as appointed <strong>Chief of Police by the Biloxi City Commissioners</strong> in mid-December 1963. &nbsp;He had served as acting Police Chief for about a year. <strong>F. P. Vincent</strong> was appointed to Chief of Detectives and <strong>Leslie Montgomery</strong> was chosen as Assistant Chief of Detectives. &nbsp;Chief Rosetti has served on the BPD for 21 years working his way through the ranks. &nbsp;A native of Biloxi, Louis J. Rosetti resides at 202 Rose Street.(The Daily Herald, December 19, 1963, p. 1)&nbsp; &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\">In late December,&nbsp;<strong>Matthew P. Lyons</strong>&nbsp;(1918-1999) was <strong>named Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong> for 1963, by the Lions Club.(The Daily Herald, January 6, 1964, p. 1)</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Marcel (1909-1982).jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:96px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Marcel J. \'Mickey\' Bellande&nbsp;</strong>(1909-1982)<strong>&nbsp;was named Biloxi\'s \"Man of the Year\"</strong>by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.(The Ocean Springs News, January 31, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1964</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Edward \'Eddie\' McDonnell</strong>&nbsp;(1912-1986) was <strong>sworn in as Sheriff of Harrison County, Mississippi </strong>on January 6th.(The Daily Herald, January 6, 1964, p. 1)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>poll tax was repealed on January 23rd by the 24th Amendment</strong> to the U.S. Constitution.<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Queen Ixolib Marie Elizabeth \'Betty\' Perusse</strong>&nbsp;[m. Charles E. Bundy] of Gulfport and <strong>King d\'Iberville Alphonse Babin</strong> rule Mardi Gras.</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\"><strong>Chester A. Delacruz</strong> (18-1964), former Mayor and seafood packer,<strong> expired </strong>at Biloxi on March 8, 1964.(The Daily Herald, March 9, 1964, p. 1)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mary Alma Ritch</strong> (1890-1964), long time <strong>Gorenflo Elementary School principal and teacher, died</strong> on April 14th .(The Daily Herald, April 14, 1964)</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\"><strong>George Misko&nbsp;</strong>(1878-1971),&nbsp;<strong>1903 Croatian immigrant</strong>&nbsp;from Brac and<strong>&nbsp;longtime Biloxi fisherman, was King of the Shrimp Festival.</strong>(The Daily Herald, April 22, 1971, p. 2)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On May 2nd at San Francisco, <strong>Captain John E. Dacey</strong> (1916-1991), USN, took command of the <strong><em>USS Chicago</em></strong>, a guided missile cruiser.&nbsp; Captain Dacey expired on May 2, 1991.(The Ocean Springs News, April 23, 1964, p. 3)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Marcel J. \'Mickey\' Bellande </strong>(1909-1982)<strong> became the first golfer to win all three Mississippi State golf title</strong>s: <strong>State Open</strong> (1955), <strong>State Seniors</strong> (1962), and <strong>State Amateur</strong> (1964), which he won at the Edgewater Park course in his native Biloxi in June 1964.(The Clarion Ledger, June 15, 1964, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Father Kenneth Lewis Harris</strong>&nbsp;(1912-1964), native of Biloxi&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<strong>Roman Catholic priest </strong>since May 16, 1940, <strong>died at N</strong>ew Orleans on June 22nd.(The Daily Herald, June 22, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/Puryear%2C%20Romulus%20Wright%20(1911-1984)_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:143px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>General Romulus Wright Puryear (1911-1984)</strong></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\">In July 1964,<strong>&nbsp;General Romulus Wright Puryear (1911-1984),&nbsp;</strong>native of Hartsville, Tennessee, arrived at Keesler AFB to take command. The General came from RAF Station Northolt<strong>, England where he commanded the 3rd US Air Force. &nbsp;General Puryear replaced Colonel Kenneth A. Cavanah, who had arrived at the Biloxi base in early July 1964 from Chanute AFB, Illinois. &nbsp;General Puryear retired from the USAF on August 1, 1967.</strong>(The Daily Herald, July 1, 1964, p. 1 and July &nbsp; , 1964, p. )</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\">In early September,<strong>&nbsp;an addition to the new Biloxi High School was almost complete.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;The addition was in the same style as the original building. &nbsp;Cafeteria space was increased by 1/3.(The Daily Herald, September 1, 1964, p. 1)</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\">As a result of litigation describes as, <strong>\"Gilbert R. Mason v. The Biloxi Municipal School District\"</strong>, a plan was submitted to Federal authorities <strong>to desegregate the 1st grade in Biloxi Public schools for the 1964-1965 school year. &nbsp;15 Biloxi schools were effected.</strong> &nbsp;The pupil population in the 1963-1964 school year was 8169 students with 1255 students being colored.(The Daily Herald, July 15, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n</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\"><strong>May Darnell Eleuterius</strong> (1946-1964) of Biloxi and <strong>Joseph L. Zahra</strong> (1943-1964), USAF serviceman from Livonia, Michigan, <strong>were shot and killed at Ocean Springs, Mississippi</strong> on July 6th.(The Daily Herald, July 7, 1964, p. 1 and July 8, 1964, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202020-02-10%20at%2010.35.18%20AM_0.png\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The new L&amp;N Depot, a metal building </strong>[120 feet by 32 feet] situated just west of the 60 year old wooden depot, <strong>was schedule to be completed in early August</strong>. &nbsp;It was erected by the Marion Brick, Tile, and Cement Company. &nbsp;The old structure was to be dismantled.(The Daily Herald, July 9, 1964, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The<strong> City of Biloxi proposed to annex</strong> an area west of DeBuys Road.(The Daily Herald, July 18, 1964, p. 1)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\"><strong>Construction commenced on the MGCCC Jefferson Davis</strong> campus at Gulfport.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Holiday Inn-W. Beach Biloxi-DH%2C August 12%2C 1964%2C p. 1..jpg\" style=\"height:110px; width:200px\" /></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\"><strong>Holiday Inn</strong>, owned by Gulfshore Inc. &amp; asssociates was commenced in August. &nbsp;<strong>Sherwood Ray Bailey&nbsp;</strong>(1921-1989), lumberyard proprietor and home builder who came to Gulfport on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1951, was president of the company. &nbsp;<strong>WOB Construction Company of Memphis </strong>was named general contractor.(The Daily Herald, August 12, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. Gilbert R. Mason</strong>&nbsp;(1928-2006) was <strong>fined $300 and sentenced 10 days by City Judge John Sekul</strong> for the <strong>alleged assault and battery of William H. Batia (b. 1947), a minor</strong>. &nbsp;The incident took place in the Howard Memorial Hospital cafeteria. <strong>Batia testified that he accidently spilled hot coffee on the back of Dr. Mason which led to an altercation and conflict concerning verbal exchange between the two before blows occurred. </strong>&nbsp;Dr. Mason appealed the verdice to the County Court which met in September.(The Daily Herald, August 18, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mrs. Joe W. Brown, nee Dorothy Dorsett </strong>(1896-1989)<strong>, had her new $100,000, 56-foot long, luxury yacht brought down the Mississippi River to her new $3.5 million Broadwater Marina in late August</strong>. &nbsp;The vessel was built by Roamer Yachts of the Chris-Craft Corporation at Holland, Michigan.(The Daily Herald, August 25, 1964, p. 21)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The new <strong>St. Michael\'s Catholic Church was dedicated by Bishop R.O. Gerow</strong> of the Natchez-Jackson Diocese on August 25th. &nbsp;<strong>The $500,000, 10,300 square-ft. structure was designed by James T. Canizaro, architect, and erected by McClendon Building Services of Gulfport.</strong> &nbsp;Construction commenced in October 1962. &nbsp;Father Herbert Mullin was the pastor.(The Daily Herald, August 24, 1964, p. 16 and August 26, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\">Construction began in August on the <strong>$418,000 Hickory Hill CC and Golf Course at Gautier</strong>.&nbsp; Earl Stone designed the 7100 yards championship links.(The Ocean Springs News, August 27, 1964)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The 1st Grade at Gorenflo</strong>&nbsp;(7),&nbsp;<strong>Dukate&nbsp;</strong>(4),&nbsp;<strong>Lopez&nbsp;</strong>(3), and&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Davis</strong>&nbsp;(2) elementary public schools at Biloxi&nbsp;<strong>were integrated on August 31st by 16 negro children</strong>-12 girls and 4 boys. &nbsp;<strong>The first day of integration of the Biloxi Public schools were reported by</strong>&nbsp;Superintendent R.D. Brown as <strong><em>\"no incidents during the first day of school.\"</em></strong>(The Daily Herald, Augsut 31, 1964, p. 1 and September 1, 1964, p.8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Fire-East End Fire Station-DH%2C July 22%2C 1964%2C p. 16..jpg\" style=\"height:86px; width:200px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">New fire station</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The<strong>&nbsp;new $54,000 East End Fire Station was dedicated on September 12th&nbsp;</strong>completing the first phase of&nbsp;<strong>Mayor Guice\'s 4-point modernization program.&nbsp;</strong>The W.L. Easterling Company of Ocean Springs erected the 3984 square-ft. structure on the site of the old fire station. &nbsp;The building was designed by H.F. Fountain Jr. &amp; Associates.(The Daily Herald, September 3, 1964, p. 5, September 11, 1964, p. 9, and September 14, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>Pat Harrison Avenue</strong>&nbsp;[Veterans Blvd.]&nbsp;<strong>branch building of the Gulf National Bank was dedicated on September 12th.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Laz Quave, Beat No. 1 Supervisor, cut the ribbon.(The Daily Herald, September 10, 1964, p. 5 and September 14, 1964, p. 10)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi Hospital-1964.jpg\" style=\"height:152px; width:250px\" /></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\">The <strong>New Biloxi Hospital Convalescent Facility on East Beach and located in the old Biloxi Hospital was scheduled to open in October.</strong> &nbsp;The $150,000 remodeling and furnishing began in late March. Mrs. Celia Vaughan was the director under the supervision of &nbsp;S. Earl Grimes, administrator of the Howard Memorial Hospital.(The Daily Herald, September 17, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late August, <strong>Biloxi\'s annexation proposal to annex lands from its city limits west to DeBuys Road </strong>was approved by the Harrison County Chancery Court. &nbsp;The city had adopted an ordinance on May 5, 1962 to proceed with this process. <strong>&nbsp;Final decree of the Chancery Court was issued in late September</strong>.(The Daily Herald, September 1, 1964, p. 1 and September 25, 1964, p. 1)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\">On October 13th, <strong>Jo Wilkes Reicker</strong> (1911-1977) was named <strong>publisher of <em>The Daily Herald</em></strong> succeeding Eugene P. Wilkes (1885-1980), her father, who remained editor.(The Ocean Springs News, October 8, 1964, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\"><strong>Mary Mahoney\'s Old French House Restaurant and Slave Quarter Lounge opened</strong> in the 1850s, restored Daniel Goss House.(The Ocean Springs News, October 8, 1964, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &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\"><strong>Mary Marinovich was chosen Shrimp Bowl for the 25th Annual football contest</strong>.(The Daily Herald, December 5, 1964, p.3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Plans for the Harrison County 2nd Judicial District</strong><strong>&nbsp;Courthouse</strong> designed by John T. Collins and Leonard A. Collins of Collins, Baricev, and Collins were submitted.(The Daily Herald, December 5, 1964, p. 1)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Red Carpet</strong>, a casino-style,&nbsp;<strong>gambling venue situated in a former residence&nbsp;</strong>on the north side of US Highway No. 90 on Biloxi\'s West Beach \'Strip\',&nbsp;<strong>was declared \"off-limits\" for military personnel</strong>. &nbsp;<strong>Buddy\'s</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Ranch House&nbsp;</strong>on Pass Road and the&nbsp;<strong>B&amp;B Blue Room</strong>&nbsp;were included in the order.(The Daily Herald, December 9, 1964, 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\"><strong>Beat 1 Harrison County voters approved an initiative to create the 2nd Judicial District at Biloxi by 3164 for and 813 against. </strong>&nbsp;Over 3300 registered voters had signed the petition to put the issue to a referendum.(The Daily Herald, December 9, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></p>\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\">In December, the old<strong> Crystal Ice Company plant on the NW/C of Lameuse Street and Railroad Street, now Esters Boulevard, was destroyed by fire.</strong> &nbsp;Damage to the approximately sixty year old structure [280 feet by 90 feet] was estimated at $182,000 and was fought for 32 hours by Biloxi and other local firemen.(The Daily Herald, December 10, 1964, p. 1 and December 11, 1964, p. 2) </span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><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;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Fallo%2C Emile Jr..jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:105px\" /></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\"><strong>Emile J. Fallo</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Jr</strong>. was&nbsp;<strong>named Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;of 1964 by the Lions Club.(The Daily Herald, December 24, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong> &nbsp;</strong></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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Kent\'s Men Store Fire_0.jpg\" style=\"height:230px; width:300px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Folkes Building on the SE/C of West Howard Avenue and Reynoir Street was destroyed by fire on Christmas Eve.</strong> &nbsp;Fire Chief Frank Gabrich related that the loss was about $230,000 and affected the following Biloxi businesses: Kent\'s Men Store, Earl Friedman; Royal Credit Jewelers; and Acme Photo, William T. Dunn.(The Daily Herald, December 26, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late December,&nbsp;<strong>Fred Haise</strong>&nbsp;(b. 1933), 1959 Oklahoma University aeronautical engineering graduate and 1951 BHS graduate,&nbsp;<strong>completed the aerospace research pilot school</strong>&nbsp;at Edwards AFB, California.(The Daily Herald, December 28, 1964, p. 12) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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>1965</strong>&nbsp; &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\">On New Years Day, <strong>Dr. Carl DeForest</strong> (1887-1968) was the first tenant to move into the new Seashore Manor, a $1 1/2 million dollar, apartment buiding situated on the Methodist Seashore Assembly Camp Ground. &nbsp;Also<strong>&nbsp;Josie Featherstone Leggett</strong>&nbsp;(1876-1968), age 88 years and widow of the <strong>Reverend James Thomas Leggett&nbsp;</strong>(1865-1949) moved from Jackson, Mississippi into the new building.(The Daily Herald, January 5, 1965, p. 9)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The</strong><strong> Roxy Theatre on East Howard Avenue, which had been closed for nearly eight years, burned on January 3, 1965. &nbsp;A residence and trailer in the rear of the movie house were also destroyed resulting in total losses of about $26,000. &nbsp;Mrs. Francis C. Smolich (1901-1979) was the owner.(The Daily Herald, January 4, 1965, p. 1)</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On January 19th, <strong>City Hall was ransacked and $5000 in cash and $90,000 in checks</strong> were stolen from the vault.(The Morning Advocate [Baton Rouge], January 20, 1965, p, 4A)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Nelson%2C Jack-2-February 2014.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:107px\" /></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\">In February, <strong>Jack Nelson&nbsp;</strong>(1929-2009), Notre Dame of Biloxi graduate, was named <strong>Southern Bureau Chief for <em>The Los Angeles Times</em>.