided with an automobile on a major back bay street he was thrown from the machine and his head struck and shattered the side window of the car the resulting glass shards severed his jugular vein it was rumored that the ambulance was slow in arriving to the scene of the accident and no one at the accident site knew first aid in the very prime of life a young biloxian perished in the local hospital had a boy scout with the knowledge of basic first aid been present to apply pressure to the wound and decrease the flow and loss of blood the precious life of this young man might have been saved a very sobering and sad ending today for me to say aurayvoir mes amis please return next week  memories of back bay 19471961 part ix july 16 2020 movies back bay folks were fortunate to have had two movie houses the bay view theatre and the myer within easy walking distance as were biloxi s other neighborhoods the point had the roxy and toy while the cbd was the venue for the saenger the avenue and the buck which were at this time actually less than an hours trek from bay terrace back bay the point or irish hill the black community had the harlem on main street and were provided balcony seating at several segregated biloxi movies i was about three years old when the bay view theater was erected on the nw c of lameuse street and bayview avenue it was less than a block from our twobedroom woodframed 1940s bungalow on the west side of lameuse street that house was built with roughcut lumber and had a tin roof which survived every hurricane from the 1947 september storm and katrina with water reaching the eaves little has changed in regards the physical layout of movie theaters in my seventy years of viewing except the trend has been from single theaters to multiscreen movies houses with stadium seating and naturally more technology the concessions have always been expensive  the bay view theatre the tract of land that the bay view theatre was erected was acquired by terrance smith 18551924 an irish immigrant stevedore and resident of nola from ec joullian and charles redding in february 1921 for 8000 the smith parcel consisted of about 45 acres and was described as two hundredeighty feet on back bay and running south eight hundred fifty feet on the west side of lameuse street harrison co mississippi land deed bk 130 p 348 in october 1881 terrance smith had married sallie o harris 18621885 they had at least one son william smith 18831900 at nola mr smith remarried to katherine douglas 18691937 in february 1895 from this marriage at least two children were born in the crescent city probably on soniat street joseph smith 18971968 and douglas i smith 19011979 when terrance smith conveyed this late to his spouse in june 1924 it was described as having 280 feet on back bay and running south on the west side of lameuse street for 730 feet harrison co mississippi land deed bk 141 p 614 and 1900 orleans parish federal census t623575 p 23b ed 128 shortly after the demise of terrance smith katherine douglas smith sold the land to douglas i smith her son in january 1925 harrison co mississippi land deed bk 152 p 350 and bk 160 p 231  douglas i smith there is a high degree of certitude that douglas ignatius smith 19011979 while visiting biloxi with his parents met vera moran 19011979 the daughter of francis moran 18531935 and elizabeth vanderpool 18691940 they married at biloxi in october 1920 by 1930 douglas i smith was managing a restaurant and had his growing family domiciled on lameuse street the smith children were douglas i smith jr b 1921 patrick smith b 1923 gerard smith b 1924 m dolores kneale theresa e smith b 1925 m leon l tootle 19191988 and terrence smith 192720011930 harrison county mississippi federal census r 1146 p 22a ed 6 the bay view theatre opened on november 30 1946 with caesar and cleopatra an english produced film starring vivian leigh 19131967 and claude rains 18891967 at the time this production was touted as the most expensive ever made costing over 6 million the theater building was designed by collins collins and its erection was supervised by sam starks and cost over 60000 the theatre area was 50 feet by 100 feet with a seating capacity of almost seven hundred persons the viewing screen was plastic and the sound system built by rca a brinkert movie projector was utilized the bayview theatre was cooled and heated with a 40ton air conditioning unit and a riznor heating system respectively  the daily herald november 28 1946 p 1   in addition the structure housed kay s flower shop bay apparel and bay drugs operated by alfred j claiborne 18951946 mr claiborne had been with katz besthoff drug stores in the crescent city gerard smith son of douglas i smith was the manager of the movie house   the daily herald november 28 1946 p 1   some of the first cinema viewings and movie stars that i remember at the bay view were stalag 171953 william holden twelve o clock high1949 gregory peck on the waterfront1954 marlon brando shane1953 alan ladd the wizard of oz1939 judy garland uncle tom s cabin 1927 the three stooges our gang esther williams the swimming queen of the silver screen donald o conner francis the talking mule roy rogers and dale evans hopalong cassidy lash larue george gabby hayes laurel and hardy abbott and costello and randolph scott  myer theatre the myer theatre was unusual as it had saturday morning serials and cartoons for children buck rogers 1939 is the one i best recall the theater management was also very creative in promoting adult attendance in its early years the meyer had dr zandu s midnight seance and ghost show which claimed that it could generate enough fright and horror to make frankenstein a sissy an advertisement in the daily herald of 28 may 1940 requested that any adult willing to spend all night in a local cemetery to experience any spirit forces and share them on stage with dr zandu would be paid 10 sounds like a paltry sum until you understand that admission to the movies at this time was 11 cents for children and 17 cents for adults the daily herald may 28 1940 p 9 another hook for grownups was to have a popular local band combine with a minstrel show to create a vaudeville atmosphere the daily herald august 10 1940 p 6 the meyers family had arrived in biloxi from erath louisiana about 1926 odeus meyers had married elvena viator at delcambre louisiana in october 1905 their children were calus c meyers 19091999 albert j meyers 19111958 henry meyers 19142004 m eula marie meyers ena meyers krause 19201983 and ella meyers fayard in february 1940 odeus meyers 18841968 and calus canute cc meyers 19091999 his son operators of meyers grocery at 447 east division street announced that they were going to build a 600seat movie theater on the southeast corner of lameuse and division streets jack fayard biloxi architect was hired to draw building plans for the 11000 meyers woodframed movie house it was to be 40 feet by 110 feet and fireproof approximately 400seats were for white patrons and 200seats for colored viewers the colored entrance and lobby was on division street and their seating area was the balcony the white clientele entered from lameuse street and were seated in the main auditorium  the daily herald february 10 1940 p 1   land for the new meyers theatre was acquired in june 1938 by odeus c meyers for 1000 from ruth elder collins 19031960 and hazel elder van court 19011971 the heirs of re lee elder 18641931 this 602 foot by 300 foot site had been in the elder family since 1914 harrison co mississippi land deed bk 220 p 598 and bk 