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('page', 0, 209, 212, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Tung oil blooms.jpg\" style=\"height:152px; width:199px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Tung oil nuts.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:200px\" /></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>TUNG OIL</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Tung nuts are grown on a tree indigenous to China. The name of the tree is derived from the heart-shape of its leaves, as the Chinese word for heart is \"tung\". The tung nut tree reaches a height of about 25-feet and will produce approximately 20-25 pounds of nuts per season. The tung nuts are processed to produce a poisonous oil, sometimes called&nbsp;<em>Chinese wood oil,&nbsp;</em>which is sold as an industrial-use vegetable oil. (<em>The Mississippi Press, ?, p. 3-A)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The refined tung nut oil was used extensively in the manufacture of paints, varnishes, enamels, pulp board, and as a waterproofing agent. Technological advances in the paint industry and damage to orchards severely reduced its demand and production until very recent times, when a revival for tung oil was ordained by new environmental regulations. Once again, tung oil is used in the paint and printing industry displacing petroleum distillate compounds which are deemed environmental hazards. (<em>The Mississippi Press, November 24, 1996, p. 4-A)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 50,000-acres of domestic tung nut trees were growing in south Mississippi. The well-drained, moist, slightly acidic soil of cut-over timberlands in the Gulf coastal plain of South Mississppi made this an ideal region for tung nut tree cultivation. (<em>The Jackson County Times, August 22, 1936)&nbsp;</em>Certain sections of Stone and Harrison Counties were sites of pioneer tung nut cultivation.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>TIMELINE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1906</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>first Tung Oil tree in Mississippi was planted by Aristede Hopkins in 1906&nbsp;</strong>on Hopkins Boulevard.(The Daily Herald, July 28, 1933, p. 1)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1931</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The American Tung Oil&nbsp;Production Corporation of New York </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">through their local representative,</span></span><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"> Thomas H. Hawkes, is reported to have established an extensive nursery near Carriere, Mississippi for growing tung trees </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">to be planted in 1931 and 1932. </span></span><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;The corporation&nbsp;has secured acreage to establish tung tree groves for 6000 acres of trees from the seedlings produced at the Carriere nursery. &nbsp;</span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In addition,</span></span><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"> Lamont Rowlands</span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;(1877-1958),</span></span><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">an <strong>extensive land owner about 10 miles north</strong> of Picayune, Mississippi</span></span><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, is reported to be planting 4000 acres of tung tree seedlings here.</span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(The Daily Herald, January 28, 1931, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1933</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi\'s <strong>Anthony V. Ragusin wrote an article on the tung oil industry</strong> that was published on February 12, 1933, in the Memphis <strong>Commercial Appeal newspaper</strong>.(The Daily Herald, February 15, 1933, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1934</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lamont Rowlands </strong>(1877-1958) 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)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1935</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1936</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Proposed tax on tung oil dropped.</strong>(The Daily Herald, June 2, 1936, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1938</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Tung Oil Planting and Milling Company, Inc. of New Orleans acquired the old Smith Foundry Building on 14th Street and 32nd Avenue.&nbsp; They planned to convert the&nbsp; structure into a plant to process the ting nut and soy beans.(The Daily Herald, February 2, 1938, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1939</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Sherwin-Williams announced its development of \"Dehydrol\" </strong>as a substitute for tung oil. &nbsp;The product is made from castor oil.[The Daily Herald, November 17, 1939, p. 2]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1941</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March, the <strong>first 10,000-gallon rail tank car of&nbsp; tung oil was shipped from the mill of&nbsp; L.O. Crosby and Sons at</strong> Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi to a Chicago buyer.&nbsp; It was planned to ship a similar size tank car every ten days.&nbsp; Crosby had acquired 100 tons of tung nuts at $60 per ton and had contracted to purchase 1800 tons of nuts.&nbsp; Tung oil was selling on the New York market for 28 cents per pound.(The Daily Herald, March 11, 1941, p. 7)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1944</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>American production of tung nuts increased from 9300 tons in 1939 to 9300 tons in 1943 and the value of the product went from &nbsp;15 cents per pound to 39 cents per pound in this time period. &nbsp;Mississippi led the nation with 78,200 acres of trees; Florida had 28,250 acres; Lousiana-27,900 acres; Georgia-8100 acres; Alabama-3800 acres- and Texas-550 acres.(The Daily Herald, May 31, 1944, p. 4)&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1947</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In early May, <strong>Edward C. Gay of Gulfport, Mississippi</strong> was re-elected president of the American Tung Oil Association at its convetion at Pensacola, Florida. Other officers chosen were: Samuel S. Tomlin, vice-pres.-Atlanta, representing the Eastern Section of the tung belt; &nbsp;Charles W. Goodyear Jr.-vice pres,-Bogulsa, Louisiana, representing the western section; and Marshall Ballard Jr.-sec.-treas.-Lumberton, Mississippi. &nbsp;More than 150 growers and millers from six tung producing states were at the gathering.(The Daily Herald, May 3, 1947, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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, p.1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1948</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>First Mississippi produced tung oil began to flow in late January</strong> at the American Tung Oil Mill at the Landon Community situated four miles north of Gulfport and near US Highway No. 49. &nbsp;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)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1949</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mississippi produced 43,600 tons of tung nuts valued at $2,834,000</strong>-a record harvest.(The Daily Herald, September 5, 1952, p. 17)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1951</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Cold weather in mid-March resulted in about half o</strong>f <strong>Louisiana\'s tung nut crop valued at $1.5 million dollars to have been destroyed.</strong> 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 40,000 tons; Louisiana 30,000 tons; and Florida 25,000 tons.(The Daily Herald, march 16, 1951, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1952</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Plan to recruit workers in the tung harvest.(The Daily Herald, October 4, 1952, p. 7)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1953</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mississippi\'s tung production in 1953 was estimated to be about 100 per cent of 1952\'s 60,000 tons. &nbsp;This unusual repeat was attributed to new tung orchards which were planted with better varieiries developed by the new tung laborotory. &nbsp;Pearl River County was the salient locus of the new tung orchards.(The Daily Herald, August 14, 1953, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1964</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Tung industry was planning their 31st annual meeting</strong>.(The Daily Herald, September 3, 1964, p. 6)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>J. Riley Rankin of Poplarville, Mississippi was named Tung Oil Man of the Year</strong>.(The Daily Herald, September 25, 1964, p. 9)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mississippi Gulf Coast Yesterday &amp; Today (1699-1939)</strong>, Federal Writers Project in Mississippi Works Progress Administration, (Gulfport Printing Company: Gulfport-1939), pp. 30-31.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Theo. Bechtel is Rotary speakerTung Oil trees”</strong>, December 3,&nbsp;1930, p. 1.</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Plan Tung Oil tree expansion”</strong>, January 28, 1931, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tung Oil trees”</strong>, May 1, 1931, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Show interest in Tung trees”</strong>, January 23, 1933, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tung oil article”</strong>, Febuary 15, 1933, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Will appeal to President</strong><strong>\", </strong>October 23, 1934, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Importance of Tung Oil is stressed by U.S. experts</strong><strong>\",&nbsp;</strong>April 5, 1935, p. 1</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Plan development of Tung tree groves”</strong>, January 13, 1936, p. 2.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Tung production sets new record\"</strong>, October 30, 1936, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tung meeting set for Coast”</strong>, December 7, 1937, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Tung oil group </strong>[Tung Oil Planting and Milling Company of NOLA] <strong>buy building </strong>[in Gulfport]\", February 2, 1938, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“McNeil favored for tung oil experiment”</strong>, May 18, 1938, p. 5.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em></em><strong>“Studying tung oil fields”</strong>, December 31, 1938, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Large tung oil shipments move from Picayune\", </strong>March 11, 1941, p. 7.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Tung oil becomes $1,000,000 crop\",&nbsp;</strong>March 11, 1944, p. 4.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Dantzler Farm in Success Community added to District”</strong>, October 25, 1946, p. 10.</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tells of growth of tung oil industry”</strong>, November 1, 1946, p. 4.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ed Gay reelected American Tung Oil president”</strong>, May 3, 1947, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Gulfport to be site of 1948 Tung Oil Convention”</strong>, May 5, 1947, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“6,000 Tung trees reported in&nbsp;[Harrison] County”</strong>, September 17, 1947, p. 5.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em></em><em><strong>“Wants anti-dumping act invoked&nbsp;against Tung Oil&nbsp;imports\"</strong>, October 27, 1947, p. 1.</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“New plant produces first Tung Oil in Harrison County”</strong>, January 29, 1948, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Colmer introduces tung nut measure\"</strong>, February 13, 1948, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tung Group scans 8-point plan”</strong>, May 27, 1949, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“History of tung trees, oil told YMBC address”</strong>, June 1, 1949, p. 9.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>T</em><em>he Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Landon Tung Mill serves 29,576 acres of Tung trees-Harrison alone has 2420 acres”</strong>, June 2, 1949, Sec. II, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Louisiana tung crop is heavily damaged\"</strong>, March 16, 1951, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tung Oil import bill introduced by Rep. Colmer\"</strong>, June 12, 1951. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">,&nbsp;</span><strong>\"Mississippi is the largest producer of&nbsp;tung nuts\"</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">, September 5, 1952.</span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Plan to recruit workers in the tung harvest\"</strong>, October 4, 1952.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em></em><strong>“Coast delegation </strong>[Rep. Colmer (D-Miss)<strong> asking Tung oil imports be barred”</strong>, March 13, 1953.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tung crop 80 per cent of last year”</strong>, August 14, 1953.<em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tung support price $52.13”</strong>, October 31, 1957. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>\"</strong><strong>Gulfport Vegetable Oil Company-2nd largest Tung Oil producing plant in World\"</strong>, February 25, 1959, p. 14.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"</strong><strong>Tung Industry convention [Edgewater Hotel-Biloxi] is set Sept. 28-29\"</strong>, August 26, 1959, p. 21.&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"To feature Tung Oil research at&nbsp;</strong><strong>Tung convention&nbsp;[Edgewater&nbsp;Hotel-Biloxi]\"</strong>, September 19, 1960, p. 9.&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong><em>\"Tung </em></strong><em><strong>men want quotas placed on import [tung] oil\"</strong>, October 24, 1961, p. 1.</em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Tung industry planning 31st annual meet</strong><strong>\"</strong>, September 3, 1964, p. 6.&nbsp;</span></span>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"J. Riley Rankin is Tung Oil Man of the Year\"</strong>, September 25, 1964, p. 19.&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Tung Oil trees thrive in Jackson County soil\"</strong>, September 7, 1929, p. 1.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Tung Oil to be studied at M\'Neil Station\"</strong>, August 22, 1936, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Mississippi Press</em>,<strong> \"Tung Industry begins revival in State\"</strong>, November 24, 1996, p. A4.&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tung Oil pays anew”</strong>, November 1, 1998, p. H1.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2');
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('page', 0, 214, 217, 'en', 0, '<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">LAMEY FAMILY</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">The familial name&nbsp;<strong>LAMEY</strong>&nbsp;has been noted in archival documents as&nbsp;<strong>LAMI</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>LAME,</strong>&nbsp;<strong>LAMIE, LAMMY, LAMAIS, LANIE,&nbsp;</strong>and<strong>&nbsp;LEMME.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>The progenitor of this family in America was Jacques Lamy, the son of Jacques Lamy (ca 1740-1770) and Marguerite de Rossiere.&nbsp; He was born at Meaux, France east of Paris.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Jacques Lamy came to North America in French Colonial Louisiana as a soldier.&nbsp; He married Marie Helene Moreau, the daughter of Joseph Moreau and Marine Jeanne Dauphin.&nbsp; Sergeant Lamy was discharged in 1763, having served in the company of Captain Trente.&nbsp; He lost his life in February 1770, when the&nbsp;<strong><em>Pere de Famille&nbsp;</em></strong>sank on a voyage to France.(De Ville, 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , p.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">In 1761, Jacques and Marie Helene Lamy had a son, Jean Batiste Lamy (1761-1804+).&nbsp; A daughter, Euphrasie Lamy, was born in November 1769.&nbsp; Jean B. Lamy married Isabel Baudin, the daughter of Louis Baudin and Louisa Lorendine (Laurendine).&nbsp; Their youngest son, Alexandre Antoine Lamy (1804-1890) was the founder of the Lamey family on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Alexandre Antoine Lamy</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">&nbsp;In a civil ritual performed in 1827, Alexandre Antoine Lamy (1804-1890) married Marguerite Constance Ladner (1812-ca 1844), the daughter of John-Baptiste Ladner and Marie-Josephe Morin (Moran).&nbsp; Their union was blessed in the Catholic Church on May 4, 1836.&nbsp; The issue of this marriage were born on Dauphin Island, Alabama:&nbsp;<strong>J. Albert Lamey</strong>(1828-1850+),&nbsp;<strong>William Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1829-1850+),&nbsp;<strong>Lucy Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1831-1850+),&nbsp;<strong>Arsene Marie Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(b. 1834), and&nbsp;<strong>Philip Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1835-1880+).</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">After the demise of Marguerite C. Lamey ca 1844, Alexandre A. Lamey married Darthula Latimer (1827-1876), a native of Indiana, and the daughter of Elisha Latimer (1792-1860+) and Mary Jane Ewing (1792-1877).&nbsp; Their children were: Edward Lamey (b. 1845),&nbsp;<strong>Peter Abijah Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1847-1932) married&nbsp;<strong>Sarah H. Hamilton</strong>&nbsp;(1858-1933) in February 1883;&nbsp;<strong>Antoine Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1849-1929) married&nbsp;<strong>Louisa Rhodes Wells</strong>&nbsp;(1848-1910) in August 1878;&nbsp;<strong>James Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1852-1870+),&nbsp;<strong>Elizabeth Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1852-1929) married&nbsp;<strong>Frederick</strong>&nbsp;&ldquo;<strong>Fritz&rdquo; Hosli</strong>&nbsp;(1843-1882) in January 1871 and&nbsp;<strong>William J. &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo; Rushing</strong>&nbsp;(1861-1938) in September 1883;&nbsp;<strong>Anna Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1853-1878+) married&nbsp;<strong>Peter Cannette</strong>(1854-1930) in February 1874; Elise Lamey (1858-1870+), and Mary Lamey (1860-pre 1870)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Philip Lamey</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Philip Lamey (1837-pre-1907) married Catherine &ldquo;Katie&rdquo; Hudson (1851-pre-1900) on October 17, 1866.&nbsp; Their children were:&nbsp;<strong>Anthony Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1862-1938) married Aline Krohn post 1900;&nbsp;<strong>Philip E. &ldquo;Dink&rdquo; Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1870-1953) married&nbsp;<strong>Annie Hosli&nbsp;</strong>(1869-1949) in November 1894;&nbsp;<strong>Zeolide Lamey (1873-1931)&nbsp;</strong>married&nbsp;<strong>W.C. Parks&nbsp;</strong>in&nbsp;May 1903<strong>; John Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1879-1946) married&nbsp;<strong>Elsie Irma Krohn</strong>&nbsp;(1892-1928);&nbsp;<strong>William Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1880-1945) married&nbsp;<strong>Rosa Newman</strong>&nbsp;(1880-1908) in February 1899; and&nbsp;<strong>Josephine Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1884-1907).(Harrison County, Ms. Circuit Court MRB 5, p. 69, MRB 6, p. 268, MRB, MRB 10, p. 274 )</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Philip E. &ldquo;Dink&rdquo; Lamey</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Philip &ldquo;Dink&rdquo; Lamey (1870-1953) and Annie Hosli (1869-1949), the daughter of Henry Hosli and Barbara Hosli (1833-1900+), had married in Harrison County, Mississippi in November 1894.&nbsp; Their children were:&nbsp;<strong>John Clifton Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1895-1971),&nbsp;<strong>Philip E. Lamey II&nbsp;</strong>(1900-1981),&nbsp;<strong>Margaret Edwina L. Riggle</strong>&nbsp;(1905-1980),&nbsp;<strong>William Jasper &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1908-1980) and&nbsp;<strong>George A. Lamey</strong>&nbsp;(1909-1985).( Harrison County, Ms. Circuit Court MRB 10, p. 274 )</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Lamey Ferry</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">The Lamey Ferry was situated very near the present day Lamey Bridge on the Tchoutacabouffa River.&nbsp; It was operated by Antoine Lamey (1849-1929), the son of Alexandre A. Lamey and Darthula Latimer Lamey.&nbsp; Antoine Lamey, called Anthony, married Louisa Rhodes Wells (1848-1910), the second spouse and widow of Berry Wells (1812-1876).&nbsp; She was a Mississippi native born of a Kentucky father and Missouri mother.&nbsp; Antoine Lamey and Louisa R. Wells wedded on August 21, 1878.&nbsp; Their children were: Ella Lamey (1879-1880+), Richard Lamey (1884-1936), and Florian Lamey (1888-1948).(Harrison County, Ms. Circuit Court MRB 7, p. 24)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Berry Wells hailed from Kentucky and had settled in eastern Hancock County, now Harrison County, circa 1836.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<h3 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: \'Lucida Console\', monospace, georgia; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \">1913 Christmas Eve mishaps</span></h3>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">It could have been a very sad 1913 Christmas for the settlers in the area near the Lamey Ferry</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Hosli Road</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">In October 1911, Annie and Philip Lamey conveyed a strip of land to Harrison County, Mississippi to straighten Hosli Road.&nbsp; 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 three-quarters 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, T6S-R9W.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 97, p. 469)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Lamey&rsquo;s Bridge and road improvement</strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Prior to 1913, there were two circuitous routes from Biloxi to Ramsay Springs.&nbsp; One could either travel the Cedar Lake Road or go through Jackson County to the east.&nbsp; Neither path was in a direct line to the spa.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; F.W. 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.&nbsp; Grading from Bate&rsquo;s Still to Lamey&rsquo;s Ferry was completed and five miles north had been surfaced.&nbsp; On the southern route from Lamey&rsquo;s Ferry to the Johnson Store, the stumps had been cleared and the roadbed surfaced with clay and shell.&nbsp; A number of older roads were being widened and improved.(<em>The Daily Herald, August 20, 1913, p. 1 and August 27, 1913, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">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.&nbsp; In November 1913, board member, F.W. Elmer Sr., was appointed to oversee construction of the bridge.<em>(HARCO, Ms. Board of Supervisors Minute Bk. 10, p. 274 and p. 391)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">The steel bridge that was being erected across the Tchoutacabouffa River at Lamey&rsquo;s Ferry was expected to be in operation by the first of December 1913.&nbsp; Another bridge across Hurricane Creek was planned.<em>(The Daily Herald, August 20, 1913, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">In February 1914, Annie and Philip Lamey sold another thirty-foot wide strip of their land to the people of Harrison County for improvements.&nbsp; This conveyance was described as: beginning at the southwest corner of P. Lamey&rsquo;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, T6S-R9W.&nbsp; The above description is intended to cover what is known as&nbsp;<strong><em>the site of Lamey Bridge and approaches thereto</em>.</strong>(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 108, p. 47)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">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.&nbsp; Philip Lamey was appointed bridge keeper for one year and paid $30 per month for his services.<em>(HARCO, Ms. Board of Supervisors Minute Bk. 11, p. 6 and p. 10)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">1925 Land purchase</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">In February 1925, Annie H. Lamey acquired an additional forty acres of land, the NW/4 of the SE/4 of Section from J.H. Johnson.&nbsp; The consideration was $640.&nbsp; 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, T6S-R9W lying east of the Tchoutacabouffa River.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 156, p. 206 and Bk. 169, p. 370)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">In September 1903, J.H. Johnson began acquiring land in Section 33, T6S-R9W, when he paid George Wells, $240 for eighty acres, the S/2 of the SE/4.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 56, p. 568)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">In June 1905, J.H. Johnson bought from Percy J. Wetzel for $800, eighty acres, the N/2 of the SE/4 of Section 33, T6S-R9W.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 69, p. 567)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">1952 Land donations</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">In September 1952, Philip Lamey began land donations to his children.&nbsp; Those receiving acreage were: &ldquo;Coot&rdquo; L. Riggle, Dorothy D. Hebert, and William J. Lamey. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">A description of the Philip Lamey donations follows:</span></p>\r\n<h3 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: \'Lucida Console\', monospace, georgia; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">&ldquo;Coot&rdquo; L. Riggle</span></h3>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Margaret Edwina L. &ldquo;Coot&rdquo; Riggle received thirty acres more or less being that part of the NW/4 of the NW/4 of Section 33, T6S-R9W, lying west of Mississippi Highway No. 57.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 359, p. 305)</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<h3 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: \'Lucida Console\', monospace, georgia; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Dorothy Hebert</span></h3>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">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, T6S-R9W and fifteen acres more or less in the SE/4 of the SW/4 of Section 33, T6S-R9W, lying east of the Tchoutacabouffa River.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 359, p. 306)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">William Jasper &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Lamey</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Also in Section 33, T6S-R9W, William J. Lamey (1908-1980), 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 one-acre south of the Tchoutacabouffa River and the NW/4 of the SE/4, less nine acres sold to Marjorie Bouvier Rickey.&nbsp; 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)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Buck&rsquo;s will</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Before Buck Lamey passed in April 1980, he legated his real property consisting of two hundred thirty-five acres in Section 33, T6S-R9W to Audrey Cleo Cruthirds Lamey (1911-1997), his spouse.&nbsp; His contingent beneficiary was daughter, Helen Louise Lamey Moore (b. 1942).&nbsp; The Buck Lamey lands all in Section 33, T6S-R9W 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. 10074-July 1980)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Corrected warranty deed</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">In April 1981, the description of Buck Lamey&rsquo;s lands all in Section 33, T6S-R9W, which were willed to his wife were corrected as follows:&nbsp; 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<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;JD Land Deed Bk. 109, pp. 607-609)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Helen&rsquo;s inheritance</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">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, T6S-R9W: 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<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;JD Land Deed Bk. 109, pp. 349-350)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Upon Audrey Lamey&rsquo;s death in July 1997, Helen L. Moore Goff, inherited the family lands in Section 33, T6S-R9W.&nbsp; The Lamey Cemetery is situated upon this acreage.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Lamey Cemetery 2002</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">In 2002, Helen L. Moore Goff has offered her two hundred plus acres of land for sale.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; In June 2002, she and the family decided to enlarge the Lamey Cemetery from its present area to a larger outline.&nbsp; Stakes have been set and the land will be surveyed soon.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">REFERENCES:</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; \">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Ray L. Bellande,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><em>&ldquo;Wells-Mulholland Cemetery&rdquo;</em></strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">, (Mississippi Coast Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume No. 27, No. 1-February 1991).</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Nat Cassibry II,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><u>Early Mississippi Coast Families</u></strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><u>The Ladner Odyssey</u></strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">, (Mississippi Coast Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly, Special Issue No. 6-January1988).</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Winston DeVille,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><u>Louisiana Troops 1720-1770</u></strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">, (Press: Ville Platte, Louisiana-197&nbsp; ).</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Jerome Lepre, S.C.,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><u>Early Mississippi Coast Families</u></strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><u>The Cannette-Moore Family</u></strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">, (Mississippi Coast Historical &amp; Genealogical Society: Biloxi, Mississippi-1983).</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Jerome Lepre, S.C.,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><u>Early Mississippi Coast Families</u>,&nbsp;<u>The Krohn Family</u></strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">, (Lepre:&nbsp; New Orleans-1989), pp. 52, 54, and 55.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Jerome Lepre, S.C.,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><u>Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi</u></strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">, Volume I, (Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1991).</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Jerome Lepre, S.C.,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><u>Gulf Coast Genealogy, The Fountain Family</u></strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">, (Lepre: New Orleans, Louisiana-1992).</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Joseph O. Manuel Jr.,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><em>&ldquo;Notes on The Lamey Family&rdquo;</em></strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">, (Mississippi Coast Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume No. 11, No. 1-February 1975).</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Chancery Court Cases</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Case No. 10074,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;The Last Will and Testament of William Jasper Lamey, aka Buck Lamey&rdquo;</strong>, July 1980.</span></span></p>\r\n<h5 align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><strong>Journals</strong></span></span></h5>\r\n<h5>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;City News&rdquo;-(Parks-Lamey)</strong>, May 16, 1903.</span></span></h5>\r\n<h1>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Deaths&rdquo;, February 12, 1907.</span></span></h1>\r\n<h1>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;New Bridges For New Roadway To Ramsay Springs&rdquo;, August 20, 1913.</span></span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Good Progress Made In Road Work&rdquo;</strong><em>,&nbsp;</em>August 27, 1913.</span></span></p>\r\n<h1>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;John Seymour has Narrow Escape In A Ferry Accident&rdquo;, December 27, 1913.</span></span></h1>\r\n<h1>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Lamey Child Dies&rdquo;, June 4, 1925, p. 3.</span></span></h1>\r\n<h1>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Burns Prove Fatal To Girl&rdquo;, August 25, 1928.</span></span></h1>\r\n<h1>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Peter Cannette Dies&rdquo;, January 13, 1930.</span></span></h1>\r\n<h1>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Ira Hosli Killed by Brother-in-law in North Biloxi&rdquo;, April 6, 1932.</span></span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Ira Hosli&rsquo;s Funeral&rdquo;</strong>, April 8, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;P.B. Lamey Dies&rdquo;</strong>, December 27, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Tony Lamey Dies&rdquo;</strong>, July 28, 1938.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Annie Lamey Dies&rdquo;</strong>, October 29, 1949.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&ldquo;Loren Lamey&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">, December 27, 1963.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Linda Ann Hebert&rdquo;</strong>, February 16, 1981.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Ocean Springs Record,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Bayou Puerto: A pre-Gulf Hills Chronology, Part XIII</strong>, July 7, 2000.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Fred &lsquo;Pappy&rsquo; Schlegel&rdquo;</strong>, September 23, 1987.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Nell Marie McKenzie&rdquo;</strong>, July 21, 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Ronald D. Robinson Jr.&rdquo;</strong>, January 20, 1997.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Eddie John Hebert Sr.&rdquo;</strong>, October 14, 1997.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Samuel Edward Moore&rdquo;</strong>, July 7, 2000.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Elnora &lsquo;Joyce&rsquo; Schlegel&rdquo;</strong>, July 4, 2006.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Sun Herald</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><em>The Sun Herald</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Personal Communications:</strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">E.J. Hebert Jr., June 4, 2002.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Helen Lamey Moore Goff, 13296 Lamey Bridge Road, June 4, 2002 (228-392-8402)</span></span></p>\r\n<h3>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">William Moore, June 4, 2002.</span></h3>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \">Charles Simon, June 11, 2002.</span></span></p>\r\n', NULL, '2');