</strong> &nbsp;Jack had been with <em>The Atlanta Constitution</em> since 1952 and had been <strong>awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 1960 and a Nieman Fellowship to study Political Science at Harvard University</strong>.(The Daily Herald, February 12, 1965, p. 1)</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\">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/Kuljis%2C%20Luka.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:145px\" /></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\"><strong>Luka Kuljis</strong> (1885-1965), a<strong> 1904 Croatian immigrant from Milna, Brac, expired on March 1st</strong>. &nbsp;Luka was Biloxi <strong>1st Shrimp King</strong> [1956], 2nd president of 1st Federal Savings &amp; Loan, a fisherman, grocerman, marine oil dealer, and trawl and net maker. &nbsp;he lived at 1502 East Beach.(The Daily Herald, March 2, 1965, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Queen Ixolib Linda Dorothy Ingrassia </strong>(b. 1943) [m. John Calvin Mozingo II] of Gulfport and a senior at Ole Miss, and <strong>King d\'Iberville T.M. Dorsett</strong> (b. 1915), native of Texas City, Texas and manager of construction and marina at Broadwater Beach Hotel, ruled the Mardi Gras on March 2nd.(The Daily Herald, March 2, 1965, p. 1 and March 3, 1965, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>wreckage of a single engine aircraft was found on the south side of Cat Island</strong> on July 9th by the <strong><em>Sailor Bob</em></strong>, a fishing boat, our of Houma, Louisiana. &nbsp;Richard B. Rinehart of Rome, Georgia and Berny Whitman of Mobile were killed in the crash which occurred on 4 &nbsp;July 1964.(The Daily Herald, July 10, 1965, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dorothy Dorsett Brown</strong>, widow of Joe W. Brown and proprietor of the Broadwater Beach Hotel, <strong>sold her 400-acre race track at Las Vegas for $150 million dollars </strong>to Marvin Kratter representing investors from New York.(The Ocean Springs News, August 12, 1965, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\"><strong>R.D. Brown, Biloxi School Superintendent,</strong> announced that this year\'s public school enrollment reached a record enrollment of 9043 students.(The Daily Herald, September 8, 1965, p. 1)&nbsp;<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\"><strong>John A. Swanzy</strong> (1881-1965), who served the City of Biloxi for thirty seven years as Street Commissioner and Public Works Commissioner, <strong>expired in early September</strong>.(The Daily Herald, September 8, 1965, p. 2)&nbsp;<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\"><strong>The L&amp;N Edgewater Park Station was dismantled</strong>.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></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\"><strong>Captain Jimmy Skrmetta</strong> of the <strong><em>New Pan American Clipper</em></strong> particpated with Captain Felix Dalgo and five seaman<strong> in the sealift of about 1500 cuban efugees from the port of Camarloca, Cuba </strong>to Florida.[The Daily Herald, November 13, 1965, p. 2]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mosline Savarro</strong>&nbsp;(1899-1967) was&nbsp;<strong>named Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;of 1968 by the Lions Club.(The Daily Herald, December , 1965, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><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;&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;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></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>1966</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>A sixty-foot section of the Popps Ferry Bridge was taken out on February 10th</strong> when struck by a barge towed by the tug, <strong><em>Black Jack</em></strong>. <strong>W.R. Fairchild Construction Company</strong> of Hattiesburg, Mississipi was<strong> low bidder at $49,823 to perform emergency repairs</strong> to the span.<em>(The Daily Herald, February 11, 1966, p. 1 and February 22, 1966, p. 8)</em><br />\r\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Garner Hugh Tullis</strong> (1893-1966), native of St. Joseph, Louisiana and insurance and brokerage executive of NOLA, <strong>expired on February 18th</strong> aboard <u><strong><em>Windjammer II</em></strong></u> in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Appalachicola, Florida from an apparent heart attack.(The Times Picayune, February 19, 1966, p. 1 and February 19, 1966, p. 6)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Kalif%2C Jo Ellen -Feb. 24%2C 1966 Mardi Gras Queen_0.jpg\" style=\"height:185px; width:200px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Jo Ellen Kalif</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>James E. Alexander</strong>, MD and&nbsp;<strong>Jo Ellen Kalif&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;ruled Mardi Gras on February 22nd.<em>(The Ocean Springs News, February 24, 1966, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Buck%20Theatre%20-%20Mardi%20Gras%20Day%20Fire%2C%20pg%202.jpg\" style=\"height:303px; width:300px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The <strong>Buck Theatre</strong>, <strong>Collins</strong> and <strong>Laughran buildings</strong> on Lameuse Street burned on Mardi Gras eve during the parade.[The Daily Herald, February 23, 1966, p. 2]</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\"><strong>George Bernard Wink</strong> (1888-1966), native of NOLA and Biloxi resident since 1906 expired on March 17th. &nbsp;Mr. Wink was a former barbershop operator, Beat 1 Justice of the Peace, and deputy clerk and deputy tax collector for the City of Biloxi. &nbsp;George B. Wink had married <strong>Marguerite Stanovich</strong> (1894-1983) in 1912 and they were the parents of: <strong>Marguerite Wink</strong> (1913-2000) m. Sherwood L. \'SL\" Fayard (1908-1986); <strong>Georgette Wink</strong> (1914-1978) m. Lester J. Thompson Sr. (1910-2002); <strong>Doris Wink</strong> (1920-2007) m. Eugene A. Peresich; and&nbsp;<strong>Bernard \'Bernie\' Wink</strong> (1925-1992) m. Raymond V. Bass (1920-2002).(The Daily Herald, March 18, 1966, p. 2)</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\">The new&nbsp;<strong>Sister of Mercy Convent was dedicated on May 8th</strong>.(The Daily Herald, May 6, 1966, p. 1)</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\">The <strong>fifth floor of the Buena Vista Hotel\'s East Wing caught fire at 5:45 p.m.on July 20th. </strong>&nbsp;125 rooms were burned resulting in damages estimated at $150,000. &nbsp;All 360 rooms of the luxury hotel were in use as the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation was holding its annual meeting. &nbsp;Local fireman extinguished the blaze in about three hours. &nbsp;The Buena Vista reopened for business on July 21st.(The Times-Picayune, July 21, 1966, p. 1)</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\">The <strong>first legal liquor shipment in Mississippi from State warehouses controlled by the Alcohol Beverage Control Division occurred on July 21st. &nbsp;The Broadwater Beach Hotel</strong> at Biloxi was the first venue to be approved to sell spiritous beverages in Mississippi in 58 years.(The Daily Herald, July 22, 1966, p. 1)</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\"><strong>Professor Charles D, Carnavale </strong>(1892-1966), native of Naples, Italy and<strong>&nbsp;</strong>renown<strong> music teacher and band director, </strong><strong>who came to Biloxi in</strong>&nbsp;1925 and formed the Biloxi Boys\' Band in 1926,<strong> died on October 23rd. &nbsp;C.D. Carnavale assembled the Biloxi High School Band and taught in the public school system until 1939, when he went into the music business with Marion \'Prof\' Carpenter</strong>.(The Daily Herald, October 24, 1966, p. 2) &nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Julian K. Cook</strong> (1908-1994) was hired as <strong>Biloxi\'s first full-time City gardener</strong> in December.(The Ocean Springs News, December 27, 1966, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Jeremiah J. O\'Keefe III</strong>&nbsp;(b. 1923) was named <strong>Outstanding Citizen of Biloxi</strong> by the Lions Club<em>.(The Daily Herald, December 28, 1966, p. 1 and The Sun Herald, February 11, 2010, p. A5)</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\"><strong>Fred W. Haise Jr.</strong> (b. 1934), BHS graduate and former Marine aviator and NASA test pilot, <strong>was among nineteen men chosen to report to the NASA Manned Space Center</strong> in Texas to begin<strong> further training for the Apollo astronaut program</strong><em>.(The Daily Herald, April 4, 1966, p. 1) &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;</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\"><strong>The Popps Ferry Bridge which &nbsp;was taken out on February 10th</strong>&nbsp;when it was hit by a tow barge <strong>was struck again on April 14th</strong> when the tug,&nbsp;<strong><em>Ed Colle</em></strong>, towing three pulp wood barges rammed into it. &nbsp;The span was scheduled to reopen to road traffic in two weeks before the latest collision.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 15, 1966, p. 1)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1967</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. William Cecil Guyton</strong>&nbsp;of Ocean Springs and&nbsp;<strong>Lydia Mary Salloum</strong>&nbsp;[Werby] of Gulfport ruled Mardi Gras at Biloxi in February.(The Daily Herald, February 9, 1967, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. Riley Wilson Burnett </strong>(1891-1973), native of Ackerman, Mississippi, expired in July. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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\">The&nbsp;<strong>New Orleans Saints played their&nbsp;first NFL&nbsp;on September 17th</strong>&nbsp;in Tulane\'s Sugar Bowl Stadium against the Los Angeles Rams losing 27-13..(<em>The Daily Herald, September 18, 1967)</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\">On <strong>December 16, 1967, Harry Bennett </strong>(1902-1967), native of Opelousas, Louisiana <strong>and Biloxi gambler, was murdered gang land style outside of his apartment </strong>at 4900 Southern Avenue in west Biloxi.&nbsp;&nbsp;Harold Donald Diddlemeyer (1943-2007) , an escapee from the Mississippi State Penetentiary, was accused of his murder and in 1969 asked the court to take a lie detector test to prove his innocence of this crime.(The Daily Herald, December 16, 1967, p. 1 and April 1, 1969, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>2nd Judicial Harrison County Courthouse which was commenced in 1967 was completed in 1968</strong>.&nbsp; John T. Collins and Leonard A. Collins designed the two-story, masonry structure which was built on the NE/C of Washington and Lameuse Street by Brice Building Company, Inc. of NOLA &nbsp;<strong>Laz Quave represented&nbsp;Beat I </strong>during the erection of the new courthouse. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On December 20, 1967, <span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company </strong></span>formed <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Central_Bell\">South Central Bell</a> Telephone Company to operate in five of its nine states (Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee).</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/CRAPO%2C LEO (1928-1975)_1.jpg\" style=\"height:175px; width:101px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Leo Kempton Crapo </strong>(1928-1975) <strong>was named Outstanding Citizen of Biloxi</strong>&nbsp;by the Lions Club.(The Daily Herald, January 2, 1968, p. 1 and March 3, 1975, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</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>1968</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late February,&nbsp;<strong>Charles C. Moschella&nbsp;</strong>(1929-2006), president of Oakwoods Apartments Inc.-Gulfport, announced that a&nbsp;<strong>64-unit, two-story, apartment complex called Chateau Versailles would be erected on the from 500-feet of the former Edgar Monroe tract on Biloxi\'s West Beach.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;The project consisted of eight buildings, a social and laudry building and two swimming pools. &nbsp;Mr. Moschella was the general contractor working from plans drawn by&nbsp;<strong>Biloxi architects, John T. Collins and Leonard A. Collins.</strong>(The Daily Herald, February 19, 1968, p. 13)</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\"><strong>The A &amp; P &nbsp;Super Market on West Beach Boulevard in Biloxi burned in an early morning fire on February 1st. &nbsp;Damage was estimated at $100,000.(The Daily Herald, February &nbsp; , 1968 and February 24, 1968, p. 1)</strong></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\">The&nbsp;<strong>2nd February A &amp; P Super Market conflagration in Biloxi occurred on February 23rd</strong>, when the A &amp; P on West Howard Avenue burned in a flash fire. &nbsp;Battalion Chief Frank Hecht noted that fire trucks had difficulties getting to the blaze due to heavy smoke which dimenished visibility. &nbsp;<strong>Sam Mitchell owned the building that had been erected in 1948&nbsp;</strong>[sic].<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;The structure had been heavily damaged by fire in 1958&nbsp;</strong>[sic]<strong>.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Merchiston-Hall Galleries, a furniture store east of the A &amp; P store and owned by Leo Crapo</strong>, received about $2000 in damages when large windows and doors shattered due to the extreme heat emanating from the fire.(The Daily Herald, February 24, 1968, p. 1 and&nbsp;The Daily Herald, August 26, 1959, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Donald W. Cumbest</strong>&nbsp;of Pascagoula and&nbsp;<strong>Sandra Hatten</strong>&nbsp;of Gulfport ruled&nbsp; Mardi Gras at Biloxi on February 27th.(The Daily Herald, February 27, 1968, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Popp\'s Ferry Bridge was damaged</strong> on April 10th.</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\">The <strong>Blessing of the Fleet was held on June 2nd</strong>. &nbsp;<strong>Peter L. Semski</strong> (1889-1981) was King and <strong>Kay Deloney</strong> was Queen. &nbsp;The<strong> Reverend Morgan Kavanagh</strong> of St. Michael\'s Catholic Church was assisted by the <strong>Reverend Kevin Bambrick</strong> to bless the Biloxi shrimp fleet.(The Daily Herald, June 3, 1968, p. 1)</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\">The <strong>1st National Bank of Biloxi</strong> and the <strong>1st National Bank of Hattiesburg merged</strong> in August to create a $60 million dollar bank. &nbsp;<strong>Edward Craft Tonsmeire Jr.</strong>&nbsp;(1911-1972) was Chairman of the Board and <strong>Albert Lynd Gottsche&nbsp;</strong>(1901-1974) President of the 1st Bank of Biloxi, at this time. <strong>&nbsp;Mr. Gottsche had been elected Cashier of the bank in June 1941</strong>.(The Daily Herald, August 21, 1968, p. 1 and June 30, 1941, p. 7)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The<strong> new $500,000, 36,000 square-foot Harrison County 2nd Judicial Court House</strong> was scheduled to open August 31st.(The Daily Herald, June 1, 1968, p. 1)</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\"><strong>Senator Robert F. Kennedy</strong> (1925-1968) [D-Mass], former US Attorney General and US Presidential candidate, was <strong>assassinated at Los Angeles on June 6th</strong> by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.</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\"><strong>Dr. Gilbert R. Mason</strong> (1928-2006), Biloxi physician and elected caucus member from the 5th Congressional District, was the <strong>first Negro chosen to represent Mississippi at a National Democratic Party Convention. </strong>&nbsp;The 1968 convention was held&nbsp;at Chicago.(The Daily Herald, June 11, 1968, p. 1)</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\"><strong>Walter L. Nixon Jr.</strong> (b. 1929), Biloxi attorney since 1952, <strong>was confirmed by the US Senate in mid-June as a Federal judge</strong>. &nbsp;He was the youngest of the four hundred Federal judges in America.(The Daily Herald, June 13, 1968, p. 1)</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\">The<strong> intial site work and dredging to build the new $130 million West Bank Shipyard for Ingalls at Pascagoula</strong>, Mississippi commenced in June.(The Daily Herald, June 14, 1968, p. 1)</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\"><strong>HUD approved an advanced planning grant of $237,223 for the $6,698,000 million Biloxi Downtown Revitalization</strong> project.(The Daily Herald, June 14, 1968, p. 1)</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\">The new <strong>West Biloxi Public Library on Pass Christian Road was nearing completion</strong>. &nbsp;J.O. Collins was the general contractor for the structure designed as a 10,000 volume library.