108 p 108  opening night the meyers theatre opened on the evening of may 17 1940 with alias the deacon starring bob burns calus c meyers and ht fayard of picayune were the managers of the new movie house  sale  in january 1961 odeus meyers and calus c meyers conveyed the meyer theatre to b d theatres inc for 60000 b d theatres was chartered in october 1960 by claude s bourgeois 19291985 of biloxi and edgar g doerr 19111983 mr doerr was domiciled at new orleans harrison co mississippi land deed bk 220 p 598 and harrison co mississippi chattel deed bk 263 p 132  memories of back bay 19471961 part x july 23 2020 the final years   central junior high school on september 8 1943 the new biloxi central junior high school on east howard avenue commenced classes for 568 students in grades seven eight and nine cyril a carvin 19171978 was the principal the structure had 20 classrooms home economics area manual and vocational training departments library and cafeteria the daily herald september 1 1943 p 1 and september 9 1943 in september 1956 with entry into the eighth grade at central high junior high school from st john s elementary school an incipient step into adulthood commenced no longer did we spend all day with one teacher but started the day at the home room and went to our scheduled classes like english mathematics social studies science music home economics art geography health and shop shop was a manual training lab in basic woodworking here one was taught about woods measurements hand tools and building simple objects like cutting boards boat building would certainly have been more interesting and practical for young biloxians who could ever forget miss betty jones our ninth grade homeroom teacher as i recall she taught girls physical education and was miss usm in her day we had a classroom snowball fight one day which i initiated by going outside as it had snowed and delivered the first strike at miss jones this delta belle married an officer from kafb and took off into the wild blue yonder much to the chagrin of biloxi s eligible bachelors  eateries juvenile and teen obesity was rare at this time in america the franchise fast food industries were in their incipient stages and had yet to bring their high calorie fatty foods to the public for you trivia aficionados the first mcdonald s franchise on the mississippi gulf coast was situated just west of kafb gate 7 it opened for business on pass road on may 23 1962 the 40000 building permit was announced in early october 1961 original franchisees were albert gatti and joe nibeel 19112009 the daily herald october 2 1961 p 14 and may 23 1962 p 14 local restaurants of note at this time enjoyed by teens in biloxi were led by hugo s on the se c of division and porter avenue arguably biloxi s best pizza ever friday nights here were sardine packed beer flowing fetes and especially during football season a venue of highs or lows depending if the biloxi indians or notre dame rebels were victorious alcohol consumption generally ameliorated the losers pain a biloxi tradition was to add french dressing to ones pizza which i rejected as it overwhelmed the savory ingredients of the original dish mr hugo drove a white lincoln continental with red interior and was a generous tipper my younger brother bagged groceries at delchamps and related that the bagboys competed for his grocery cart as they knew a fin was coming five dollars was a very healthy reward in the early 1960s roy a bellande july 21 2020  remembering hugo s hugo j rungo 19091993 was born in new york and spent his formative years on staten island richmond county new york it appears that hugo s father died young leaving his mother hugo and john rungo 19111997 a brother hugo came to keesler field in 1944 and after his military discharge was finalized in 1946 decided to make his home on the coast mr rungo had observed that there were no italian restaurants in the area and commenced to save money to open a local eatery in 1951 hugo was ready to become a biloxi restaurateur his first diner was in an alley where the biloxi regional hospital now exists he later moved to west division street and porter avenue he tried to get backing but he was told pizza pie who ever heard of pizza pie he proved everybody wrong hugo j rungo jr 19322008 of biloxi said sunday during the 1960s and 1970s hugo s restaurant became the in spot teenagers and families after football games the place was wild rungo said about 100 to 150 kids would come piling in they all enjoyed themselves perry ransom jr 19292003 of ocean springs knew the senior rungo for 25 years and related that hugo had a heart as big as his body he would do anything for anybody at any time he d never hesitate he will be missed but he will also be remembered ransom was a regular customer at hugos and recalls the lines outside of the restaurant it s hard to describe how family people from pass christian and pascagoula would come to get one of hugo s pizzas they s stand in line for hours to get a table hugo j rungo jr credits the popularity of his father s restaurant to its ambience and affordability it was a nice clean family type place he said people knew they could come in with their kids and have an enjoyable meal we kept the price low my father always said make a little often don t try to make a whole bunch at once besides being the place to hangout in its heyday some say that the french dressingonpizza craze was original to hugo s french dressing was kept on the tables and when it was not customers started to ask for it rungo said i remember one airman came in and asked for some liquid cheese to go with his pizza he didn t realize that it was french dressing the daily herald january 28 1967 p 5 and the sun herald january 11 1993 p a2 back bay had a paucity of diners in fact i don t remember any of note when yo mama is one of the best cooks on the planet and has five children and a spouse to feed you don t eat out often or at all caillavet street had perry s cafe and cot s place mary s drive inn on lee and division certainly gets kudos as well as abbie s lil diner on benachi rosetti s a very popular neighborhood cafe on the point was owned by vincent vici rosetti 19081983 in 1947 late one night clifton m kip dees 19272011 and several amigos were completing an evening of partying and dancing at sie s place in biloxi they developed a healthy appetite the kind resulting from drinking beer and dancing the vancleavers stopped at rosetti s a legendary eatery best known for its roast beef poboy to satisfy hunger pangs before heading northeast to vancleave kip dees ordered a crabmeat poboy with cheese in subsequent visits to rosetti s kip who was facetiously called vancleave by vici rosetti again ordered the crabmeat poboy and requested cheese rosetti tasted kipp s concoction and was so delighted with the results that he placed the poboy sandwich on his menu calling it the van cleave special in honor of his friend van cleave dees at this time dees culinary creation costs a whopping 175 making it the most expensive sandwich in the house in recent times the van cleave special has been observed on restaurant menus as far east as miami florida kip dees january 6 1999 mcelroy s a w root beer place on west howard now judge sekul was a teen hangout as were the driveinns on the biloxi strip from rodenberg avenue west to the broadwater beach hotel of the philanthropic brown family joe w brown 18971959 and dorothy dorsett brown 18961989 both texans strip clubs dominated pat harrison avenue now veterans but the iconic hot stop was a favorite