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('book', 0, 216, 219, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>BILOXI SPORTS HALL OF FAME</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1985 INDUCTEES</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lionel Antoine, </strong>NHS-1968;<strong> John Atkinson, </strong>BHS-1930;<strong> Frank \'Buddy\' Bass</strong>, BHS-1928; <strong>Raymond Bass</strong>, BHS-1939;<strong> Marcel J. \'Mickey\' Bellande </strong>(1909-1982), BHS-1928<strong>; T.C. Benny</strong>, BHS-1939;<strong> Andy Bernich </strong>(1905-1966), BHS-1924;<strong> Anthony Bertucci, </strong>BHS;<strong> Albert Bessey, </strong>BHS;<strong> Norman Broussard, </strong>BHS-1950; <strong>Lloyd \'Blue\' Caillavet</strong>, BHS-1931; <strong>Arthur Cantrelle, </strong>BHS-1968;<strong> Fred Carron, </strong>BHS-1931;<strong> John Collins,</strong> BHS-1923;<strong> Chester Comeaux, </strong>BHS-1947;<strong> Jerry Covich III</strong>, ND-1966;<strong> Shannon Covich, </strong>BHS-1944;<strong> Clement Dellenger, </strong>ND-1960;<strong> Joe Demoran, </strong>SH-1931;<strong> Lewis Demoruelle</strong>, BHS; &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong><strong>David Earl Mattina </strong></strong></strong>(1907-1989)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Carroll E. \'Peck\' Williams </strong>(1900-1977)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong>1988 INDUCTEES</strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong>Estelle Compton McElroy; Leonard C. Fairley; James R. McElroy; Shannon P. Pickich; Hugh H. Saxon; James Levine Skinner, BHS; and Audrey, Strocchi</strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong>1989 INDUCTEES</strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong>Vincent \'Cotton\' Bosarge, SHA-; Tommy Esposito Sr., SHA; Walter F. Fountain, BHS; Mona Hudson Hunt, BHS; Emily Lowd Juanico, BHS; Audrey Holliman Owen, BHS; Donal Snyder, OSHS-1941?; and James Stevens, BHS.</strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>2012 INDUCTEES</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Cliff Kirkland; Barry Lyons;&nbsp; Chris Taranto-1961; William and Shirley Windham;</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>2013 INDUCTEES</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Doug Barber-BHS-1969</strong>; <strong>Howard \'Dickey\' Battle-MC-1990</strong>; <strong>Peter Roy \'Lee\' Elder-BHS-1964</strong>; <strong>Kenneth Lyons Sr</strong>.-BHS-1947; <strong>Dennis Malpass-ND-1961;</strong> <strong>Henry \'Spud\' Wieniewitz-MP-1970</strong>; and <strong>Richard Lew</strong> \"<strong>Wimpy\" Winther-BHS-1966.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Doug Barber</strong>: 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Howard \"Dickey\" Battle</strong>: A fourth-round 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Peter Roy \"Lee\" Elder</strong>: 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"200\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Lyons%2C%20Kenny-1948_0.jpg\" width=\"155\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Kenneth Lyons Sr</strong>.: 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 fast-pitch adult softball games held at the Biloxi Veteran Administration Fields. Lyons was also a volunteer coach during the \'60s, \'70s and \'80s.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dennis Malpass</strong> (b. 1943): A graduate of Notre Dame, Malpass was the catcher of 2012 inductee Chris Taranto, who set the national prep record with nine no-hitters 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 All-SEC team. He has earned a PhD in Chemistry and is a leader in the petrochemical industry with more than 80 U.S. patents and technical articles in scientific journals.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Henry \"Spud\" Wieniewitz:</strong> 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 30-year career with Biloxi Public Schools. He is also credited for helping start the Biloxi Sports Hall of Fame.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Richard Lew \"Wimpy\" Winther</strong>: A 1966 graduate of Biloxi, Winther earned numerous accolades at BHS before going on to star at Ole Miss, where he was named an All-America 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><br />\r\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2013/08/25/4900538/barber-six-others-inductedinto.html#storylink=cpy</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>BILOXI SPORTS HALL OF FAME 2014 INDUCTEES</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joseph M. “Joe” Allen, decease</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">An outstanding all-round 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"200\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Barhanovich%2C%20Yankee-2-1977_0.jpg\" width=\"143\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Frank “Yankie” Barhanovich, deceased</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Yankie dropped out of school in 1931 after 8th&nbsp;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 &amp; 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 re-purposed and re-designed by the Salvation Army as part of the Ray &amp; 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mike Craft</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A three-year letterman at defensive tackle for BHS in the mid-1960s, Craft was named All Big-8 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 M-Club Sports Hall of Fame last year.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Troy Craft</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A two-year letterman at defensive end for Biloxi High in the early 1960s, Troy was standout on the 1962 Big-8 Championship team. He was a three-year starter at USM (at a time when freshmen weren’t allowed to play varsity ball in college) as a two-way end, and was selected to play in the 1966 Blue-Gray game. He was inducted into the USM M-Club Sports Hall of Fame in 1987.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Rusty “Biloxi Bomber” Derouen</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">With an amateur record of 149-36, Derouen was one of Biloxi’s most successful youth boxers, best known for his devastating punches.&nbsp; During his professional career, he compiled a record of 34-9, 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 1993-94.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Richard Johnston</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Lettering in football, baseball, basketball and track at BHS, Johnston was an All Big-8 Conference selection and named All-State in 1954. He lettered at USM from 1957-58 (being a U.S. Marines Reserve during that time) and was a center-linebacker 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Brian J. Kozlowski</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A two-time 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 no-hitter. He had a .378 career batting average at Perkinston, where he helped the Bulldogs to a 1981 State Championship.&nbsp; 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Jackie Laird</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A native of Bassfield, Laird was one of Biloxi High’s most successful basketball coaches, compiling a career record of 436-273 with an up-tempo game that typically wore down teams that held an advantage in height. Laird won Class 5-A 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 M-Club Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Anthony “Bo” Lamey</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp; 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Gregory J. “Greg” Nordstrom</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">From 8th&nbsp;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 from1987-1992. 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Charles Michael “Mike” Patrick, deceased</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A three-year, four-sport 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 then-school record 84-yard punt and was selected to the Playboy Magazine All-American 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 62-yard punt his rookie year and finished his career as the No. 5 ranked punter in team history.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Gerald Joseph Richards</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A starting center and linebacker at Biloxi High from 1956-1958, Richards was a prominent player in the infamous 1958 Biloxi-Gulfport game that ended with a bench clearing brawl that forced a disruption of the series.&nbsp; He was named All Big-8 after his senior season and played in the Mississippi High School All-Star 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Rene’ Joseph Trochesset, Sr., deceased</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A 1934 graduate of Biloxi High, Trochesset was another of Biloxi’s best amateur boxers. He played football at BHS and then-Perkinston Junior College, but distinguished himself as a collegiate boxer. He went undefeated and won State Boxing Championships at Perkinston in 1936-1937, and won the NCAA Heavyweight Boxing Championship at LSU in 1939.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Andy Welter</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 two-year varsity letterman at Biloxi, Welter led the Indians with a 6-1 record and was named team Most Valuable Pitcher his senior season in 1981. He pitched two years at Perkinston with an 8-3 record. At Southeastern Louisiana, he led the team in wins, strikeouts, ERA and innings pitched each of his two years. His career record was 15-8 and he was named First Team All Gulf Star Conference after his senior season.</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi D\'Iberville Press,<strong><strong> \'Biloxi Sports Hall of Fame to be revivied\'</strong></strong>, June 28, 2012, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, \"<strong>Biloxi Sports Hall of Fame to add 29 members\"</strong>, August 15, 2012, p. B1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, \"<strong>Nominations still be accepted for Biloxi Sports Hall\"</strong>, June 20, 2013.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, <strong>\"Biloxi Sports Hall of Fame add seven members</strong><strong>\"</strong>, August 11, 2013.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"Barber, six others inducted into Biloxi Sports Hall of Fame</strong><strong>\"</strong>, August 25, 2013.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"Biloxi Sports Hall of Fame adds 14 new members</strong><strong>\"</strong>, September 1, 2014, p. 1-B.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>BILOXI SPORTS TIME LINE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1903</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Buffaloes, a local football squad,</strong> was preparing to play a team from Pensacola and Springhill.&nbsp; Ernest Iler was team manager; Joseph Kennedy, team captain, and the Reverend Dr. W.C. Lindsay, referee.&nbsp; 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)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"300\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi High 1926 Baseball Champs.jpg\" width=\"400\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi High School 1927 State Champions</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1926</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Biloxi High School football squad was crowned State gridiron champions</strong>, having tied the undefeated&nbsp;<strong>Sunflower County Agricultural High School from Moorehead</strong>&nbsp;at Greenville, Mississippi on December 6, 1926, by a score of 7-7.&nbsp; The game went five quarters, although the Indians were outweighed 24-pounds per man. &nbsp;<strong>Coach Tranny Lee Gaddy</strong>&nbsp;(1894-1975), Mississippi A&amp;M College, 3-sport letterman, led the team. &nbsp;Coach Gaddy died at Jackson, Mississippi on October 12, 1975.(The Daily Herald, December 7, 1926 and October 13, 1975, p. A2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1927</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>1927 Biloxi High School baseball team won 17 games and lost none</strong> to make a claim as State Champions. &nbsp;Squad members were: Marcel Bellande; Chester Juanico;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1928</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Willis Carvin</strong> was named golf professional at the Fernwood County Club in Pike County, Missisippi. &nbsp;The facility has over 100 memebers and serves the residents of McComb, Summit, Magnolia and Fernwood.(The Daily Herald, May 16, 1928,p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1930</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi High School played Mississippi\'s first night football game on September 26, 1930</strong> defeating the Lamar County Aggies 58-0 before a crowd of about 2000 spectattors who came from all Coast points to seee this inaugral sporting event. &nbsp;Captain Chester Juanico led the Indians.(The Daily Herald, September 22, 1930, p. 3 and September 27, 1930, p. 3)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1940</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Peter Giaruso </strong>(1913-1997),<strong> boxing coach, </strong>at St. Michael\'s CYO, is training five young Biloxi&nbsp;fighters: <strong>Joseph Brosh, Eddie Bellman, Marvin Lofton, Junior Dalgo and Chester Comeaux. &nbsp;</strong>Joseph Brosh had recenly won the Southeastern Championship in his 98-pound weight class.(The Daily Herald, September 20, 1940, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1942</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Vic\'s Bowling Alley opened in early June with Mayor Louis Braun</strong> rolling a strike on the frist ball. &nbsp;The eight lane facility was <strong>owned by Vic Passera Jr. </strong>(1912-1980)<strong>&nbsp;</strong>and managed by Howard Sheldon. &nbsp;The influx of soldiers at Keesler Field was a strong impetus for erecting the facility.(The Daily Herlad, June 1, 1942, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1960</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ernest V. Landaiche</strong>&nbsp;(1895-1966), proprietor of<strong>&nbsp;Bayview Lanes</strong>, on Lameuse and Bayview Avenue, opened his new<strong>bowling alley</strong>&nbsp;on January 19, 1960. &nbsp;It was formally dedicated January 30-31st.(The Daily Herald, January 19, 1960, p. 6 and January 28, 1960, p. 27)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1973</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Mississippi Senior Golf Association held its annual tournament at the Broadwater Course in Biloxi, Mississippi. <strong>Mickey J. Bellande </strong>won his 10<sup>th </sup>Senior State Championship.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1975</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Coach Tranny Lee \'T.L.\' Gaddy</strong> (1895-1975), native of Itawamba County, Mississippi, who joined Biloxi High school as <strong>head football coach and athletic director in 1926</strong>, was honored Ap<strong>ril 18, 1975 with a \"Coach T.L. Gaddy Day\" and appointed Honorary Mayor of Biloxi for the day.</strong> &nbsp;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. &nbsp;During his years as head coach at Biloxi until 1931, he brought Big 8 championship [sic] and other honors to the school. &nbsp;Coach Gaddy died at Jackson, Mississippi on October 12, 1975. &nbsp;He was enshrined in the Mississippi &nbsp; (The Daily Herald, October 13, 1975)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\">BIOGRAPHIES</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Marcel \'Mickey\' Bellande</strong> (1909-1982), <strong>Norman Duplain </strong>(1930-2010), <strong>Carroll E. \'Peck\' Williams </strong>(1900-1977)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>MARCEL J. BELLANDE</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;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 mid-December 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, Middle-Atlantic, and New York-Pennsylvania Leagues.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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, i.e. State Open, State Amateur, and State Seniors. Mickey captured seven State Senior crowns between 1964-1974, 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.(<em>The Sun Herald, March 5, 1982)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong><strong>Biloxi High School</strong> </strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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, T.L. Gaddy became the coach at Biloxi High School. Coach Gaddy was a native of Newton, Mississippi. At Mississippi A &amp; 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. T.L. Gaddy was also an umpire in the Cotton States League and history teacher.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 20, 1925, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1925</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey Bellande began his high school baseball career in the spring of 1925.&nbsp; The team played eleven games winning six.&nbsp; In an inauspicious start, young Bellande played in two games and went hitless in two trips to the plate.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 22, 1925, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1926</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bellande was a member of the 1926 Biloxi High track team.&nbsp; He was a fine miler and won the Gulf Coast Region track meet in this event.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 29, 1926, p. 1)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the fall of 1926, <strong>Biloxi High School</strong> changed it moniker from the <strong>\"Yellow Jackets\"</strong> to the <strong>\"Redskins\"</strong>.&nbsp; The new School colors became <strong>maroon and white</strong> replacing the former <strong>black</strong> and <strong>gold</strong>.&nbsp; Coach Tranny L. Gaddy (1894-1975) was responsible for the change.<em>(The Daily Herald, September&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1926, p.&nbsp; )</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Biloxi High School football squad</strong> was crowned <strong>State gridiron champions</strong>, having tied the undefeated Sunflower County Agricultural High School from Moorehead at Greenville, Mississippi on December 6, 1926, by a score of 7-7.&nbsp; The game went five quarters, although the Indians were outweighed 24-pounds per man.<em>(The Daily Herald, December 7, 1926)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1927</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi High Indians baseball nine ended the 1927 campaign with a 14-0 whipping of the Gulfport Tigers.&nbsp; The team posted fifteen victories and no defeats and was declared the Gulf Coast Regional Champion.&nbsp; Mickey Bellande played shortstop and with Carvin at second base, formed a good double play tandem.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 12, 1927, p. 8)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Won Big Six title and went 17-0 for the season.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 30, 1927, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey Bellande participated with the 1927 Biloxi High track team.&nbsp; He again ran the mile.&nbsp; In a dual meet with Hattiesburg High in April 1927, he won the event in a time of five minutes and six seconds.&nbsp; Biloxi thrashed their opponent 93 to 13.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 30, 1927, p. 8)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On May 23, 1927, the Indian track and field squad won the first annual Big Six Conference track meet at Hattiesburg.&nbsp; The Big Six was composed of Biloxi, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Laurel, and Meridian.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mickey Bellande placed second in the mile run and was a member of the winning mile relay team.&nbsp; 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.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 23,1927, p. 3 and May 26, 1927, p. 8)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1928</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Springhill College</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp; They were all members of Biloxi’s 1926 State Football Championship squad.&nbsp; The Spring Hill 1929 football season was very successful as they lost only one contest on the gridiron.&nbsp; Mickey was lauded by a Biloxi sportswriter as follows: <strong>“<em>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.”</em></strong><em>(The Daily Herald, December 7, 1929, p. 2)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey suffered a neck injury on the gridiron, which ended his football career.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Amateur Baseball</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Summer of 1927</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Played shortstop with the Sablich Barbers who won the 1927 Biloxi City League Championship.&nbsp; In late May 1927, Bellande led the league with a .688 batting average.&nbsp; The team had won five games and lost four at this point.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 28, 1927, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Spring of 1928</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On March 25, 1928, Mickey played shortstop with the Sablich Barbers and had two hits in five trips to the plate in their 16-4 win over the visiting Loyola Wolves of NOLA.&nbsp; Bellande scored three runs and committed an error.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 26, 1928, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On April 8, 1928, Marcel Bellande played in an exhibition game with a team of Biloxi High School players representing the Sablich Barbers.&nbsp; Their foe was the Gulfport Tarpons, a professional club of the Cotton States League-Class D, based at Gulfport.&nbsp; Although the Biloxi boys were soundly defeated 7-0 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.&nbsp; Coach Cotton Knaupp of the Tarpons lauded the young competitors and said that <strong><em>“Bellande on short, Juanico on third and Mattina on first looked good to me as coming ball players”</em></strong><em>.(The Daily Herald, April 9, 1928, p. 5)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Summer of 1928</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Brookhaven</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey Bellande went to Brookhaven, Mississippi in the summer of 1928 where he managed the city golf club.&nbsp; He returned to Biloxi in late August and signed to play shortstop with the Biloxi Bakers at the end of the baseball season.&nbsp; Bellande was also preparing to leave for Spring Hill College where he was to play football in the fall.<em>(The Daily Herald, August 25, 1928, p. 2)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Summer of <em>1</em>929</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the summer of 1929, Marcel J. Bellande played shortstop for the Biloxi Sea Gulls in the Mississippi Coast League.&nbsp; At the completion of first half action, Biloxi and the Cubs of Ocean Springs were tied for the league lead.&nbsp; In a one game playoff held at the Gulfport Fair Grounds on June 16<sup>th</sup>, Ocean Springs bested the Sea Gulls 5-3.&nbsp; Bellande went one for four, but committed an error on defense.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 17, 1929, p. 6)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Ocean Springs went on to also win the second half of league play to earn the overall league championship.&nbsp; Their season ended on September 1<sup>st</sup>, with a 3 to 2 victory over Pass Christian.<em>(The Daily Herald, September 2, 1929, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Spring 1930</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp; Three of Bellande’s former Biloxi High School teammates, Earl Mattina, Granville Foster, and Burnett Mabry were also starters for the Badgers from Mobile.&nbsp; Rain and a holiday caused the contest to be cancelled.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 18, 1930, p. 8 and March 20, 1930, p. 8)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><img alt=\"\" height=\"153\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Marcel-Opelousas%2C Louisiana.jpg\" width=\"250\" /></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Opelousas, Louisiana [1930]</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>[Earl Mattina, bottom row, third from left and Mickey Bellande, bottom row, 5th from left.&nbsp; Note Springhill shirt on Coach Bill Daly.&nbsp; Also Burnett Mabry may be on top row 4th from left.]</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Summer of 1930</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 semi-pro team at Opelousas, Louisiana.&nbsp; Mickey collected 13 hits including 3 home runs as he batted .565 in five games for the Boosters. (<em>The Daily Herald, May 28, 1930, p. 8 and The Daily Herald, January 31, 1931, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp; The contest was played at Biloxi on June 1, 1930.&nbsp; The Boosters destroyed the Tarpons 17-6.&nbsp; Bellande scored 2 runs, drove in two runs, and had 2 hits in five trips to the plate.&nbsp; He had a bad day at shortstop as he committed three miscues.(<em>The Daily Herald, June 2, 1930, p. 12)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bellande and Mattina’s return to Biloxi and the Boosters was anticipated in mid-July 1930, as the local journal announced that <strong><em>“Mickie Bellande and Earl Mattina expected to join club in a few weeks”.</em></strong>(<em>The Daily Herald, July 3, 1930, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By July 23<sup>rd</sup>, Mickey and Earl were still in Acadian country.&nbsp; Coach Sablich and Hightower were attempting to have them return to Biloxi pronto.&nbsp; With the season coming to a rapid close, the Biloxi Boosters wanted to infuse the squad with these fine infielders.(<em>The Daily Herald, July 23, 1930, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp; The Biloxi Boosters were tied for the league lead with the Ocean Springs Cubs.(<em>The Daily Herald, August 8, 1930, p. 11)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The deciding contest between the two nines was held at Ocean Springs on August 11, 1930.&nbsp; Neither first sacker, Earl Mattina, nor shortstop, Mickey Bellande, appeared in the lineup for the Biloxi Boosters who lost to the Cubs .(<em>The Daily Herald, August , 1930)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Professional Baseball</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Spring 1931</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">During spring training, Spring Hill played several exhibition baseball games on the Mississippi Gulf Coast against squads from the American Association.&nbsp; Against Baltimore at Gulfport, Mickey Bellande went 1 for 4 in a 3-1 loss.&nbsp; He faired better in the Washington Nationals contest played before his friends and peers in Biloxi.&nbsp; Shortstop Bellande hit a homerun and two doubles driving in all his team’s runs in a 7-3 defeat delivered by the professionals.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 16, 1931, p. 3 and March 21, 1931, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In an interview with <em>The Times Picayune, </em>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.&nbsp;Bellande had another year at Spring Hill College in Mobile.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 26, 1931, p. 8)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey Bellande leaves for Cleaveland tryout!! (<em>The Daily Herald, June 1, 1931, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Played at Decatur, Illinois in the Three-I League where he batted .274 in fifty games.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 13, 1935, p. 8 and The Sunday Times-Signal (Zanesville, Ohio), February 9, 1947)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1932</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Played at Quincy, Illinois in the Three-I League.&nbsp; Batted .290 in 64 games.&nbsp; Had 14 doubles, I triple, and 6 home runs.&nbsp; When the league was dissolved, he played at Williamsport, Pennsylvania in the New York-Pennsylvania League.&nbsp; Batted .260 in 57 games delivering 5 doubles, 5 triples, and one homerun.<em>(The Daily Herald, February 10, 1933, p. 8 and March 13, 1935, p. 8)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Katherine Ruth Ann Fickes</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 (1911-2006), the eldest daughter of Roscoe Logan Fickes (1886-1979) and Emma Christine Hinricks (1888-1971), both Illinois natives.&nbsp; Like her father, Kate was born at Matoon, Illinois, while Mrs. Fickes hailed from Tuscola.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; The Fickes family settled at 1003 West Howard Avenue.&nbsp; At Matoon, he had been with the public utilities division of the Central Illinois Public Service Company.&nbsp; Mr. Fickes was active in the school board and Matoon Lions Club during his tenure there.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court MRB 44, p. 136<em>and The Daily Herald, November 30, 1926, p. 2)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Kate Fickes was a 1927 graduate of Biloxi High School and attended M.S.C.W. and Arkansas State College.&nbsp; The young couple started life in the Bills Apartments on Reynoir Street.&nbsp; 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.(<em>The Daily Herald, December 8, 1932, p. 2)&nbsp;</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><img alt=\"\" height=\"500\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Marcel-NOLA-March 1933.jpg\" width=\"213\" /></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[from <strong><em>The Times-Picayune, </em>March 10, 1933, p. 9]</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1933</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">When the New Orleans Pelicans played the Washington Senators in a spring training contest at Biloxi in mid-March 1933, Mickey Bellande was in the lineup at shortstop.&nbsp; Although the Pelicans lost 11-2, Bellande had a single and drove in a run.&nbsp; His defense was flawless, as he handled ten chances without error while completing two double plays.(<em>The Daily herald, March 18, 1933, p. 6)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Pelicans had acquired Mickey from the Cleveland Indians baseball organization.&nbsp; In 1932, he was farmed-out to Williamsport, Pennsylvania.(<em>The Daily Herald, March 15, 1933)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1933, Mickey Bellande played for the Toledo Mud Hens and was known as Mike Bellande.&nbsp; Jim Thorpe (1887-1953) was a Mudhen in 1921 while Casey Stengel (1890-1975) was with the club in 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, and 1931<strong>.</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1934</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey Bellande played third base at Zanesville, Ohio in the Mid-Atlantic League.&nbsp; Zanesville won the league championship and Bellande name to the league all-star team and a factor in the team’s late drive to win the pennant.&nbsp; In fact, after five games in the playoff series with Dayton, the Dayton Ducks lead the Zanesville Greys 3-2 in games.&nbsp; In the sixth game, Dayton led Zanesville 5-2 in the ninth inning.&nbsp; Bellande capped a late rally with a single driving in the winning run to ties the series at 3 games all.&nbsp; The deciding game the following eve was déjà vu.&nbsp; The Ducks led the Greys 3-1 in the eighth inning.&nbsp; Zanesville scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth to clinch the Mid-Atlantic League Championship.&nbsp; In that decisive frame, the Greys’ Mickey Bellande&nbsp; again singled and drove in the go ahead run to cap another late inning rally.<em>(The Times Picayune, November 15, 1934 and The Sunday Times-Signal (Zanesville, Ohio), February 9, 1947)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bellande had returned to Biloxi by late September from Zanesville, Ohio.<em>(The Daily Herald, September 28, 1933, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1935</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In mid-March 1935, Mickey Bellande left Biloxi for Deland, Florida to join the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association for spring training.