(The Daily Herald, June 17, 1968, p. 6)</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\"><strong>Dr. Benton Z. Welch </strong>(1878-1968), native of Covington County, Mississippi, expired at Howard Memorial Hospital on July&nbsp; 19th.&nbsp; <strong>Ella Grace Jordan Welch </strong>(1878-1974), his spouse, expired on August 27, 1974, also at Howard Memorial, (The Daily Herald, July 20, 1968, p. 1 and August 28, 1974, p. 2)</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\">The <strong>old Coca Cola bottling plant</strong>, also known as the Hypo Company and situated on Division Street near Caillavet Street, <strong>was demolished in December</strong>.(The Daily Herald, December 11, 1968, p. 1)</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\"><strong>Laz Quave</strong>&nbsp;(1910-1985) was&nbsp;<strong>named Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;of 1968 by the Lions Club.(The Daily Herald, December 18, 1968, p. 1)&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;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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>1969</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John P. McDermott Jr.</strong> (1929-1982), native of Mobile, Alabama, <strong>was reappointed to a five-year term as administrator of the Howard Memorial Hospital</strong>.&nbsp; Prior to his becoming Howard Memorial Hospital\'s administrator circa 1966, Mr. McDermott had served the Biloxi Public schools as their business manager.&nbsp; His wife, Martha Peresich, was a Biloxi native.(The Daily Herald, February 14, 1969, p. 1)</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\"><strong>General Dwight D. Eisenhower</strong> (1890-1969), former two-term, American President<strong> expired on March 28th</strong> at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C.</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\">In April, <strong>Mississippi Power Company announced plans to double the capacity of its Jack Watson Plant, north of Handsboro, with a $62.8 million building program</strong>. &nbsp;A 500,000 KW steam-electric generation unit will be completed by the spring of 1973 and a $3.3 million 40,000 KW combination turbine generator would be in operation by 1970. &nbsp;New transmission lines were also being erected.(The Daily Herald, April 14, 1969, p. 1)<br />\r\n&nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Percy Edward Hatch</strong> (1908-1969), native of Scott Co., Mississippi and a <strong>Methodist pastor and mathematices teacher</strong>, died on April 17th. &nbsp;He was pastor of the Epsworth Methodist Church at Biloxi, but lived and taught in Long Beach, Mississippi.(The Daily Herald, April 18th, 1969, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In April, a<strong> $1 million Ramada Inn was planned for West Beach on the grounds of the old Bryan Motel, which was recently demolished</strong>.(The Daily Herald, April &nbsp;18, 1969, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In April, <strong>Consolidated Construction Company was awarded the $104,370 contract to erect the West Biloxi Postal Station, a 6300 square-ft., single story, building, at 124 Fernwood Road. &nbsp;The USPS leased the builing for ten years.</strong>(The Daily Herald, April 18, 1969, p. 15)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lt. General James H. Doolittle</strong> (1896-1993) <strong>led 38 of the 53 survivors of the April 18, 1942 raid on Tokyo</strong>, Japan at its <strong>annual reunion held April 17-April 19, 1969 at the Edgewater Gulf Hotel.</strong> &nbsp;By April 2011, only five men of the Doolittle\'s Raiders were extant for its <strong>69th reunion held in Nebraska.</strong>(The Daily Herald, April 18, 1969, p. 1) &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In April, <strong>Clarence Day </strong>of the Day Companies<strong> sold the Trade Winds </strong>[formerly Tivoli Hotel]<strong> to ROLANE, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia. &nbsp;</strong>At this time, the<strong> building had 104 rooms and apartments </strong>and its <strong>16 room motel </strong>which was <strong>built about ten years past.</strong>(The Daily Herald, April 19, 1969, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mayor Daniel Guice </strong>and<strong> Laz Quave, </strong>Beat 1 Supervisor, signed<strong> contracts for the $1,159,831 &nbsp;Biloxi small craft harbor and marina. &nbsp;L&amp;A Construction Company and W.R. Fairchild Construction Company </strong>were to<strong> commence work in forty five days </strong>and <strong>complete the project in 390 days</strong>.(The Daily Herald, April 29, 1969, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>J.O. Collins was the low base bidder to erect the $289, 395 Sacred Heart Catholic Church in North Biloxi.&nbsp;Father Francis Farrell</strong> was pastor and <strong>H.F. Fountain Jr. &amp; Associates</strong> were architects.(The Daily Herald, April 30, 1969, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Daniel Dicks Guice won the Democratic nomination for Biloxi Mayor</strong> over <strong>Richard Creel</strong> and <strong>Ernest Melvin</strong>. <strong>W.K. \'Bill\' Dukate, former City Commissioner, dropped out of the Mayor\'s race in</strong>&nbsp;April. &nbsp;<strong>Peter Parker</strong> (1908-1985) and <strong>Dominic A. Fallo</strong> (1911-1996) won the <strong>City Commissioners Democratic nominations</strong>.(The Daily Herald, April 17, 1969, p. 23, May 14, 1969, p. 1 and May 21, 1969, p. 1)<br />\r\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong> </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. Percy P. Haslitt</strong> (1880-1969) expired at Biloxi on May 19th. &nbsp;He was a native of Marshall, Illinois and first came to Biloxi in 1935 with the V.A. &nbsp;In March 1951, retired from Federal service, he opened an office in Ocean Springs on Washington Avenue. &nbsp;Martha Gagen (1883-1943), his first wife also from Marshall, Illinois, died at NOLA on February 5, 1943.(The Daily Herald, February 5, 1943, p. 5 and May 20, 1969, p. 2) &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. Braxton Bragg O\'Mara</strong> (1896-1969), native of Holmesville, Pike Co., Mississippi and pediatrician and internist expired at Biloxi on May 24th.&nbsp; Lydia B. Bragg (1906-1991), his spouse, died on January 31, 1991.(The Daily Herald, May 24, 1969, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/McGehee%2C James C. Major General-May 16%2C 1968%2C p. 1.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:170px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Moore%2C Thomas E. Major General-July 1969.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:138px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Major General James C. McGehee and Major General Thomas E. Moore</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">With the retirement of<strong>&nbsp;Major General James C. McGehee</strong>&nbsp;(1910-1979) after 35 years in the USAF, he was replaced on August 1, 1969 by&nbsp;<strong>Major General Thomas E. Moore&nbsp;</strong>(1912-2007). &nbsp;General Moore came to KAFB form the Alaskan Air Command.(The Ocean Springs Record, July 24, 1969, p. 10)</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The merger of the <strong>First National Bank of Biloxi and the First National Bank of Hattiesburg</strong> became effective on 1 September. &nbsp;A. Lynn Gottsche was president of the Biloxi banch and Paul W. McMillan of the Hattiesburg bank. &nbsp;Shareholder and Comptroller of the Currency approval had been completed by mid-July. &nbsp;The new bank,<strong> First&nbsp;Mississippi National Bank</strong>, had assets of $70 million dollars.[The Daily Herald, August 21, 1968, p. 1, February 12, 1969, p. 1, and July 18, 1969, p. 1]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Hurricane Camille made an unforgettable visit to the Mississippi Gulf Coast </strong>&nbsp;on August 17th.</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\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/Moran%2C%20Joe-painting%20for%20Agnew-1969.jpg\" style=\"height:165px; width:200px\" /></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\">In October 1969, a <strong>Joe Moran </strong>(1915-1999) <strong>oil painting of Biloxi shrip trawlers was presented to Spiro T. Agnew</strong>, vice president of the United States, for his assistance following Hurricane Camille of August 1969.(The Ocean Springs Record, October 23, 1969, 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\"><strong>John P. McDermott Jr. </strong><strong>was named Outstanding Citizen of Biloxi</strong>&nbsp;by the Lions Club.(The Daily Herald, January 2, 1961, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1970</strong></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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Haise%2C FW [small].jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:120px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Astronaut Fred W. Haise</strong></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\"><strong>Fred W. Haise</strong> (b. 1933), Biloxi native, <strong>was lunar module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo XIII Moon Mission, which ran from April 11 to April 17. &nbsp;Fred&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;would have been the sixth man to walk on the Moon, if the mission had not been aborted due to mechanical issues.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Major Eugene A. Hiller</strong> (1898-1970), native of Calhoun County, Mississippi and retired VA director expired on January 24th . &nbsp;Major Hiller attened Mississippi State College and served in WWI. &nbsp;He was survived by Lottie Webb Hiller, his wife, Eugene Webb Hiller, his son. &nbsp;<strong>Major Hiller joined the Biloxi VA in 1936</strong> as assistant director and <strong>retired from his post on January 1, 1968</strong>.(The Daily Herald, January 25, 1970, p. A2 and The Mobile Press Register, January 28, 1968, p. C-3)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\"><strong>Mayor Daniel D. Guice plans North Biloxi annexation.</strong>(The Ocean Springs Record, August 3, 1970, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&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\">The new&nbsp;<strong>Daily Herald $1.8 million printing plant and building on DeBuys Road was dedicated</strong>&nbsp;in early December. The&nbsp;<strong>Wilkes family had sold the daily newspaper to the State Record Company in 1968</strong>.(The Daily Herald, December 12, 1970, p. A1)&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;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></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\"><strong>Walter F. Fountain </strong>(1920-2003)<strong> was named Outstanding Citizen of Biloxi</strong>&nbsp;by the Lions Club.(The Daily Herald, January 2, 19, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</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>1971</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Adrian Weill</strong> (1903-1971), native of Osthaffen, Alsace-Lorraine, expired at Biloxi on February 21st. &nbsp;He came to America in 1920 and located to Lutcher, Louisiana. &nbsp;Mr. Weill <strong>arrived in Biloxi circa 1930 and made his fortune in real estate and property development. &nbsp;He built Biloxi\'s first shopping center, Weill\'s Shopping Center,</strong> on West Beach Boulevard. &nbsp;<strong>Jeanette Dees Weill </strong>(1916-2002), his wife, died on April 16, 2002.(The Daily Herald, February 22, 1971, p. 1 and The Sun Herald, April 21, 2002, p. A8)</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\">&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lyman Bradford Post 2434 VFW awarded a construction contract to H. Gordon Myrick of Gulfport to erect its new hall in East Biloxi. &nbsp;The $110,000 structure was situated between Holley Street and the Trade Winds Hotel </strong>on East Beach. &nbsp;H.F. \'Buddy\' Fountain Jr. &amp; Associates designed the 6500 square-ft. facility.(The Daily Herald, May 20, 1971, Section 4-p. 3]</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Steckler%2C Frotcher-1934.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:83px\" /></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\"><strong>Frotscher Richard Steckler </strong>(1908-1971), native of NOLA, <strong>expired at Biloxi in August</strong>. &nbsp;He worked with his father at the Steckler Seed Company and came to Biloxi in 1929 as a <strong>horticulturist</strong> and <strong>landscape architect. &nbsp;Steckler joined the Biloxi VA circa 1936 and was head gardener retiring about 1961. &nbsp;</strong>He was Biloxi\'s <strong>1958 Most Outstanding Citizen. &nbsp;Frotscher had married Doris M. Trochesset (1911-2004) in February 1933 </strong>and they had five children<strong>.</strong>(The Daily Herald, January 1, 1959, p. 1 and August 1971, p. 2)<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></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\"><strong>The USO was dedicated on September 13th</strong>. &nbsp;It occupied the former Dantzler House on West Beach near the Biloxi Lighthouse.(The Daily Herald, September 12, 1971, p. A7)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Gulf Hills Hotel near Ocean Springs burned </strong>to the ground on Christmas morning.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend David C. Ehrenfeld&nbsp;</strong>was&nbsp;<strong>named Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;of 1964 by the Lions Club.(The Daily Herald, , 1971, p. 1)&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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>1972</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Gulf Coast Research Lab at Ocean Springs opened its Environmental Education Center</strong> in a metal building at Point Cadet.(The Ocean Springs Record, March 16, 1972, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In April, <strong>Mayor Daniel D. Guice announced his candidacy for Representative to Congress</strong> from Mississippi\'s 5th Congressional District.(The Ocean Springs Record, April 13, 1972, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Antonio \'Tony\' Mihojevich&nbsp;</strong> (1902-1982) and&nbsp;<strong>Linda Kennedy</strong>, ruled the Blessing of the Fleet.(The Daily Herald, June 24, 1973, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>1885 Ship Island lighthouse caught fire on June 27th</strong>. &nbsp;The 73-foot wooden tower was consumed by the conflagration leaving only the concrete foundation.(The Daily Herald, June 28, 1972, p. 2)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &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\"><strong>Carl E. Matthes</strong> (1896-1972), native of Chicago and <strong>renown Biloxi architect</strong> expired on August 28th. &nbsp;His most significant works were: <strong>Hotel Buena Vista</strong>&nbsp;, Tivoli Hotel (Trade Winds), <strong>Biloxi City Hospital</strong>, <strong>Mary L. Michel Junior High School</strong>, <strong>the 1961 Biloxi High School</strong>, and the <strong>First United Methodist Church of Biloxi.</strong>(The Daily Herald, August 29, 1972, p. 2)&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &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\"><strong>Priscilla Ritch</strong>&nbsp;(1893-1972), long time Gorenflo Elementary school teacher, expired on October 18th.(The Daily Herald, October 19, 1972)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>Accomo Hotel and Restauant</strong>, formerly&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong>Paradise Gardens</strong>&nbsp;at 744 Main Street,&nbsp;<strong>was gutted by fire</strong>&nbsp;on November 22, 1972. &nbsp;<strong>A post-WW II, negro night club </strong>and<strong>&nbsp;</strong>was once the venue for entertainers such as:&nbsp;<strong>Antoine \"Fats\" Domino</strong>&nbsp;[1928-2017];&nbsp;<strong>Guitar Slim</strong>&nbsp;[Eddie Jones (1926-1959)];&nbsp;<strong>Chuck Willis</strong>&nbsp;[1928-1958]; and&nbsp;<strong>Johnny Otis&nbsp;</strong>[1921-2012]. &nbsp;Damage to the structure was estimated at $30,000. &nbsp;It was owned by Joseph T. Hathorn and William E. Jones. &nbsp;The fire <strong>was discovered while BFD firemen were fighting another blaze at the Auction City Furniture</strong> building 445 East Division. &nbsp;Fire Chief Frank Gabrich estimated that W.M. Krohn and Ronnie Krohn, owners, loss&nbsp;at $5000 to their $10,000 structure.</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[The Daily Herald, November 22, 1972, p. 2]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Avelez%20Hotel-demolition.jpg\" style=\"height:205px; width:250px\" /></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\">In December, the&nbsp;<strong>Avelez Hotel on West Howard Avenue was being demolished&nbsp;</strong>by the Harris Wrecking Company. &nbsp;The company was paid $25,000 to accomplish the task in one month.