with biloxi s young folks hugo j rungohugo joseph rungo 19091993 a new yorker by birth came to biloxi as an airman in 1944 and left leaving a restaurateur s legacy that will live for several more generations his italian restaurant on west division and porter was the venue for many celebrations and especially those of the sporting crowd friday night lights could have been filmed here as high school players and fans ordered pizza and shared the evening in the glory of winning or the agony of defeat  memories of back bay 19471961 part xi august 2 2020   spartan biloxi since biloxi senior high school and central junior high school were juxtaposed we invariably were influenced by our elders next door it soon became apparent that the football players across the way were top dog so i became a jock again since the early 1950s the biloxi recreation department s coach donal m snyder 19222015 had provided back bay youths with organized athletics such pee wee football and basketball as afore mentioned i had been in biloxi s first little league program 1953 and played football for st john s elementary on back bay i m not attempting to denigrate my native biloxi or indicate that i was an intellectual snob or classical musician but as my 78year young memory recalls it seemed that biloxi was a cultural vacuumat least during my fist 18 years 19431961 bluecollar societies tend to be not overly educated nor inclined to symphony opera book clubs chess matches or other cerebral pursuits fortunately the biloxi public library amply provided literature for all ages who could forget miss florence freidhoff 19051972 who managed the old old biloxi library on lameuse street she ran a tight ship and would not tolerate and noise and that included speech one had to whisper to communicate and then it was a quite whisper i remember attempting to read dostoevsky s  brothers karamazov  when i was about twelve but soon went back to hammond inness adventure novels or twofisted tales the anthology war comic which was born about the time of the korean war anybody remember that one ocean springs recently lost peter a sparkes 19322020 who as a seventeenyear old joined the usmc and survived the battle of the chosin reservoir among other engagements against north korean and chinese combatants rip brother pete in the fall as a youngster and teen we would walk up or down biloxi s cbd on a saturday morning invariably there would be some biloxi high school football players wearing their b letter jackets standing in front of the union bar like sparta biloxi was a town driven by male dominance and machismo respect came from strength and winning athletes from any sports genre were local heroes especially those that excelled in football and boxing we seem to still be mired in this bog today anyone ever want to be seen with the valedictorian in front of the library or at a bookstore the local thugs badge of honor was to roll a doggie which meant to physically accost a kafb airman before stealing his wallet many biloxi teenagers were sent to the reform school at columbia mississippi for criminal behavior unbecoming of a juvenile on 28 november 1957 i attended the traditional biloxigulfport thanksgiving football game at milner stadium in gulfport and witnessed the on field brawl that occurred at the final whistle it is alleged that over zealous biloxi fans initiated the brawl biloxi won the hard fought contest on the turf 1910 joe balius 19392010 aj all the way with holloway jr 19392018 and glen williams moved the indian offense and a tough defense anchored by george bubba misko and harold ericksen stymied the commodores in the second half the postgame melee created a hiatus of about 20 years before this annual rivalry resumed the daily herald november 29 1957 p 21   the creoles cometh one of those strange experiences that you remember forever occurred in the 8th or 9th grade at central junior high as i agedly recall one of the teachers casually mentioned that some students were coming to class that were different we were puzzled as this was the only clue chronologically this was about ten years before public school integration in mississippi and et the movie wouldn t arrive a la steven spielberg until even later in 1982 so one day these three young people arrive on campusa girl and her younger brothers they seemed to be rather normal  homo   sapiens  maybe slightly darker than average but with caucasian feature the issue with these teens was that they were originally from vancleave and deemed creoles a local pejorative term for people of muskogean origin ie of the former choctaw nation well we weren t familiar with the cruel life that their ancestors had endured in the piney woods northeast of biloxi here the creoles were not allowed into either public school white or colored eventually with northern influence the live oak pond school was created by the jackson county board of education as an elementary educational facility to educate children of the creole race it was sponsored by the baptist missionary society wpa writers during the depression wrote that the creole school at vancleave was   attended by the children of indian spanish french and negro blood who are called by the misnomer creole it is said that in some of this group still flows the blood of the biloxi indians however the percentage of indian and negro is small   1699 to present wpa and the daily herald february 2 1932 p 2    the biloxi indians were not choctaw  in 1939 the superintendent of the jackson county public schools wrote miss mary c o keefe 18931980 superintendent of the ocean springs municipal school a letter concerning the live oak pond school it read as follows  the live oak pond school was created for creoles and people of mixed blood the vancleave white school and other white schools do not permit these people to attend their schools it is unfortunate for the children but of course you know that our race question is a social problem  at this time biloxi s school board and superintendent of education should have been lauded for their unconditional acceptance of these three students of american indian ancestry they were not only good students but the males were exceptional athletes and well remembered by those that were friends and teammates  football memories since i began today s sinuous life path with football i ll conclude with that subject coach hillman q breeland 19292005 native of columbia mississippi and delta state graduate led the 1957 central braves to training camp with about 30 players the starting eleven were joe gill qb gerald lamey fb claude trahan rhb michael skrnich lhb bill smith c frank pates lg ray bellande lt elton bienvenue le davis king rg charles yost rt and harold breal re additional squad members were maynard hacker steve bowen alan santa cruz robert ross and mickey bellande the daily herald september 25 1957 p 14 and october 3 1957 p 22 coach breeland was a good natured fellow but was serious about his brand of football on his practice field his pigskin students worked if our concentration strayed or we lost a game the circle was initiated this was a test of endurance and once a large circle of players was made with covid19 spacing players 68 feet apart the runner was given the football and proceeded counterclockwise and be tackled by the chap next to him then the runner got up and ran into the next tackler this maniacal journey continued until the runner quit from exhaustion physical pain or completed the hellish journey everyone eventually was the runner and most were mean or strong enough to