&nbsp; Bellande transferred to the Millers from Zanesville, Ohio where he played third base.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 13, 1935, p. 8)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In May 1935, Marcel and Kate Bellande were residents of Scranton, Pennsylvania.&nbsp; Earlier in the 1935 baseball season, he was a member of the New Orleans Pelicans, but joined Scranton of the Pennsylvania-New York League on May 5<sup>th</sup>and hit a round tripper in his first at bat.&nbsp; By mid-May, Mickey was batting .325.&nbsp; Bellande played 127 games with Scranton finishing the season with a .287 batting average and fielded .956 at second base.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 18, 1935, p. 2 and The Sunday Times-Signal (Zanesville, Ohio), February 9, 1947)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1936</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Marcel Bellande’s final season in professional baseball was at Williamsport, Pennsylvania with the Williamsport Grays of the New York-Pennsylvania League. &nbsp;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. &nbsp;He and manager, Mike McNally (1893-1965), finally settled on a salary after Mickey returned two contract offers unsigned. &nbsp;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)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey Bellande finished the 1936 baseball season at Williamsport and batted .297 in 131 games and fielded .951 at second base.&nbsp; A business opportunity at Biloxi appeared a more secure future than baseball.&nbsp; Therefore, Mickey terminated his professional sports career to join Roy P. Bellande, his older brother in the wholesale beer business.<em>(The Sunday Times-Signal (Zanesville, Ohio), February 9, 1947)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1937</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Residences</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In December 1937, Mickey and Kaye moved into a new house on the southwest corner of Hopkins and Division Street at Biloxi.&nbsp; It was a five-room bungalow situated on a lot 60 feet by 100 feet.&nbsp; The Division Street property was purchased from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company through local realtors, Perkins &amp; Fayard.(<em>The Daily Herald, December 4, 1937, p. 6 and </em>HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 224, pp. 99-100<em>)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A daughter, Kaye Bellande, was born in 1946.&nbsp; Kaye resides in Three Rivers, Michigan with her husband, Jim Foster, and twin sons, Brad and Brian Foster (b. 1980).&nbsp; Jim is a hospital administrator, and a Biloxian.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In April 1951, Mickey and Kate Bellande acquired for $35,000 cash, the home of Alphonse J. Wegmann and wife on Kensington Drive, east of KAFB, on the Back Bay at Biloxi.&nbsp; The purchase included Lots 12-13-14-and a part of Lot 15 of Square 1 of the Oak Park Subdivision.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 341, p. 508)&nbsp; Their home on Division Street was bought by Roy J. Quave for $10,000, in May 1951,(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 344, p. 484)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Kate Bellande acquired full ownership of their Kensington home in May 1974, when Mickey assigned his interest to her.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 48, p. 348)&nbsp; After his demise in 1982, she bought a patio home in the Evergreen Subdivision near Sunkist Country Club.&nbsp; Mrs. Kate Bellande leased her Back Bay residence until she conveyed it to Fred R. Schwan Jr. in June 1993.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 256, pp. 655-656)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1938</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1938, Mickey Bellande joined his brother, Roy, in the beer distributing business in Biloxi.&nbsp; He retired upon its sale in 1979.&nbsp; Mickey was always in top physical condition as he led an active athletic life style.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; His corporal remains were interred at the Southern Memorial Park at Biloxi.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<h2>&nbsp;</h2>\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Amateur Golf Career&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></strong></h2>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1940</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In early May,&nbsp;<strong>Gene Yousko</strong>&nbsp;(1908-1964), medalist,&nbsp;<strong>beat Mickey Bellande</strong>&nbsp;(1909-1980) with a birdie on the last hole of their 36-hole final match for the Biloxi Golf Club championship. &nbsp;Bellande trailed Youko by five strokes beginning the second eighteen holes and rallied to twice even the match. &nbsp;<strong>Anson Holley defeated Robert Gilly</strong>&nbsp;to win the First Flight and&nbsp;<strong>Kos Jackson bested Carl Budinich</strong>&nbsp;for 2nd Flight honors.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 29, 1940, p. 6 and May 6, 1940, p. 2)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1941</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1941 was an excellent year for the competitive golf game ofMarcel Bellande.&nbsp; In January, he won the Biloxi Christmas holiday tournament with victories over W.V. Joyce, W.E. Beasley, Ed Rankin, and Wheeler Farish, Gulfport’s top ball striker.&nbsp; In late January, he set the amateur scoring record at the Biloxi Country Club, firing at four under par 66.&nbsp; Bellande had three birdies and an eagle while playing with James Mustard, Biloxi pro, U.B. Koen, Ed Rankin, and Bill Beasley.<em>(The Daily Herald, January 13, 1941, p. 2 and January 27, 1941, p. 2)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March 1941, Mickey Bellande won the annual “Stag Day” tournament at the Biloxi Golf Course by shooting a par round of 70.&nbsp; His closest competitors were W.E. Beasley with a 75 and Giles Peresich who shot a score of 77.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; With an energetic gallery in tow, the five-some played eighteen holes on a cold wintry afternoon.&nbsp; The two professional golfer won 2-up.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 10, 1941, p. 2)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi Country Club 5<sup>th</sup>Annual Coast Amateur</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In mid-March, Mickey Bellande was medalist of the 5<sup>th</sup>Annual Mississippi Coast Amateur Championship at the Biloxi Country Club shooting a two under par 68.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; He lost to Smith in the 36-hole final match by a 2 and 1 margin.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 8, 1941, p. 5, March 10, 1941, p. 2, and March 11, 1941, p. 6)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bellande was expected to be a strong contender for the Great Southern Country Club title in June.&nbsp; Clinton C. Blackwell, local sportswriter, prophetically wrote that Bellande had <strong><em>“finally developed that confidence in himself that will make him one of Mississippi’s top-notch golfers.”</em></strong><em>(The Daily Herald, March 10, 1941, p. 2)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1942</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Gulf Hills Country Club 6th Annual Coast Amateur</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The 1942 Mississippi Coast Amateur tournament was held in early March at the Gulf Hills Country Club near Ocean Springs, Mississippi.&nbsp; Mickey Bellande of Biloxi reversed his 1941 loss&nbsp;in this venue to Gordon Smith Jr. of Mobile, as he defeated Smith 2 and 1 in the finals.(<em>The Times-Picayune, March 10, 1942, p. 10</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1946</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;Wheeler Farrish</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Kay Bellande Foster, only child, born in October 1946, at Biloxi.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1947</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1948</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1948 US Amateur Championship</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">At the New Orleans Country Club in mid-August 1948, Marcel Bellande qualified for the two-hundred ten man field, US Amateur Golf Championship, which was to be held at Memphis in late August-September.&nbsp; Gardiner Dickinson of the LSU golf team led the regional qualifiers in the 36-hole format by followed by Bellande, Charles Rosen II, and Junius J. ‘Jay’ Hebert (1923-1997) of Lafayette.&nbsp; Julius Boros fired at five under par 135 at Great Neck, New York to win the Metropolitan area regional.&nbsp; Bellande lost to James G. Jackson of Kirkwood, Missouri in the first round of the match play event.&nbsp; William ‘Willie’ Turnesa (1914-2001) was the eventual winner of the 1948 US Amateur with a 2-1 victory over Raymond E. Barnes.<em>(The Daily Herald, August 19, 1948, p. 2 and August 30, 1948, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1950</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1950 State Open Champion</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey Bellande began the 1950 golf Mississippi championship series in mid-June by competing for the Mississippi Amateur Championship at the Great Southern Country Club at Gulfport.&nbsp; He lost in the quarter finals to youthful Eddie Merrins (b. 1934) of Meridian, 3 and 2.&nbsp; Merrins was crowned champion after his victory over Ham Carothers of Greenwood.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 12, 1950, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The 1950 Mississippi State Open golf tournament was held in mid-August at Hattiesburg, Mississippi.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In mid-November, Mickey Bellande shared medalist honors with Mr. Farish of Gulfport and went on to win the Great Southern Country Club championship.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 13, 1950, p.12)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1951</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In September, Mickey J. Bellande teamed with Eddie Merrins of Meridian to play in the Deep South Four Ball Golf Tournament at Alexandria, Louisiana.&nbsp; Merrins and Bellande reached the finals by besting the defending champions, Jimmy McGonagill and Gene Vinson of Shreveport.&nbsp; 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)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In November, Mickey Bellande lost to Anson Holley, a cousin, 4 and 3 while defending his Great Southern club championship.<em>(The Daily Herald, November ?, 1951, p.11)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1953</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Johnny Revolta</strong>(1911-1991), Gulf Hills professional, and&nbsp;<strong>Mickey J. Bellande&nbsp;</strong>(1909-1982), Biloxi amateur, played two Birmingham, Alabama golfers,&nbsp;<strong>Sam Byrd</strong>, PGA touring professional, and&nbsp;<strong>Al Jamison</strong>, one of Alabama\'s top amateur golfers, in a four ball match at Gulf Hills on March 1, 1953. &nbsp;The Revolta-Bellande team prevailed over the visitors. &nbsp;The eighteen-hole scores were as follows: Revolta-68; Bellande-77; Byrd-73; and Jamison 73<em>.(The Daily Herald, March 2, 1953, p. 15 and The Gulf Coast Times, March 5, 1953, p. 1)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late October 1953, Mickey J. Bellande won the Gulf Coast Amateur Tournament t the Great Southern club in Gulfport, Mississippi.&nbsp; He had won this event three times and lost last year to Giles Peresich in a playoff.&nbsp; Bellande defeated C.E. Anderson of Gulfport 4 and 3 in the 36-hole finals.(The Daily Herald, Ocotber 26, 1953, p. 16)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1955-Won Mississippi State Open</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1956</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey Bellande defeated his cousin, <strong>Anson Holley for his fourth Gulf Coast amateur championship in November with a 5 and 4 win.&nbsp; </strong>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&nbsp; 4 and 2.(The Daily Herald, [photo] November 11, 1956, p. 23)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1959 Sunkist 5<sup>th</sup>Annual Mid-Winter Invitational Champion</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">January 29-31, 1959.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<h1>&nbsp;</h1>\r\n\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1960 MGA Senior Champion</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong>1962 Sunkist Mid-Winter Champion</strong> </strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Marcel Bellande played in the Seniors Division of the 1962 Sunkist Mid-Winter Championships.&nbsp; He won by fourteen strokes over his nearest competitor.&nbsp; If Bellande had played in the open class, he would have won second place.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1962 MGA Senior Champion</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<h1>&nbsp;</h1>\r\n\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1963 State Amateur Championship</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Held at Greenwood, Mississippi in mid-June.&nbsp; Mickey Bellande, State Senior Champion. He lost 2 and 1 in the second round to Brad Hovious of Oxford, the State Junior title holder.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 15, 1963, p. 17)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1963 MGASenior Champion</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1964</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In January 1964, named Man of the Year by Biloxi Junior Chamber of Commerce.<em>(The Daily Times-New, January 31, 1964, p. 1)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey Bellande captured the Sunkist Mid-Winter Invitational with a victory over C. rea of Meridian and Memphis State University.(The Times-Picayune, February 10, 1964)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<h1>&nbsp;</h1>\r\n\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1964 State Amateur Championship</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n\r\n<h1><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>In mid-June 1964, at the Edgewater Golf Club in Biloxi, Mississippi, Mickey Bellande beat Don Fruge, an eighteen-year old from Meridian, Mississippi, 4-3 in the 36-hole finals for the State Amateur Championship.&nbsp; Fruge was the State Junior Champion.&nbsp; Bellande shot 68 on the first eighteen holes.&nbsp; He had lost 1 up in 37 holes to Bobby Harrell of Laurel in the 1962 Amateur finals at Hattiesburg.<em>(The Clarion Ledger, June 15, 1964, p. 4)</em>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></h1>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1965</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1965 MGA Senior Champion</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1966</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey J. Bellande<strong>w</strong>on the Pinehurst Senior Four Ball title in early March with Curtis Person (1910-1997) of Memphis.&nbsp; Curtis Person was one of the best amateur golfers ever.&nbsp; He was enshrined in the Tennessee Hall of Fame in 1971.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey J. Bellande a board member of the Hickory Hill Country Club at Gautier, Mississippi in January 1966.<em>(The Ocean Springs Record, January 27, 1966, p. 1)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In mid-April 1966, Mickey J. Bellande shot a five under par 66 to win medalist honors in qualifying for the Broadwater Country Club championships at Biloxi.&nbsp; He had won this honor nine times between 1941 and 1965.&nbsp; Wheeler Farish was the club champion in 1942, 1945, 1946, and 1948.&nbsp; Giles Peresich won in 1951, 1952, and 1953.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 20, 1966, p. 35)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">M.J. Bellande traveled to Tuscon, Arizona in September 1966 to participate in the USGA Seniors Golf Tournament.&nbsp; He lost 3-2 to Dexter Daniels of Winterhaven, Florida.(The Daily Herald, September 30, 1966, p. 35)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1967</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey J. Bellande won the Pinehurst Senior Four Ball title in early March with Curtis Person of Memphis.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Medalist Lakewood County Club, New Orleans, Louisiana.&nbsp; September 11-15-1967&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>MGA Senior Champion</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In October 1967, Marcel Bellande defeated F.D. Copeland of Newton to capture the 1967 Mississippi Seniors title at Colonial Country Club in Jackson, Mississippi.&nbsp; Bud McKinney of Dallas was the defending champion.<em>(The Clarion Ledger, October 21, 1967, p. 11)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1968</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey J. Bellande won the Pinehurst Senior Four Ball title in early March with Curtis Person of Memphis.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1969</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>MGA Senior Champion</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1970</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Medalist Broadwater Beach CC, Biloxi, Mississippi. April 13, 1970.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1971-dnp</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1972-dnp</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1972 MGA Senior Champion</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1973</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1973 MSGA Senior</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Mississippi Senior Golf Association held its annual tournament&nbsp;at the Broadwater Course in Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; Mickey J. Bellande won his 10<sup>th</sup>Senior State Championship.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1973 Sunkist Four-Ball</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1973? Metairie Senior</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Held at the prestigious Metairie Country Club at New Orleans in March.&nbsp; Medalist with a 71.&nbsp; In the finals, he bested former Tulane University football coach, Andy Pilney, 3-1.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1974 Sunkist Mid-Winter</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Placed second to Bruce Hollowell of Springfield, Missouri.&nbsp; Hollowell shot a 210 while Bellande posted a 218 for three rounds on the Sunkist course.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 4, 1974, p. 16)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1976 </strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>7th Annual Broadwater Four-Ball&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mickey Bellande and John O\'Connell of New Orleans placed second</strong> in the 7th Annual Broadwater Four-Ball championship at the Broadwater Sea Course at Gulfport. &nbsp;They lost to Dick McMurray and Mike Flanagan, both from Jackson, Mississippi.(The Daily Herald, April 16, 1976, p. B-2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1978 </strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Sunkist Spring Festival</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late April, <strong>Mickey Bellande and Mike Magee </strong>captured the 1978 Sunkist Spring Festival at Biloxi in a sudden death playoff against Anthony Dartez-Phil Rothemel and Fred Demourelle and H.F. Campbell.(The Daily Herald, April 24, 1978, p. B-5)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Avid Sportsman</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Hunting dogs at Cates in Jackson County, Mississippi.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>2006</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Kate Fickes Bellande expired at Biloxi, Mississippi on October 6, 2006.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1900</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,</em><strong>“Birth”</strong>, September 29, 1909.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1920s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Biloxi High Team Has Good Average”</strong>, May 22, 1925.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Gaddy Coach Biloxi High”</strong>, June 20, 1925.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Biloxi Wins Dual Track Meet From Hattiesburg Hi”</strong>, April 30, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Graduation Awards?”</strong>, May 29, 1926, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Gas company commercial manager arrives”</strong>, November 30, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Biloxi Injuns Add Big Six Crown to Titles”</strong>, March 30, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Biloxi Indians Cop Title By Victory Over Gulfport”</strong>, May 12, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Biloxi School Adds Track Title To Finish Season”</strong>, May 23, 1927, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“First Big Six Conference Champions” (photo)</strong>, May 26, 1927, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande lead sin Biloxi City League batting .688”</strong>, May 28, 1927, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Biloxi Indians Run Wild Over Moss Pointers; 44-0”</strong>, October 10, 1927, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Barbers Take Loyola Team”</strong>, March 26, 1928, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“High Schoolers Play Hard But Lose to Finny Tribe”</strong>, April 9, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Mick Bellande Returns”</strong>, August 25, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Spring Hill coming with former Biloxi High stars”</strong>, March 22, 1929, p. 12.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Biloxi and Ocean Springs to Meet in Titular Title”</strong>, June 10, 1929, p. 5.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Ocean Springs Wins First half Championship Title”</strong>, June 17, 1929, p. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Ocean Springs Is Champion By Winning In Both Halves”</strong>, September 2, 1929, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Four Biloxians valuable cog in Spring Hill machine”</strong>, December 7, 1929, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“”</strong> , August 25, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“”</strong> , August 25, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“”</strong> , August 25, 1928.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1930s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Spring Hill College To Use Four Biloxian Against Washington”</strong>, March 18, 1930.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Exhibition Game Called Off; Team Leaving Tonight”</strong>, March 20, 1930.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em> <strong>“Tarps and Boosters Finish On Top First Half Standing”</strong>, May 26, 1930.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Pos Bertucci Wins First Half Individual Batting”</strong>, May 28, 1930.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Boosters Beat Tarpons For First Half League Honors”</strong>, June 2, 1930, p. 12.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Covering The Coast”</strong>, July 3, 1930, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Covering The Coast”</strong>, July 23, 1930, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Booster Are Reinforced With Mattina and Bellande</strong>, August 8, 1930, p. 11.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Covering The Coast”</strong>, October 21, 1930.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Fred Marberry Ready to Work Sunday Against Louisville: Bellande stars while </strong>[Spring] <strong>Hill loses to Washington 7-3””</strong>, March 21, 1931, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Covering The Coast”</strong>, March 26, 1931, p. 8</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande Leaves For Tryout With Cleveland Club”</strong>, June 1, 1931, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande and Powers With Toledo Mud Hens Who Meet Baltimore and Washington”</strong>, March 19, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande gets double”</strong>, March 25, 1932, p. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande-Fickes”</strong>, December 8, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande sold to Minneapolis Club”</strong>, February 4, 1935, p. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Covering The Coast”</strong>, February 10, 1933, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>“Biloxi Boy In Lineup”</strong>, March 15, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Atlanta Looks Like Team To Beat In Southern Loop”</strong>, March 18, 1933, p. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Covering The Coast”</strong>, September 28, 1933, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande Leaves For Spring Camp”</strong>, March 13, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande Making Good”</strong>, May 18, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande \'hold-out\' with Williamsport”</strong>, March 25, 1936, p. 8.</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande&nbsp;returned unsigned papers”</strong>, April 16, 1936.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Arrive at Williamsport”</strong>, April 30, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mickey Bellande back”</strong>, September 21, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellandes In New Home”</strong>, December 4, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Times Picayune, </em></em><strong>“Probable utility man for Pelicans </strong>[photo]<strong>”</strong>, March 10,&nbsp;1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times Picayune, </em><strong>“Bellande on All-Star ‘9’”</strong>, November 15, 1934.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1940s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Gene Yousko and Mickey Bellande in finals of tourney”</strong>, April 29, 1940.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Gene Yousko wins over Bellande in finals of tourney”</strong>, May 6, 1940.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande Winner of Biloxi Golf Tourney”</strong>, January 13, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande Sets New Amateur Mark at Biloxi Golf Club”</strong>, January 27, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>“Bellande Pace Setter; In Stag Golf Tournament”</strong>, March 10, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Marcel “Mickey” Bellande Shoots Sub Par Round To Capture Medalist Honors”</strong>, March 8, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Mickey Bellande and Gordon Smith in 36-Hole Finals of Biloxi Country Club”</strong>, March 10, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Ramblin’ Round”</strong>, March 10, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Gordon Smith Captures Biloxi Golf Crown”</strong>, March 11, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Farish, Bellande Win Golf Match”</strong>, September 24, 1946, p. 5.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande Subject of Ohio Article”</strong>, February 28, 1947.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Pascagoula New Coast Loop Club”</strong>, February 28, 1947.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Mickey Bellande Qualifies in US Amateur Tourney”</strong>, August 19, 1948.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande loses in golf tourney </strong>[US Amateur at Memphis]<strong>”</strong>, August 30, 1948.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;<em>The Times-Picayune</em>,<strong> \"Biloxi medal honors won by Bellande\", </strong>March 8, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Times-Picayune</em>,<strong> </strong></em><strong>\"Mickey Bellande defeats Gordon smith, 2 and 1, in Coast Amateur\"</strong>, March 10, 1942.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sunday Times-Signal (Zanesville, Ohio)</em><strong>, “Timely-Hitting Mickey Bellande Now Is Successful Business Man at Biloxi”</strong>, February 9, 1947.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1950s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Teen-age Golfer Wins State Amateur Title”</strong>, June 12, 1950.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande Wins In State Open Golf Tournament”</strong>, August 14, 1950.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande, Farish share medalist honors in tourney”</strong>, November 13, 1950.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Mickey Bellande, Merrins lose out in La. golf meet</strong><strong>”</strong>, September 4, 1951.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Defending champ </strong>[M.J. Bellande] <strong>given skids in golf tournament”</strong>, November ?,&nbsp; 1951.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Gulf Coast team wins four ball match Sunday”</strong>, March 2, 1953.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald,</em></em> <strong>“Bellande claims amateur title”</strong>, October 26, 1953.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Prep for State Open”</strong>, August 19, 1956, p. 18.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Mickey Bellande wins Gulf Coast Amateur Golf Crown\"</strong>, November 12, 1956, p. 23.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Gulf Coast Times, </em><strong>“Johnny Revolta, Mickey Bellende </strong>(sic) <strong>foursome winners”</strong>, March 5, 1953, p. 1.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1960s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Clarion Ledger, </em><strong>“Mickey Bellande wins first Amateur Open”</strong>, June 15, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Clarion Ledger, </em><strong>“Bellande wins in Seniors”</strong>, October 21, 1967.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Mickey Bellande Claims Seniors Golf Event At Sunkist Country Club”</strong>, January 16, 1961, p. 12.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande Defeated In State Amateur”</strong>, June 15, 1963, p. 17.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande Is Medalist In State Amateur”</strong>, June 12, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bunts, Boots and Bounces”</strong>, June 13, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande Is State Amateur golf Champ”</strong>, June 15, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bunts, Boots and Bounces”</strong>, September 14, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Gulf Coast Golf”</strong>,April 20, 1966.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande defeated Thursday”</strong>,September 30, 1966.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Golf on the Gulf”</strong>, March 5, 1969.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Times-News, </em><strong>“Man of the Year-Bellande</strong>, January 31, 1964, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record, </em><strong>“Board Members Are Elected at Hickory Hills”</strong>, January 27, 1966, p. 1.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The State Times-Advocate </em>[Baton Rouge], <strong>\"Set Course Record\", </strong>February 5, 1962.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Times-Picayune</em>,</em><strong><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>\"Bellande wins in Mid-Winter\"</strong></strong>, February 10, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Times-Picayune</em>,</em><strong><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>\"Mickey Bellande wins Miss. Amateur golf title\"</strong></strong>,&nbsp;June 15, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1970s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande is nominee for sports ‘hall’”</strong>, January 30, 1973, p. 19.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Hollowell Wins at Sunkist”, </strong>March 4, 1974, p. 16.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande holds impressive mark”</strong>, September 28, 1974, p. C-4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande, Lee to be inducted into Hall”</strong>, February 9, 1975, p. B-6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\"McMurray, Flanagan win Broadwater Four-Ball title\"</strong>, April 16, 1976, p. B-2</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande-Magee capture Sunkist tourney crown”</strong>, April 24, 1978, p. B-5.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>“Suds story”</strong>, August 26, 1979, p. C-1.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1980s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>“Prominent Biloxian, Bellande, dead at 72”</strong>, March 5, 1982.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>“A Great Man”</strong>, August 7, 1988, p. D-1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>“Bellande Cup starts Saturday”</strong>, November &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1990s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>2000s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>Mrs. Katherine “Kate” Bellande”</strong>, October 9, 2006, p. A-4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>_____________________________________________________________________________________________</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"300\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Duplain.%20Norman.jpg\" width=\"200\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Norman Duplain</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Norman Duplain </strong>(1930-2010), age 80 years, of Biloxi, died at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport on September 21, 2010. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 24, at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Biloxi, with visitation at 2:00 p.m., prior to the service.