(The Daily Herald, December 1, 1972)</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\"><strong>Glenn Lyle Swetman</strong> (1901-1994) was<strong>&nbsp;named Outstanding Citizen of Biloxi</strong>&nbsp;by the Lions Club.(The Daily Herald, January 2, 1973, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><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;&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;<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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>1973</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John S. Mavar Jr</strong>. (1907-1973), <strong>Biloxi canner</strong>, civic leader, and stalwart Knight of Columbus, died at New Orleans on January 14th.(The Daily Herald, January 15, 1973, p. 2)&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\"><strong>Merritt Brunies </strong>(1895-1973), a <strong>member of the original New Orleans Five jazz band died </strong>on February 5th.&nbsp; His corporal remians were interred in the Lafayette No. 1 Cemetery at New Orleans.(The Daily Herald, February 6,1973, p. 2)</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\">The <strong>Biloxi City Council adopted a new and amended, comprehensive zoning ordinance in early March</strong>. &nbsp;The Comprehensive Zoning Law of 1966-Ordinance No. 1083 was amended.(The Daily Herald, March 7, 1973, p. 1)</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\"><strong>Governor William \'Bill\' Waller</strong> (b. 1926) <strong>signed the Coastal Wetlands Protection Act into law</strong> in March. &nbsp;It was authored by <strong>Gerald H. Blessey</strong>, Harrison County representative to the House.(The Daily Herald, March 23, 1973, p. 1)</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\"><strong>Caillavet Street from West Howard Avenue to Beach Boulevard was opened on May 2nd.</strong> &nbsp;Mrs. <strong>Anita Caillavet Wetzel</strong> (1886-1975) represent the Caillavet family at the ribbon cutting ceremony.(The Daily Herald, May 2, 1973, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Professor Marion L. Carpenter </strong>(1917-1983) was named <strong>Biloxi\'s Musician of the Year</strong>. &nbsp;Others winner of this award had been<strong> Johnny Bertucci, Charles Carnovale, Merritt Brunies, Raymond Egers, Vernon Williams, Frank Marchioni and Earl Blessey Sr</strong>.(The Daily Herald, May 2, 1973, p. 32)</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\"><strong>Howard Memorial Hospital\'s cardio-medical staff were the first to implant pacemakers</strong>&nbsp;in Harrison County.(The Daily Herald, May 12, 1973, p. 2)</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\"><strong>William V. Joyce Jr</strong>. (1911-1973), Biloxi merchant and Deputy Circuit Clerk 2nd JD Harrison County, Mississippi <strong>died at Biloxi </strong>on June 23rd at Biloxi. &nbsp;Mr. Joyce graduated from BHS in 1929. &nbsp;He attended the University of Alabama where he played football and ran track.(The Daily Herald, June 24, 1973, 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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Quave%2C Laz-Shrimp King 1973.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:148px\" /></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>Lynn Pitalo and Laz Quave </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[from The Daily Herald, June 24, 1973, p. 1]</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\"><strong>Laz Quave</strong>&nbsp;(1910-1985), veteran politician, and <strong>Lynn Pitalo</strong>, daughter of George Pitalo and Hazel Marie Langlinais, ruled the Blessing of the Fleet on June 24th.(The Daily Herald, June 24, 1973, p. 1)</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\"><strong>Miss Sue Collins&nbsp;</strong>(1894-1973), native of NOLA and former&nbsp;<strong>nursing supervisor at the Biloxi Hospital</strong>&nbsp;[1933-1940] and graduate of Hotel Dieu Hospital [1919] and Charity Hospital [1935] at NOLA,<strong>&nbsp;expired in early September</strong>.(The Daily Herald, September 29, 1973, p. 2)&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></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\"><strong>Construction began on October 12th</strong> at the $12.6 million, <strong>Biloxi Hilton Hotel </strong>by John C. Yemelos, president of Yemco, Inc.(Down South, Vol. 23, No. 6, p. 13)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">There were a <strong>number of UFO sighting as Biloxi</strong> and <strong>Ocean Springs</strong> throughout <strong>the month of October</strong>.(The Sun Herald, October 17, 1973, 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\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi%20Buildings-Coliseum-Oct.%202011.jpg\" style=\"height:147px; width:250px\" /></strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mississippi Coast Coliseum</strong> [image made October 2011]</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\"><strong>F. \'Yankee\' Barhanovich</strong> and <strong>H.F. Fountain Jr</strong>. related that <strong>site clearing for the Mississippi Coast Coliseum</strong> would begin within 30 to 45 days. &nbsp;<strong>Fifteen of the sixteen tracts</strong> for the project had been acquired.(<em>The Sun Herald</em>, October 17, 1973, p. A-2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Lyman C. Bradford Post 2434 V.F.W. Post building</strong> at 844 East Howard Avenue was <strong>dedicated &nbsp;on October</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>20th</strong>. &nbsp;The <strong>old building on Fred Haise Boulevard</strong> [Church Street] had been damaged in Hurricane Camille. &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">H. Gordon Myrick Inc. of Gulfport were general contractors who erected the structure from plans by <strong>H.F. Fountain Jr</strong>., Biloxi architect.(The Sun Herald, October 21, 1973, p. A12)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. Harry Johnson Schmidt Sr. </strong>(1905-1997)<strong>&nbsp;</strong>was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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>1974</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Blossman%2C John R. (1943-2009)-1974 King_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:146px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John R. Blossman (1943-2009)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John R. Blossman</strong>&nbsp;(1943-2009), King d\'Iberville, and&nbsp;<strong>Laurie James Turnbough</strong>, Queen Ixolib, ruled the <strong>Gulf Coast Carnival Association Mardi Gras</strong> at Biloxi on February 26, 1974. &nbsp;The theme was the 250 Anniversary of the Biloxi Bay Colony.(The Ocean Springs Record, February 28, 1974, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ronnie Pierotich <strong>was named president of the </strong>Biloxi Port Commission in March 1974, replacing Sam Mavar (1912-1993). &nbsp;Mr. Pierotich was appointed to the commission in 1969 by Governor John Bell Williams (1918-1983).&nbsp; The Biloxi small craft harbor was dedicated in late March 1974.</strong><em>(<strong>The Times Pic</strong>ayune, March 20, 1974, p. 7)</em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>In early April, the Friendship Fountain was dedicated at the International Plaza, which was named that day by O\'Keefe for the former US Coast Gurad base on the site. &nbsp;Various dignities attended the ceremony including Mayor O\'Keefe, Mrs. Bill Waller, Jean-Jacques Peyronnet, General Consul of France and Major General Brian M. Shotts, commander KAFB.(The Daily Herald, April 7, 1974, p. A-2)</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In April , the City of Biloxi hired <strong>Albert Walter Hagan, an engineer</strong> who came here from Galveston, Texas. &nbsp;He was the <strong>first \'city engineer\' in the history of the city and was paid $16, 600 annually</strong>. &nbsp;Walter resigned &nbsp;his position on July 31, 1975.(The Daily Herald, July 9, 1975)</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\">The <strong>Blessing of the Fleet was held in early June </strong>with Reverend John P. Robinson of St. Michael\'s blessing over two hundred boats. &nbsp;<strong>Leo Eleuterius Sr.</strong>&nbsp;(1907-1981) was the Shrimp King and <strong>Rachel Gabrich </strong>[m. Chevis Roy Hatten III]<strong>&nbsp;</strong>was his Queen.(The Times Picayune, June 3, 1974, p. 40)</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\"><strong>Biloxi Elks Lodge No. 606 sold their lot and building on Lameuse Street to the City of Biloxi for $252,000. </strong>&nbsp;Biloxi planned to use the property as a cultural center.(The Daily Herald, October 3, 1974)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On December 2nd,&nbsp;<strong>Art Weinberger</strong>&nbsp;(1896-1974),&nbsp;<strong>Biloxi merchant and&nbsp;</strong><strong>the proprietor of Art\'s Levis&nbsp;</strong>on Howard Avenue, was distracted by John \'Willie\' Durengo Reddix (b. 1954) in order that Larry \'Catfish\' Jones (b. 1954), Reddix\'s companion on that day, could sneak up behind Mr. Weinberger and&nbsp;<strong>kill him with repeated blows from a wrench</strong>. Reddix and Jones then took money and clothes from the store and fled. &nbsp;Larry Jones was convicted of &nbsp;murder and is serving a life sentence in Parchman Prison.(The Daily Herald, December 3, 1974, p.A 2 and December 4, 1974, p. A2)</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\"><strong>Reverend W.C. Wyatt</strong>&nbsp;was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></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>1975</strong></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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Metropolitan Bank Building-1975.jpg\" style=\"height:116px; width:150px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Metropolitan Bank</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">New bank, Metropolitan Bank, &nbsp;designed by Guild &amp; Grace of Gulfport planned for Biloxi.(The Ocean Springs Record, January 9, 1975, p. 5)</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Mallard%2C Louise J. (1900-1975)2.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:151px\" /></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\"><strong>Louise Josephine Mallard</strong>&nbsp;(1900-1975) artist, thespian, school teacher, and bon vivant <strong>expired at Biloxi </strong>in late January.(The Daily Herald, January 29, 1975, p. A2)<br />\r\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In early February,<strong>&nbsp;Marcel J. \'Mickey\' Bellande</strong>&nbsp;(1909-1982) was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame at Jackson, Mississippi. Bellande excelled in football, baseball and golf. &nbsp;His&nbsp;<strong>selection was based on his outstanding record in national, regional and local golf tournaments</strong>. &nbsp;Mickey was the&nbsp;<strong>first golfer to win all three State titles-Open </strong>(1950), <strong>Amateur</strong> (1964) and <strong>Seniors</strong> (1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1973).(The Sun Herald, February 9, 1975, p. B-6)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Crapo-Leo K..jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:148px\" /></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\"><strong>Leo Kempton Crapo</strong> (1928-1975), native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and <strong>proprietor of Merchiston Hall</strong>, a Biloxi furniture and home decorating center,<strong> died&nbsp;</strong><strong>at Biloxi, on Sunday, March 2, 1975</strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Leo was named Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen in 1967 and lauded for his active community leadership and unselfish devotion to many civic organizations and programs. He was active in the Biloxi Chamber of Commerce; Mississippi Coast Transportation Authority; the Boy Scouts of America; Biloxi Planning Commission; United Way; Air Force Association; and president of the Parish Council at Nativity BVM Catholic Church. In addition Leo was in 1966 the third recipient of the Laurel Wreath Award given by Coast Federal &amp; Savings to the Outstanding Citizen of the Coast.(The Daily Herald, March 3, 1975, p. 1)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In early March, the <strong>City of Biloxi placed the \"red caboose\"</strong> situated on Jackson Street on its pad. &nbsp;The caboose was acquired from <strong>Ruth J. McFalls of Ocean Springs</strong> in December 1974 for $3850. &nbsp;It was utilized by Senior Citizens as a retail outlet for ceramics and other handicrafts.(The Daily Herald, March 6, 1975, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March, <strong>Harry Reeks</strong> (1920-1982),<strong> Ocean Springs sculptor,</strong> and Mayor Jerry O\'Keefe (b. 1923),<strong> presented his proposal for \'The Golden Fisherman\'</strong>, a welded, 12 foot, bronze statue to be electroplated with 14 carat gold, to the Biloxi Planning Commission and Urban Renewal Commission. &nbsp;The project was expected to <strong>cost between $30,000 and $35,000</strong>. &nbsp;Reeks was commissioned to create the Golden Fisherman in mid-April for $34,000. &nbsp;The sundial was to be replaced by the Golden Fisherman.(The Daily Herald, March 21, 1975, p. A2 and April 18, 1975)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Kulivan%2C Alfred \'Mike\' and Tonya Gollott-1975.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:116px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Shrimp Queen Tonya Gollott and King Mike Kulivan</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Six of 12 Vietnamese refugees who made their home on the Mississippi Coast came to Biloxi in late May from the Eglin AFB Refugee Center.</strong> &nbsp;<strong>Vincent and Margaret Sherry sponsored the families and</strong> gave the Vinh family temporary shelter in ther home. &nbsp;The former South Vietnamese airforce officers and pilots and families were: <strong>Nguien Quan Vinh</strong>, Tuyet, his spouse, and 18-month old daughter, Van Anh, and <strong>Hoang Thanh Nha</strong>, Yen, his wife, and 7-year old, daughter, Nhi. &nbsp;Others expected to arrive were <strong>Phan Huu Minh</strong> and his family(The Daily Herald, May 28, 1975, p. 1)</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\"><strong>Tonya Gollott</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>A. Mike Kulivan&nbsp;</strong>(1921-2003) ruled the June Shrimp Festial at Biloxi.(The Daily Herald, June , 1975, p. )</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\"><strong>William C. Cruso</strong>&nbsp;(1892-1975), Biloxi canner, native of NOLA and resident of Biloxi since 1904, died on May 30, 1975. &nbsp;He was preceded in death by his spouse,&nbsp;<strong>Lillie Toche</strong>&nbsp;(1896-1968), who died on November 30, 1968.(The Daily Herald, November 30, 1968, p. 2 and June 1, 1975, p. A2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William Patrick Kennedy III</strong> (1926-1975), son of W.P. Kennedy Jr. and Beatrice Hardisty Kennedy, expired at Biloxi on June 20th. &nbsp;Mr. Kennedy became <strong>president of Kennedy Marine Engine Company</strong> at Biloxi in 1967. &nbsp;He was a graduate of &nbsp;Biloxi schools and attended Marion Institute [Alabama], the Merchant Marine Academy [King\'s Point, New York], and General Motors Institute [Detroit, Michigan] and <strong>was active in the seafood and boat building industries at Biloxi</strong>. &nbsp;Mr. Kennedy was a member of the BYC and served as Commodore in 1961.(The Daily Herald, June 22, 1975, p. A2)</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\"><strong>Althea Harkness Peresich</strong> (1897-1975), widow of Eugene A. Peresich Sr. (1895-1960), expired at Biloxi on August 9th . &nbsp;Mrs. Peresich had been chosen Biloxi\'s Outstanding Mother of the Year, was a charter member of the Fortnightly Club and had been active in the Biloxi Elks Pats for several years. &nbsp;She helped organize and operate the Women\'s USO at Biloxi during WW II. &nbsp;In addition, Mrs. Peresich had been the owner of the Watson Insurance Agency and Eugene Perersich and Sons Inc., Southland Studios and a major owner of the Biloxi Building Association.(The Daily Herald, August 10, 1975, p. A2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Melvin George Ness</strong> (1897-1975), native of Kenyon, Minnesota, who came to Mississippi in 1925 to <strong>establish a milk and ice cream business</strong>, died at Biloxi Veterans Administration Hospital on October 8th. Internment was in Southern Memorial Park.(The Daily Herald,October 8, 1975, p. A2)</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\"><strong>Coach Tranny Lee \'T.L.\' Gaddy</strong>&nbsp;(1894-1975), native of Itawamba County, Mississippi, who joined Biloxi High school as&nbsp;<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;&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;Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1965. (The Daily Herald, October 13, 1975, p. A2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In early May 1979, <strong>descendants of Biloxi seafood pioneers</strong>, Lopez, Maycock, and Gorenflo, unveiled a marker on <strong>Bayview Avenue at the head of Reynoir Street commemorating the 1881 founding of the Lopez, Elmer &amp; Company.