survive the circle even me i don t remember much about the games we played but we did travel to far off places like long beach and moss point our equipment was substandard and usually hand me downs from the high school the protective pads shoulder and hip were hard plastic and probably caused more injuries than the actual physical contact we weren t fast or big enough to create much force so injuries were minimal this is very unbelievable but at practice one day a defensive player was knocked on his derriere which was quite common the next part is pretty rare but i m sure that it has occurred more than once as the offensive back ran through the hole in the line created by excellent double team blocking he stepped on the groin of the downed lineman and his cleats cut the unfortunate lad s glans penis ouch we had winning seasons with coach breeland and by the fall of 1959 he had been promoted to the bhs football staff of coach willie wiles most of us would see him again but the circle would be replaced with wind sprints another punitive measure to promote winning and discipline football ain t for sissies the 1943 biloxi central junior highsituated on howard avenue east of both bellman street and the 1912 biloxi senior high school this structure holds special memories for those who attended it until it became dukate elementary in the 1970s when the junior high students were transferred to nichols junior high the building was razed in the early years of the 21 st century and the site is now occupied by the biloxi civic center which opened in july 2011  memories of back bay 19471961 part xii august 9 2020   biloxi central jr high    segregation ww ii babies like myself and baby boomers in biloxi grew up in a segregated society as did most of our peers in the deep south i spent 16 years in classrooms from biloxi to socorro new mexico and finally at msu in starkville and only saw one person of color segregation was not by choice but a fact of life at this time while at state i experienced the september 1962 james meredith integration of ole miss and the babe mccarthy led bulldog sec championship basketball team of 19621963 babe and university leadership defied governor ross r barnett 18981987 and met loyola chicago an integrated squad in a big dance first round match in michigan state lost by 10 points to the eventual national champion loyola rambler five known as the game of change this contest was a seminal moment in the integration of american collegiate athletics a fact not well known about state football is that in november 1946 they were scheduled to play nevada in starkvegas mississippi state college officials discovered that the nevadans had two black players and the game was cancelled the forfeiture carried a penalty of 3000 the daily herald october 29 1946 p 2 the majority biloxi s black population in the 1950s was located in an area bounded by bayou auguste and bradford street lee street the l n rr and caillavet street as a result of litigation describes as gilbert r mason v the biloxi municipal school district a plan was submitted to federal authorities to desegregate the 1st grade in biloxi public schools for the 19641965 school year 15 biloxi schools were affected the pupil population in the 19631964 school year was 8169 students with 1255 students being africanamerican biloxi high school was peacefully integrated 2 september 1965 when seven black students were admitted to classes the daily herald july 15 1964 p 1 and september 2 1965 p 1  the baseball game it must have been about 1957 and someone on back bay had the idea of playing some black teens in a baseball game the south end of fayard street near division street was an integrated neighborhood and there the young folks of both races played local games and sports together well we didn t advertise the game in order to prevent any interference from the adult community and chose a venue not in a very public place it wasn t much of a contest as we got our white asses whupped pretty good we were embarrassed to ask for a rematch nor did anyone suggest we play them in a basketball contest  1960 beach riot where were you on 24 april 1960 several of us back bay teens were gathered in the gorenflo school yard on lameuse street planning our summer vacation time a pick up truck stopped and the driver yelled the niggers are on the beach by the lighthouse y all wanna go see naturally as bored teens we jumped in the back of the truck and unwittingly sped towards an ensuing crisis ah the ignorance of youth when we got there the situation had gotten out of control white folks were pursuing black people with various weapons to drive them from the sandy shoreline the bpd was making arrests amidst the chaos after about five minutes of this disgusting and sickening event we left the violence against black people continued into the evening as we witnessed an innocent negro man pushed into a plate glass store window on howard avenue this was one of the most violent days in biloxi s long history and hopefully there will never be any reason for any reoccurrence for any reason the daily herald april 25 1960 p 1 the sun herald april 17 2017 james p smith beaches blood and ballotsuniversity press of mississippi2000  biloxi senior high school this week fiftyfive years ago i graduated from mississippi state university and relocated to new orleans to begin a career as a petroleum geologist with a major oil company this would began a twentyfour year adventure that was defined by a circuitous path that led to living in shreveport los angeles djakarta indonesia kuala lumpur malaysia singapore kingsville texas and finally lafayette louisiana from los angeles i traveled to alaska and canada several times while assigned to map the oil and gas reservoirs and calculate hydrocarbon reserves for the giant prudhoe bay field on the north slope of alaska there i experienced an actual temperature of 60f and wind chills factors as low as 120f pretty chilly for a biloxi boy the company once asked me to test a survival suit at these low temperatures and i had to report when the suit got very stiff i decided to abandon the test and seek shelter in our verywell insulated trailer read gulag archipelago someday some of you may not remember biloxi s senior high school on howard avenue and bellman street when i started classes there in september 1958 it was already fortyfive years old having been erected in 19121913 this was the replacement school for the howard memorial main school the 1888 gift of frank t howard 18551911 and harry t howard 18561930 this edifice was situated on main street and railroad street and was designed and erected by john r harkness son for 10000 the daily picayune march 22 1889 p 8 early biloxi public school buildings were the gifts of its early seafood magnates william k m dukate 18531916 william f gorenflo 18421932 and lazaro lopez 18501903 and the sons of louisiana lottery owner charles turner howard 18321885 frank t howard 18551911 and harry t howard 18561930 the 1913 biloxi public school was the first to be financed with public funds a 50000 bond issue to finance the new construction was passed by biloxi s leaders in march 1912 and called ordinance no 448 the daily herald march 14 1912 p 8 our bhs class of 1961 had the good fortune to be the last class in the noncooled 1913 structure and the first class to graduate in may 1961 from the new high school on father ryan which is now the biloxi junior high school with this education i finished four years of college and some graduate work and night classes at the following