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.\"</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">An All Big Eight running back, Norman also set a state record and won the Mississippi State Championship in the 440-yard 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 kick-off return in honor of his daughter\'s birth, and he was a member of State\'s SEC record-setting Mile Relay Team. In 1997 the All American Football Foundation presented Norman the \"Unsung Hero Award.\"</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 All-Army 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 spear-head 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his daughter, Christy Duplain Ware, his son-in-law, Delaney Ware, of Clinton, and stepdaughter Carol Ann Welch and her husband Mark.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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; step-grandchildren Kim Madigan, Carey Welch, and Michael McEachern, a great-grandson, and two step-great-granddaughters.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">REFERENCES:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, \'Norman Duplain\', September 23, 2010.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"300\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Williams%2C%20Peck.jpg\" width=\"178\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>CARROLL E. WILLIAMS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Carroll Everitt ‘Peck’ Williams </strong>(1900-1977) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on&nbsp;November 7, 1900&nbsp; to Carroll \'Cal\' Williams (18-1959) and&nbsp; Anna Cox (1877-1941), a native of Bayou La Batre, Mobile County, Alabama.&nbsp;&nbsp; His siblings were:&nbsp;Elmer Dominic Williams (1898-1985) m. Cornelia Champagne;&nbsp;Irma Augusta Williams m. George J. Sablich; James E. Williams (1906-1979) m. Lydia ‘Snookie’ Duffel Stanley (1916-1992) ; Mae Williams (1911) m. Horace S. Williams (1919-2007); and Bernard Williams (1914-1984).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Peck Williams married Ophelia Langlinais (1995), a native of Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; Parents of :&nbsp; Marion Wiliams; Roland Williams; Glenn J. Williams; and Beverly Jane Williams m. Ivan \'Pancho\' Kovacevich (1928-1986)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“ ”</strong>, 19, p.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“ ”</strong>, 19, p.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“ ”</strong>, 19, p.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“ ”</strong>, 19, p.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“ ”</strong>, 19, p.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“C.E. Williams noted Biloxian, dies at age 76”</strong>, October 23, 1977.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”</strong>, 19, p.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ”</strong>, 19, p.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;<em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ”</strong>, 20, p.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ivan \'Pancho\' Kovacevich”</strong>, August 5, 1986.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ophelia L. Williams”</strong>, September 8, 1995.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 225, 228, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><u>THE ITALIANS of ST. MARTIN</u></strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Between 1902 and 1905, several related families of Italian origin settled in the St. Martin community north of Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; They were the Terrettas, Lepomas, and Giamettas.&nbsp; Initially they were truck farmers, but these Sicilians immigrants also worked in seafood and commerce.&nbsp; Another Italian and the progenitor of the Lepre family of D&#39; Iberville and the Mississippi coast, Captain Peter Lepre (1841-1916), immigrated to the United States circa 1853.&nbsp; He married Celina Moran (c. 1845- 1870+), the daughter of Edouard Moran (c. 1812-1880+) and Celestine Ladner (c. 1816-1880+) in September 1869.&nbsp; Peter Lepre immigrated from Palermo, Sicily and at the time of his demise resided on Fayard Street in Biloxi.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">TERRETTA</span></span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Frank Terretta (1870-1917) and his wife, Rosa Pria (1873-1945+), appear to have been the first of the 20th Century Italian expatriates to arrive at St. Martin, probably about 1902.&nbsp; They immigrated to the United States in 1894, from Palermo, Sicily.&nbsp; His brother, Alberto Nunzio Terretta (1868-1954), came to America in 1897.&nbsp; Before coming to Jackson County, Mississippi &nbsp;the Terretta brothers lived at Brooklyn, New York.&nbsp; Their parents were Antonio Terretta (1837-1927) and Catherine Giaccona (1839-1930) who must have joined them in Jackson County after 1910.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Frank Terretta and Rosa Pria had one adopted son, Anthony Terretta (1913-1996+), who was born in Louisiana.&nbsp; Rosa &nbsp;married Anthony Rodriguez (1855-1928) after her husband died in June 1917.&nbsp; Tony Rodriguez had been wedded to Josephine Miller (1861-1914), the daughter of George Barney Miller (c. 1820-1860+) and Marie Delphine Bouzage (b. 1823-1860+).&nbsp; Josephine was the mother of Amelia R. Fountain (1879-1949), Daniel Rodriguez (1885-1964), and Augustine R. Fountain (1887-1958).&nbsp; Rosa Pria outlived several other husbands and died at Independence, Louisiana, after WW II.&nbsp; Her remains were interred at Tangipahoa Parish.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In July 1903, Frank Terretta bought five acres of land near Miguel Rodriguez and Eugene Bosarge in Section 15, T7S-R9W from Louis Raymond.&nbsp; Anthony Lepoma (1866-1923) and Tony Terretta (1837-1927) were his partners.&nbsp; Included in the land trade were Lots 5-7 of the Francis Fountain tract.(1)&nbsp; Lepoma was residing at St. Charles Parish, Louisiana as late as April 1910, when Laz Lopez (1877-1918) acquired these tracts from them.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Frank Terretta also purchased five acres of land from Samuel M. Tracy (1847-1920) on the east side of the old Martin Fountain tract in February 1910.(2)&nbsp; He planted pecan trees here when a small nursery grown tree cost about seventy-five cents.&nbsp; Later Peter Arnold bought the orchard and harvested 4,000 pounds of pecans.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In July 1911, the Terretta brothers bought ten acres of forested land from Jacob Husley (1863-1948) along the west side of Reynoir Road (now Brittany).(3)&nbsp; Anthony Lepoma (1866-1923) who was married to Maria Terretta (1883-1941), the sister of Frank and Nunzio Terretta, bought the west five acres of this tract in November 1915.&nbsp; It fronted on Race Track Road.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">LEPOMA</span></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Anthony Lepoma (1866-1923) was born at Naples, Italy.&nbsp; In the old country, the Lepoma name may have been spelled Lipuma.&nbsp; Immigrated to USA in 1890.&nbsp; He met Maria Terretta (1883-1941), a Sicilian, in New York.&nbsp; They resided in Michigan and Louisiana (LaPlace-Kenner area) where he worked in animal husbandry.&nbsp; The Lepomas arrived at St. Martin circa 1911.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In 1920, Tony Lepoma made his livelihood as a fisherman.&nbsp; He and Mary had a very large family:&nbsp; Ross Lepoma (1899-1963), Anthony Lepoma Jr. (1900-1926), Roy Lepoma (1905-1963+), Sam Lepoma, Joe Lepoma (1907-1957), Lee R. Lepoma (1909-1959), Jeanette L. Landry (1910-1978), Catherine L. Stiglets, Frances L. Monteleone, Katherine Lepoma Bellew (b. 1913), Josephine L. Vassalli (1915-1963+), Madeline L. Lanz (1917-1963+), James Lepoma (1920-1945), and Vincent Lepoma (1923-1975).&nbsp; The Lepoma children were born at New York, Louisiana, and Mississippi.&nbsp; Tony Lepoma Jr. (1900- 1926) operated a small store in the front yard of his home on the east side of Reynoir (Brittany).</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mrs. Mary Terretta Lepoma commenced the St. Joseph altar in the St. Martin community.&nbsp; This was a Sicilian custom, and an annual fete was held on March 19th to honor St. Joseph, the patron saint of carpenters.&nbsp; During the Middle Ages, a drought and then famine brought the people of Sicily to their knees, praying to St. Joseph for relief.&nbsp;&nbsp; St. Joseph had provided the Christ child bread, and they wanted him to do likewise for them.&nbsp; If their prayers were answered, the suffering Sicilians promised to share food with the poor.&nbsp; Their prayers were answered.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The St. Joseph altar is built by the men.&nbsp; The women prepare seafood, pasta, vegetables, sesame seed cookies, and fig cakes.&nbsp; Italian bread is baked in the forms of crosses, St. Joseph&#39;s staff, and other symbols of this holy occasion. &nbsp;The food, to be divided among those in need, is placed on the altar, which is decorated with flowers and candles.&nbsp; The green fava bean is also served.&nbsp; When dried, roasted, and blessed, it is transformed into the &quot;lucky bean&quot;.&nbsp; Tradition relates that you will never be broke as long as your person carries the lucky fava bean!</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">After Mrs. Lepoma passed on, her daughter, Catherine Stiglets, continued the tradition at her home.&nbsp; Today, Mrs. Lepoma&#39;s granddaughter, Janice L. Fountain, and her sister-in-law, Jackie Landry, prepare the St. Joseph&#39;s altar at the Lee Landry home in the St. Martin community.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Alberto Nunzio Terretta (1868-1954) was married to Maria Gagliano (1868-1954), also a native of Italy.&nbsp; Their three children, Catherine T. Galiano (1900-c. 1975), Lucy T. Cannette (1903-1973), and Anthony Joseph Terretta (1907-2005), were born at Brooklyn, New York.&nbsp; At Brooklyn, Nunzio Terretta made his livelihood cleaning ships&#39; boilers.&nbsp; He became dissatisfied with the work there and came South to New Orleans.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Terretta%2C A.J. (1907-2005)2.jpg\" style=\"height: 200px; width: 151px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Anthony J. Terretta </span></strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(1907-2005)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The oldest child, Catherine Terretta, married Joseph Galiano who resided in the Vieux Carre and sold produce at the French Market.&nbsp; Lucy Terretta married Julius Cannette (1897-1983), and they resided at St. Martin.&nbsp; Anthony Joseph Terretta was married to Mona Louise Khayat (1909-1973) of Biloxi. &nbsp;Mona was the daughter of Assad A. Khayat (1875-1929) and Mona Butrous (1878-1922), both Syrian immigrants. &nbsp;Mona was the sister of Eddie Khayat (1911-1993) who served on the Jackson County Board of Supervisors for thirty-two years.&nbsp; After her demise, Anthony wedded the widow, Lynn V. Mayo Carr (1919-2006), a native of Clarke County, Mississippi.</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; Mona went to Hollywood in the early 1930s and played minor roles in several motion pictures. &nbsp;She was in &#39;The Lives of a Bengal Lancer&#39; starring Gary Cooper in 1935.</span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Giametta%2C Joseph (1857-1935).jpg\" style=\"width: 178px; height: 250px;\" /></span></span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>Joseph Giametta </strong>(1857-1935)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Biloxi Cemetery-October 2012</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">GIAMETTA</span></span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Giuseppe (Joseph) Giametta (1857-1935) and Camella Terretta (1868-1944) arrived in the United States from Canada in 1915.&nbsp; Mrs. Giametta was a twin sister to Nunzio Terretta.&nbsp; The Giamettas had immigrated to Canada in 1895.&nbsp; Their children, Anna Borne Giametta m.&nbsp;&nbsp; Beaugez (1898-1986); Charles Giametta (1900-1970) m. Theresa DeCarlo (1901-1937); Catherine Giametta&nbsp; m.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dauro (1904-1970+); Pauline Giametta m.&nbsp; &nbsp;Dauro (1906-1970+); and Josephine Giametta m. . Fountain (1907-1982), were born in Canada.&nbsp; Joseph Giametta acquired a small tract of land on Race Track Road east of the Trochesset strip from Joseph Schmid in July 1915.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Giametta%2C Charles%2C (1900-1970).jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px;\" /></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>Charles Giametta </strong>(1900-1970)</span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Biloxi Cemetery (October 2012)</span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In 1931, Charles Giametta bought a lot on the east side of his father&#39;s land adjacent to the Trochessets.&nbsp; He was married Olena Cannette (1900-1920), who died of the pandemic Spanish influenza.&nbsp; After her demise, Giametta wedded Theresa DeCarlo (1901-1937) of New Orleans who died in childbirth.&nbsp; His last wife was Josephine Chiniche.&nbsp; Giametta moved to Bay St. Louis circa 1945, where he worked for the L&amp;N Railroad as a bridge tender.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">These Italians families worked very hard in their fields, which they had cleared of pine trees and stumps.&nbsp; These sons of the Mediterranean fertilized with a mulch made from decaying shrimp hulls.&nbsp; The hulls were obtained from the refuse piles at the seafood factories along the north shore of Back Bay at Biloxi.&nbsp; They also used horse manure gathered at the stables in Biloxi, and the dried droppings of stock animals, which roamed the area.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">These immigrant farmers grew vegetables and fruit-sweet potatoes, beets, tomatoes, okra, peppers, okra, corn, shallots, garlic, beans, gourds, cantaloupes, figs, pumpkins, sugar cane, etc.&nbsp; They bought some of their seeds from the Quave store on the west end.&nbsp; In addition, they raised some livestock, particularly goats from whose rich milk they drank and made cheese.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">After the crop matured and was harvested, the Italian men loaded it in horse drawn wagons and headed south to Biloxi.&nbsp; Here, they peddled their fresh organic produce along the city streets.&nbsp; Sweet potatoes went for $1.00 per bushel basket and okra for a nickel a dozen.&nbsp; The Terrettas didn&#39;t own a scale to weigh their green wares.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">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.&nbsp; His son, Anthony Terretta, who was born in 1907, and presently resides at Pascagoula relates a story about his father and uncle, Joseph Giametta: <strong><em>The housewives of Biloxi called my father, Nunzio, &quot;sweetie peppa&quot;.&nbsp; He spoke broken English and would cry, &quot;sweeta peppa&quot;, as his produce rig rolled through the dirt and shell roads of the working class neighborhoods of Biloxi.&nbsp; His brother-in-law, Joseph Giametta, spoke very little English.&nbsp; His produce wagon followed Terretta&#39;s.&nbsp; When Nunzio would announce his presence to the neighborhood with his calling card, &quot;sweeta peppa&quot;, Joe would follow with, &quot;mea too ah&quot;.&nbsp; </em></strong></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">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.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Italian families were self reliant.&nbsp; They baked their own bread, dried tomatoes to prepare tomato sauce, made pear and blackberry wine, and brewed a malt beer.&nbsp; Occasionally, they would take the excursion train to New Orleans for indigenous provisions.&nbsp; At the Quality Grocery store on Decatur Street, olive oil, dried figs, and five pound boxes of spaghetti were purchased.&nbsp; Christmas was often celebrated with an undecorated pine tree.&nbsp; Their children received apples and oranges as gifts.&nbsp; In good times, a small wooden toy might appear under the tree.&nbsp; Mrs. Terretta made small cakes in the shape of crabs and shrimp filled with figs.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Some of the Italian women worked in the local seafood factories.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Some worked at the Quave factory in North Biloxi.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Descendants of all three families still reside in the St. Martin community with the Lepoma name being the most ubiquitous.</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>&quot;Charles Giametta&quot;, </strong>May 23, 1970, p. 2.</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<em style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald</em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&quot;Former Biloxian in picture&quot;,&nbsp;March 2, 1935</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, p. 2.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<em style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Times-Picayune</em><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">, </span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">&quot;St. Joseph&#39;s Celebration Has Roots in Sicilian Culture&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">, March 9, 1986, p. 5.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Personal Communication:</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Viola M. Batia-September 1996</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Toney Terretta, St. Martin-September 1996</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Anthony Terretta, Pascagoula-September 1996</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lynn Mayo Carr Terretta, Pascagoula-September 1996</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Tony Lepoma-September 1996</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Pauline Demetry-October 1996</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	____________________________________________________________________________________________&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">BASS-BASSO</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Vincent Bass</strong> (1818-1915), was born at Trani on the Adriatic Sea. &nbsp;Married <strong>Bridget Clancey</strong> (1832-1910) on May 5, 1871 in Harrison County, Mississippi. &nbsp;Children: <strong>Francis Paul Bass </strong>(1863-1930) m. Rosa Dwyer; <strong>Irene Bass</strong> (1865-1941) m. Michael J. Banks (1859-1941); <strong>Eran</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Bass</strong> (1867-1902) m. Nixon;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Francis P. Bass</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Francis Paul Bass</strong> (1863-1930) married Rosa Dwyer. &nbsp;Children: <strong>William Bass</strong> (1890-1956);&nbsp;<strong>Vincent Paul Bass</strong> (1891-1947);&nbsp;<strong>Agnes Adele Bass</strong> (1904-1977) m. Anthony Bernard Rousseau (1908-1951); <strong>Frank Paul Bass Jr.</strong> (1904-1977);&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>, <strong>&#39;Local and Personal&#39;</strong>, January 30, 1900, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><em style=\"font-size: 12px;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>&#39;City News&#39;</strong>, February 28, 1900, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald, </span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&#39;Mrs. Bridget Bass&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, February 21, 1910.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&#39;Vincent Bass is claimed by death at ripe old age&#39;</strong>, August 20, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207);\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>&#39;Man is crushed beneath wheels of fire engine-Tony Rousseau fatally injured en route to fire&#39;</strong>, March 14, 1951, p. 1.</span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207);\" />\r\n	<br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207);\" />\r\n	<span style=\"background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207);\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>&#39;Mrs. Agnes Rousseau&#39;</strong>, December 8, 1969, p. 2.</span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><em>The Daily Picayune</em>,&nbsp;<strong>&#39;A patient&#39;s leap&#39;</strong>, January 26, 1900, p. 10.</span></span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207);\" />\r\n	<br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207);\" />\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207);\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	__________________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">CAPUANO&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Capuano Tomb.jpg\" style=\"width: 350px; height: 467px;\" /></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>Capuano Tomb 6th Addition-Biloxi Cemetery</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">Jennie Coci (1863-1941) was born at Travinia, Italy and came to America circa 1870, eventually settling at New Orleans. She married Luigi Capuano (1862-1908), also an Italian immigrant, at NOLA on December 28, 1902. They were the parents of three children:&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">Corinne Capuano</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">&nbsp;(1904-1962) m. Christopher A. Tucei (1894-1949);&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">Francis Elizabeth Capuano&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">(1905-1972) m. Sidney E. Manuel (1901-1962); and&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">Philip J. Capuano</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">&nbsp;(1906-1968) m. Bessie Toups (1907-2002).(1910 Orleans Parish, Lousiana Federal Census T624_521, p. 3B, ED 91)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">By late July 1908, Mrs. Capuano and her son applied for a judgement of bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court. Their liabilities were $6218 and assets $4900.(The Daily Picayune, July 26, 1908, p. 7)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">In 1911, Mrs. Capuano relocated her family to Biloxi, Mississippi. She married Nicholas Martino (1860-1942), an Italian immigrant, widower, shoemaker. The Martino family lived and worked on Delauney Street in Biloxi.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">CHILDREN</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Capuano%2C Philip (1907-1968) and Bessie (1907-2002).jpg\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 153px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">[Southern Memorial Park-Biloxi, Mississippi]</span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Philip J. Capuano</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Philip Joseph Capuano&nbsp;</strong>(1906-1968) was born on September 26, 1906 at New Orleans, Louisiana. &nbsp;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)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Philip married <strong>Bessie Marie Toups</strong> (1907-2002), born May 29, 1907 at Westwego, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, in Harrison County, Mississippi on March 16, 1924.&nbsp; 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)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Philip and Bessie Marie Capuano resided at 530 Porter Avenue in Biloxi.&nbsp; Here they reared their three children: <strong>Louis Ellis Capuano</strong> (1925-2005) m. Jeanette S. Cerinich (b. 1928); <strong>Philip J. Capuano Jr.</strong> (1928-2009) m. Victoria Ray; <strong>Doris Rita Capuano</strong> m. Christopher J. Lawrence and Fred L. Ison (1914-1999); and <strong>Joseph Capuano</strong> (1935-1935).(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 35, p. 557)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Philip J. Capuano was a member of the Italian-American Society and had been president at one time.&nbsp; Philip was active in the Knights of Columbus, Alhambras, and the barber&rsquo;s union.(The Daily Herald, February 21, 1968, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">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 (1905-1972), widow of Sydney E. Manuel (d. 1962), of Biloxi; and 13 grandchildren.&nbsp; Bradford-O&rsquo;Keefe Funeral Home of Biloxi directed the Capuano funeral.&nbsp; 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)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">CHILDREN</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">Louis E. Capuano</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"Louis E. Capuano, Sr\" src=\"http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/2011/269/37732559_131714255152.jpg\" /></p>\r\n<div>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 25.500001907348633px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Louis Ellis Capuano Sr. (1925-2005), age 79 years, of Biloxi, MS died Friday, January 14, 2005, in Slidell, Louisiana. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 25.500001907348633px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">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 Italian-American 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.</span></span></strong></span></div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div>\r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15.555556297302246px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 25.500001907348633px;\"><font face=\"georgia, serif\">Preceding Mr. Capuano in death was his daughter, Stephanie Capuano (1956-2000) and his parents, Philip Capuano, Sr. and Bessie Toups Capuano.</font><font face=\"Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 25.500001907348633px; font-size: 14px;\">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 great-grandchildren, Chad Brumfield, Caitlin Brumfield, Locklin Balius, Kylee Capuano, Tyler Herring and Paityn Herring. Visitation will be Sunday, January 16, 2005, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O&#39;Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi. Mass of Christian Burial will be Monday at Nativity B.V.M. 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)</span></strong></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p>\r\n	<br />\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &#39;Mrs. Martino dies&#39;, July 28, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;N. Martino dies&quot;, January 5, 1942.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald. &quot;Philip Capuano&#39;, February 21, 1968.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald. &quot;Capuano rites&#39;, February 23, 1968.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune, &#39;Capuano&#39;, February 9, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune, &#39;No clue to origin of fire&#39;, June 9, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune, &#39;Bankruptcy&#39;, July 26, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald, &lsquo;Fred L. Ison&rsquo;, November 1, 1999.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald, &lsquo;Stephanie J. Capuano&rsquo;, March 22, 2000.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald, &lsquo;Bessie Capuano&rsquo;, October 16, 2002.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald, &lsquo;Louis E. Capuano Sr.&rsquo;, January 16, 2005.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald, &lsquo;Philip J. Capuano Jr.&rsquo;, May 17, 2009.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">____________________________________________________________________</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">AUGUST CORSO FAMILY</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Corso%2C August (1873-1943).jpg\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 274px;\" /></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>August Corso</strong> (1873-1943) was born on April 24, 1873 at Taormina, Messina Province, Sicily. He arrived at New Orleans from Palermo, Sicily on May 15, 1889. &nbsp;His known siblings that came from Sicily from Taormina are: <strong>Josephine Corso</strong> (1878-1961) m. John Fallo (1869-1952); <strong>Salvador Corso Sr</strong>. (18-1957) m. Ada Ford (1876-1956); and <strong>Corso</strong> m. Nancy Verges (1873-1900+).</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Au</span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">gust married Lena Runfalo (1877-1951). August and Lena left New Orleans after 1900 and settled at 510 Lameuse Street at Biloxi, Mississippi. &nbsp;Here he made his livelihood as a wholesale produce merchant and retail merchant. &nbsp;On April 11, 1916 at Biloxi, August Corso declared his intention to become an American citizen. &nbsp;He was naturalied on June 21, 1919 at Biloxi, Mississippi.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">Their children were: </span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">Salvadore J. Corso</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\"> (1896-1952);&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">Anna Corso </strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">(1897-1979); </span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">Francis Corso</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\"> (1903-1994) m. Albert Pickard (1905-1979); </span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">Frank Corso </strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">(1905-1945); </span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">Joseph August Corso</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\"> (1907-1954) m. Marjorie Kulivan (1913-1994);&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">Anthony J. Corso</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\"> (1910-1987) m. Helen Knox (1918-1972) .</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Children</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">Salvadore J. Corso</strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Francis Corso</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Francis Corso</strong> (1903-1994) was born August 14, 1903 at Biloxi, Mississippi. &nbsp;She married <strong>Albert E. Pickard</strong> (1905-1979) on December 2, 1925 in Harrison County, Mississippi. &nbsp;Children: Albert Francis Pickard m. Julia Maria Allen.[Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 37, p. 400)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Francis died on July 27, 1994. &nbsp;She was preceded in death by her spouse, Albert E. Pickard, who passed on 1979.(The Sun Herald, July 28, 1994, p. A-2)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">Frank Corso</span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Joseph A. Corso</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Joseph August Corso </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">(1907-1954)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/35113359_134671193896.jpg\" style=\"width: 164px; height: 200px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Helen Knox Corso</span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">Anthony J. Corso</span></strong></p>\r\n<div>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Anthony J. Corso</strong>&nbsp;(1910-1987) married Helen Knox (1918-1972), the daughter of Fred Knox and Helen Fountain, in Harrison County, Mississippi on January 23, 1937. &nbsp;They resided at 711 Caillavet Street in Biloxi, where they reared three children: &nbsp;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)</span></span></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n	<em style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;August Corso dies&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, December 17, 1943.</span></p>\r\n<div>\r\n	<em style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Mrs. Corso dies&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, October 1, 1951.</span></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div>\r\n	<em style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Joseph Corso dies&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, February 26, 1957</span><span style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">.</span></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div>\r\n	<em style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Helen Knox Corso&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, February 21, 1972</span><span style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">.</span></div>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n	<em style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Marjorie Kulivan Corso&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, July 6, 1994.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n	<em style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Francis Corso Pickard&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, July 28, 1994.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n	<em style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</em><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Corso&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, July 4, 1954.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	__________________________________________________________</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Corso%2C Frank P. (1898-1986) and Pearl Harvey (1901-1989).jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 144px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Southern Memorial Park</span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>FRANK P. CORSO FAMILY</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Frank Paul Corso (1898-1986), a native of Trapani, Italy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonardo Corso. &nbsp;In 1908, he immigrated to America arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana. &nbsp;Frank was naturalized at Biloxi, Mississippi on February 20, 1922 and received certificate No. 1511918.