</strong>&nbsp; The ceremony was a part of the Biloxi Heritage&nbsp;Week celebrations of May 6-12, 1979.<em>(The Daily Herald,</em> <em>May 15, 1979, p. B-1)</em></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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Hollis%2C Daniel Lester (1893-1975)2-passport photo Sept. 1922..jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:122px\" /></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\"><strong>Dr. Daniel Lester Hollis</strong> (1893-1975), native of Sulligent, Alabama <strong>expired on April 19th</strong>. &nbsp;Dr. Hollis, was a physician and surgeon, former Canal Zone health officer, long time BHS football team physician, former president of the Biloxi school board member, Biloxi Lions Club 1955 Citizen of the Year, former president and secretary of the Biloxi Hospital staff, and a member and leader of many more civic and professional associations.(The Daily Herald, April 20, 1975, p. A2)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<strong> </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William C. Cruso</strong> (1892-1975), NOLA native and <strong>Biloxi pioneer seafood packer, expired at Biloxi&nbsp;</strong>in late May.(The Daily Herald, June 1, 1975, p. A2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>U.S. Interstate I-110 Back Bay Bridge between D\'Iberville and Biloxi opened</strong>&nbsp;on June 22nd.(The Daily Herald, June 26, 1975, p. 1)</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\"><strong>Gerald H. Blessey</strong>, assistant to <strong>Mayor Jeremiah J. \'Jerry\' O\'Keefe III</strong> and counsel for Federal grant programs, resigned in September.(The Daily Herald, September 18, 1975.</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\">The Biloxi City Council&nbsp;<strong>approved the contract for the sale of the Biloxi City jail to the Harrison County Board of Supervisors.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;The City will pay $3 per day to the County to house and feed its prisoners in the contract.(The Daily Herald, October 2, 1975, p. B-1)</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\"><strong>Turnbull &amp; Associates of San Francisco, architects </strong>for the proposed Biloxi library-cultural center, <strong>began receiving bids on the project. &nbsp;They ranged from $1,265,000 to $1,686,000. &nbsp;Holiday Inn Construction </strong>Division of Memphis, Tennessee was the <strong>low bidder at $1,265,000.</strong>(The Daily Herald, October 2, 1975 , p. B-1)</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\">In early November, <strong>Black students at Biloxi High School demonstrated against school grooming policies</strong>. &nbsp;The activists demanded that the Biloxi school system adopt a policy that would allow Black students to plait thier hair into \'corn rows\'. &nbsp;<strong>A disturbance the prior week when a Black student and White student had an altercation on campus resulting in a suspension for the African-American</strong> was also a salient feature of the student unrest.(The Daily Herald, November 7, 1975, p. A-2)</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\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In December,<strong> The Caboose, </strong>a gift from Ocean Springs, <strong>was located in the Magnolia Mall</strong>, a pedestrian shopping district in downtown Biloxi. &nbsp;<strong>Senior Citizens used the sturcture to vend</strong> their handicrafts-needle work, ceramics, metal sculptures, etc.(The Daily Herald, August 11, 1976)</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\"><strong>Austin H. Moritz </strong>(1917-1991)<strong>&nbsp;</strong>was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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>1976</strong></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\"><strong>Theo Savoy</strong> (1903-1983) was<strong> Biloxi\'s Shrimp King</strong>.&nbsp; He died at Biloxi in September 1983.(The Sun Herald, May 23, 1976, p. A1)</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\"><strong>A 244 bed acute care center, The Gulf Coast Hospital</strong>, which became known as <strong>The Gulf Coast Medical Center</strong>&nbsp;at 180 DeBuys Road in Biloxi opened in May 1976.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/O%27Connell%2C%20Geoffrey%20T.%20Msgr-_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:100px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Monsignor Jeffrey T. O\'Connell</strong> (1900-1976), founder of Notre Dame High School and longtime priest at Nativity BVM expired on May 9, 1976. &nbsp;His internment was in Dublin, Ireland.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Mississippi Supreme Court upheld the 1974 ruling by Harrison County Chancery Court that denied</strong> the <strong>annexation attempt of North Biloxi</strong> by Biloxi.(The Sun Herald, May 25, 1976, p. A1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Police Chief Lester J. Thompson</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;(1941-2010) submitted his resignation in June for medical reason. &nbsp;Mayor O\'Keefe named <strong>Edward L. Ryan</strong> acting Police Chief effective 5 July.[The Daily Herald, June 12, 1976, p. 1]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Gerow%2C%20Bishop%20R%2CO.-1950.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:149px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bishop Richard O. Gerow</strong> (1895-1976), native of Mobile and retired Catholic Bishop of Natchez from 1924 to 1966, died at Jackson, Mississippi in December.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Jefferson%20Bank-August%209%2C1976%2C%20p.%20A-10..jpg\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jefferson Bank</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Newly chartered <strong>Jefferson Bank acquired lot on Howard Avenue </strong>between Fayard and Reynoir Street from the Biloxi Development Commission for about $50,000.[The Daily Herald, August 9, 1976, p. A-10.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Albert Mangin Sr.</strong>&nbsp;(1892-1983) was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1977</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March? 1977, the <strong>\'Golden Fisherman” of Ocean Springs\' sculptor, Harry Reeks</strong> (1920-1982) was positioned on the south side of Howard Avenue <strong>near the Biloxi Regional Medical Center</strong>.&nbsp; It was relocated to the Point Cadet Plaza in late September 1998, shortly before Hurricane Georges struck the region.&nbsp; The City of Biloxi has plans to re-erect the statue at a location not yet determined.<em>(The Sun Herald, February 18, 2006, p. A9)</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\"><strong>Betty Sekul,</strong>&nbsp;spouse of Dr. W. Steve Sekul, was&nbsp;<strong>named Biloxi\'s Mother of the Year by the Lions Club</strong>. Tony Rosetti present her the award at its 23rd annual venue.{The Sun Herald, May 8, 1977, p. A-2]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bishop%20Howze%20_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:161px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bishop Howze</strong> (b. 1923)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Roman Catholic Diocese of Biloxi was established on March 1, 1977</strong>, when it was split from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson. &nbsp;In ceremonies at Nativity BVM Cathedral. June 6th 1977, <strong>Joseph Lawson Howze</strong>, D.&nbsp;D., was installed as first Bishop of the Biloxi Diocese.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;In 1977, <strong>Save The Fort Inc. was lauded for its preservation efforts&nbsp;</strong>at the 11th Annual Military History Conference held at Fort Monroe, Virginia. &nbsp; M. James Stevens of Biloxi was president of the organization.(The Daily Herald, May 4, 1977, p. 2)</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\"><strong>Elvis Aron Presley</strong>&nbsp;(1935-1977), <strong>The King</strong> and the most widely recognized <strong>entertainer of the 20th Century,</strong> expired at Memphis, Tennessee on August 16th.<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Committee appointed by the Biloxi City Council in April to study the Mayor-Council form of municipal governcy</strong> voted 11 to 4 in favor of this rule. &nbsp;Bay St. Louis, Mississippi adopted this systerm in 1977 and it has been in place at Jackson and Greenwood, Mississippi.(The South Mississippi Sun, September 21, 1977, p. A1)</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\"><strong>Raymond Matthew \'Ray\' Thompson</strong>&nbsp;(1898-1977), native of Lee Township, Fayette County, Ohio expired at Gulfport, Mississippi on<strong> Christmas Day.</strong>&nbsp; In 1940, Mr. Thompson with Ellen Ursula \'Sue\' Thompson, his spouse, came South, probably from Youngstown, Ohio where he was the proprietor of an advertising agency.&nbsp; They resided initially at New Orleans where he began to write about history and travel.&nbsp; In the early 1950s, they relocated to Biloxi, Mississippi where Ray wrote for<strong> <u>Down South</u></strong>, a regional magazine.&nbsp; In March 1956, he began a long running weekly series of journal articles, <u>Know Your Coast</u> and <u>Know Your State</u>, which were published in <em>The Daily Herald</em>, <em>The Jackson Daily</em> <em>News</em>, and <em>The Clarion-Ledger</em>.&nbsp; Ray M. Thompson also authored: <u>New Orleans From A to Z</u>, The Land of Lafitte the Pirate, and <u>The Confederate Shrine Beauvoir</u>, the <u>Last Home of Jefferson Davis</u> (1957).&nbsp; In 1962, he was editor of the <u>Jefferson Parish, Louisiana Yearly Review</u>.(from biographical information provided by Yvonne Arnold of the McCain Archives, University of Southern Mississippi)</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\"><strong>John Pettus</strong> was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1978</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lillian Harrison Flectcher DeMiller</strong>&nbsp;(1892-1978), spouse of Rev. E.A. DeMiller (b. 1889)&nbsp;expired in Biloxi in February. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Moore%2C Louis G. (1900-1978).jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:111px\" /></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\"><strong>Lewis \'Geebe\' G. Moore </strong>(1900-1978), native of Rankin County, Mississippi and <strong>proprietor of Moore Seafood</strong>, expired on July 26th.(The Daily Herald, July 27, 1978, p. &nbsp;A2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></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\">The <u><em><strong>R.C. Haynie Jr</strong></em></u><em><strong>.</strong></em>, a menhaden fishing vessel owned by Zapata Haynie of Houston, Texas, sank three miles south of Ship Island on August 7th. One crewman died in the accident.(The Daily Herald, August 9, 1978, p. 1)<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi%20Annexation%20Map%20August%201978.JPG\" style=\"height:400px; width:261px\" /></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\">The <strong>Mississippi Supreme Court upheld an August 12, 1977 Chancery Court ruling allowing the City of Biloxi to annex land in North Biloxi. &nbsp;</strong>The decision excluded the Pine Crest and Cedar Lake Subdivisions. &nbsp;The annexed area had a population of about 5100 people in about eight sqaure miles.(The Daily Herald, August 9, 1978, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On August 10th,<strong> Philip Levine, </strong>president of the local union, International Association of Fire Fighters, <strong>led a \'walk-out\' during a meeting with Mayor Jeremiah J. O\'Keefe III, to protest the O\'Keefe decision not to allow a Federal mediator to ameliorate differences between the City of Biloxi and the union. &nbsp;</strong>Biloxi Policeman in attendance supported the firemen and walked out of the meeting with them.(The Daily Herald, August 10, 1978, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The City of <strong>Biloxi received a $2 million Federal Grant</strong>.(The Daily Herald, October 5, 1978, p. 1)</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\"><strong>William R. \'Billy\' Lyons&nbsp;</strong>named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.<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;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></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>1979</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>J.C. Penny opened its 80, 664 square-ft. store</strong>&nbsp;in the Edgewater Mall on January 24th.&nbsp; Mayor Jeremiah J. O\'Keefe III cut the ribbon.(The Ocean Springs Record, January 25, 1979, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>Popps Ferry Bridge and Causeway estimated to cost $5.2 million was five months behind schedule</strong>.&nbsp; L&amp;AConstruction of Hattiesburg, Mississippi was the contractor.(The Daily Herald, February 6, 1979, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Cheryl Prewitt</strong>&nbsp;of Ackerman named 1980 Miss America.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On October 18,1979, the <strong>Biloxi Development Commission Urbam Renewal Agenc</strong>y, City of Biloxi, Mississippi <strong>conveyed a quitclaim deed to the United Postal Service for a large lot on Main Street </strong>between Jackson and Water Streets.[Harrison Co., Mississipp 2nd JD Chancery Court Land Deed Bk. 96, p. 259</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Matre Pitalo</strong> (1898-1981)&nbsp;was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><br />\r\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1980</strong></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\"><strong>James C. Corso </strong>(1935-1990)<strong>&nbsp;</strong>and <strong>Lisa Ann Lewis </strong>[m. G.W. McAllister], Biloxians, <strong>ruled the Mardi Gras </strong>of the Gulf Coast Carnival Association.(The Daily Herald, February 19, 1980, p. 1</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The<strong> Harrison County Chancery Court ruled that Biloxi\'s attempt to annex the Fernwood area was void </strong>because they did have the permission of the MGCCC.(The Sun Herald, August 11, 1980, p. A2)</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\"><strong>Bruce C. Stewart</strong>&nbsp;was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1981</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">From data gathered in the 1980 Federal Census,<strong> the population of Biloxi was estimated to be 49,311 people making it the second largest city in Mississippi. &nbsp;Meridian with 46,311 and Hattiesburg with 40,829 people</strong> followed. &nbsp;All were well behind the Capital of Jackson with 202, 895 individuals.(The Daily Herald, April 24, 1981, p. B-1)</span></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">State Representative&nbsp;<strong>Gerald H. Blessey</strong> (b. 1942) was elected Mayor of Biloxi on June 23rd defeating <strong>Frank Barhanovich</strong>&nbsp;(b. 1943) and garnering 65% of the approximately 7700 ballots cast. &nbsp;Elected with Blessey as Councilmen were: Laz Quave (1910-1985); Michael Esters; Lewis Langlinais; Mary Carpenter; Roy Mattina; W.C. McManus; and Margaret S. Sherry (d. 1987).(The Daily Herald, June 24, 1981, p. 1 and Sec. II, p. B1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>1928 Biloxi Hotel was converted to the $3.6 million, Chateau le Grand</strong>, a condominium complex at 1304 West Beach Boulevard. Dedication took place on December 7, 1981.(The Gulf Coast Times, December 7, 1981, p.&nbsp;1 and The Ocean Springs Record, December 10, 1981, p. 3)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. William Pontius of Ocean Springs</strong>&nbsp;was elected Chief of Staff of the Biloxi Regional Medical Center in December.(The Ocean Springs Record, December 10, 1981, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lloyd Moon and L.J. \'Blue\' Caillavet&nbsp;</strong>were named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizens</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.&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;</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\"><strong>1982</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dudley Charles Andrews</strong>&nbsp;(1896-1982), proprietor of the Biloxi Lumber Company, extraordinary human being, and excellent craftsman,&nbsp;<strong>died on January 21st</strong>.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Marcel J. \'Mickey\' Bellande</strong> (1909-1982) expired on March 5th. &nbsp;Bellande was a partner in the Bellande Beverage Company and <strong>a star athelete at BHS and Springhill College&nbsp;</strong>where he played football and baseball. &nbsp;He played minor league baseball in the Cleveland Indians farm system. but <strong>excelled in golf in his later sporting career.