schools tennessee new mexico tech msu tulane centenary ucla and ul lafayette in the early 1980s at ul lafayette i was an adjunct professor in the petroleum engineering department this was not only personally challenging but an introduction to many students of international origin we had young petroleum engineering majors from saudi arabia yemen kuwait nigeria and lebanon prior to the 1979 overthrow of the shah of iran m reza pahlavi 19191980 ull was a favored school for iranian students primarily because the dean of petroleum engineering and his assistant was iranian i taught a laboratory course in analyzing electronic data induction well logs obtained from the subsurface strata to determine the presence of hydrocarbons and to determine the volume and recoverable oil in place today the opportunity to learn is vastly superior to what we had sixty years ago the internet has made education a daily process that can be enjoyed in a safe relaxing environment free from the constraints of a classroom and the other interferences to learning with the digitization of books magazines and other printed educational materials it appears libraries will soon cease to exist the chinese virus pandemic has created a situation where students of all levels have been acclimatized to home studies and testing will colleges and public schools cease to exist 1954 aerial public school imagerythis photograph depicts from left to right the 1913 biloxi central school which was designed by wt nolan and p torre jr nola architects the threestory structure built with st louis pressed brick was erected by se dupree contractor in september 1913 301 students walked from the 1889 howard memorial school on main street to the their new school building of these pupils about 100 were in the high school class this school closed in march 1961 when the 2 million dollar new biloxi senior high school opened on father ryan avenue to the right of the 1913 school is the 1943 biloxi central junior high school the 1929 biloxi high school gym is north of the 1913 school on what was then washington street now peyton drive today the biloxi public library and civic center occupy the site formerly that of the two public schools  1961   to socorro and first semester of college   the sunset limited pulledout of the union station at new orleans in late august or early september 1961 it was late on a sunday evening probably about 10 pm i began to get anxious as the reality of leaving home family and friends for the first time began to set in i rode in a passenger car and slept very little until i got to el paso about 2 am on tuesday i slept on a bench in the train station until dawn and then boarded the northbound santa fe for new mexico institute of mining and technology at socorro new mexico i can still feel and smell the cold smoky airconditioned atmosphere of the train compartment the mustard taste of ham sandwiches remains but some of the characters i met on the southern pacific passenger train like the russian student from california the gi going to ft bliss and the southern belle from georgia will always be a part of the insomnia journey from the crescent city coincidentally i met bob hossack who was also headed for new mexico tech on the santa fe portion of the journey hossack was from la mesa california he was very intelligent an excellent student and a damn good tennis player bob is the only guy that i ever saw wear out the toe of a tennis shoe he did this by dragging his foot while serving the tennis ball we arrived at socorro on a beautiful cool clear september day i met my roommate hunter smith a cowboy from pinon new mexico the first several weeks at college were very miserable i really missed something was it the security of my former environment school was difficult my objective here was to get a degree in geology i had a poor high school foundation in mathematics and the physical sciences which would haunt me all through my scholastic years i did do well in english art and physical education but only fair in chemistry failure was not met in physics or algebra but i was near the bottom of the class in these subjects the art of art of studying had not yet been learned by this mississippi lad it was much easier to get absorbed in sports as my dormitory room was only about 100 yards from the gym soon i became a gym rat spending hours shooting baskets and playing round ball it was a great escape from studying the school had a basketball team called the ratheskeller named for the sponsor a local lounge we played in the city league against the locals who were chiefly chicanos i once scored twentyfive points in a game this experience also gave me the opportunity to officiate which was very difficult we also played softball and flag football as part of the intramural program i thoroughly enjoyed the keen competition with the graduate students and staff i will always remember james mcgettigan our pe teacher as a great competitor probably my biggest thrill at new mexico tech was the trip to the kellygraphic mining district near magdalena new mexico it was here that we went underground to search for the rare mineral smithsonite a zinc carbonate ore which is present here in a boitroidal form in late november 1961 on a cool clear sunday afternoon eight of us left the socorro campus for magdalena i had never been below ground and was quite anxious about the experience little did i know that later that afternoon i would experience some of the greatest anxiety of my life the entrance to the mine at magdalena was 45 feet high and required one to walk in a stooped position we wore hard hats with acetylene lamps carried geologic hammers and an occasional person might have had water and a flashlight sporadically we stopped to collect from the walls of the mine barite calcite and other common minerals the turkey ore or smithsonite was much deeper i remember coming to a juncture in the mine tunnel were it was necessary to descend on ladders to another level i had no idea of our depth or direction thus far all was preceding well the group reached an area of the mine where the portal was about three feet wide i wasn t eager to begin crawling through this small tunnel but there was little choice someone said that we were crawling through the fault zone i never did learn the geology of the area the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel was a welcome sight there was another surprise before we reached the stope or winze were the smithsonite lie it was in the guise of crystallized sticks of dynamite we collected some fair quality mineral specimens of which a few i still possess the return trip out of the kellygraphic mine was hairy we reached a location in the mine where one had to swing across a vertical shaft to reach the continuation of the tunnel i was with the point man and naturally we were leading the party suddenly behind us a muted shout or scream was heard my partner who had the light source felt that someone might have fallen into the shaft immediately he returned to determine the seriousness of the situation i was abandoned in total darkness it was blacker than black i wouldn t move for fear of falling into a shaft it was deathly silent and the fact that i knew nothing of the potential disaster behind me only added to a growing sense of anxiety my heart began to pound violently in my chest cavity i was scared lord deliver me from this tomb i prayed i started a litany don t let me die alone i ll never miss mass again i had no concept of time or space it seemed like an hour before my partner