[Southern District Court-South Mississippi, Petition of Naturalization No. 289]</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Mr. Corso was educated at New Orleans and Brookhaven, Mississippi. &nbsp;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</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Frank P. Corso married&nbsp;Pearl AgnesHarvey (1901-1989), a native of North Biloxi, Mississippi in Harrison County, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">He was named Biloxi&#39;s Outstanding Citizen for 1956.(The Daily Herald, January 1, 1957, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Corso%2C James C. Jr. (1935-1990) and Shirley Thornton.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 400px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><strong>Linda Sue Thornton</strong> (1939-2014) and <strong>Jimmy Corso</strong> (1935-1990)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>JAMES C. CORSO&nbsp;</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">James C. &#39;Jimmy&#39; Corso (1935-1990) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi to Frank Paul Corso (1898-1986), a native of Trapini, Italy and a 1908 immigrant to America who arrived a NOLA, and Pearl Harvey (1901-1989), a native of North Biloxi.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Mr. Corso was the president of Frank P. Corso, Inc., a local vending company, which he had been employed by for more than thirty-five years.&nbsp; He attended Notre Dame High School and Spring Hill College [Mobile, Alabama], and the Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.&nbsp; Jimmy was a member of the Gulf Coast Carnival Association and ruled the 1980 Carnival as King Iberville.&nbsp; He was a member of the Biloxi Elks Lodge, the Biloxi Yacht Club, and Nativity B.V.M Catholic Church.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Jimmy Corso married Linda Sue Thornton (1939-2014) in Harrison County, Mississippi on November 18, 1961.&nbsp; They were the parents of three children:&nbsp; 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)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">James C. Corso was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, Frank P. Corso Jr. (1931-1990).&nbsp; He was survived by his spouse; three children; and two sisters; Bessie Marie Corso m. Mr. Caluda of NOLA and Elizabeth &#39;Liz&#39; Ann Corso m. John&nbsp; Schappert&nbsp; Joachim Jr; and Stephen Blake Knox, a grandson.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Riemann Memorial Funeral Home of Biloxi directed Mr. Corso&#39;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.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Linda Sue Thornton Corso died on January 4, 2014.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">&#39;Lions&#39; loving cup presented Frank P. Corso&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, January 1, 1957, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Daily Herald, </span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">&#39;Salvador Corso Sr.&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, May 24, 1957, p. 2.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">The Sun Herald, <strong>&#39;President of Biloxi vending company dies in Pascagoula&#39;</strong>, February 25, 1990, p. B2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	_______________________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	______________________________________________________________________________________________&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">FALLO FAMILY</span></strong></span></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Fallo%2C John (1896-1952) and Josephine Corso (1878-1961).jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 197px;\" /></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">John Fallo and Josephine Corso</span></span></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">[Biloxi Cemetery- September 8, 2012]</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>John Fallo</strong> (1869-1952)&nbsp;was born in New Orleans to Joseph Fallo and Josephine&nbsp; Fallo (1850-1917) , a native of Ustica, Italy.&nbsp; He married <strong>Josephine Corso</strong> (1878-1961), a native of Taormina, Palermo Province, Sicily.&nbsp; They moved to Biloxi, Mississippi circa 1905.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Children: <strong>Emile Fallo</strong> m. Angelina Diliberto; <strong>Salvadore Joseph Fallo</strong>&nbsp;(1902-1942);&nbsp; <strong>Jacob J. &#39;Jake&#39; Fallo</strong> (1906-1990) m. Eva Borries, Inez Ramsey (1908-1982), and Mary Price Pruett; <strong>Anthony J. Fallo </strong>(1907-1989) m. Ruth Wentzell (1909-1965) and Yvette Fountain Camp; <strong>John B. Fallo</strong>; and <strong>Dominic A. Fallo</strong> (1911-1996) m. Lucille Slay (1912-2005).</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);\" width=\"920px\">\r\n	<tbody style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n		<tr style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n			<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n				<div class=\"ResourceToolbar rtecenter\" id=\"ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ContentTop_ResourceToolbar1_Toolbar\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n					&nbsp;</div>\r\n			</td>\r\n		</tr>\r\n		<tr style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n			<td style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: top;\">\r\n				<div id=\"Obituary\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 595px !important;\">\r\n					<div id=\"ObituaryContainer\" style=\"margin: 3px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n						<div class=\"clearfix\" id=\"obitDetails\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;\">\r\n							<div class=\"ObitMainContentContainer\" id=\"ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ContentPlaceHolder1_obitMainContent\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 590px;\">\r\n								<div class=\"clearfix rtecenter\" id=\"obitText\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; position: relative;\">\r\n									<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n										<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Fallo%2C Jack (1928-2014).jpg\" style=\"width: 76px; height: 76px;\" /></p>\r\n									<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n										<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;John &#39;Jack&#39; A. Fallo<br />\r\n										</span></span></strong><span class=\"ObitTextHtml\" id=\"ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ContentPlaceHolder1_ObitText\" itemprop=\"description\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>John Anathonar Fallo</strong> (1928-2014) was born in Biloxi on February 9, 1928. &nbsp; Jack went to be with the Lord on June 2, 2014. Jack and his wife started and ran the family business, Fallo&#39;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. &nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center;\">In addition to his family, Jack also enjoyed socializing with friends over coffee.&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center;\">He had strong religious convictions, and was a member of Saint Francis Xavier Seelos Catholic Church in Biloxi.</span></span></p>\r\n									<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n										<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Fallo%2C Paula Armand Baudry (1929-2013).jpg\" style=\"width: 150px; height: 200px;\" /></p>\r\n									<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n										<strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Paula Baudry Fallo</span></strong></p>\r\n									<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\r\n										<span class=\"ObitTextHtml\" itemprop=\"description\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"text-align: center;\">Jack was preceded in death by the love of his life and wife of 64 years, <strong>Paula Baudry Fallo (1929-2013)</strong>, and their son, <strong>Michael T. Fallo</strong>. 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&nbsp;</span><a class=\"MicrositeKeyword\" href=\"http://www.legacy.com/memorial-sites/navy/?personid=171223436&amp;affiliateID=954\" id=\"InlineMicrositeLink_Navy\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: purple; outline-style: none;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Visit Navy Memorial Site to see similar profiles\">U.S. Navy</a><span style=\"text-align: center;\">; Brittany Fallo and her boyfriend Kyle Nelson of Vancleave; and Kolby Fallo of Vancleave; in addition to great grandson Eric of Wichita; step-great-granddaughter Jackie Cunha of Saucier; and many nieces and nephews.&nbsp;</span><span style=\"text-align: center;\">The Fallo family would like to thank everyone for your prayers, thoughts, and well wishes. &nbsp;</span><span style=\"text-align: center;\">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 Bradford-O&#39;Keefe Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.</span></span></span></div>\r\n								</div>\r\n							</div>\r\n						</div>\r\n					</div>\r\n				</div>\r\n			</td>\r\n		</tr>\r\n	</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&quot;Mrs. </strong>[Josephine&nbsp;Fallo]<strong> Esposito is claimed by death&quot;</strong>, June 18, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">&#39;Salvador Corso Sr.&#39;</strong>, May 24, 1957, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&#39;Paula </strong><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Fallo&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, February 18, 2013.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Sun Herald, </span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&#39;Jack Anthonar Fallo&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, June 5, 2014.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&#39;Businessman </strong><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">[Jack A. Fallo]</strong><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\"> was jazz drummer on weekends&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, June 7, 2014.</span><span style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;____________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>MARTINO</strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Martino%2C Lena (1868-1908).jpg\" style=\"width: 188px; height: 250px;\" /></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	___________________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">MATTINA</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">BARTLO MATTINA</span></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Mattina%2C Bartlo (1858-1942) and Catherine Vergets (1865-1926).jpg\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 179px;\" /></span></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Bartlo Mattina </span></span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">(1858-1943) was born in Italy.&nbsp; He married Catherine Vergets (1865-1920).</span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Bartlo Mattina dies&quot;, January 3, 1942, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	_______________________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">RANDAZZO</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/randazzo%2C John J. (1889-1953) and Mary P. (1887-1969).jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 210px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	____________________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">RUNFALO</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Runfalo%2C Lawrence and Marie L. (1898-1985).jpg\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 199px;\" /></span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">__________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">TARANTO FAMILY</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Taranto Anthony and Rosalea Fallo-FOUNDERS.jpg\" style=\"width: 350px; height: 263px;\" /></strong></span></span><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/taranto%2C Olivia (1888-1904).jpg\" style=\"width: 225px; height: 300px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>BILOXI CEMETERY&nbsp; </strong>[image made August 2012]</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Taranto family of Biloxi, Mississippi may have been founded by Anthony Taranto (1857-1927) and Rosalea Fallo (1854-1932), both born at Ustica, Italy.&nbsp; They arrived at New Orleans, Lousiana bertween 1865 and 1870.&nbsp; Their children were: Josephine Taranto (1878-1967) m. Lawrence Romeo (1870-1932); Concetta Taranto (b. 1880); Salvador Taranto (1881-1939); John Taranto (b. 1883); Frances Rose Taranto (1886-1954) m. Saverio J. Tedesco; and Olivia Taranto (1898-1904).</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>JOSEPHINE TARANTO</strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Josephine [Josefina] Taranto (1878-1967) was born at New Orleans, Louisiana on October 15, 1878.&nbsp; She married Lawrence [Lorenzo] Romeo 1870-1932) in Harrison County, Mississippi on June 10, 1896</span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">.</span><span style=\"font: 13px/normal verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(</span>Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 11, p. 16)</span><br style=\"font: 13px/normal verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" />\r\n	<span style=\"font: 13px/normal verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Lawrence Romeo was born to Antonio Romeo (1823-1898) and Angeline Romeo (1828-1910) 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 (1866-1927?) m. Louis Grasso (d. pre-1900).&nbsp;</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font: 13px/normal verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">The&nbsp;Romeo family lived at 437 Magnolia&nbsp;Street at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; Lawrence made his livelihood as a retail merchant selling fruit and animal feed and as an oysterman.&nbsp; His business in 1914 was located at 204 West Howard Avenue.&nbsp; The&nbsp;Romeos lived very close to John Taranto and&nbsp;Julius Taranto who were domicled at 438 and 440 Croesus Streets respectively.</span><br style=\"font: 13px/normal verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" />\r\n	</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lawrence and Josephine Taranto Romeo were the parents of five children</span><strong><span style=\"font: 13px/normal verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">: Lawrence Romeo Jr. (1901-1968) m. Ellen Cannette (1904-1998); Juliette Romeo (1902-1976) m. Fedele Marchioni (1892-1980); Joseph Romeo (1906-1976) m. Gladys Listenwalter (1908-1989); Angela Romeo (1911-2000) m. Jerome Edward Edward Hilton (1910-1984); and Julius Dominick Romeo (1916-1919).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></span></strong></span><br style=\"font: 13px/normal verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(220, 208, 207); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" />\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>CONCETTA TARANTO</strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>SALVADOR TARANTO</strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Salvador Taranto was born at New Orleans (1881-1939) on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .&nbsp; he married&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .&nbsp; They were the parents of three children:&nbsp; Salvadore &#39;Sav&#39; Taranto (1989) m. Annette Dubaz;&nbsp; Rosalie Fournier Adelaide Chinn</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">JOHN D. TARANTO</span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><u>The Daily Herald 50<sup>th</sup> Golden Jubilee Number Biographical and Historical 1884-1934</u>, (The Daily Herald: Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi-1934).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, &quot;Latest City News-Romeo-Taranto&quot;, June 13, 1896, p. 8.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Mrs. Angeline Romeo&quot;, November 9, 1910.</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;</span></span>The Daily Herald, <strong>&quot;Anthony Taranto dies&quot;</strong>, May 2, 1927, p. 2.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&quot;</strong>[Thomas<strong>]</strong> <strong>Taranto youth injured</strong></span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, September 29, 1930, p. 2.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&quot;</strong></span></span><strong>Lawrence Romeo , Sr. dies&quot;</strong>, April 7, 1932, p. 2.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&quot;Mrs. Taranto buried&quot;, </strong>October 12, 1932, p. 2.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&quot;S. Taranto dies&quot;</strong>, April 10, 1939, p. 5.<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&quot;S.J. Tedesco buried&quot;</strong>, October 9, 1948, p. 2.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&quot;John Taranto dies at Biloxi residence&quot;</strong>, December 3, 1949, p. 6.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong> &quot;Mrs</strong>. [Frances Rosie Taranto] <strong>Tedesco dies after long illness&quot;, </strong>March 16, 1954, p. 6.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald, <strong>&quot;Salvadore &#39;Sav&#39; Taranto&quot;</strong>, May 8, 1989, p. A4.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald,<strong> &#39;Angela Romeo Hilton&#39;</strong>, February 7, 2000.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald, <strong>&#39;Fedele Marchioni Jr&#39;</strong>, March 7, 2004, p. A7.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">_______________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">TEDESCO</span></span></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Tedesco%2C saverio J. (1878-1948).jpg\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 242px;\" /></span></span></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Tedesco%2C S.J..jpg\" style=\"width: 115px; height: 200px;\" /></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald, <strong>&#39;Miss Rosalie T. &#39;Leah&#39; Tedesco&#39;,</strong> February 17, 1991, p. B-2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	_____________________________________________________________________</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">UCHELLO</span></strong></span></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	<p>\r\n		<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">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 (1860-1943) and Maria Patellaro (1873-1951) to New Orleans, Louisiana after 1900.&nbsp; The Uchello family initially settled in and around Gretna, Jefferson Parish, &nbsp;Louisiana where they were truck farmers.&nbsp; During the Prohibition Era some of the Uchello sons became involved in the illicit movement of spirituous alcohol in Louisiana and Mississippi.&nbsp; In later years on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Gaetano &lsquo;Guy&rsquo; N. Uchello (1895-1962) , Salvador F. &lsquo;Sam&rsquo; Uchello (1908-1996) and Louis C. Uchello were involved in illegal casino style gambling in several night clubs on the &lsquo;Biloxi strip&rsquo;.</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>CHILDREN</strong></span></span></div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Gaetano N. Uchello</span></span></strong></div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Gaetano &#39;Guy&#39; Nick Uchello</strong> (1895-1962) was born in Palermo Province, Sicily. &nbsp;He married Agnes Rouse. Three children: Carlos Uchello; Paul Uchello; and Dianne Uchello. &nbsp;Guy died at Gulfport, Mississippi on December 27, 1962. &nbsp;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 Times-Picayune, December 27, 1962, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Salvador F. Uchello</span></span></strong></div>\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Salvador Francis &quot;Sam&quot; Uchello </strong>(1908-1996) was born November 20, 1908 at Gretna, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. &nbsp;He married Helene Uchello (1911-1974), a native of New Orleans. &nbsp;One child, <strong>Samuel Francis Uchello Jr.</strong> (b. 1948) m. in August 1970 at Rockville, Maryland to <strong>Elizabeth Anne Nagel</strong>.(The Times-Picayune, August 22, 1970, Section IV, pp. 5-6)</span></span></div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Mr. Sam F. Uchello had been a resident of Biloxi, Mississippi since 1946. &nbsp;He had lived at New Orleans and Pass Christian, Mississippi before 1940. &nbsp;Sam was a member of Nativity BVM Catholic Church and was a veteran of World War II serving with the US Coast Guard. &nbsp;He was an owner of the Gay Paree with Guy Uchello (1895-1962) and others. &nbsp;The Gay Paree was a night club and &quot;casino&quot; on the &quot;Biloxi strip&quot; on US Highway No. 90.(The Times-Picayune, December 1, 1961, Sec. III, p. 21 and The Sun Herald, February 21, 1996, p. C2))</span></span></div>\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">After his wife passed, Sam married <strong>Annie Bell Denson </strong>in Harrison County, Mississippi on January 14, 1984. &nbsp;he expired at Biloxi on February 19, 1996. &nbsp;(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court 2nd JD MRB 27, p. 382)</span></span></div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><strong>Annie Bell Denson Uchello&nbsp;</strong>(1925-2004), native of Stone County, Mississipp was assaulted in her home and expired from her injuries at Biloxi on February &nbsp;29, 2004. &nbsp;She had been the wife of James Adron Denson (1921-2000) and lived at Mantachie, Itawamba County, Mississippi. &nbsp;Annie came to Biloxi in 1980 and married Salvador &#39;Sam&#39; F. Uchello Jr. (1907-1996) in Harrison County, Mississippi on January 24, 1984. &nbsp;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)</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Louis C. Uchello</strong></span></span></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 25.486112594604492px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Louis Carl Uchello (1909-1996), 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 self-made businessman. &nbsp;</span></span></span><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 25.486112594604492px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Uchello first opened The Grove nightclub at the corner of DeBuys Road and U.S. 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 U.S. 90.(The Sun Herald, July 28, 1996)</span></span></span></strong></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Louis Carl Uchello married Helen St. Pe&#39; (1912-1997). &nbsp;Two children: Louis C. Uchello Jr. (1932-2002) m. Johnnie Louis Brister and Dorothy Crapo and Jocelyn Uchello m. Mr. Turnbough.</span></span></strong></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Florence Uchello</span></span></strong></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	Born at Gretna, Louisiana. &nbsp;In April 1937, she married Harold Leo Ernst, the son of Mr. and mrs. Charles Ernst.</div>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&#39;Helene Uchello&#39;</strong>, April 24, 1974.</span></span></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Sun Herald, &nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&#39;Salvador F. &quot;Sam&quot; Uchello&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, February 21, 1996.</span></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald, <strong>&#39;Louis C. Uchello&#39;</strong>, July 28, 1996.</span></span></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&#39;Helen St. Pe&#39; Uchello&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, , 1997.</span>\r\n	<div>\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&#39;Annie Denson Uchello&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, July 28, 2002.</span></div>\r\n	<div>\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&#39;Louis C. Uchello Jr.&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, October 13, 2002.</span></div>\r\n	<div>\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; line-height: 20px;\">The Sun Herald,<strong> &#39;Elderly woman killed in assault at Biloxi home&#39;</strong>, March 2, 2004, p. A1.</span></div>\r\n	<div>\r\n		<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n			<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n				<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Sun Herald, <strong>&#39;Annie Denson Uchello&#39;</strong>, March 2, 2004, p. A5.</span></p>\r\n			<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n				<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&#39;Over the River&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, May 2, 1937.</span></p>\r\n			<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n				<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune, </span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&#39;Action against gaming asked&#39;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, December 1, 1961.</span></p>\r\n		</div>\r\n	</div>\r\n</div>\r\n', NULL, '2');
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('book', 0, 228, 231, 'en', 0, '<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">COMFORT FAMILY</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Comfort%2C Edward (1883-1969).jpg\" style=\"width: 233px; height: 350px;\" /></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Louise Milles Comfort (1888-1989) &nbsp;and Edward Comfort (1883-1969)</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">[Courtesy of Joycelyn Comfort Barlow-March 2012]</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Edward Comfort (1883-1969) was born in Louisiana, probably New Orleans.&nbsp; It appears that he may have been an orphan as a person with his name and approximate age was an inmate at the Waif&rsquo;s Industrial Home at Beauvoir in 1900.&nbsp; This institution was founded by Dr. Reverend Alfred E. Clay (1852-1900), a native of Chester, England and a Methodist Episcopal South minister, in New Orleans.&nbsp; Reverend Clay was president of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Waif&rsquo;s Home on Clio Street in the Crescent City.&nbsp; He expired at his home in New Orleans in early September 1900.&nbsp; S.D. Moody replaced Reverend A.E. Clay at the Beauvoir Waif&rsquo;s Home.(<em>The Daily Picayune, September 2, 1900, p. 4, and The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 4, 19001, p. 8 and October 14, 1900</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Edward Comfort married Louise Milles (1888-1989) in Harrison County, Mississippi on January 30, 1907.&nbsp; The wedding took place at the home of Louise Milles Ferdan, the wife of Julius Ferdan (1871-1931), at 420 Delauney Street.&nbsp; The Reverend C.B. Crawford of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer performed their nuptial ceremony.&nbsp; The newly weds planned to live on Main Street in Biloxi, Mississippi(<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 31, 1907, p. 1</em> and Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 18, p. 536)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Louise Milles was a native of Mississippi, and the daughter of Joseph Milles (1855-1900), an 1870 Austrian immigrant, and Louise Knoch (1866-1920+), native of NOLA and the daughter of John Knoch (1830-1913) and Christine Weiss (1825-1923). John Knoch was born at Hamburg, Germany and lived at NOLA for 57 years. &nbsp;Christina Weiss was a native of Hesse-Darmstad, Germany. &nbsp;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&nbsp;<em>The Daily Picayune, January 26, 1913, p. 22 and The Times Picayune June 28, 1923, p. 22</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Louise Knoch had married Joseph Millis (1855-1900) or Milles at NOLA in September 1883. He was known as &#39;Mexican Joe&#39; and was killed in an accident at Ship Island in July 1900, while loading lumber on the <em><strong><u>Teodora de Larriniga</u></strong></em>, a British steamship out of Liverpool, England. The Joseph Milles family lived on Magnolia Street. He was a member of the Gulf Coast Timberman&#39;s Association and the Spanish Benevolent Association. Louise Knoch Milles remarried in January 1902 to Julius Ferlan (1871-1931), an Austrian immigrant oyster boat captain.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, July 21, 1900, p. 8 and </em>Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 13, p. 344)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Davidson%2C Sidney (1893-1941) and Viola Comfort (1908-1999).jpg\" style=\"width: 289px; height: 400px;\" /></span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Viola Comfort (1908-1999) and William Sydney Davidson (18993-1941)</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">VIOLA COMFORT</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Edward Comfort and Louise Milles Comfort were the parents of Viola Comfort (1908-1999).&nbsp; She was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on February 16, 1908.&nbsp; Viola Comfort had married William Sydney Davidson (1893-1941), called Sydney, in her parent&rsquo;s home at 209 Keller Place on October 7, 1925.(<em>The Daily Herald, October 8, 1925, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Sydney Davidson was the son of William M. Davidson (1855-1905), a Biloxi native and&nbsp; Margaret Ledden (1863-1925), who was born at New Orleans and the daughter of Jeremiah Ledden and Margaret O&rsquo;Brien.&nbsp; She had come to Biloxi circa 1885.&nbsp; The William Davidson family resided at 514 Bohn Street.&nbsp; When she expired on April 4, 1925, Mrs. Davidson was survived by four children: Alethia E. Davidson (1890-1965) married Alfred G. Brunet (1890-1948); William Sydney Davidson (1893-1941) married Viola Genevieve Comfort (1908-1999); Harold James Davidson (1894-1982) married Louise Faye Bellande (1898-1974); and Calvin Arnold &ldquo;Skinny&rdquo; Davidson (1901-1971) married Audrey Virginia Harrison (1912-2003). &nbsp;Margaret L. Davidson&#39;s corporal remains where interred in the Biloxi Cemetery.&nbsp; A daughter, Olga Davidson Smith (1899-1920), preceded Mrs. Davidson in death having expired on January 20, 1920.(<em>The Daily Herald, April 6, 1925, p. 3)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Viola C. Davison and Sydney Davidson were the parents of two children: Joycelyn Davidson (b. 1928) m. George Earl Barlow (1928-2012) and Kenneth Comfort Davidson (b. 1931) m. Mary Elizabeth Fabacher (b. 1932) and Mary Ott Tremmel. &nbsp;Sydney made his livelihood as a lineman for the Mississippi Power Company.&nbsp; They Davidson family also were domiciled at 209 Keller Place.&nbsp; Sydney passed on July 26, 1941.(<em>The Daily Herald, July 28, 1941, p. 5</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Barlow%2C George Earl (1928-2012).jpg\" style=\"width: 207px; height: 207px;\" /></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Joycelyn Louise Davidson and George Earl Barlow (1928-2012)</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><font color=\"#404040\">Joycelyn L. Davidson married George Earl Barlow (1928-2012)<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;at Biloxi, Mississippi on June 20, 1948. They were the parents of Craig Sydney Barlow m. Pamela Jane Pisarich and George E. Barlow Jr.(</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 77, p. 317 and </span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison Co., Mississippi 2nd JD Circuit Court MRB 23, p. 232</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">)</span>.&nbsp; </font></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><font color=\"#404040\">George&nbsp;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.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span><br />\r\n	<br />\r\n	</font></span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><font color=\"#404040\">Mr. Barlow is survived by his loving wife of 64 years, Joycelyn Davidson Barlow; two sons, George &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; 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 brother-in-law, Dr. Kenneth (Mary Ott Tremmel).&nbsp; George expired on&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><font color=\"#404040\">June 26, 2012 and his funeral service was held at&nbsp;</font></span>the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer&nbsp;on Thursday, June 28, 2012. The Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O&rsquo;Keefe is in charge of arrangements with internment in the Biloxi Cemetery.(The Sun Herald, June &nbsp;27, 2012)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></font></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Kenneth Comfort Davidson</span></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">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 (18-1982) and Edna Wade (1899-1988) 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 </span></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">William Wilson Sutcliffe (1850-1934), 1898 home at 1364 West Beach in Biloxi. Known children: Stephan Fabacher Davidson m. Charlotte Leone Kirkpatrick.(<em>The Times Picayune, August 25, 1955, p. 63 and The Daily Herald, July 21, 1959, p. 14</em>)</span></span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Edward Comfort expired at Biloxi, Mississippi on August 24, 1969.&nbsp; Mrs. Comfort lived until January 24, 1999.&nbsp; Their corporal remains were interred in Section 6 of the Biloxi Cemetery.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Rev. Alfred E. Clay&rdquo;</strong>,September 4, 1900.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;City News&rdquo;</strong>, October 14, 1900.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Marriages-Comfort-Milles&rdquo;</strong>, January 31, 1907.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Daily Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Rev. Alfred E. Clay dead&rdquo;</strong>, September 2, 1900.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Davidson-Comfort&rdquo;</strong>, October 8, 1925. &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Wm. Sidney Davidson dies&quot;</strong>, July 28, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;George E. Barlow&quot;</strong>, June 27, 2012.</span></span>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n', NULL, '2');