</strong> &nbsp;Bellande was the <strong>first Mississippian to win all three State titles-Open </strong>(1950), <strong>Amateur </strong>(1964)<strong> and Seniors </strong>(1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1973). &nbsp;He was inducted into the <strong>Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in February 1975</strong>.(The Sun Herald,&nbsp;February 9, 1975, p. B-6 and March 5, 1982)</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\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late May, interested and<strong> enthusiastic Biloxians met at the East End Fire Station to consider organizing a Biloxi Seafood Museum. &nbsp;Among those present were: Jerry Bodin, Mayor Gerald Henry Blessey, Anthony V. Ragusin, Houston Gollott, Larry Dubaz, Margaret Sherry, and Tommy Gollott.</strong>(The Biloxi Press, June 2, 1982, p. 1)</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Chapman%2C Wallace (1903-1982)_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:108px\" /></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\"><strong>Wallace Chapman</strong>&nbsp;(1903-1982), former Mississippi Power Company local manager and former BYC commodore, expired on September 1st.(The Daily Herald, September 2, 1982, p. A2)<br />\r\n&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William Connell Gryder Jr.</strong> (1900-1982), Mississippi Coast shoe merchant, expired on August 12th.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ETV presented a program on the works of Eunice Lyle \"Dusti\" Swetman Bonge\'</strong>&nbsp;(1903-1993), Biloxi artist, on September 30, 1982.(The Ocean Springs Record, October 6, 1982, p. 24)</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\">In the early morning of<strong> November 8th, 28 people died and more than 30 injured in a fire in the Harrison County jail </strong>on Delauney Street and McElroy Street in Biloxi.&nbsp;<strong> Robert Eugene Pates </strong>(b. 1951) was charged with 28 counts of capital murder when he was named the alleged conspirator of the conflagration.&nbsp; Pates was sent ot Parchman immediatley.(The Daily Herald, November 8, 1982, p. A1 and November 9, 1982, p. A2)</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\">The <strong>newly chartered Biloxi Seafood Museum, Incorporated elected officers</strong> in early December at the Biloxi Community Center. &nbsp;<strong>Jerry Bodin</strong> was elected president; <strong>Duane Diaz</strong>, vice-president; <strong>Walter Fountain</strong>, secretary; and <strong>Chevis Swetman,</strong> treasurer. &nbsp;Board members elected were: Carroll Kovacevich; Charles Weems; Billy Gollott; Thomas Schultz Jr.; Steve Marinovich; Gerald Cochran; Mike Chance; Joe Moran; Della McCaughn; Cheroe Arceneaux; Rosa Martin,; and Charles Bassett.The Biloxi Press, December 8, 1982, p. 1.</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\"><strong>Nina M. Schwartzman </strong>(1916-1999)<strong>&nbsp;</strong>was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><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;</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>1983</strong></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\"><strong>Alan Bond, of the Royal Perth Yacht Club, defeated Liberty at Newport, Rhode Island to become the first challenger in 132 years to win the America\'s Cup.</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Haroll D. Castle</strong>&nbsp;of Ocean Springs and&nbsp;<strong>Melissa Jaynell Schloegel</strong>&nbsp;[Marion] of Gulfport ruled the 57th Biloxi Mardi Gras.(The Ocean Springs Record, February 17, 1983, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Estelle Fortner Wilkes</strong> (1911-1983), native of Gulfport and former <strong>owner of The Daily Herald</strong>, expired on March 1st.(The Daily Herald, March 2, 1983, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>George L. Sumrall </strong>(1908-1983), service station operator and Biloxi sports booster, died on March 3rd.(The Daily Herald, March 4, 1983, 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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Hobbs%2C Howard Leroy.jpg\" style=\"height:147px; width:118px\" /></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\"><strong>Sheriff Howard Leroy Hobbs </strong>(1934-2008) was <strong>arrested on June 16, 1983 with</strong> David J. Venus III; Chief Deputy Sheriff Craig Monroe; D.J. Venus IV; George Mims Venus; Bill Carroll; Jim Blackwell; John Higgins; and Wayne Ford. &nbsp; &nbsp;Phillip Baugh was arrested on 20 July in connection with this <strong>case which involved cocaine conspiracy</strong>.(The Daily Herald, July 28, 1983, p. A-2, July 29, 1983, and August 3, 1983)</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><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Carpenter. Marion L. ca 1946 (1917-1983).jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:150px\" />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></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\"><strong>Professor Marion Carpenter </strong>(1917-1983), popular <strong>BHS band leader</strong>, expired in March. He came to the Biloxi Central High School as Band Director in the early 1940s from the Georgia Teachers\' College at Statesboro, Georgia. &nbsp;Professor Carpenter resigned his position at Biloxi school in May 1945 and was hired by the&nbsp;<strong>Sacred Heart Academy of Biloxi to organized an all-girl marching band</strong>&nbsp;in October 1946. &nbsp; <strong>George A. Wimberly</strong> (1920-1996) replaced Marion Carpenter as the BHS band director in October 1946.(The Daily Herald, October 22, 1946, p. 4 and October 30 1946, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Arthur Godfrey </strong>(1904-1983), long time radio entertainer, expired on March 16th.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Bell Williams</strong> (1918-1983), <strong>Governor of Mississippi from 1968-1972</strong>, expired at Brandon, Mississippi on March 25th.</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\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Esters%2C Michael.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:121px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Michael L. Esters</strong></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\"><strong>Michael L. Esters,</strong> (1952-1983),<strong> Biloxi\'s first Black Councilman</strong>, <strong>was killed on March 24th</strong> in a train-car collision. &nbsp;He was elected to represent Ward II in 1981.(the Daily Herald, March 24, 1983, p. 1 and March 25, 1983, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &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\"><strong>The new headquarters at the Gulf Islands National Seashore </strong>at Ocean Springs was named for <strong>US Congressman</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William M. Colmer </strong>who was instrumental in the 1971 creation of this Federal nature preserve. &nbsp;The building was dedicated on April 1st.(The Daily Herald, March 21, 1983, p. 2)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Rosetti%2C Vincent.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:103px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Vincent \'Vici\' Joseph Rosetti</strong> (1908-1983), <strong>proprietor of Rosetti\'s Restaurant and Lounge,</strong> a legendary Biloxi cafe established in 1933, by Jake P. Rosetti (1884-1959), his 1903 Croatian immigrant father, died on May 18th in his native Biloxi. &nbsp;<strong>Vici was elected president of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Mississippi Restaurant Association</strong> in September 1964.(The Daily Herald, September 9, 1964, p. 1 and May 19, 1983, p. A2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ernest Melvin&nbsp;</strong>was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1984</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>The Daily Herald</em> </strong>began celebrating it<strong> Centennial Anniversary </strong>in January.<strong> &nbsp;The journal was founded on October 4, 1884 by George Washington Wilkes and M.B. Richmond. &nbsp;Gulf Publishing Company, </strong>a subsidiary of the State Record Company of Columbia, South Carolina,<strong> acquired the newspaper in July 1968.</strong>(The Daily Herald, January 1, 1984, p. A1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></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\"><strong>Clark D. Shaughnessy Jr. </strong>was elected<strong> Commodore of the BYC </strong>with Dr. Richard Schmidt, vice-Commodore and William Pittman, rear-Commodore. &nbsp;The board consisted of: Dallas Burns, Clinton Bolton, W. Gray Slay, Patricia Howell, Eddie Migues, and Harold Catchot.(The Daily Herald, January 3, 1984, p. A9)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></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\">The <strong>Reverend Louis Peyton Sr.</strong>, native of Grand Bay, Alabama, died on March 27, 1984. &nbsp;He was associate minister of the First Faith Missionary Baptist Church and had been ordained in January 1965. &nbsp;Brother Peyton was honored as <strong>Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen in 1972 and 1973. &nbsp;</strong>A eastern part of Washington Street was named in his honor in 19??.(The Daily Herald, March 29, 1984, p. A-2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The J.L. Scott Marine Education Center and Aquarium&nbsp;</strong>on Point Cadet was<strong> dedicated on June 20th. &nbsp;</strong>It was named for<strong> J.L. \'Jake\' Scott </strong>(1915-2001), a educator and founder of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory at Ocean Springs<strong>. &nbsp;Mr. Scott died at Jackson, Mississippi </strong>on April 25, 2001.(The Ocean Springs Record, June 14, 1984, p. 5 and Biloxi-D\'Iberville Press, April 25, 2001, p. A7) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Albert J. Misko&nbsp;</strong>(1915-2006) and&nbsp;<strong>Jennifer Gollott were King and Queen of the Blessing of the Fleet</strong>&nbsp;on June 3rd.(The Daily Herald, June 2, 1984, p. A1, June 3, 1984, p. A1 and June 4, 1984, p. A1)</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Canizaro%2C Joseph_0.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:98px\" /></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\">June 16th was <strong>Joseph C. Canizaro Day</strong> in Biloxi. &nbsp;Mr. Canizaro was honored for his success as a developer at NOLA. &nbsp;Some of his accomplishments were: Lykes Center; Canal Place; Texaco Center; Crowne Plaza Hotel; Xerox Center; owner of the NOLA Breakers, a professional football team. &nbsp;Before 2008, Canizaro would develop The Tradition, a retirement resort community, in Harrison Couny, Mississippi. &nbsp;He generously donated land from Tradition for two educational institutions: St. Patrick Catholic High School, an amalgamation of St. John\'s of Gulfport and Mercy Cross, formerly Notre Dame, of Biloxi, and William Carey College, which moved from its location on the seashore at Gulfport following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Major General Romulus W. Puryear</strong> (1911-1984), native of Hartsville, Tennessee, West Point graduate, &nbsp;WWII combat veteran, and former Commander KAFB (1964-1967) expired on June 16th. &nbsp; <strong>Alice Denning Puryear</strong> (1914-2010), his spouse and native of Gallatin, Tennessee, passed on May 8, 2010 at Ocean Springs, Mississippi. &nbsp;Their corporal remains were interred in the Arlington National Cemetery.(The Sun Herald, June 18, 1984, p. A2 and May 13, 2010, p. A5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Sam S. Mitchell</strong> (1903-1984), <strong>Biloxi entrepreneur</strong> and native of Hancock County, Mississippi,<strong> died at Biloxi</strong> in mid-June. &nbsp;Mr. Mitchell and spouse,<strong> Mae Pringle Mitchell</strong>, owned the <strong>Bungalow, Inc</strong>. and <strong>Mitchell Associates, Inc</strong>.(The Daily Herald, June 18, 1984, p. A2)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Puryear%2C Romulus Wright (1911-1984).jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:143px\" /></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\"><strong>Major General Romulus Wright Puryear</strong>&nbsp;(1911-1984), native of Hartsville, Tennessee and&nbsp;<strong>former Commander of KAFB&nbsp;</strong>[July 1964 to his retirement in July 1967] and one of the&nbsp;<strong>founders of Metropolitan National Bank</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>expired at Ocean Springs</strong>&nbsp;in mid-June. His corporal remains were<strong>&nbsp;interred at Arlington National Cemetery&nbsp;</strong>in Virginia. &nbsp;<strong>Alice Denning Puryear</strong>&nbsp;(1914-2010), his spouse,&nbsp;<strong>died on May 8, 2010&nbsp;</strong>at Ocean Springs.(The Daily Herald, June 18, 1984, p. A2 and The Ocean Springs Record, July 27, 1967, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &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\"><strong>Thomas \'Tommy\' Gollott&nbsp;</strong>was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1985</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Elmer Williams</strong>&nbsp;(1898-1985), one of the&nbsp;<strong>founders of the DeJean Packing Company</strong>, expired on January 29, 1985.(The Ocean Springs Record, January 31, 1985, p. 6)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On May 5th, <strong>76 Inc</strong>. [Joseph R. Thornton III and Shirley M. Thornton] leased 1500 East Beach Drive to the <strong>Factory Restaurant. &nbsp;</strong>The rent was $1500 per month. &nbsp;The Thorntons acquired the 90-foot lot on East Beach Drive from the Peoples Bank in May 1976.(Harrison Co., Mississiippi 2nd JD Land Deed Bk. 170, p. 446 and Bk. 65, p. 599)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Oduse \'Dago\' Trahan</strong> (1912-2012) was Biloxi\'s Shrimp King.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Former<strong> Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr. (1916-1985) expired at</strong> Hattiesburg on<strong> October 14th.</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></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\"><strong>John T. Collins</strong> (1904-1985), Biloxi architect, expired on Halloween.(The Sun Herald, November 1, 1985, p. A2)<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mary Antonia Cvitanovich Mahoney</strong> (1924-1985), <strong>Biloxi\'s renown restaurateur,</strong> expired on December 29th. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Robert Francis Mahoney</strong> (1923-2005) , her spouse, died on August 24, 2005.(The Sun Herald, December 30, 1985, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Laz Quave</strong>&nbsp;(1910-1985), former Harrison County Sheriff, Biloxi Mayor, and Ward I City Councilman&nbsp;<strong>died on December 20th</strong>.&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>S.L. Fayard</strong> was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.<br />\r\n&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1986</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The<strong>&nbsp;Seafood Industry Museum opened at Point Cadet in March</strong>.&nbsp; Destroyed by Katrina on August 29, 2005.(The Ocean Springs Record, March 20, 1986, p. 16)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &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\"><strong>John Edward \'Eddie\' McDonnell</strong> (1912-1986), former, two term (1952-1956 and 1964-1968)&nbsp;<strong>Sheriff of Harrison County</strong>, <strong>humanitarian</strong>, and<strong> \'one of the last of the Great Politicians of the Mississippi Gulf Coast\'</strong>, died on June 13th at his home on the Tchoutacabouffa River.(The Sun Herald, June 14, 1986, p. A1 and June 15, 1986, p. A2) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Moffett%2C%20Tommie.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:150px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">On 1 September, <strong>Tommy Moffet</strong> [b. 1950] became <strong>Biloxi\'s first African-American&nbsp;Chief of Police</strong> replacing <strong>George W. Saxon</strong> [1927-2018] who became Public Safety Director.(The Sun Herald, August 14m 1986, p. A-1)</span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Frank L. Gabrich</strong> (1913-1986), <strong>retired Biloxi fire chief</strong> [1961-1974], died on August 20th.(The Sun Herald, August 21, 1986, p. &nbsp; ) &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Two Biloxi firemen, Carl Ohr Jr. </strong>(1952-1986) and <strong>Edwin Kurt Jacquet </strong>(1956-1986), <strong>died while fighting </strong>an apartment house fire in Biloxi on October 20th.&nbsp; The old frame house had been divided into seven apartments with ten residents-all escaped injury.&nbsp;(The Times-Picayune, October 21, 1986, p. 1)&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;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;</strong></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\"><strong>Joseph J. Duffie Jr.