returned i m sure it was no more than ten minutes fortunately all was well and my companions and i returned safely to the surface when we got back to the campus i didn t realize how hungry or dirty that i had become i remember picking dust dirt etc out of my nose for twenty minutes while waiting for some hamburgers and a milk shake at the grill that evening a deep fatigued had also set in as the semester at new mexico tech progressed i realized that i couldn t survive four years at socorro i probably could have struggled through with a c average on the academic side but the isolation and boredom that i felt as well as the expenses were difficult obstacles to overcome i went to the library to locate a college catalog for a school closer to biloxi mississippi state university was the only school in the state that i could find any information about i applied and was accepted for the spring semester when i left socorro in january 1962 i wept it was my first experience away from home i had made some great relationships it was a small school almost non coed we were all survivors i left the ship but i know these guys all survived as well  19621965 mississippi state university what a difference a college makes at mississippi state i found all the courses fairly easy and made the dean s list admittedly i did study much more enthusiastically i got away from sports and became caught up in a competitive group of guys who wanted to excel academically here i continued my pursuit of a geology degree dr dunn had just retired and a new professor dr troy j laswell had just taken over the geology department don keady was on his way to texas a m to work on his doctorate degree my three and onehalf years at mississippi state were fairly routine i made good grades in fact i was on the dean s list six out of the seven semesters that i attended that institution and finished with a 312 qpa with the exception of a c in structural geology my record in geology courses was all a s i never did understand how to use that strain ellipsoid of my geology classmates at state i would later come across owen scott lafayette john b mcgee sidney australia jesse ellard tuscaloosa and james christian new orleans on the oil patch after departing mississippi state and starkville in may 1965 i only returned twice i believe it was 1972 that i went for a home coming football contest with usm and then later in 1984 when i went to tuscaloosa to show some oil deals to michigan oil and an english based company at starkville only a few memorable events remain with me the most ecstatic being the may day that i departed the area another event that occurred there that left a mark in my memory happened on the athletic field in 1964 we lost to memphis state at scott field this was the first time that they had beaten a sec team following the contest their fans stormed the field and attempted to tear down our goal posts needless to say the rednecks and their cowbells held the day i observed some very nasty head wounds in tiger fans on their way to the infirmary another athletic event which is memorable was a stateole miss football game in november 1963 it was so cold i froze my ass off it took about two hours before my body quit shivering and i felt normal i m sure that i was hypothermic the great state basketball teams led by babe mccarthy are another fond memory i was fortunate to watch red stroud joe dan gold and leland mitchell during the 19621964 seasons even though state reached the final four in 1996 these teams with those of bailey howell a few years earlier may have been the acme of state basketball history  1964 summer employmentjackson  interview with george burchfield of gulf oil went to work for gulf in their jackson mississippi office in may 1964 as a geological technician worked with photogeologist harry i met  joseph joe cyril franklin  19322020 in june 1964 at jackson mississippi when he was a geologist with the gulf oil refining company as a summer employee i was assigned to assist the geological staff as a goffor it was an amazing education for a third year geology major and joe franklin was very supportive during my three month summer job we would meet again in lafayette louisiana and work together as consulting geologist in coastal mississippi wellsitting deep smackover exploration wells for saga petroleum a norwegian company ainterviews with texaco gulf and humble oil refining company hired by fred sollars of humble oil  1965 in the spring of 1965 i had i nterviews at state college mississippi with representatives of texaco and humble oil refining company as i had a record with gulf i was flown to houston texas and was interviewed by henry f fowler in the houston petroleum club i was offered a position with gulf and was to report to the saratoga building in new orleans after completing my geology summer field camp hired by fred sollars of humble oil  dayton tennessee   1965 new orleans on august 5 1965 i reported to carl patterson at the jeff davis parkway office of humble oil refining company  1967 shreveport louisiana   oil field groceries  written february 1992 its a cool damp wintry day in south mississippi and i have the en vie to create a great gumbo after preparing a shopping list for the multitudinous ingredients i decide to make some chilli instead thank you mr mcilhenny these culinary thoughts surface memories of an oil patch experi ence of yore allow me to relate it to you as i best recall it was about june 1967 and humble exxon transferred me to the shreveport production district to learn the real oil field my first venture into the patch was down the mississippi river levee in concordia parish to a wilcox oilfield called fairview since i was a real weevil i was placed in the tutor ship of a senior geologist we spent the night at vidalia with the theory that a good nights sleep would sharpen the mind and allow for a more lucid evaluation after a savory breakfast of eggs bacon grits butter soaked biscuits and copious amounts of coffee we headed south the twenty odd miles to the rig at fairview our timing was superb as big blue had an induction log waiting for us after a quick inspection of the log smiles radiated from us both there were at least five pay sands called sharp artman minter and other anglo names like that i began to get excited since we were going to see some real oil well the cores kept coming industry s modus operandi was to shoot beaucoup sidewallscores since many wilcox reser voirs exhibit low resistivity characteristics due to the laminar bedding planes about 1 pm i began to feel the pangs of hunger in a weak tone i suggested hey jim lets go to natchez for some groceries i hear they have some great food up there his reply was huh we re working kid no food until the evaluation is complete but man i don t think well without food i said irritably we should be done by 4 pm my wife made me a sandwich yesterday its in the trunk of the car you re welcome to it he replied amicably with the thought of ptomaine or some other stomach disorder in my head i gracefully declined his offer for nourishment instead i suggested that it might be a good idea for me to go into the swamp to look for some natural organic health food like blackberries heart of palmetto pine seeds etc i knew someday my boy scout training would come to play was this the day when i opened the door of the doghouse my oil and chlorothane saturated nostrils could barely sense it yes yes an aroma of edible goodies in the atmosphere the schlumberger operators were feasting out of a large ice chest near the logging