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('book', 0, 229, 232, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/bellande%2C%20ray%20manhattan%20beach-1971.jpg\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>RAY L. BELLANDE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ray L. Bellande (b. 1943) is a Biloxi, Mississippi native.&nbsp; He is the great grandson of Antoine V. Bellande (1829-1918), born at Marseille, France, and Marie Harvey (1840-1894) of Back Bay (now D’Iberville).&nbsp; Bellande attended Biloxi parochial and public schools.&nbsp; He matriculated at New Mexico Tech in 1961, and graduated with a B.S. Degree is Petroleum Geology from Mississippi State University in 1965.&nbsp; Bellande was employed by Humble Oil (Exxon), Tenneco, and others before becoming an independent geologist and oil operator at Lafayette, Louisiana in 1980.&nbsp; His hydrocarbon exploration and development endeavors has brought him to many petroleum provinces.&nbsp; Bellande has resided or worked in Louisiana, California, Alaska, Texas, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Mississippi, and Alabama.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">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&nbsp;<em>The Ocean Springs Record.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>In addition he has published several books:&nbsp;<strong>The Bellande Cemetery: A History and Register (1990); From Marseille to Mississippi: A Bellande Family History (1991);&nbsp;</strong>and<strong>&nbsp;Ocean Springs Hotels and Tourist Homes (1994)</strong>.&nbsp; Bellande also wrote the text for&nbsp;<strong>Ocean Springs, The Way We Were (1900-1950)</strong>&nbsp;in 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ray L. Bellande was the first commandant of the Fort Maurepas Society.&nbsp; He is currently vice-president of the Jackson County Historical Society and the Mississippi Coast Historical and Genealogical Society.&nbsp; 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ray L. Bellande is an active participant in community preservation and cultural affairs.&nbsp; He serves on the Ocean Springs Historical Commission and Museum Board.&nbsp; His hobbies include tennis, hiking, windsurfing, and gardening.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Memories of Back Bay [1947-1961]</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>May 21, 2020</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 175-unit, apartment-like 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,&nbsp;February 25, 1942, p. 4]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;At this time, Back Bay was a blue-collar 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Other commercial activities were the neighborhood grocery stores, barrooms, barbershops and movie houses.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Grocery Stores</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On Lameuse Street, one could walk south towards Biloxi’s primary commercial district on Howard Avenue and would encounter four-five grocery stores in only three blocks!&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was not uncommon to see mother’s playing nickel slot machines in some food venues.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Barrooms</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Although my family was in the beer business, I was to young to legally imbibe alcohol.&nbsp;&nbsp;I can remember being 15 or 16 years of age and walking into barrooms and get a cold one!&nbsp;&nbsp;Make mine Falstaff, Jack!&nbsp;&nbsp;And he did!&nbsp;&nbsp;Biloxi was a special place-no doubt, and one with a proliferation of saloons, bars, taverns, barrooms, lounges, poolrooms, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;No one went thirsty for a Jax, Dixie, Goebel’s, Miller High Life, Schlitz, or Bud. No lite beers for these macho men!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">If you loved Coor’s Beer, you were s_&nbsp;&nbsp;_&nbsp;&nbsp;_ out of luck as it was strictly a western beer at this time.&nbsp;&nbsp;In September 1961, I had my first taste of Coor’s in an arroyo in Socorro County, New Mexico.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;My response was: “Where’s the beer?&nbsp;&nbsp;This must be ice water??”&nbsp;&nbsp;Falstaff will do that to you!&nbsp;&nbsp;Very hoppy makes very happy?</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">We certainly had more bars than churches on Back Bay.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;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?!&nbsp;&nbsp;Further east was the Dixie Café, aka, MaMa Lou’s. Her place was special and I’ll say no more.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Further west and at the northern end of Caillavet Street was Perry’s Café.&nbsp;&nbsp;Hear or here they had the best red beans and rice on Monday.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Say no more.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our best selling brew, Falstaff, sponsored the game watched by millions of diamond fans.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dizzy would marry a Stone County lass and spend his retirement in the Wiggins area.&nbsp;&nbsp;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!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Barbershops</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Allen on Church Street [now Astronaut Haise Street] was a backyard barber with the best price-like $.50 cents!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Memories of Back Bay [1947-1961], Part II</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>May 28, 2020</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The social life of a youth growing up on Back Bay was rather meager.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was school, a city park, sports, church, scouting, clubs, and an occasional birthday party or dance.&nbsp;&nbsp;Very few teens had automobiles, but the fortunate were charitable and drove the less fortunate to weekends wasted at the many clubs, drive-inns and other ‘hangouts’ between Rodenburg Avenue and Pat Harrison, now Veterans Boulevard.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>A Catholic Education</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Back Bay section of Biloxi had five schools, two were public and three parochial. Gorenflo and M.F. Nichols, a colored institution, were public while St. John’s, Notre Dame, and Our Mother of Sorrows [also colored] were Catholic educational facilities.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;This allowed students in these agricultural areas to assist in the spring planting and other agro-chores.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">My first grade teacher was Sister Nathaniel at St. John’s Catholic School.&nbsp;&nbsp;The building was old, wooden and virtually not insulated.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our misery didn’t last long as the following year the new St. John’s Elementary School was built in 1950-1951. Bishop R.O. Gerow dedicated the six-class 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,&nbsp;May 6, 1951, p. 10]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were four grades with Sister Mary Joseph and Sister Elalia in charge.[<em>The Daily Herald, September 4, 1926]</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>Back Bay Ward School</strong>&nbsp;was donated to the City of Biloxi on September 6, 1898. &nbsp;The land for this educational facility was provided by William F. Gorenflo (1844-1932).&nbsp; The building was erected with funds provided by William K. M. Dukate (1852-1916).&nbsp; A school in this section of Biloxi was desperately needed and sincerely appreciated by the Back Bay residents<em>.</em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 7, 1898, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;The “new” Notre Dame High School&nbsp;near Keegan’s Bayou opened in September 1953 in a new $220,000 building with a $40,000 residence for its male teachers.&nbsp;&nbsp;Brother Rex, C.S.C. was principal.[The Daily Herald<em>, August 21, 1943, p. 6, September 2, 1943, p. 7, and</em>&nbsp;September 1, 1953, p. 1]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Today, Saint Patrick’s, although no longer in Biloxi, but a satellite of The Tradition, a 4800-acre, real estate development in north central Harrison County, functions as a co-educational, Catholic academy with similar goals as it predecessors: Sacred Heart, Notre Dame, and Mercy Cross.&nbsp;&nbsp;These are: small classes, high academic and moral standards, a familial cohesiveness and school pride.&nbsp;&nbsp;Co-incidentally, 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Canizaro has also been proactive in the development of William Carey University-Tradition Campus and the MGCCC Bryant Center, a nursing educational facility, which will vastly increase its current programs.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Games we played</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">I would attend St. John’s for six years, although not consecutively.&nbsp;&nbsp;My best memories are on the playground.&nbsp;&nbsp;The acme of recess was to gather on the lawn of the rectory on Bradford Street and ‘play king of the hill’.&nbsp;&nbsp;This area of Biloxi lies in the drainage basin of Bayou Auguste and is relatively low-so 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 three-feet higher than the street.&nbsp;This was our ‘hill’.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sides or classes were chosen to defend and others to attack.&nbsp;&nbsp;It got pretty rough at times getting pushed or shoved off the hill-but fun for school kid!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">It was also common to have several marble games in progress before classes, during recess, lunch and after school.&nbsp;&nbsp;Marbles was a big deal.&nbsp;&nbsp;One could play ‘boxese’ or ‘ringese’.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ringese was more difficult as the marbles were placed in the center of a circle drawn in the dirt.&nbsp;&nbsp;Shooters had to fire at a marble and hit it with enough force to propel it from the ring.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you weren’t happy you could always ‘pick up your marbles and go home’.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dodge ball was fun.&nbsp;&nbsp;The girls played hopscotch and jumped rope.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The football team</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Circa 1954, it was decided that St. John’s field at football team.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was coached by two, former exceptional Biloxi athletes, James ‘Jimmy’ H. Cook and Jack Pickich.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Since we were an independent, non-league team, it was difficult to schedule opponents.&nbsp;&nbsp;As I recall we did play the D’Iberville B-Team in their cow pasture “across de la baye”.&nbsp;&nbsp;The team was disbanded after the second season, but was a good introduction to organized sports.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>St. John Catholic School Football ca 1954-Back Bay Park</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[L-R: Bottow Row-Donnie LaCoste; Jimmy Cook; UK; Patrick H. &nbsp;Roberts (1944-2009); Tony Corso; Mickey J. Bellande; UK; UK; UK; Steve Bowen (1943-2005); Jimmy Manduffie; Ed Conway. &nbsp;Middle Row:&nbsp;<strong>Ray L. Bellande;</strong>&nbsp;Jules Galle\'; Ronnie Roberts; Jack Acevedo; UK; UK; Larry Gilbert; ? Parker; Joe Joe Arceneaux; Wallace Tiblier; Joseph Hungerford; Roland Roberts; UK. &nbsp;Top Row-Jack Pickich (1921-1974); Father Peter Killen; UK; Pete Alley; and James H. Cook (1920-1997).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Memories of Back Bay [1947-1961], Part III</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>June 4, 2020</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>St. John’s Elementary revisited</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">I reminisce again about St. John’s because here in the second grade I chose my future career.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;I queried them, “You mean you don’t know if you’re gonna be an engineer, teacher or hippie?” Reply. “Yup.”</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">This early revelation resulted from sitting in the back corner of the classroom.&nbsp;&nbsp;I was a shy child and didn’t want the teacher to ask me to recite or to be questioned.&nbsp;&nbsp;This was also the location of our class library.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this niche, I began to read the library books to escape the boredom of education.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was a cache of children’s books on mineral resources: iron, coal, gold, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;I became fascinated with gold and the great discoveries of it made in a California, the Yukon Territory and Alaska.&nbsp;&nbsp;This was my ‘ahah’ hour.&nbsp;&nbsp;I wanted to become a geologist, study rocks and minerals, and learn where to discover them in the Earth’s strata.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1953, at the Saenger Theatre I saw “Thunder Bay”, an adventure movie, with James Stewart and Gilbert Roland.&nbsp;&nbsp;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].&nbsp;&nbsp;Environmentalists don’t fret.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was no oil spill or blowout and the fishermen and drillers found common ground and the ending was cool.&nbsp;&nbsp;Regardless, this film reinforced my interest in earth science.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Another event in the path to becoming a geologist was Della Simms McCaughan [b. 1928] our 10th grade Biology instructor at Biloxi High School.&nbsp;&nbsp;Della was entertaining and inspirational as a teacher.&nbsp;&nbsp;I ate my first caviar sans champagne in her class.&nbsp;&nbsp;She was always motivating, but especially in annual Science Fair preparations.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Research and data provided by petroleum geologists in Jackson added to the educational value of the display.&nbsp;&nbsp;Joyfully, It won first place in Earth Science IV category at the State Fair in Jackson.[The Daily Herald, April 29, 1959, p. 10]&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Well, I did become a geologist but never found any gold, although we did discover ‘black gold’, a moniker for oil.&nbsp;&nbsp;My career journey in the oilfield was peripatetic allowing me the opportunity to live in Texas, California, Louisiana and Mississippi.&nbsp;&nbsp;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&nbsp;Petroleum, Norwegian based oil company, exploring in south Mississippi and Alabama.&nbsp;&nbsp;We dug, two, ultra deep holes, over 18,000 feet, near Lumberton, Mississippi and north of Grand Bay, Alabama.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was a fulfilling career and I often dream of finding that really giant oilfield-in Back Bay, no less!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Two final thought on St. John’s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Some of us became altar boys.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our responsibility was to serve with the priest in celebrating the Mass.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;I was fortunate to have studied Latin for two-years at Biloxi High School.&nbsp;&nbsp;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 [1897-1981] and Frances Hooker Horner [1916-2013].&nbsp;&nbsp;I was the class clown and spent many afternoons of penance writing on Mrs. Horner’s&nbsp;blackboard for my silly antics.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Additionally, I would ask educators&nbsp;today&nbsp;to reinstate Latin into the high school curriculum [a Latin word no less].&nbsp;&nbsp;It’s value in understanding English etymology and grammar are priceless.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">My final comment is to share my knowledge with you of a very special lady, Louise J. Mallard [1900-1975], our 2nd grade teacher. She may have been Biloxi’s first female lay instructor, as Nuns were becoming a rare item.&nbsp;&nbsp;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 [1809-1879], a native of France, settled at NOLA and became a furniture maker par excellence.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">caption:&nbsp;&nbsp;April 1959 Science Fair-Under 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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Other McCaughan students winning at this State Science Fair were Colonel Michael N. Zalocusky [1943-2015] and Edward ‘Sparky’ Sbardella, who became a medical doctor.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Memories of Back Bay [1947-1961], Part IV</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>June 11, 2020</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Remembering Gorenflo School</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp; Since the Bellande family lived less than two blocks from the Gorenflo School that was a relatively easy decision and transition.&nbsp; No more Catechism, except we were expected to attend after school classes once a week at St. John’s to continue our Catholic education.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">I was fortunate to attend the 6th grade class of Miss Priscilla Ritch [1893-1972]. She and her older sister, Mary Alma Ritch [1890-1964], 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Alton L. Bellande [1912-1970], 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.</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;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’.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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’.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nDo 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!</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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!</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dennis Malpass was our ‘yard star’.&nbsp;&nbsp;He went on to play college football at Kansas and later baseball at Tulane.&nbsp;&nbsp;The rest of us were fair to mediocre junior and high school jocks.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mrs. Yusko lived to the west and there was a small cache of cypress trees and other arboreal characters in her rear yard.&nbsp;&nbsp;Infrequently, someone would brave her wrath and attempt to collect a cypress knee to make a lamp base.&nbsp;&nbsp;We would catch minnows in the ditch-stream and occaisionally enter the large culvert under Lameuse Street for no good reason.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Then there was the sundial!&nbsp;&nbsp;This object was placed in the south side Gorenflo schoolyard in the spring of 1932 by the&nbsp;<strong>American Legion Auxilliary in memory of the late William F. Gorenflo</strong>&nbsp;(1842-1932). &nbsp;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,&nbsp;May 25, 1932, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William Frederick Gorenflo</strong>&nbsp;(1842-1932) was native of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi and a Biloxi seafood pioneer, civic leader, public servant and philanthropist.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Gorenflo public school was designed by Biloxi architect Carl E. Matthes (1896-1972) and was erected by the Collins Brothers [George Collins and William Collins], contractors. Its area of educational responsibility included: All north of the L&amp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Land for the Gorenflo school consisted of about 6.5 acres conveyed by John C. Bradford from his large Lameuse Street tract to the Trustees of the Biloxi City Schools: W.F. Gorenflo (1842-1932), W.J. Grant (1875-1932), Elbert L. Dukate (1881-1943), Susan Snell Tonsmeire (1879-1953), and Lille Bourdon Devitt (1884-1951), for $10,000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 138, pp. 466-467)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the fall of 1924, three new Biloxi public schools were dedicated between&nbsp;November 18th&nbsp;and 20th&nbsp;in this order:&nbsp;Dukate School&nbsp;on East Howard Avenue;&nbsp;Gorenflo School&nbsp;on Lameuse Street; and the&nbsp;Lopez School&nbsp;beween Benachi Avenue and Porter Avenue. &nbsp;The latter was being completed by A.C. Samford, contractor, Gulfport and Montgomery.[The Daily Herald,&nbsp;November 14, 1924, p. 1 and 2]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Here in 1923-1924, Gorenflo, a public school building, designed by architect Carl E. Matthes (1896-1972) was erected by the Collins Brothers. Its area of educational responsibility included: All north of the L&amp;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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Memories of Back Bay [1947-1961], Part V</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>June 18, 2020</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Back Bay Play Time</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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?</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Bellande family didn’t possess a television until 1955 and it had very poor reception from WDSU, which came on air in&nbsp;December 1948&nbsp;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!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">These were times that the neighborhood schoolyard and public parks were venues for touch football, pickup softball and baseball, and half court basketball. Less well-known 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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&nbsp;August 1847&nbsp;when he bought a large tract on the Back Bay of Biloxi from Louis A. Caillavet (1790-1860) and spouse, Margaret Fayard Caillavet (1787-1863).&nbsp; The parcel was described as having 180-feet on Back Bay and 20 arpents [3840 feet] deep.&nbsp; Augustine Fayard was to the west; the lands of Adele Delauney to the south; and James W. Elder to the east.&nbsp; The consideration was $200 for this approximate 16 acre tract.[Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 3, p. 420)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The northern portion of the large Bradford tract, i.e. 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:&nbsp; Bradford Street, Elder Street, Bradford &amp; Elder Sawmill, Back Bay Fire Company, Back Bay Community Center and Park, Gorenflo Public School, Leckich &amp; Fayard Seafood; Harrison County Health Center, Bayview Theatre-Bayview Lanes, a bowling alley, and Bay View Drugs.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi Recreation Department</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 Park-Charles ‘Floppy’ Boone and George ‘Chop Chop’ Vuyovich; West End-Coach W.D. Wiles and Kay Baltar; Lopez School playground-James Garner; Bay Terrace-Charles Moniot; Miramar playground-Robert Wold; St. Michael’s-Leroy Picard and Gay Nell Knight; Moore Community House-Robert Bellman; Elmer Street-Ameral Hunter, Sarah Young and James Daniels; Main Street Community House-Vernon Bradford; Nichols playground-Willie 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,&nbsp;October 11, 1952, p. 1;&nbsp;June 11, 1953, p. 12; and&nbsp;June 2, 1954, p. 15]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Leagues for adults. These adult league softball games were held at the Back Bay and St.Michael’s diamonds.The Daily Herald,&nbsp;June 18, 1953, p. 10 and&nbsp;April 27, 1954, p. 15]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1953 Little League Baseball</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 t-shirt. 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,&nbsp;April 7, 1953, p. 13]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The initial season was introduced with eight teams in two leagues, the Shrimp and Oyster. On&nbsp;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,&nbsp;May 9, 1953, p. 14]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The 1953 Little League season culminated&nbsp;<u>on 30 August</u>&nbsp;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, 12-5.[The Daily Herald,&nbsp;August 28, 1953, p. 18 and&nbsp;August 31, 1953, p. 16]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">All-Star 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 All-Stars 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,&nbsp;August 28, 1953, p. 18]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Our team, DeJean Packing Company, was coached by Leroy Picard. We won 14 games but finished second in the Oyster League. In a game&nbsp;<u>on 10 August</u>&nbsp;that was a must win to unseat league leader, the Mavar packers, their hurler, Larry Fountain, had a 7-0 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,&nbsp;August 12, 1953, p. 16]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1954 Mavar Packing Company-Biloxi commenced Little League Baseball in the spring of 1953.&nbsp;&nbsp;This ‘vintage’ image was made in 1954 when the players were outfitted with baseball uniforms rather than a T-shite with ironed on letters! [Kneeling L-R] John Hilton, Phillip ‘Phil’ Dalgo 1943-1993], Jeremiah “Jody” J. O’Keefe IV [1946-2007], UK, John ‘Johnny’ N. Higginbotham [1944-2001]. [Standing L-R] Coach Ernest Cavalier [1916-1972], Kenneth Higginbotham; Ray L. Bellande, Robert Seville, Gerald Lamey, UK, Rick Stewart, David L. Conway [1946-1996] and Coach Harold ‘Beans’ Allen.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Memories of Back Bay [1947-1961], Part VI</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>June 25, 2020</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Tennis</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 Mid-Winter 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; M.L. Michel Jr.; Norman Moran; Alice Lee Latil, and Louise Curet.[The Daily Herald,&nbsp;March 8, 1928, p. 14]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Albert E. Bessey [1895-1996] 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 functional-Bay Terrace.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 T.J. 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!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 multi-sport skills: George L. Sumrall, Anthony Mozaro, Johnny Ryan, Robert Morrison, Harold Breal, Joe Gill, Ron Peresich, Dennis Malpass, Vincent Kuluz, Clem Dellenger, and .......</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bowling</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;There was time in America when bowling alleys were man caves, akin to pool halls and blue-collar 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">There is a high degree of certitude that bowling came to Biloxi because of Keesler Field.&nbsp;&nbsp;This new Army Air Corps base had brought many soldiers from northern climes who were schooled in the sport. In&nbsp;June 1941, the&nbsp;<strong>U.S. Army Air Corps activated Station No. 8, Aviation Mechanics School</strong>, at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; The first contingent of recruits, about 2000 young Americans, arrived at Biloxi in&nbsp;August 1941&nbsp;and were bivouacked in tents.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;My first recollection of Brown’s was in the late 1950s. It was the&nbsp;last Sunday&nbsp;in&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Before J. Luther Brown, Helen M. Brown and Victor B. Pringle Victor incorporated the Brown Bowling Center in&nbsp;August 1948, Biloxi’s bowles were rolling at&nbsp;<strong>Vic\'s Bowling Alley</strong>, operated by Victor Joseph Passera Sr. [1888-1948] of NOLA. Vic’s was situated on the ground floor of the Carpenter’s Union No. 1667 building. It had been erected in 1941-1942 at 419 Reynoir Street and opened in late May of 1942 with&nbsp;<strong>Mayor Louis J. Braun</strong>&nbsp;(1890-1951) throwing a strike on his first ball at the eight lane facility. .(The Daily Herald,&nbsp;January 22, 1942, p. 2;&nbsp;March 18, 1942, p. 9;&nbsp;June 1, 1942, p. 3; and&nbsp;August 24, 1948, p. 6]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Keesler Field</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 12-lane 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,&nbsp;July 8, 1942, p. 6 and&nbsp;September 16, 1942, p.2]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bayview Lanes</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Bayview Lanes opened for keglers on&nbsp;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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Jax Beer bowling team from NOLA made an appearance during the Bayview Lanes commencement celebration.&nbsp;Ernest V. Landaiche (1895-1966), proprietor, already had plans to add eight additional lanes to building. He was also planning a 24-lane bowling center on West Beach Boulevard in front of his Beach Drive-In Theater.<em>(The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><em>January 19</em><em>, 1960, p.6 and&nbsp;</em><em>January 28</em><em>. 1960, p. 27)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The building was&nbsp;</strong>formerly the&nbsp;1946&nbsp;<strong>Bayview Theatre</strong>&nbsp;of Douglas I. Smith [1901-1979] and&nbsp;<strong>had been designed by&nbsp;</strong>Collins &amp; and cost over $60,000.&nbsp; The theatre area was 50 feet by 100 feet with a seating capacity of almost seven hundred persons.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><em>November 28</em><em>, 1946, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">I was mere lad of seventeen when the Bayview Lanes opened for play in&nbsp;January 1960&nbsp;by Ernest V. Landaiche (1895-1966), 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Unfortunately, the Bayview Lanes were destroyed in a horrific conflagration on 29 November 1962.&nbsp;&nbsp;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,&nbsp;November 30, 1962, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi soon had two additional bowling centers, the Beach Bowl and The Surf Bowlarama, which also opened in 1960.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Beach Bowl was on the ‘Biloxi Strip’ near the Sun-N-Sand.&nbsp;&nbsp;It had 24 lanes and survived Camille.&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact, it was reopened as early as 28 August 1969.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Surf Bowlarama, a Luka Kuljis family endeavor, situated on Point Cadet, was not as fortunate.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Kuljis enterprise opened 10 December1960 with 16 lanes.&nbsp;&nbsp;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]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bayview Lanes-Located at Bayview Avenue and Lameuse Street, this 16-lane bowling center, which opened in January 1960 was destroyed in a horrific conflagration on 29 November 1962.&nbsp;&nbsp;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,&nbsp;November 30, 1962, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Memories of Back Bay [1947-1961], Part VII</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>July 2, 2020</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Boy Scouts</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Boy Scouts of America at Biloxi became established on 24 July 1918 by Professor Wilbeforce Leach [1870-1949] at 1045 West Howard Avenue, his home.&nbsp;&nbsp;Charles Redding Jr. was assistant scoutmaster for Troop I. Mr. Leach became Principal of Biloxi High School in late August 1918 succeeding W.T. Harris.&nbsp;&nbsp;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]&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Scouting at Biloxi in the mid-1950s was very well organized and participation by the youth of the Queen City, a 19th century moniker, was exemplary. In 1954-1955 my brother and I joined BSA Troop 213, which was sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Gulf Coast Council No. 1244.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was founded in June 1907.[The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;May 30, 1907, p. 1]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">BSA Troop 213 was led by J. Kline Coquet [1911-1969], scoutmaster, Albert D’Orville [1926-2018], assistant scoutmaster. They were ably assisted by Harold ‘Beans’ Allen, Edward L. ‘Porky’ Blomberg Jr. [1936-2005]; Robbie Ladner; and Glen D’Orville [1934-2001].</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">At this time, our troop may have been the largest in Biloxi with about 70-100 scouts, but Troop 212, led by A.J. Stanovich [b. 1929] and Ernest C. Hart [1930-2010], was comparable in size and our strongest rival for scouting awards, which were held at the ‘Court of Honor’, a bi-monthly 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, J.B. Todaro, Gordon and Barry Gollott, Jimmy and David Desporte, Ross Bertucci, Robbie Ladner, Mickey Cannette, Gregory Nolte, Eric Lightner, and Sandy Steckler.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Patrols</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Within a Boy Scout Troop, there are Patrols, which are composed of six to ten scouts.&nbsp;&nbsp;The patrol has a leader who is usually older and an experienced scout and assists the Scoutmaster in planning and organizing troop functions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Patrols have names, which are chosen by its members.&nbsp;&nbsp;During my scouting tenure Troop 213 had the following patrols: Bat, Bob White, Comanche, Dakota, Panther, Seminole, Sioux, and Woodpecker.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">To quote unarguably Biloxi’s most enduring and influential Scout Leader, A.J. Stanovich, “Once a Scout, always a Scout.”</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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:&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Camp Wilkes</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Camp Wilkes was situated in the Naval Reserve Park on Back Bay and dedicated in early June 1938 and named for Eugene P. Wilkes [1885-1980], publisher of The Daily Herald.