</strong>&nbsp;(1927-1994) was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1987</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>C.F. Gollott</strong>&nbsp;(1911-1987), seafood packer and Dixieland Jazz musician,&nbsp;<strong>expired on January 19th</strong>.(The Sun Herald, January 21, 1987, p. A4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Barhonovich%2C Frank.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:124px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Frank \'Yankee\' J. Barhanovich</strong> (1915-1987) died on April 7th. &nbsp;Unarguably one of Biloxi\'s greatest ambassadors and promoters. &nbsp;Mr. Barhanovich won many honors and awards for his untiring efforts for his fellow Croatians; the Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus; Biloxi athletics, especially the Shrimp Bowl and \'Yankee Stadium\'; and many social and philanthropic groups, including the Lions Club, Chamber of Commerce, Biloxi Doll and Toy Fund, Girl Scouts, and many more.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi\'s attempt <strong>to annex D\'Iberville and its 14000 denizens and 18 square-miles </strong>was denied by Judge Jason Floyd who <strong>cited flaws in Biloxi\'s annexation ordinance</strong> that could not be corrected by amendants.(The Sun Herald, May 22, 1987, p. A1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Captain Breezy </strong>[Tony] <strong>Gruich</strong> (1918-1996) was <strong>named Shrimp King</strong>.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Sherry%2C Vincent.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:89px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Sherry%2C Margaret-SMP-BPL.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:129px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Vincent J. Sherry</strong>&nbsp;(1929-1987), Harrison County Circuit Judge and&nbsp;<strong>Margaret J. Smith Sherry&nbsp;</strong>(1929-1987), his spouse and former Biloxi Councilman, <strong>were murdered </strong>on September 14th.(The Sun Herald, September 9, 2007, p. A1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></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\"><strong>Sheriff Larkin Smith </strong>(1944-1989) was <strong>re-elected Sheriff of Harrison on November 3rd</strong>.&nbsp; He garnered 75% of the approximately 24,000 votes cast beating Democrat candidate Perry Ladner.(The Sun Herald, November 4, 1987, p. C1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Federal Judge Walter L. Nixon</strong> (b. 1928) was removed from office by the US Senate on November 3, 1987 after he was <strong>impeached by the US House of Representative</strong>.(The Sun Herald, March 28, 1990, p. C1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/Europa%20Star.jpg\" style=\"height:134px; width:200px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Europa Star at Biloxi</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[image by Ray L. Bellande-ca 1988]</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\">The <u><em><strong>Europa Star</strong></em></u>, a 167-foot cruise ship that features dining, entertainment and gambling&nbsp;<strong> commenced operating from Point Cadet Marina on December 20th under a court order</strong>.(The Sun Herald, November 14, 1987, p. 1 and February 20, 1988, p. 3)</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\"><strong>Olon Ray</strong>&nbsp;was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1988</strong></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\">&nbsp;<u><strong>\'Skeet\': The Public Life of Walter Henry Hunt</strong></u>, by Murella Hebert Powell was published in 1988 by Phyllis Hunt Graham and Shaughnessy Print Co. of Biloxi.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\"><strong>The City of D\'Iberville was incorporated</strong>&nbsp;on February 10, 1988.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ray Boise Butterefield</strong> (1923-1988), native of Macomb, Illinois and radio announcer when <strong>WLOX when on the air on May 28, 1948</strong> and instrumental in the acquistion of a license for WLOX Broadcasting Company which began TV broadcasting at Biloxi in 1962, <strong>died on May 25th at Birmingham, Alabama.</strong>(The Sun Herald, May 27, 1988, p. A-3)</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\"><strong>Sagasta \'Sang\' Langlinais</strong> (1911-2001), native of New Iberia, Louisiana, reigned over the 60th Annual Biloxi Blessing of the Fleet.(The Sun Herald, May 29, 1988, p. A-1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>I-110 connector from US Highway 90 to Interstate Highway 10 </strong>was opened in&nbsp;February.(The Sun Herald, February 20, 1988, p. A3)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></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\"><strong>Ernest Charles Melvin</strong>&nbsp;(1919-1988), three term Beat 1 Board of Supervisor [1972-1984], expired on July 21st.(The Sun Herald, July 23, 1988, p. A4)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Margaret S. Speir</strong>&nbsp;(1895-1988), retired Dukate Elementary principal and long time Biloxi school educator, died on July 21st.(The Sun Herald, July 23, 1988, p. A4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\"><strong>Dick E. Wilson&nbsp;</strong>was named <strong>Outstanding Citizen of Biloxi </strong>by the Lions Club<em>.(The Sun Herald, February 11, 2010, p. A5)</em>&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;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi\'s first Buddhist pagoda opened on December 11, 1988 </strong>when Monk Chon Thich greeted fifty people at 1100 East Howard Avenue.[The Hattiesburg American, December 13, 1988, p. 3]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1989</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Helen Werby</strong> and <strong>Tommy Munro ruled a cold Fat Tuesday</strong> in early February. <strong>&nbsp;Keely Rochelle Dinero</strong> was Queen <strong>Venus VIII of the Krewe of Neptune</strong>.(The Sun Herald, February 8, 1989, p. A1)</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\"><strong>Judge Lawrence C. Corban</strong>&nbsp;(1900-1989), native of Fayette, Mississippi and&nbsp;<strong>former OS City attorney from 1953-1959</strong>, Circuit Court Judge (1939-1953), Jackson County Chancery Court Judge (1959-1975) and outstanding Coast citizen and Mason,&nbsp;<strong>expired on April 3rd.&nbsp;</strong></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\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bergeron%2C Kat-Sun Herald%2C May 19%2C 1989%2C p. B-1.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:118px\" /></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\"><strong>Kat Bergeron was named Biloxi\'s Historian of the Year.</strong> &nbsp;Bergeron teaches Mississippi folklore and history at the Elder Hostel Program in Biloxi. &nbsp;She is a Gulfport East High School graduate and matriculated to Marshall University in West Virgiina to study journalism. <strong>&nbsp;Kat is the author of Gulf Coast Chronicles</strong> for The Sun Herald. &nbsp;She was named Gulfport Jaycees Media Person of the Year in 1989 and received the Gulf Publishing\'s Eugene P. Wilkes Award.(The Sun Herald, May 19, 1989, p. B-1)</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\"><strong>Mayor Jerry Lawrence&nbsp;and his five councilmen</strong>, Thomas J. Moore Jr., Linda Davis, A.J. Penrow, Les Barnett Jr., and Oliver Diaz Sr., <strong>the first city government of D\'Iberville, Mississippi</strong> was sworn into office on July 1, 1989.(The Biloxi-\'Iberville Press, July 14, 1989, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Larkin I. Smith</strong> (1944-1989), former Gulfport Police Chief and Harrison County, Mississippi Sheriff and current <strong>US Representative 5th Mississippi Congressional District</strong>, was killed in Perry County, Mississippi on August 13th, when his airplane crashed. &nbsp;<strong>Gary Eugene \'Gene\' Taylor</strong> (b. 1953) of Bay St. Louis <strong>won his seat in a special election</strong> and assumed was sworn into Larkin I. Smith\'s vacated Congressional seat in October 1989.</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\">&nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Brown%2C Dorothy D. (1896-1989).jpg\" style=\"height:182px; width:182px\" /></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\"><strong>Dorothy Dorsett Brown</strong> (1896-1989) died at NOLA on October 14th. &nbsp;She was a native of Texas City, Texas and the spouse of affluent oilman and sportsman, <strong>Joe W. Brown</strong> (1897-19 &nbsp;). &nbsp;The Browns were the owners of the Broadwater Beach Hotel.</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\"><strong>Clare Sekul Hornsby</strong>&nbsp;was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.<br />\r\n&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1990</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>James C. Corso</strong> (1935-1990), Biloxi businessman and former King D\'Iberville of Mardi Gras, expired on February 19th.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The population of Biloxi in 1990 was 46,319</strong> [34,547 white and 8625 black].(The Sun Herald, March 9, 2001, p. A10)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Sie J. Simon</strong> (1910-1990), Biloxi businessman, whose <strong>Sie\'s Place </strong>on the NW/C of Division and Reynoir Streets was the venue of many outstanding musicians and singers from 1950 to 1971,<strong> died on March 18th</strong>. Sie had such country stars as, Hank Williams, Ray Price, Johnny Horton \'Lefty Frizell Ernest Tubb, Jerry Lee Lewis, Billy Walker, Elvis A. Presley, and Darla Woods, play his club. Mrs. Simon, <strong>Edna Terry</strong> (1912-1992), passed in December 1992.(The Sun Herald, March 19, 1990, p. C-1)</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\"><strong>The trial of Gerald H. Blessey</strong> and <strong>Michael Cavanaugh</strong>, Biloxi lawyers and business partners from 1979-1983, accused of conspiring to extort 25 per cent of the bond fee paid to Page, Mannino &amp; Peresich, the Biloxi law firm hired by Blessey for the City of Biloxi\'s legal business when he was Mayor took place in March. &nbsp;The prosecution avered that Page, Mannino &amp; Peresich which were paid $2.8 million during Blessey\'s term as Mayor [1981-1989] feared that it would lose the City\'s business if Mr. Cavanaugh were not paid. &nbsp;The Government siad that Cavanaugh did no work for the $134,267 &nbsp;he is alleged to have extorted from the law firm.(The Sun Herald, March 20, 1990, p. A-1)</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\"><strong>M. James Stevens</strong>&nbsp;(1909-1990) was born July 6, 1909 at Elizabeth, New Jersey.&nbsp; He settled on the Coast in 1948 and owned the Confederate Inn and Restaurant. at Gulfport.&nbsp; Mr. Stevens became a great Mississippi Gulf Coast Historian and amassed a large archives of documents pertaining to Mississippi Gulf Coast chronology, which are now known collectively as, \'The M. James Stevens Collection\'.&nbsp; He expired <strong>at San Antonio, Texas on June 4, 1990</strong>. &nbsp;In March 1990, <strong>M. James Stevens became the first to be awarded the Dunbar Rowland Award by the MDAH</strong> at its annual meeting in Jackson, Mississippi. &nbsp;<strong>William T. Holland</strong>, Biloxi wooden boat buildre was recognized for his preservation crafstmanship construction when build the <u><strong><em>Glen Swetman</em></strong></u>, a Biloxi schooner replication. &nbsp;<strong>Charles L. Sullivan</strong>, history professor at MGCCC-Perkinston was recognized for the \'Magnolia Series\', a series of publications and vidotapes which commenced in 1988. &nbsp;<strong>Sullivan would be awarded the Dunbar Rowland prize in March 2010</strong>.(The Sun Herald, March 22, 1990, p. B1 and The Sun Herald, June 12, 1990, p. C1)&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Former <strong>Governor</strong> (1956-1960), <strong>James P. Coleman</strong> (1914-1991), native of Ackerman, Choctaw County, Mississippi, died on September 28th.&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Brig. General Martin F. Haas&nbsp;</strong>(1902-1990), Biloxi native and 1924 graduate of West Point, died at Biloxi on October 13, 1990). &nbsp;His corporal remains were <strong>interred in the Arlington National Cemetery</strong> at Arlington, Virginia.(The Sun Herald, October 16, 1990, p. C2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>\'Fiddlin\' Peter Lepre </strong>(1899-1990), long time resident of D\'Iberville and well-known musician, <strong>expired</strong> on October 15th at Biloxi.(The Sun Herald, October 16, 1990, p. C2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. Eldon L. Bolton</strong>&nbsp;(1910-1990) was born January 11, 1910 at Biloxi and <strong>died here on December 25th</strong>.&nbsp; He practiced family medicine at Biloxi for fifty-six years, following his father, Dr. Walter T. Bolton (1859-1923), also a along time Biloxi physician.(The Sun Herald, December 26, 1990)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joseph \"J.J.\" Wittmann</strong> (1911-1990), <strong>Harrison County Sheriff</strong> (1956-1960) and <strong>Mayor of Pass Christian</strong> (1968-1974), <strong>died on December 3rd</strong> at Pass Christian.(The Sun Herald, December 5, 1990, p. C2) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;</strong></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\"><strong>Chevis Swetman</strong>&nbsp;was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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>1991&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Russell \'Rusty\' C. David</strong>&nbsp;was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</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\"><strong>Captain Lewis Voorhies</strong>&nbsp;\'Captain Hooks\' <strong>Langlinais</strong>&nbsp;(1916-2007) served as <strong>Shrimp King</strong> for the 1991 Shrimp Festival.(The Sun Herald, May 25, 1991, p. A2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Buena Vista fire-June 1991.jpg\" style=\"height:147px; width:250px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Buena Vista Fire-1991</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On June 25th, the&nbsp;<strong>Buena Vista Hotel was severely damaged by fire</strong>&nbsp;and Steve Moore, Biloxi Fire Chief, estimated that the fire resulted resulted in damages of \"hundreds of thousands of dollars&nbsp;<strong>and a total loss.</strong>\" &nbsp;It was leased to the Sea, Air and Space Museum, headed by Anthony Mattina, a Biloxi Councilman. &nbsp;The structure was owned by South Sea Cruises Inc.-Dewayne Williams, president.(The Sun Herald, June 26, 1991, p. A-1)</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</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>1992</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Barney M. Giles</strong> (1922-1992), Texas native and <strong>Biloxi restaurateur</strong>, died on January 11, 1992. &nbsp;Barney came to Biloxi in 1948 and ran <strong>Barney\'s Drive In and the Ship-in-Shore.</strong>(The Sun Herald, January 13, 1992, p. A2)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Howard McDonnell </strong>(1909-1992),<strong> Biloxi attorney and former State Senator and Floater Representative,</strong> expired on February 19th.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Monsignor Eamon Joseph Mullen&nbsp;</strong>(1918-1992), native of County Sligo, Ireland who was ordained a Catholic priest at St. Patrick\'s College, Carlow Ireland in June 1942, <strong>expired at Jackson, Mississippi</strong> on March 19th.<em>(The Sun Herald, March 22, 1992, p. A2)</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\">The&nbsp;<strong>Biloxi Belle Casino</strong>, owned by Mississippi Riverboat Amusement Corporation, announced plans for a dockside&nbsp;<strong>gaming vessel at Biloxi to open in late summer of early fall</strong>. &nbsp;Operators touted that the enterprise would&nbsp;<strong>create 700 new jobs with a yearly payroll of $13 million</strong>.(The Sub Herald, May 19, 1992, p. A1)</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\"><strong>Leroy Duval</strong> (1943-2014) was named <strong>Shrimp King.</strong></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\"><strong>Mavar Inc.</strong>&nbsp;situated at 1140 Beach Boulevard in Biloxi&nbsp;<strong>leased their land in Block 1 of the Summerville Addition Subdivision to Grand Casino of Mississippi Inc.,</strong>&nbsp;a Minnesota Corporation, located at Plymouth, Minnesota. &nbsp;The 99-year lease began in June 1992.(Harrison Co., Mississippi 2nd JD Land deed Bk. 251, p. 588)&nbsp; &nbsp;&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\">On August 1st,&nbsp;<strong>dockside gambling commenced at Biloxi when two riverboat casinos from Iowa, the&nbsp;<u><em>Diamond Lady</em></u>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<em><u>Emerald Lady</u></em>, opened for business as The Isle of Capri Casino</strong>.