truck bologna lunch meat ham pickles tomatoes bread yeah and lots of mayonnaise in addition there was lots of sugar and caffeine in the colas to revive my weakened body and sluggish mind sheepishly i asked if i might participate in their victual ritual sure they replied gregariously this is the community lunch wagon this was to be my first oil field perk but i didn t realize it then as we ate a thick steak that evening in monroe cele brating that rare event a successful wilcox well i began to formulate an idea yes i ll stock my car with food the next time i venture into the backwaters of the oilfield to do wellsite work i did and have never regretted it  1969 los angeles california  i departed lax for anchorage alaska in march 1969 we stopped at seattle and then flew nonstop to alaska dean morgridge the district geologist for alaska was also aboard the continental jet we arrived at anchorage about 8 pm the air temperature was a cool 14 degrees f leaving balmy southern california i wasn t totally prepared for the subarctic cold dean morgridge invited me to have dinner with him we went to a restaurant that specialized in beef our order took nearly two hours and consisted of a small roast weighing about 20 ounces needless to say that after the wait we were literally hungry enough to eat a cow there was a strong blizzard on the north slope and no aircraft were going in this allowed me to remain in the anchorage area two additional days i took advantage of this time to do some shopping and sight seeing i rented a car and drove down the turn again arm of the cook inlet to the ski resort at and to see the portage glacier i believe it was st patrick s day when we boarded the king air for the prudhoe bay camp i joined the company of three arco tool pushers they were pretty crusty charactersstereotypes of the oil field where do they manufacture these men there must be a mill in oklahoma or texas that stamps them out complete with cowboy boots diamond ring and assorted gold jewelry nugget watch bands and jewelry were popular in alaska at this time it was a three and onehalf hour flight to the north slope from anchorage the weather was good and visibility at the altitude that we flew was great the yukon river was still frozen and the rugose nature of the brooks range still remains strong in my memory i soon realized that we would be extremely difficult to find down there the north slope was equally impressive it is a great arctic desert which dips gently to the arctic ocean from the mountains to the south this vast treeless tundra terrain is about 100 miles wide and 400 miles in length it is transected by a few large north flowing rivers such as the colville and sagavanirktov when the king air set down at the dead horse airstrip it was cloudy and blowing snow with the temperature at  degrees f i was assigned to the arcohumble oil no 1 toolikfederal an exploratory hole about 12 miles south of the prudhoe bay field at this time the arcohumble combine had three rigs running on the north slope evaluating acreage for the upcoming september alaska state lease sale the arcohumble no 1 deltastate was drilling in the sadelerochit truncation zone southeast of the field discovery well the no 1 prudhoe baystate it had been completed in 1967 and was located in the gas cap of the large permotriassic reservoir arcohumble no 1 lakestate was digging south of the field s confirmation test no 1 sag riverstate lakestate no 1 was attempting to locate the oilwater contact for the large oil accumulation discovered by sag riverno 1 toolikfederal no 1 was a weak seismic prospect and probably should not have been drilled we had company in the immediate area as socal was drilling their first well no 1 dead horsestate between our no 1 lake and no 1 tooliktoolik federal immediately upon disembarkation from the aircraft and checking in at the base camp we were transported in a pickup truck to the rig the trucks on the north slope ran continuously for fear that they would freeze up if shut down the drive from the arco base camp to the toolik rig took about 45 minutes in good weather the road was paved with gravel which had been mined from the flood plain and bed of the sag river a large braided stream with many anamostizing channels it is interesting to note that this huge oil and gas field which is about 10 miles wide and forty miles long and reservoirs about 12 billion barrels of oil and 27 trillion cubic feet of natural gas might not have commercial to develop if it there had not been extensive gravel deposits in the immediate area the gravel insulates the tundra and provides a solid foundation for drilling pads buildings and an extensive network of roads as previously mentioned to reduce the large number of drill sites necessary to develop the field production wells were directionally drilled from pads similar to the development of an offshore field development this practice was also environmentally sound as it reduced the number of surface structures  1971 jakarta indonesia and sumatra   1972 kuala lumpur malaysia and sabah   1973 kingsville texas  i left los angeles california in march of 1973 for kingsville texas it was to be my last assignment with humble oil refining company as the name of the company would soon change to exxon i drove my chevrolet vega through the high california desert for the last time my first night out of la was spent in arizona on the south rim of the grand canyon the first view of that magnificent hole in the earth was remarkable i remember mumbling something like oh shit with my first glimpse of it no doubt that the grand canyon is one of the great natural wonders of the world snow was still present on the high kaibab pleateau the next day i drove continuously stopping very briefly at socorro new mexico to visit my alma mater new mexico tech the campus had improved since my stay there in the fall of 1961 i arrived in el paso texas before dusk and spent the night there visited jim petrezelka a class mate at new mexico tech i arose early and continued east passing through the rugged canyon country of pecos and crockett counties in west texas it is very beautiful i reached san antonio in an exhausted state the next day i made the two hour drive south to kingville arriving there about 1000 am i went to the humble office and met rod boane who was the district geologist ed sabatka would be my immediate supervisor and bob dubose in corpus christi was our division geologist there were some real characters in our kingsville office some were old veterans like wally jack charlie fred steuer and hollis marshall there were a few newcomers like rolly oberg mitch neilson ed o quinn paul mayes and carl musgrove i was replacing dennis barclay who had gone to work for esso norway in stavenger i had met dennis barclay in the 1966 electric well logging school at esso production research company in houston i ll never forget the saturday morning that he and i went to galveston we got into a very intense rain storm on the galveston bridge traffic stopped because the visibility was zero there was a total whiteout of rain water barclay had gone to stanvac at jakarta indonesia on a temporary overseas assignment in 1969 and i followed in his tracks over there in 1971 i had hoped to repeat and follow him to norway life is cruel at times in 1974 dennis developed a melanoma or black mole and died in norway within a few months while with esso norge he was very fair skinned with red hair blue eyes and freckles dennis barclay was a good geologist and friend i will always remember him although