&nbsp;&nbsp;Earlier, the&nbsp;<strong>City of Biloxi had leased the NE/4 of Naval Reserve Park to Boy Scouts Camp Inc., Eugene P. Wilkes, president.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;The site included 11 buildings, a pier built for scout purposes. The tract was surrounded by a fence.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 221, pp. 566-567 and City of Biloxi Minute Bk. 17, pp. 399-400 and The Daily Herald,&nbsp;June 7, 1938, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1942 Move</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">With the development of Keesler Field commencing in 1941, Camp Wilkes was relocated north of Back Bay in the fall of 1942 to a 75-acre tract, which exists today surrounded by subdivisions.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Several pecan orchards and a few houses were all to seen at this time![The Daily Herald, December 9, 1942, p. 7]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Camporee</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A camporee in the mid-1950s was a weekend in the spring and fall at Camp Wilkes where Scouts in the Biloxi-Ocean Springs District competed for awards in many scouting skills. Each Patrol met at the Camp Wilkes gate on a&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">My first night in a pup tent was very miserable. I had never attempted to sleep on the ground prior to this cool-chilly 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dawn arrives seemly never. Someone had brought eggs and what was created in that frying pay was no Breakfast at Tiffany’s or anywhere!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Memories of Back Bay [1947-1961], Part VIII</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>July 9, 2020</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/BSA%20Troop%20210-April%201951%20Camporee.png\" style=\"height:300px; width:428px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Camporee&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;At this juncture, I must self-laud.&nbsp;&nbsp;Meat preservation requires ice or refrigeration, unless smoked or salted.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dry ice was the medium for preservation.&nbsp;&nbsp;While hiking into Camp Wilkes the first day, it proved to be quite heavy and cold on my back.&nbsp;&nbsp;Regardless, it was avant-garde and probably surprised the judges.&nbsp;&nbsp;I don’t believe it was ever attempted again!&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Saturday afternoon was spent in various competitions on the parade ground.&nbsp;&nbsp;The one that I best recall was the fire starting to boil a can of water.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Patrols were timed from the commencement of efforts for ignition until the water boiled out of the containment vessel into the fire.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By Sunday noon most of the Camporee participants were totally exhausted.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ribbons were awarded to Patrols that had earned them.&nbsp;&nbsp;Returning to Lameuse Street, I strongly remember being ravenously hungry at the lunch table.&nbsp;&nbsp;Following a long, hot bath I slept about twelve hours!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Summer Camp</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 amenities-no 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.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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?&nbsp;&nbsp;A true Yankee, is a New Englander, as we all should know by now?]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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, barrel-supported 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!&nbsp;&nbsp;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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 high-speed 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?</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Entertainment at Summer Camp was limited.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was a canteen in the afternoon were scouts could purchase soft drinks, potato chips and candy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Health foods were yet to be discovered?&nbsp;&nbsp;Maybe in the evenings a movie was shown or a talk given in the cafeteria?&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were dressed as Native Americans and performed purported native dances around the fire to everyone’s amazement and enjoyment.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Prior to Summer Camp, prospective campers were asked to have their mother’s make them a breechcloth to wear to the ceremony.&nbsp;&nbsp;One of the mother’s obviously did not “google” breechcloth, as her son was absent an integral part of the garment.&nbsp;&nbsp;That would be the ones covering the well…..you know!&nbsp;&nbsp;Him em-bare-ass-ed.&nbsp;&nbsp;The youngster was escorted to his cabin on his way to the ceremony and properly fitted.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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’.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;A very sobering and sad ending today for me to say “auRayvoir mes amis”.&nbsp;&nbsp;Please return next week.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Memories&nbsp;of Back Bay [1947-1961], Part IX</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">July 16, 2020</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><br />\r\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Movies</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 two-bedroom, wood-framed 1940s bungalow on the west side of Lameuse Street. That house was built with rough-cut lumber and had a tin roof, which survived every hurricane from the 1947 September Storm and Katrina with water reaching the eaves.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Bay View Theatre</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The tract of land that the Bay View Theatre was erected was acquired by Terrance Smith (1855-1924), an Irish immigrant stevedore and resident of NOLA, from E.C. Joullian and Charles Redding in February 1921 for $8000.&nbsp; The Smith parcel consisted of about 4.5 acres and was described as two hundred-eighty 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)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In October 1881, Terrance Smith had married Sallie O’Harris (1862-1885).&nbsp; They had at least one son, William Smith (1883-1900+).&nbsp; At NOLA, Mr. Smith remarried to Katherine Douglas (1869-1937) in February 1895.&nbsp; From this marriage at least two children were born in the Crescent City, probably on Soniat Street: Joseph Smith (1897-1968) and Douglas I. Smith 1901-1979).&nbsp; 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 T623_575, p. 23B, ED 128)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Douglas I. Smith</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">There is a high degree of certitude that Douglas Ignatius Smith (1901-1979) while visiting Biloxi with his parents met Vera Moran (1901-1979), the daughter of Francis Moran (1853-1935) and Elizabeth Vanderpool (1869-1940).&nbsp; They married at Biloxi in October 1920.&nbsp; By 1930, Douglas I. Smith was managing a restaurant and had his growing family domiciled on Lameuse Street.&nbsp; 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 (1919-1988); and Terrence Smith (1927-2001).(1930 Harrison County, Mississippi Federal Census R 1146, p. 22A, ED 6)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Bay View Theatre opened on&nbsp;November 30, 1946 with “Caesar and Cleopatra”, an English produced film, starring Vivian Leigh (1913-1967) and Claude Rains (1889-1967).&nbsp; At the time, this production was touted as the most expensive ever made costing over $6 million.&nbsp; The theater building was designed by Collins &amp; Collins and its erection was supervised by Sam Starks and cost over $60,000.&nbsp; The theatre area was 50 feet by 100 feet with a seating capacity of almost seven hundred persons.&nbsp; The viewing screen was plastic and the sound system built by RCA.&nbsp; A Brinkert movie projector was utilized.&nbsp; The Bayview Theatre was cooled and heated with a 40-ton, air conditioning unit and a Riznor heating system respectively.<em>(The Daily Herald,&nbsp;November 28, 1946, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In addition, the structure housed Kay’s Flower Shop, Bay Apparel, and Bay Drugs, operated by Alfred J. Claiborne (1895-1946+).&nbsp; Mr. Claiborne had been with Katz &amp; Besthoff drug stores in the Crescent City.&nbsp; Gerard Smith, son of Douglas I. Smith, was the manager of the movie house;.<em>(The Daily Herald,&nbsp;November 28, 1946, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Some of the first cinema viewings and movie stars that I remember at the Bay View were: Stalag 17-1953 [William Holden]; Twelve O’ Clock High-1949 [Gregory Peck]; On The Waterfront-1954 [Marlon Brando]; Shane-1953 [Alan Ladd]; the Wizard of Oz-1939 [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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Myer Theatre</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 Séance 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,&nbsp;May 28, 1940, p. 9]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Another hook for grownups was to have a popular local band combine with a minstrel show to create a vaudeville atmosphere.[The Daily Herald,&nbsp;August 10, 1940, p. 6]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Meyers family had arrived in Biloxi from Erath, Louisiana about 1926.&nbsp; Odeus Meyers had married Elvena Viator at Delcambre, Louisiana in&nbsp;October 1905.&nbsp; Their children were: Calus C. Meyers (1909-1999); Albert J. Meyers (1911-1958); Henry Meyers (1914-2004) m. Eula Marie Meyers; Ena Meyers Krause (1920-1983); and Ella Meyers Fayard.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In&nbsp;February 1940, Odeus Meyers (1884-1968) and Calus Canute ‘CC’ Meyers (1909-1999), his son, operators of Meyers’ Grocery at 447 East Division Street announced that they were going to build a 600-seat movie theater on the southeast corner of Lameuse and Division Streets.&nbsp;&nbsp; Jack Fayard, Biloxi architect was hired to draw building plans for the $11,000, Meyers’ wood-framed, movie house.&nbsp; It was to be 40 feet by 110 feet and fireproof.&nbsp;&nbsp; Approximately 400-seats were for White patrons and 200-seats for Colored viewers.&nbsp; The Colored entrance and lobby was on Division Street and their seating area was the balcony.&nbsp; The White clientele entered from Lameuse Street and were seated in the main auditorium.<em>(The Daily Herald,&nbsp;February 10, 1940, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Land for the new Meyers Theatre was acquired in&nbsp;June 1938&nbsp;by Odeus C. Meyers for $1000 from Ruth Elder Collins (1903-1960) and Hazel Elder Van Court (1901-1971), the heirs of R.E. Lee Elder (1864-1931).&nbsp; This 60.2 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)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Opening night</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Meyers Theatre opened on the evening of&nbsp;May 17, 1940 with ‘Alias The Deacon’ starring Bob Burns.&nbsp; Calus C. Meyers and H.T. Fayard of Picayune were the managers of the new movie house.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Sale</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;In&nbsp;January 1961, Odeus Meyers and Calus C. Meyers conveyed the Meyer Theatre to B&amp;D Theatres Inc. for $60,000.&nbsp; B&amp;D Theatres was chartered in&nbsp;October 1960&nbsp;by Claude S. Bourgeois (1929-1985) of Biloxi and Edgar G. Doerr (1911-1983).&nbsp; 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)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Memories of Back Bay [1947-1961], Part X</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>July 23, 2020</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Final Years</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Central Junior High School</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On&nbsp;September 8, 1943 the&nbsp;new Biloxi Central Junior High School on East Howard Avenue commenced classes for 568 students&nbsp;in grades seven, eight, and nine.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cyril A. Carvin&nbsp;(1917-1978)&nbsp;was the principal.&nbsp;&nbsp;The structure had 20 classrooms, home economics area, manual and vocational training departments, library and cafeteria.(The Daily Herald,&nbsp;September 1, 1943, p. 1 and September 9, 1943)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Who could ever forget Miss Betty Jones, our ninth grade, homeroom teacher.&nbsp;&nbsp;As I recall she taught girls physical education and was Miss USM in her day.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;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!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Eateries</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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&nbsp;May 23, 1962. The $40,000 building permit was announced in early October 1961. Original franchisees were Albert Gatti and Joe Nibeel [1911-2009].[The Daily Herald,&nbsp;October 2, 1961, p. 14 and&nbsp;May 23, 1962, p. 14]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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,&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;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.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mr. Hugo drove a white Lincoln Continental with red interior and was a generous tipper.&nbsp;&nbsp;My younger brother bagged groceries at Delchamps and related that the bagboys competed for his grocery cart as they knew a fin was coming.&nbsp;&nbsp;Five dollars was a very healthy reward in the early 1960s.[Roy A. Bellande, July 21, 2020]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Remembering Hugo’s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Hugo J. Rungo (1909-1993) 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 (1911-1997), 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.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">\"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. [1932-2008] of Biloxi said&nbsp;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.\"&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Perry Ransom Jr. (1929-2003) 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.\"</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.\"</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Besides being the place to hangout in its heyday, some say that the French dressing-on-pizza 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.\"&nbsp;[The Daily Herald,&nbsp;January 28, 1967, p. 5 and The Sun Herald,&nbsp;January 11, 1993, p. A2]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Rosetti’s, a very popular neighborhood cafe on the Point, was owned by Vincent \"Vici\" Rosetti (1908-1983).&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1947, late one night, Clifton M. ‘Kip’ Dees [1927-2011] 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 po-boy, to satisfy hunger pangs before heading northeast to Vancleave. Kip Dees ordered a crabmeat po-boy with cheese. In subsequent visits to Rosetti’s, Kip, who was facetiously called \"Vancleave\" by Vici Rosetti, again ordered the crabmeat po-boy and requested cheese. Rosetti tasted Kipp’s concoction and was so delighted with the results that he placed the po-boy 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 $1.75 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,&nbsp;January 6, 1999)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">McElroy’s A&amp;W Root Beer place on West Howard [now Judge Sekul] was a teen hangout as were the drive-inns on the ‘Biloxi Strip’ from Rodenberg Avenue west to the Broadwater Beach Hotel of the philanthropic Brown family,&nbsp;Joe W. Brown&nbsp;(1897-1959) and&nbsp;Dorothy Dorsett Brown&nbsp;(1896-1989), both Texans. Strip clubs dominated Pat Harrison Avenue, now Veterans, but the iconic Hot Stop was a favorite with Biloxi’s young folks.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Hugo%20J.%20Rungo.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:235px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Hugo J. Rungo-Hugo Joseph Rungo [1909-1993] 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;His Italian restaurant on West Division and Porter was the venue for many celebrations and especially those of the sporting crowd.&nbsp;&nbsp;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”.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>Memories of Back Bay [1947-1961],&nbsp;Part<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"> XI</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">August 2, 2020</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Spartan Biloxi</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Since Biloxi Senior High School and Central Junior High School were juxtaposed, we invariably were influenced by our “elders” next door.&nbsp;&nbsp;It soon became apparent that the football players across the way were top dog, so I became a jock again.&nbsp;&nbsp;Since the early 1950s, the Biloxi Recreation Department’s Coach Donal M. Snyder [1922-2015] had provided Back Bay youths with organized athletics such, Pee Wee football and basketball.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.</span></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">I’m not attempting to denigrate my native Biloxi or indicate that I was an intellectual snob or classical musician but as my 78-year, young memory recalls, it seemed that Biloxi was a cultural vacuum-at least during my fist 18 years [1943-1961]. Blue-collar 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Who could forget Miss Florence Freidhoff [1905-1972] who managed the old, old Biloxi Library on Lameuse Street?</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">She ran a tight ship and would not tolerate and noise and that included speech.&nbsp;&nbsp;One had to whisper to communicate and then it was a quite whisper!!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">I remember attempting to read Dostoevsky’s&nbsp;<u>Brothers Karamazov</u>&nbsp;when I was about twelve, but soon went back to Hammond Inness’ adventure novels or Two-Fisted Tales, the anthology war comic, which was born about the time of the Korean War.&nbsp;&nbsp;Anybody remember that one?&nbsp;&nbsp;Ocean Springs recently lost Peter A. Sparkes [1932-2020], who as a seventeen-year old, joined the USMC and survived the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir among other engagements against North Korean and Chinese combatants. RIP Brother Pete!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the fall, as a youngster and teen, we would walk up or down Biloxi’s CBD on a&nbsp;Saturday&nbsp;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&nbsp;today. Anyone ever want to be seen with the valedictorian in front of the library or at a bookstore?<br />\r\n<br />\r\nThe 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.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nOn&nbsp;28 November 1957, I attended the traditional Biloxi-Gulfport 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 19-10. Joe Balius [1939-2010], A.J. “ all the way with” Holloway Jr. [1939-2018], 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 post-game melee created a hiatus of about 20 years before this annual rivalry resumed.[The Daily Herald,&nbsp;November 29, 1957, p. 21]</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Creoles cometh</strong></span></span><br />\r\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">So, one day these three, young people arrive on campus-a girl and her younger brothers. They seemed to be rather normal&nbsp;<u>Homo</u>&nbsp;<u>sapiens</u>, 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, i.e. 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&nbsp;the Jackson County Board of Education as an elementary educational facility to educate children of the \"Creole Race\".&nbsp;&nbsp;It was sponsored by the Baptist Missionary Society. WPA writers during the Depression wrote that the Creole School at Vancleave was:<strong><em>&nbsp;\"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\".</em></strong><em>&nbsp;(1699 to Present, WPA and The Daily Herald, February 2, 1932, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">*<strong>The Biloxi Indians were not Choctaw</strong>.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1939, the Superintendent of the Jackson County Public Schools wrote Miss Mary C. O’Keefe (1893-1980), Superintendent of the Ocean Springs Municipal School, a letter concerning the Live Oak Pond School. It read as follows:&nbsp;<strong><em>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.</em></strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><br />\r\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were not only good students but the males were exceptional athletes and well remembered by those that were friends and teammates.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Football Memories</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Since, I began&nbsp;today’s sinuous, life path with football, I’ll conclude with that subject. Coach Hillman Q. Breeland [1929-2005], 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,&nbsp;September 25, 1957, p. 14 and&nbsp;October 3, 1957, p. 22]</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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 COVID-19 spacing [players 6-8 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’.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even me!!</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">I don’t remember much about the games we played but we did travel to far off places like Long Beach and Moss Point.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our equipment was substandard and usually hand me downs from the high school.&nbsp;&nbsp;The protective pads, shoulder and hip, were hard plastic and probably caused more injuries than the actual physical contact.&nbsp;&nbsp;We weren’t fast or big enough to create much force so injuries were minimal.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is very unbelievable but at practice one day, a defensive player was knocked on his derriere, which was quite common.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The next part is pretty rare but I’m sure that it has occurred more than once.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ouch!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Most of us would see him again but the “circle’ would be replaced with wind sprints, another punitive measure to promote winning and discipline.&nbsp;&nbsp;Football ain’t for sissies!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><br />\r\n<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Biloxi%20Central%20Junior%20High%20School_0.png\" style=\"height:300px; width:639px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The 1943 Biloxi Central Junior High-Situated 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;The building was razed in the early years of the 21<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;century and the site is now occupied by the Biloxi Civic Center, which opened in July 2011.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>Memories of Back Bay [1947-1961],&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Part XII</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">August 9, 2020</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi Central Jr. High&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Segregation</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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&nbsp;September 1962&nbsp;James Meredith integration of Ole Miss and the Babe McCarthy led Bulldog SEC championship basketball team of 1962-1963. Babe and University leadership defied Governor Ross R. Barnett [1898-1987] 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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,&nbsp;October 29, 1946, p. 2]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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&amp;N RR; and Caillavet Street. As a result of litigation describes as,&nbsp;\"Gilbert R. Mason v. The Biloxi Municipal School District\", a plan was submitted to Federal authorities&nbsp;to desegregate the 1st grade in Biloxi Public schools for the 1964-1965 school year. &nbsp;15 Biloxi schools were affected.&nbsp;&nbsp;The pupil population in the 1963-1964 school year was 8169 students with 1255 students being African-American. Biloxi High School was peacefully integrated 2 September 1965, when seven Black students were admitted to classes.[The Daily Herald,&nbsp;July 15,&nbsp;1964, p. 1 and&nbsp;September 2, 1965, p. 1].</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Baseball Game</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1960 Beach riot</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Where were you on 24 April 1960?&nbsp;&nbsp;Several of us Back Bay teens were gathered in the Gorenflo School yard on Lameuse Street planning our summer vacation time.&nbsp;&nbsp;A pick up truck stopped and the driver yelled, “The Niggers are on the beach by the lighthouse!&nbsp;&nbsp;Y’all wanna go see?”&nbsp;&nbsp;Naturally, as bored teens, we jumped in the back of the truck and unwittingly sped towards an ensuing crisis.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ah, the ignorance of youth!&nbsp;&nbsp;When we got there the situation had gotten out of control.&nbsp;&nbsp;White folks were pursuing Black people with various weapons to drive them from the sandy shoreline. The BPD was making arrests amidst the chaos.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;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 Ballots-University Press of Mississippi-2000]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi Senior High School</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">This week fifty-five 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 twenty-four 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.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">From Los Angeles, I traveled to Alaska and Canada several times while assigned to&nbsp;&nbsp;map the oil and gas reservoirs and calculate hydrocarbon reserves for the giant Prudhoe Bay Field on the North Slope of Alaska.&nbsp;&nbsp;There I experienced an actual temperature of -60F and wind chills factors as low as -120F. Pretty chilly for a Biloxi boy!&nbsp;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 very-well insulated trailer.&nbsp;&nbsp;Read Gulag Archipelago someday!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Some of you may not remember Biloxi’s Senior High School on Howard Avenue and Bellman Street. When I started classes there in&nbsp;September 1958,&nbsp;it was already forty-five years old having been erected in 1912-1913. This was the replacement school for the&nbsp;Howard Memorial&nbsp;[Main]&nbsp;School,&nbsp;the 1888 gift of Frank T. Howard (1855-1911) and Harry T. Howard (1856-1930).&nbsp;&nbsp;This edifice was situated on Main Street and Railroad Street and was designed and erected by John R. Harkness &amp; Son for $10,000.[The Daily Picayune, March 22, 1889, p. 8]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Early Biloxi Public school buildings were the gifts of its early seafood magnates, William K. M. Dukate [1853-1916], William F. Gorenflo [1842-1932] and Lazaro Lopez [1850-1903] and the sons of Louisiana Lottery owner, Charles Turner Howard [1832-1885], Frank T. Howard [1855-1911] and Harry T. Howard [1856-1930].&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The 1913 Biloxi Public School was the first to be financed with public funds.&nbsp;&nbsp;A $50,000 bond issue to finance the new construction was passed by Biloxi’s&nbsp;&nbsp;leaders in March 1912 and called Ordinance No. 448.[The Daily Herald, March 14, 1912, p. 8]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Our BHS Class of 1961 had the good fortune to be the last class in the non-cooled, 1913 structure and the first class to graduate in&nbsp;May 1961&nbsp;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].</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the early 1980s, at UL [Lafayette], I was an adjunct professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department.&nbsp;&nbsp;This was not only personally challenging but an introduction to many students of international origin.&nbsp;&nbsp;We had young petroleum engineering majors from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Nigeria, and Lebanon.&nbsp;&nbsp;Prior to the 1979 overthrow of the Shah of Iran, M. Reza Pahlavi [1919-1980], ULL was a favored school for Iranian students, primarily because the Dean of Petroleum Engineering and his assistant was Iranian.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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?</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Biloxi%20Sr.%20High%20School%20aerial%20-1954_0.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:527px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1954 Aerial public school imagery-This photograph depicts from left to right the 1913 Biloxi Central School, which was designed by W.T. Nolan and P. Torre Jr., NOLA architects.&nbsp;&nbsp;The three-story structure built with St. Louis, pressed brick was erected by S.E. Dupree, contractor.&nbsp;&nbsp;In September 1913, 301 students walked from the 1889 Howard Memorial School on Main Street to the their new school building.&nbsp;&nbsp;Of these pupils, about 100 were in the high school class.&nbsp;&nbsp;This school closed in March 1961, when the $2 million dollar, new Biloxi Senior High School opened on Father Ryan Avenue.&nbsp;&nbsp;To the right of the 1913 school is the 1943 Biloxi Central Junior High School.&nbsp;&nbsp;The 1929 Biloxi High School gym is north of the 1913 school on what was then Washington Street, now Peyton Drive.&nbsp;Today, the Biloxi Public Library and Civic Center occupy the site formerly that of the two public schools.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><u>1961</u></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>TO SOCORRO and FIRST SEMESTER of COLLEGE:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sunset Limited pulled-out of the Union Station at New Orleans in late August or early September 1961.&nbsp; It was late on a Sunday evening, probably about 10 P.M.&nbsp; I began to get anxious as the reality of leaving home, family, and friends for the first time began to set in.&nbsp; I rode in a passenger car and slept very little until I got to El Paso about 2 A.M. on Tuesday.&nbsp; 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">I can still feel and smell the cold, smoky, air-conditioned atmosphere of the train compartment.&nbsp; 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 G.I. going to Ft. Bliss, and the “southern belle” from Georgia will always be a part of the “insomnia journey” from the Crescent City.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Coincidentally, I met Bob Hossack who was also headed for New Mexico Tech on the Santa Fe portion of the journey.&nbsp; Hossack was from La Mesa, California.&nbsp; He was very intelligent, an excellent student, and a damn good tennis player.&nbsp; Bob, is the only guy that I ever saw wear out the toe of a tennis shoe.&nbsp; He did this by dragging his foot while serving the tennis ball.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">We arrived at Socorro on a beautiful cool clear September day.&nbsp; I met my roommate, Hunter Smith, a “cowboy” from Pinon, New Mexico.&nbsp; The first several weeks at college were very miserable.&nbsp; I really missed something.&nbsp; Was it the security of my former environment?&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">School was difficult.&nbsp; My objective here was to get a degree in Geology.&nbsp; I had a poor high school foundation in mathematics and the physical sciences, which would haunt me all through my scholastic years.&nbsp; I did do well in English, Art, and Physical Education, but only fair in Chemistry.&nbsp; Failure was not met in Physics or Algebra, but I was near the bottom of the class in these subjects.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The art of art of studying had not yet been learned by this Mississippi lad.&nbsp; It was much easier to get absorbed in sports as my dormitory room was only about 100 yards from the gym.&nbsp; Soon I became a “gym rat” spending hours shooting baskets and playing round ball.&nbsp; It was a great escape from studying.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The school had a basketball team called the “Ratheskeller”, named for the sponsor, a local lounge.&nbsp; We played in the city league against the locals who were chiefly Chicanos.&nbsp; I once scored twenty-five points in a game.&nbsp; This experience also gave me the opportunity to officiate, which was very difficult.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">We also played softball and flag football as part of the intramural program.&nbsp; I thoroughly enjoyed the keen competition, with the graduate students and staff.&nbsp; I will always remember James McGettigan, our P.E. teacher, as a great competitor.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Probably, my biggest thrill at&nbsp; New Mexico Tech was the trip to the Kelly-Graphic Mining District near Magdalena, New Mexico.&nbsp; 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In late November 1961, on a cool, clear Sunday afternoon, eight of us left the Socorro campus for Magdalena.&nbsp; I had never been below ground and was quite anxious about the experience.&nbsp; Little did I know that later that afternoon, I would experience some of the greatest anxiety of my life.&nbsp; </span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The entrance to the mine at Magdalena was 4-5 feet high and required one to walk in a stooped position.&nbsp; We wore hard hats with acetylene lamps, carried geologic hammers, and an occasional person might have had water and a flashlight. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Sporadically, we stopped to collect from the walls of the mine, barite, calcite, and other common minerals.&nbsp; The “turkey ore” or Smithsonite was much deeper.&nbsp; I remember coming to a juncture in the mine tunnel were it was necessary to descend on ladders to another level.&nbsp; I had no idea of our depth or direction.&nbsp; Thus far, all was preceding well.&nbsp; The group reached&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">an area of the mine where the portal was about three feet wide.&nbsp; I wasn’t eager to begin crawling through this small tunnel, but there was little choice.&nbsp; Someone said that we were crawling through the fault zone.&nbsp; I never did learn the geology of the area.&nbsp; The proverbial “light at the end of the tunnel” was a welcome sight.&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">There was another surprise before we reached the stope or winze were the Smithsonite lie.&nbsp; It was in the guise of crystallized sticks of dynamite!&nbsp; We collected some fair quality mineral specimens of which a few, I still possess.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The return trip out of the Kelly-Graphic Mine was hairy.&nbsp; We reached a location in the mine where one had to swing across a vertical shaft to reach the continuation of the tunnel.&nbsp; I was with the point man and naturally, we were leading the party.&nbsp; Suddenly behind us a muted shout or scream was heard.&nbsp; My partner who had the light source felt that someone might have fallen into the shaft.&nbsp; Immediately, he returned to determine the seriousness of the situation.&nbsp; I was abandoned in TOTAL darkness.&nbsp; It was blacker than black.&nbsp; I wouldn’t move for fear of falling into a shaft.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; My heart began to pound violently in my chest cavity.&nbsp; I was scared.&nbsp; “Lord, deliver me from this tomb”, I prayed.&nbsp; I started a litany:&nbsp; “Don’t let me die alone”. &nbsp;“I’ll never miss mass again”.&nbsp; I had no concept of time or space.&nbsp; It seemed like an hour before my partner returned.&nbsp; I’m sure it was no more than ten minutes.&nbsp; Fortunately, all was well and my companions and I returned safely to the surface.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">When we got back to the campus, I didn’t realize how hungry or dirty that I had become.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; A deep fatigued had also set in.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">As the semester at New Mexico tech progressed, I realized that I couldn’t survive four years at Socorro.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; I went to the library to locate a college catalog for a school closer to Biloxi.&nbsp; Mississippi State University was the only school in the State that I could find any information about.&nbsp; I applied and was accepted for the Spring Semester.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">When I left Socorro in January 1962, I wept.&nbsp; It was my first experience away from home.&nbsp; I had made some great relationships.&nbsp; It was a small school, almost non co-ed.&nbsp; We were all survivors.&nbsp; I left the ship, but I know these guys all survived as&nbsp;well.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u>1962-1965</u></span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">What a difference a college makes.&nbsp; At Mississippi State, I found all the courses fairly easy, and made the Dean’s List.&nbsp; Admittedly, I did study much more enthusiastically.&nbsp; I got away from sports and became caught up in a competitive group of guys who wanted to excel academically. &nbsp;Here, I continued my pursuit of a Geology degree.&nbsp; Dr. Dunn had just retired and a new professor, Dr. Troy J. Laswell, had just taken over the Geology Department.&nbsp; Don Keady was on his way to Texas A&amp;M to work on his doctorate degree.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">My three and one-half years at Mississippi State were fairly routine.&nbsp; I made good grades.&nbsp; In fact, I was on the Dean’s List six out of the seven semesters that I attended that Institution and finished with a 3.12 QPA.&nbsp; With the exception of a C in Structural Geology, my record in Geology courses was all A’s.&nbsp; I never did understand how to use that strain ellipsoid.&nbsp; 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”.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">After departing Mississippi State and Starkville in May 1965, I only returned twice.&nbsp; 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">At Starkville, only a few memorable events remain with me.&nbsp; The most ecstatic being the May day that I departed the area.&nbsp; Another event that occurred there that left a mark in my memory happened on the athletic field.&nbsp; In 1964, we lost to Memphis State at Scott Field.&nbsp; This was the first time that they had beaten a SEC team.&nbsp; Following the contest, their fans stormed the field and attempted to tear down our goal posts.&nbsp; Needless, to say, the “rednecks” and their cowbells held the day.&nbsp; I observed some very nasty head wounds in Tiger fans on their way to the infirmary.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Another athletic event which is memorable was a State-Ole Miss football game in November 1963?&nbsp; It was so cold.&nbsp; I froze my ass off.&nbsp; It took about two hours before my body quit shivering and I felt normal.&nbsp; I’m sure that I was hypothermic.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The great State basketball teams led by Babe McCarthy are another fond memory.&nbsp; I was fortunate to watch Red Stroud, Joe Dan Gold, and Leland Mitchell during the 1962-1964 seasons.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1964</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">SUMMER EMPLOYMENT-JACKSON</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Interview with George Burchfield of Gulf Oil.&nbsp; Went to work for Gulf in their Jackson, Mississippi office in May 1964, as a geological technician.&nbsp; Worked with photogeologist, Harry ?,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14.000000953674316px\">I met&nbsp;<strong>Joseph &nbsp;\'Joe\' &nbsp;Cyril&nbsp;Franklin</strong>&nbsp;[1932-2020] in&nbsp;</span><span style=\"color:darkblue; font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14.000000953674316px\">June 1964</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14.000000953674316px\">&nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14.000000953674316px\">at Jackson, Mississippi when he was a geologist with the Gulf Oil &amp; 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. &nbsp;We would meet again in Lafayette, Louisiana and work together as consulting geologist in Coastal Mississippi well-sitting deep Smackover, exploration wells for Saga Petroleum, a Norwegian company.</span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">AInterviews with Texaco, Gulf, and Humble Oil &amp; Refining Company.&nbsp; Hired by Fred Sollars of Humble oil.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1965</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">In the spring of 1965, I</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;had i</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">nterviews at State College, Mississippi&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">with representatives of Texaco&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">and Humble Oil &amp; Refining Company. &nbsp;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. &nbsp;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.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">Hired by Fred Sollars of Humble oil.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">DAYTON, TENNESSEE</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1965</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">NEW ORLEANS</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On August 5, 1965, I reported to Carl Patterson at the Jeff Davis Parkway office of Humble Oil &amp; Refining Company.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1967</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">OIL FIELD GROCERIES</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">[written February 1992]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Its a cool damp wintry day in South Mississippi and I&nbsp;have the en vie to create a great gumbo.&nbsp; After preparing a&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">shopping list for the multitudinous ingredients, I decide to&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">make some chilli instead.&nbsp; Thank you Mr. McIlhenny.&nbsp; These&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">culinary thoughts surface memories of an oil patch experi-</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">ence of yore.&nbsp; Allow me to relate it to you.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">As I best recall, it was about June 1967, and Humble&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">(Exxon) transferred me to the Shreveport Production District&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">to learn the real oil field.&nbsp; My first venture into the&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">patch was down the Mississippi River levee in Concordia&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Parish to a Wilcox oilfield called Fairview.&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;Since I was a real weevil, I was placed in the tutor</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">ship of a senior geologist.&nbsp; We spent the night at Vidalia&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">with the theory that a good nights sleep would sharpen the&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">mind, and allow for a more lucid evaluation.&nbsp; After a savory&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">breakfast of eggs, bacon, grits, butter soaked biscuits, and&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">copious amounts of coffee, we headed south the twenty odd&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">miles to the rig at Fairview.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Our timing was superb as Big Blue had an induction log&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">waiting for us.&nbsp; After a quick inspection of the log, smiles&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">radiated from us both.&nbsp; There were at least five pay sands&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">called Sharp, Artman, Minter, and other Anglo names like&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">that.&nbsp; I began to get excited since we were going to see&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">some \"real oil\". &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Well, the cores kept coming.&nbsp; Industry\'s modus operandi&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">was to shoot beaucoup sidewallscores since many Wilcox reser-</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">voirs exhibit low resistivity characteristics due to the&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">laminar bedding planes.&nbsp; About 1 PM, I began to feel the&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">pangs of hunger.&nbsp; In a weak tone I suggested, \"hey, Jim,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">lets go to Natchez for some groceries.&nbsp; I hear they have&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">some great food up there\".&nbsp; His reply was, \"Huh?&nbsp; We\'re&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">working kid.&nbsp; No food until the evaluation is complete\".&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">\"But, man, I don\'t think well without food,\" I said&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">irritably.&nbsp; \"We should be done by 4 PM.&nbsp; My wife made me a&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">sandwich yesterday.&nbsp; Its in the trunk of the car.&nbsp; You\'re&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">welcome to it\", he replied amicably.&nbsp; With the thought of&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">ptomaine or some other stomach disorder in my head, I&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">gracefully declined his offer for nourishment.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Instead, I suggested that it might be a good idea for&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">me to go into the swamp to look for some natural organic&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">health food like blackberries, heart of palmetto, pine seeds,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">etc.&nbsp; I knew someday my Boy Scout training would come to&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">play.&nbsp; Was this the day? &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;When I opened the door of the doghouse, my oil and&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">chlorothane saturated nostrils could barely sense it.&nbsp; Yes,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">yes, an aroma of edible goodies in the atmosphere.&nbsp; The&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Schlumberger operators were feasting out of a large ice&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">chest near the logging truck.&nbsp; Bologna, lunch meat, ham,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">pickles, tomatoes, bread, yeah, and lots of mayonnaise.&nbsp; In&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">addition there was lots of sugar and caffeine in the colas&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">to revive my weakened body and sluggish mind.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Sheepishly I asked if I might participate in their&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">victual ritual.&nbsp; \"Sure\", they replied gregariously, \"this is&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">the community lunch wagon\".&nbsp; This was to be my first oil&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">field perk, but I didn\'t realize it then.</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">As we ate a thick steak that evening in Monroe cele</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">brating that rare event, a successful Wilcox well, I began&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">to formulate an idea.&nbsp; Yes, I\'ll stock my car with food the&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">next time I venture into the backwaters of the oilfield to&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">do wellsite work.&nbsp; I did and have never regretted it.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1969</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;I departed LAX for Anchorage, Alaska in March 1969.&nbsp; We stopped at Seattle and then flew non-stop to Alaska.&nbsp; Dean Morgridge, the District Geologist for Alaska, was also aboard the Continental jet.&nbsp; We arrived at Anchorage about 8 P.M.&nbsp; The air temperature was a cool 14 degrees F.&nbsp; Leaving balmy Southern California, I wasn’t totally prepared for the sub-Arctic cold.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Dean Morgridge invited me to have dinner with him.&nbsp; We went to a restaurant that specialized in beef.&nbsp; Our order took nearly two hours and consisted of a small roast weighing about 20 ounces.&nbsp; Needless to say that after the wait, we were literally hungry enough to eat a cow!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">There was a strong blizzard on the North Slope and no aircraft were going in.&nbsp; This allowed me to remain in the Anchorage area two additional days.&nbsp; I took advantage of this time to do some shopping and sight seeing.&nbsp; I rented a car and drove down the Turn Again Arm of the Cook Inlet to the ski resort at&nbsp; ? and to see the Portage Glacier.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">I believe it was St. Patrick’s Day when we boarded the King Air for the Prudhoe Bay camp.&nbsp; I joined the company of three ARCO tool pushers.&nbsp; They were pretty crusty characters-stereotypes of the oil field.&nbsp; Where do they manufacture these men?&nbsp; There must be a mill in Oklahoma or Texas that stamps them out complete with cowboy boots, diamond ring, and assorted gold jewelry.&nbsp; Nugget watch bands and jewelry were popular in Alaska at this time.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">It was a three and one-half hour flight to the North Slope from Anchorage.&nbsp; The weather was good and visibility at the altitude that we flew was great.&nbsp; The Yukon River was still frozen and the rugose nature of the Brooks Range still remains strong in my memory.&nbsp; I soon realized that we would be extremely difficult to find down there.&nbsp; The North Slope was equally impressive.&nbsp; It is a great Arctic desert which dips gently to the Arctic Ocean from the mountains to the south.&nbsp; This vast, treeless, tundra terrain is about 100 miles wide and 400 miles in length.&nbsp; It&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">is transected by a few large north, flowing rivers such as the Colville and Sagavanirktov.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">When the King Air set down at the Dead Horse airstrip, it was cloudy and blowing snow with the temperature at 0 degrees F.&nbsp; I was assigned to the ARCO-Humble Oil No. 1 Toolik-Federal, an exploratory hole, about 12 miles south of the Prudhoe Bay Field.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">At this time, the ARCO-Humble combine had three rigs running on the North Slope evaluating acreage for the upcoming September Alaska State lease sale.&nbsp; The ARCO-Humble No. 1 Delta-State was drilling in the Sadelerochit truncation zone, southeast of the field discovery well, the No. 1 Prudhoe Bay-State.&nbsp; It had been completed in 1967, and was located in the gas cap of the large Permo-Triassic reservoir.&nbsp; ARCO-Humble No. 1 Lake-State was digging south of the field’s confirmation test, No. 1 Sag River-State.&nbsp; Lake-State No. 1 was attempting to locate the oil-water contact for the large oil accumulation discovered by Sag River-No. 1.&nbsp; Toolik-Federal No. 1 was a weak seismic prospect and probably should not have been drilled.&nbsp; We had company in the immediate area as SOCAL was drilling their first well, No. 1 Dead Horse-State, between our No. 1 Lake and No. 1 Toolik-Toolik Federal.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Immediately upon disembarkation from the aircraft and checking in at the base camp, we were transported in a pick-up truck to the rig.&nbsp; The trucks on the North Slope ran continuously for fear that they would freeze up if shut down.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The drive from the ARCO base camp to the Toolik rig took about 45 minutes in good weather.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; The gravel insulates the tundra and provides a solid foundation for drilling pads, buildings, and an extensive network of roads as previously mentioned.&nbsp; To reduce the large number of drill sites necessary to develop the field,&nbsp; production wells were directionally drilled from pads similar to the development of an offshore field development.&nbsp; This practice was also environmentally sound as it reduced the number of surface structures.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1971</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>JAKARTA, INDONESIA and SUMATRA</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1972</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA and SABAH</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1973</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>KINGSVILLE, TEXAS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">I left Los Angeles, California in March of 1973, for Kingsville, Texas.&nbsp; It was to be my last assignment with Humble Oil &amp; Refining Company as the name of the company would soon change to Exxon.&nbsp; I drove my Chevrolet Vega through the high California desert for the last time.&nbsp; My first night out of LA was spent in Arizona on the south rim of the Grand Canyon.&nbsp; The first view of that magnificent hole in the earth was remarkable.&nbsp; I remember mumbling something like “oh, shit” with my first glimpse of it.&nbsp; No doubt that the Grand Canyon is one of the great natural wonders of the world.&nbsp; Snow was still present on the high Kaibab Pleateau.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The next day I drove continuously stopping very briefly at Socorro, New Mexico to visit my alma mater, New Mexico Tech.&nbsp; The campus had improved since my stay there in the Fall of 1961.&nbsp; I arrived in El Paso, Texas before dusk and spent the night there.&nbsp; Visited Jim Petrezelka, a class mate at New Mexico Tech.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">I arose early and continued east passing through the rugged canyon country of Pecos and Crockett Counties in West Texas.&nbsp; It is very beautiful.&nbsp; I reached San Antonio in an exhausted state.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The next day I made the two hour drive south to Kingville arriving there about 10:00 A.M.&nbsp; I went to the Humble office and met Rod Boane who was the District Geologist.&nbsp; Ed Sabatka would be my immediate supervisor and Bob Dubose in Corpus Christi was our Division Geologist.&nbsp; There were some real characters in our Kingsville office.&nbsp; Some were old veterans like Wally ?, Jack ?, Charlie ?, Fred Steuer, and Hollis Marshall.&nbsp; There were a few newcomers like Rolly Oberg, Mitch Neilson, Ed O’Quinn, Paul Mayes, and Carl Musgrove.&nbsp; I was replacing Dennis Barclay who had gone to work for Esso Norway in Stavenger.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">I had met Dennis Barclay in the 1966 Electric Well Logging School at Esso Production Research Company in Houston.&nbsp; I’ll never forget the Saturday morning that he and I went to Galveston.&nbsp; We got into a very intense rain storm on the Galveston bridge.&nbsp; Traffic stopped because the visibility was zero.&nbsp; There was a total “white-out” of rain water.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">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.&nbsp; I had hoped to repeat and follow him to Norway.&nbsp; Life is cruel at times.&nbsp; In 1974, Dennis developed a melanoma or black mole and died in Norway within a few months while with Esso Norge.&nbsp; He was very fair skinned with red hair, blue eyes, and freckles.&nbsp; Dennis Barclay was a good geologist and friend.&nbsp; I will always remember him although our acquaintance was chiefly by telephone.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">At Kingsville, I settled in at the Santa Gertrudis Apartments.&nbsp; A most appropriate name since the principal bovine on the king Ranch was the cow with the same name.&nbsp; 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.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Humble’s Kingsville District consisted primarily of the oil an gas fields which had been discovered on the large King Ranch.&nbsp; The King Ranch is approximately 1 million acres in size.&nbsp; Someone toId me that it was leased by Humble Oil during the Great Depression.&nbsp; The lease money helped pay the taxes and kept the Kleberg empire intact.&nbsp; Subsequent exploration and development by Humble demonstrated that the King Ranch contained some major oil and gas fields.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">At one time, the King Ranch Gas Plant was one of the largest in the world.&nbsp; I was in development geology and assigned to work the abnormal pressured Vicksburg gas trend in the Tijerna-Canales-Blucher and Seeligson areas.&nbsp; The Oligocene Vicksburg age clastic reservoirs occur at relatively shallow depths in this area, i.e. 9000-10000 feet.&nbsp; If you find a good reservoir, wells with capacities in the 20-30 MMCFG/D can be made.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">An interesting geological phenomena occurred at the King Ranch shortly before I arrive there.&nbsp; In the 1950s, Humble had drilled an 8000-foot Frio flank well at T-C-B.&nbsp; There was oil production up dip in the same apparent stratigraphic interval.&nbsp; The up dip wells watered-out, but the down dip well continued to produce liquid hydrocarbons at a good rate and had accumulated a high production total.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">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.&nbsp; They discovered the anomalous production condition on the east flank of T-C-B, and recommended that a well be drilled up dip of the “production anomaly” and the down dip of the abandoned wells.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">A geologist correlating the Frio wells of interest on the east flank of T-C-B would probably conclude that they were the same sand body.&nbsp; An exploratory test was dug between the producing well and the up dip watered-out producers.&nbsp; It came in flowing between 200 and 300 barrels of oil per day.&nbsp; Rolly Oberg handled the mapping of this project and eventually six successful development wells were drilled on strike.&nbsp; This was a great lesson in stratigraphy and production anomalies.&nbsp; I would remember this and apply it successfully later at the Iota Field in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Although I remained in&nbsp; the Kingsville district for only nine months, it was an interesting assignment and I met some good people.&nbsp; One of these individuals was young Bill London from Oklahoma City.&nbsp; We called Bill, “the kid”.&nbsp; He had grown up in the “oil patch” of New Mexico and Oklahoma as his father owned a production company.&nbsp; London graduated from Princeton University and came to Kingsville in May of 1973, directly from New Jersey.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">I have never met anyone who was as knowledgeable about the oil business at such a young age.&nbsp;&nbsp; Bill London was about 24 years of age.&nbsp; He developed a prospect within three weeks of his arrival and it was drilled immediately.&nbsp; It was a stratigraphic play&nbsp; that didn’t work, but nevertheless was a good idea.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Bill London, Rolly Oberg, and myself were the only batchelors in the office.&nbsp; Bill and I sailed some at Rivera Beach and played tennis.&nbsp; He called me at Lafayette after I had left and invited me to be in his wedding at Oklahoma City.&nbsp; I hope he and Coe have done well with their life together.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Work wise I got two wells drilled during my short stay in Kingville.&nbsp; Both were in the Canelo Field.&nbsp; One was a marginal producer and the other probably made Humble lots of money.&nbsp; I worked with an Australian engineer, Dave ?, on these projects.&nbsp; He was good chap and very bright.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">My days with Humble were numbered after I made several gaffs with the local management.&nbsp; Living in California had set me free in some ways and added to my eccentricities.&nbsp; My primary troubles started in the Summer of 1973.&nbsp; It was very warm and humid in South Texas and I decided to set a new dress code for working in the “Texas Tropics”.&nbsp; My choice of apparel was British walking shorts with white knee stockings.&nbsp; This was not pleasing to District Geologist Boane.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In addition, I was habitually late for work. &nbsp;Office hours were from 7:00 A.M. until 4:30 P.M.&nbsp; Historically, I am not an early morning person.&nbsp; My hours were more like 7:15 to 5:00 P.M.&nbsp; Boane would write company memos and send them out reminding everyone of the work schedule.&nbsp; I would have appreciated it more if he had come to me personally and told me to be there at 7:00 A.M.!!</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The final act that led to my leaving Humble Oil also occurred in the heat of 1973.&nbsp; I had come into the office from a logging run on a very hot day.&nbsp; The District Engineer, Harry Longwell?, wanted to see the log.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I was wearing a tank top shirt.&nbsp; Longwell?&nbsp; later complained to Boane that, “I didn’t appreciate his (Bellande’s) hairy arm pit in my face”</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">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.&nbsp; John had left Humble while in Los Angeles and joined Tenneco at Lafayette.&nbsp; Tenneco at this time was very active in the Gulf of Mexico.&nbsp; They were actively hiring experienced development geologist for their Lafayette office.&nbsp; I met several management people, Dan Foder and Chuck Schultz, and liked them immediately.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">My employment with Humble Oil had exceeded eight years in August of 1973.&nbsp; Until the incidents with Rod Boane at Kingsville, my career had gone smoothly.&nbsp; Chuck Schultz began calling me at home in Kingsville offering employment with Tenneco.&nbsp; As things began to deteriorate for me in Texas, I accepted an offer to meet Schultz in Houston to seriously consider leaving Humble.&nbsp; We met in the airport and he offered me $1200 per month which I accepted.&nbsp; The thought of leaving Humble was not pleasant as it was the only real job that I had ever had.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John Henderson had replace Rod Boane as District Geologist.&nbsp; I liked and respected Henderson.&nbsp; He was smart and a leader.&nbsp; Strangely to me, John Henderson wouldn’t accept my resignation.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1973-1974</span></span></strong></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Franklin%2C%20Joseph%20C.%20%5B1932-2020%5D.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:201px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">Joseph C. Franklin</span></strong></span></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">I met <strong>Joseph &nbsp;\'Joe\' &nbsp;Cyril&nbsp;Franklin</strong> [1932-2020] in&nbsp;</span><span style=\"color:darkblue\">June 1964</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">&nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">at Jackson, Mississippi when he was a geologist with the Gulf Oil &amp; 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.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">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.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">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 well-site 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.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">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 quasi-successful. He had established himself as Source Petroleum and continued as such until our last contact in 1992.</span></span></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1974-1975</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">GULFPORT,&nbsp;MISSISSIPPI</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">TIME LINE IMAGES</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Ray L. NOLA-1944 1.jpeg\" style=\"height:300px; width:182px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">New Orleans-1944</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Ray L. [Science Fair-April 1959-Jackson%2C Ms.].jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:240px\" /></span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mississippi State Science Fair</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1st Place Earth Science Class IV</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[April 24, 1959-Jackson, Mississippi]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Ray L. -tennis 1960.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:300px\" /></span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12px\">1960 BILOXI HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS TEAM</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">[L-R: Glenn Saucier?, Mike Rester, Ronnie Kettering, Ray L. Bellande]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Ray%20L.-North%20Slope%2C%20Alaska-Arco-Humble-Toolik%20Fed.%20No.%201-March%201969.jpg\" style=\"height:286px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Arco-Humble Toolik-Federal No. 1-North Slope, Alaska-March 1969</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/ray%20l.%20bellande-painter_0.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:225px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">2002 painter and potter</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Ray L. 2-August 2013..jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:188px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">\"Glad Potter\"</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Ocean Springs, Mississippi-August 2013.</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande art-Pottery exhibit BPL-Nov. 2013..jpg\" style=\"height:218px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">First Art Exhibit-Biloxi Public Library-November 2013</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>2017</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%20pottery-le%20derriere_0.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:188px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%20pottery-poire%20vase-2017.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:188px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%20pottery-poire%20vase-2.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:250px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%20pottery-cremerie-2017.jpg\" style=\"height:188px; width:250px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Perkins%20pitcher-2.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:200px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Perkins%20pitcher.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:200px\" /></p>\r\n', '', '2');