our acquaintance was chiefly by telephone at kingsville i settled in at the santa gertrudis apartments a most appropriate name since the principal bovine on the king ranch was the cow with the same name i believe the santa gertrudis hybrid was developed from the brahma and hereford breeds and the resulting animal is well suited for the climate of south texas humble s kingsville district consisted primarily of the oil an gas fields which had been discovered on the large king ranch the king ranch is approximately 1 million acres in size someone toid me that it was leased by humble oil during the great depression the lease money helped pay the taxes and kept the kleberg empire intact subsequent exploration and development by humble demonstrated that the king ranch contained some major oil and gas fields at one time the king ranch gas plant was one of the largest in the world i was in development geology and assigned to work the abnormal pressured vicksburg gas trend in the tijernacanalesblucher and seeligson areas the oligocene vicksburg age clastic reservoirs occur at relatively shallow depths in this area ie 900010000 feet if you find a good reservoir wells with capacities in the 2030 mmcfg d can be made an interesting geological phenomena occurred at the king ranch shortly before i arrive there in the 1950s humble had drilled an 8000foot frio flank well at tcb there was oil production up dip in the same apparent stratigraphic interval the up dip wells wateredout but the down dip well continued to produce liquid hydrocarbons at a good rate and had accumulated a high production total one very commendable facet of the reservoir engineering group in the kingsville district is that they ran bhp bottom hole pressure tests on a regular basis they discovered the anomalous production condition on the east flank of tcb and recommended that a well be drilled up dip of the production anomaly and the down dip of the abandoned wells a geologist correlating the frio wells of interest on the east flank of tcb would probably conclude that they were the same sand body an exploratory test was dug between the producing well and the up dip wateredout producers it came in flowing between 200 and 300 barrels of oil per day rolly oberg handled the mapping of this project and eventually six successful development wells were drilled on strike this was a great lesson in stratigraphy and production anomalies i would remember this and apply it successfully later at the iota field in acadia parish louisiana although i remained in the kingsville district for only nine months it was an interesting assignment and i met some good people one of these individuals was young bill london from oklahoma city we called bill the kid he had grown up in the oil patch of new mexico and oklahoma as his father owned a production company london graduated from princeton university and came to kingsville in may of 1973 directly from new jersey i have never met anyone who was as knowledgeable about the oil business at such a young age bill london was about 24 years of age he developed a prospect within three weeks of his arrival and it was drilled immediately it was a stratigraphic play that didn t work but nevertheless was a good idea bill london rolly oberg and myself were the only batchelors in the office bill and i sailed some at rivera beach and played tennis he called me at lafayette after i had left and invited me to be in his wedding at oklahoma city i hope he and coe have done well with their life together work wise i got two wells drilled during my short stay in kingville both were in the canelo field one was a marginal producer and the other probably made humble lots of money i worked with an australian engineer dave on these projects he was good chap and very bright my days with humble were numbered after i made several gaffs with the local management living in california had set me free in some ways and added to my eccentricities my primary troubles started in the summer of 1973 it was very warm and humid in south texas and i decided to set a new dress code for working in the texas tropics my choice of apparel was british walking shorts with white knee stockings this was not pleasing to district geologist boane in addition i was habitually late for work office hours were from 700 am until 430 pm historically i am not an early morning person my hours were more like 715 to 500 pm boane would write company memos and send them out reminding everyone of the work schedule i would have appreciated it more if he had come to me personally and told me to be there at 700 am the final act that led to my leaving humble oil also occurred in the heat of 1973 i had come into the office from a logging run on a very hot day the district engineer harry longwell wanted to see the log unfortunately i was wearing a tank top shirt longwell later complained to boane that i didn t appreciate his bellande s hairy arm pit in my face during my trips from kingsville to biloxi i usually stopped at lafayette to visit john borger my old mate from the offshore distrci at new orleans and from alaskan well sitting days john had left humble while in los angeles and joined tenneco at lafayette tenneco at this time was very active in the gulf of mexico they were actively hiring experienced development geologist for their lafayette office i met several management people dan foder and chuck schultz and liked them immediately my employment with humble oil had exceeded eight years in august of 1973 until the incidents with rod boane at kingsville my career had gone smoothly chuck schultz began calling me at home in kingsville offering employment with tenneco as things began to deteriorate for me in texas i accepted an offer to meet schultz in houston to seriously consider leaving humble we met in the airport and he offered me 1200 per month which i accepted the thought of leaving humble was not pleasant as it was the only real job that i had ever had john henderson had replace rod boane as district geologist i liked and respected henderson he was smart and a leader strangely to me john henderson wouldn t accept my resignation  19731974 lafayette louisiana   joseph c franklin  i met joseph joe cyril franklin  19322020 in june 1964 at jackson mississippi when he was a geologist with the gulf oil refining company as a summer employee i was assigned to assist the geological staff as a goffor it was an amazing education for a third year geology major and joe franklin was very supportive during my three month summer job never expecting see joe again i was pleasantly surprised to discover that we were both working in lafayette louisiana it was the summer of 1973 and i had joined tenneco and joe was with a suburban propane we rekindled our acquaintance in the fall of 1974 joe called me at tenneco and offered me a job that i accepted he had landed a consulting job through a lafayette drilling contractor to provide wellsite services for saga petroleum a norwegian oil explorer with a large acreage position in coastal mississippi and alabama the job required relocating to gulfport mississippi when the saga work ended in 1975 we moved back to lafayette and went our respective ways after i became an independent geologist in 1980 i sold joe several drilling deals which were quasisuccessful he had established himself as source petroleum and continued as such until our last contact in 1992  19741975 gulfport mississippi   time line images new orleans1944   mississippi state science fair 1st place 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