(The Biloxi-d’Iberville Press, July 22, 1992, p. 1 and The Sun Herald, July 29, 2007, p. G1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bill Holmes</strong> was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.<br />\r\n&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1993</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In January, the&nbsp;<strong>Mississippi Secretary of State signed a 15 year lease commencing August 1, 1993 and ending July 31, 2008 with Grand Casino of Mississippi. &nbsp;</strong>The annual rental for the 222,475 square-feet of water bottoms was $405,000.(Harrison Co., Mississippi 2nd JD Land Deed Bk. 251, p. 616)</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lyle Morse Page</strong> (1932-2011) ruled the Mardi Gras as King D\'Iberville. &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Hugo L. Rungo</strong>&nbsp;(1909-1993), founder of Hugo\'s, the coast first pizza parlor situated on Division Street and Porter Avenue, expired on&nbsp; the 9th.&nbsp; Hugo L. Rungo Jr. (1933-2008) died at Spring Hill, Flordia in early April 2008.(The Sun Herald, April 19, 2008, p. A12)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Edmond Boudreaux Jr</strong>. was named <strong>Biloxi Historian of the Year</strong>.(The Mississippi Press, May 20, 1993)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>Fisherman\'s Hangout, a landmark pool hall and tavern</strong>&nbsp;that operated on Back Bay since 1948 by Lionel \'Nellie\' Creel (b. 1918) closed in May.(The Sun Herald, May 23, 1993, p. E1)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Jack Charles Jessup</strong> (1916-1993), an affiliate of the <strong>Fellowship Revival Association and pioneer, radio minister</strong> with offices at 2327 25th Street Gulfport, Mississippi and a sound studio in his home at Biloxi from which he recorded tapes for his <strong>religious radio programs which were broadcast from Del Rio, Texas</strong> on radio station XERK and radio station XEG at Monterrey, California, <strong>died at Gulfport</strong> on July 10th.(<em>The Sun Herald</em>, July 11, 1993, p. A-2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The<strong>&nbsp;Buena Vista Hotel was planned to be demolished in November for 800 parking</strong>&nbsp;places for the Biloxi Belle Casino. &nbsp;The <strong>Biloxi Belle Casino aspired to build three-story casino</strong> to open in the summer of 1994.(The Sun Herald, October 27, 1993, p. D-5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Eunice Lyle \"Dusti\" Swetman Bonge\'</strong>&nbsp;(1903-1993), Biloxi artist, and widow of Archie Bonge\', expired on November 23rd.(The Sun Herald, December 2, 1993)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><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;&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;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></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>1994</strong></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><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Scholtes%2C Leo Joseph (1917-1994)-portrait.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:100px\" /></strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joe Scholtes </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[Courtesy of Lawrence Cosper, son-in-law]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Leo J. \'Joe\' Scholtes</strong> (1917-1994), Biloxi <strong>local historian</strong>, <strong>author</strong>,<strong> photographer,</strong> and <strong>excursion boat owner </strong>[<strong><em>Sailfish</em></strong>], died on January 13th.(The Sun Herald, January 16, 1994, p. A2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lorie Blossman and Frank D. Bertucci</strong>&nbsp;ruled the Gulf Coast Carnival Association at Biloxi..(The Ocean Springs Record, February 24, 1994, p. 10)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Popp\'s Ferry Public Library was renamed the Margaret Sherry Memorial Library </strong>by the Biloxi City Council in an early March meeting.[The Sun Herald, March 2, 1994, p.&nbsp;C-2.]</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\"><strong>Glen Lyle Swetman</strong>&nbsp;(1901-1994), long time Biloxi banker, expired on April 30th.&nbsp; Authored <strong><u>Biloxi-A Banker\'s Day Book</u></strong> (1994) with Glenn Swetman, his son.(The Sun Herald, May 1, 1994, p. A1)</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\"><strong>Cosmos Broadcasting of Greenville, South Carolina signed a letter of intentto acquire Love Broadcasting Company, the owner of WLOX-TV 13</strong>, an ABC affiliate. James S. Love III and his two sisters were the major share holders in the local TV station.(The Sun Herald, September 2, 1994, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><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;&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;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></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>1995</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Susan \'Sue\' Tonsmeire </strong>(1909-1995), long time <strong>Biloxi educator</strong> expired on March 8th.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Tommy Munro</strong> (1931-2009) was named<strong> Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong> by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1996</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Shannon Suarez</strong>, former US Marine and Biloxi native, <strong>was inducted into the Louisiana High School Atheletic\'s Coaches Hall of Fame on January 24th</strong>. He coached 17 years at Sulphur High School, Sulphur, Louisiana compiling a record of 144-47-4. &nbsp;Prior to his career at Sulphur, he coached the Ocean Springs Greyhounds winning 29-11-1 from 1959-1962.(<em>The Sun Herald, January 17, 1996, p. A-1 </em>and&nbsp;<em>The Ocean Springs Record, December 14, 1995, p. 15)</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\"><strong>Chester L. Delacruz</strong>&nbsp;(1911-1996), native of Violet, Louisiana and <strong>former manager of the Southern Shell Fish Co</strong>., expired on July 6th.(The Sun Herald, July 8,1996, p. C2)</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\"><strong>Louis C. Uchello </strong>(1909-1996), a native of Gretna, Louisiana, the son of Italian immigrant farmers, who moved to the Coast more than 60 years ago and became a self-made businessman, died in late July. &nbsp;Mr.&nbsp;Uchello first opened The Grove nightclub at the corner of DeBuys Road and U.S. 90, and later opened the <strong>Harbor Light Restaurant</strong>, which was <strong>destroyed by Hurricane Camille</strong>. He built the <strong>Sun Tan Motel</strong>, still in operation today on U.S. 90.(The Sun Herald, July 28, 1996)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Albert E. Bessey</strong>&nbsp;(1895-1996),&nbsp;<strong>\"Mr. Biloxi Tennis\"</strong>, expired on September 16, 1996 at 101 years of age.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Liz Corso Joachim, </strong>spouse of John \'Jack\' Schappert Joachim Jr., was named <strong>Outstanding Citizen of Biloxi</strong> by the Lions Club<em>.(The Sun Herald, January 15, 1997, p. C1 and February 11, 2010, p. A5) </em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<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;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1997</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Anthony W. \'Tony Jack\' Covacevich</strong>&nbsp;(1907-1997), long time&nbsp;<strong>Biloxi ship carpenter</strong>, expired on February 3rd. &nbsp;His last wooden boat was the <u><strong><em>New Florida Girl</em></strong></u> built before and after Camille in 1969.(The Sun Herald,February &nbsp;1997, p. )</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Randi Carolyn Peresich</strong>, Queen Ixolib, and Kind d\'Iberville,&nbsp;<strong>Alben N. \'Al\' Hopkins</strong>, ruled the <strong>MGCCA Mardi Gras</strong> season. &nbsp;Parades rolled on Mardi Gras Day February 20th.<em>(The Sun Herald, February 20, 1996, p. A1)</em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; </strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Anthony V. \'Tony\' Ragusin</strong>&nbsp;(1902-1997), \'Mr. Biloxi\', expired at Biloxi on March 3rd.&nbsp; Longtime promoter of Biloxi tourism, history, and photography.(The Sun Herald, March 4, 1997, p. C2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Billy Joe Clegg</strong> (1928-1997), native of Oklahoma and Biloxi resident, died on May 1st. &nbsp;Mr. Clegg, a Baptist minister, had been a <strong>candidate for President of the United States seven times commencing in 1972</strong> when he lost to Richard M. Nixon. &nbsp;During his 1996 primary campaign for the most prestigious office in the world, Mr. Clegg\'s name was <strong>only ballots in New Hampshire and Mississippi.</strong>(The Sun Herald, February 21, 1996, p. A2)<br />\r\n&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. Harry Johnson Schmidt</strong> (1905-1997), native of Ocean Springs and long time Biloxi physician, expired on August 31st.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.&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;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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>1998</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Charles R. \"Bob\" Stein</strong>&nbsp;(1920-1998), native of West Virginia, and founder of The North Biloxian (1973) and Biloxi-D\'Iberville Press (1975), expired on January 1st.(The Sun Herald, January 3, 1998, p. B2)<br />\r\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Louis Voyle Carron</strong> (1910-1998), well-known <strong>Biloxi musician and band leader</strong>, died on February 15th. &nbsp;Mr. Carron was employed with Frank P. Corso as a salesman for 43 years.(The Sun Herald, Febraury 16, 1998, p. A9)</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\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Wiles%2C W.D.-1961_0.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:98px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>W.D. “Willie” Wiles</strong>&nbsp;(1923-1998) was born September 23, 1923, at Kosciusko, Mississippi, the son of Dee Wiles and Inez Caldwell.&nbsp; Coach Wiles graduated from Mississippi Southern College.&nbsp; He was head football coach at Biloxi High School from 1957-1967?&nbsp; W.D. Wiles expired at Thibodeaux, Louisiana on February 9, 1998.(The Sun Herald, February 11, 1998, p. A9)<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Gus Stevens</strong>&nbsp;(1911-1998), native of Chester, Pennsylvania and long time Biloxi restaurateur and night club proprietor, expired at Gulfport on March 10th.(The Sun Herald, March 13, 1998, p. A7)</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/Iberville statue dedication-Feb. 1999.jpg\" style=\"height:246px; width:350px\" /></span></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Iberville statue dedication Beach Boulevard in September</strong><br />\r\n[L-R; Mayor A.J. Holloway and Mary Ott Tremmel Davidson, artist.&nbsp; Image made September 4, 1998 by Ray L. Bellande]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Annette Saxon O\'Keefe</strong>&nbsp;(1924-1998), wife of J.J. O\'Keefe III (b. 1923), native of Augusta, Georgia, an <strong>outstanding pianist and 1942 valedictorian and honor graduate of OSHS</strong>, mother of thirteen children, civic leader, supporter of the arts, and philanthropist, died on May 16, 1998.(The Sun Herald, May 18, 1998, p. A7 and The History of Jackson Co., Mississippi 1989, pp. 303)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Brother Jerome Lepre</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(1927-1998), Gulf Coast genealogist, author and historian, expired at NOLA on September 19, 1998.&nbsp; He was named a Fullbright Scholar in May 1968 to the Univeristy of Sophia at Tokyo, Japan.(The Daily Herald, May 13, 1968, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><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;&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;<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></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>1999</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The 30 story, $650 million,&nbsp;<strong>Beau Rivage Casino opened</strong>&nbsp;at Midnight on March 15, 1999.(The Sun Herald, March 15, 1999, p. A1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Sherwood R. \'Woody\' Bailey Jr.</strong> and <strong>Allison Pemberton</strong> ruled the Hibernia Marching Society St. Patrick\'s Day Parade which ws planned for March 13th. &nbsp;Rained cancelled the event and it was postponed.(The Sun Herald, March 7, 1999, p. E1 and March 14, 1999, p. A1</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Construction of Biloxi\'s $9 million, three-story, 66,000 sq-ft Public Safety Center commenced</strong> on July 24th. &nbsp;The facility on Porter Avenue was designed by Fountain &amp; Lamas and built by W.G. Yates &nbsp;&amp; Sons Construction Company. &nbsp;The structure was erected to house Police and Fire Departments and Municipal Court.(The Sun Herald, July 22, 1999)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>2000</strong></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\"><strong>The population of Biloxi in 2000 was 50644</strong> [36177 white and 9643 black].(The Sun Herald, March 9, 2001, p. A10)&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Marino%2C Eugene_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:130px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Archbishop Eugene A. Marino</strong> (1934-2000), a Biloxi native and <strong>America\'s first Roman Catholic Black Archbishop</strong>, expired at New Rochelle, New York on November 11th. &nbsp;He was selected by Pope John Paul II on March 15, 1988 for this position and installed at Atlanta, Georgia on May 5, 1988.(The Sun Herald, April 30, 1988, p. A7 and November 14, 2000, p. A1 and p. A5)</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>F. Walker Tucei</strong> (1918-2000), retired executive vice-president and fifty-three year employee of People\'s Bank, expired on November 22, 2000.(The Sun Herald, November 24, 2000, p. A5)</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>Laurence M. Oden </strong>(1918-2000), classical musician and composer, died at Gulfport, Mississippi on December 9th.&nbsp; His best known works are: \'Parnell\', \'Marie Laveau\', and \'Ellegy in Gray\'.<em>(The Sun Herald, December 11, 2000)</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\">was named<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong>&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.</span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 256, 259, 'en', 0, '<ol>\r\n	<li class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"225\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Butirich 2 tombstone-Biloxi Cemetery-2011_0.jpg\" width=\"300\" /></span></span></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>BUTIRICH FAMILY TOMB-BILOXI CEMETERY-2011</strong></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>BUTIRICH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Martin Marko Butirich (1886-1960) and Darinka Butirich Butirich (1904-2004), both natives of Trpanj, a small seaport in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia, were married in Trpanj in 1924.&nbsp; The Martin M. Butirich family resided in Gretna, Louisiana at 219 Newton Street.&nbsp; In Gretna, they were in the restaurant and bar business as Butirich Restaurant &amp; Bar at 131 Huey Long Avenue. It appears that Martin M. Butirich rented a building here for his eatery and bar until&nbsp;October 1945 when he bid $60,000 for the property which was owned&nbsp;by the Jefferson Parish School Board.&nbsp; At Gretna, two sons were born and reared: Marko M. Butirich (1927-2005) and Nikola W. Buterich (1928-1971).(The Times-Picayune, October 4, 1945, p. 29, March 28, 1960, p. 16, March 29, 1960, p. 2, and September 7, 2004 and The Daily Herald, March 28, 1960, p. 2)</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>Obituary of Darinka B. Butirich</strong><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mrs. Darinka B. Butirich, 100 of Gretna, Louisiana died at, West Jefferson Medical Center on Sunday, September 5, 2004. Darinka was preceded in death by her husband, Martin M. Butirich, Sr. and son Nikola S. Butirich and her grandson, Nikola W. Butirich and daughter-in-law, Joan Mavar Butirich. Also her parents Nikola and Kate Butirich. Also, brothers, Ivan and Stjepan Butirich: sisters Luce Biazevich, Milka Ivicevich and Marica Guina and their husbands. She is survived by her son, Marko M. Butirich, Sr., daughter-in-law Catherine Wood Butirich and grandchildren, Kalin M. Butirich, Stephanie Winkler (Rick), John N. Butirich (Donna), Marko M. Butirich, Jr. (Tracy), Christopher S. Butirich, Catherine A. Spahr (David), Martin M. Burtirich (Lisa) and ten great-grandchildren, Alissa, Elizabeth and Hope Winkler; Sarah, Marko III and Jake Butirich; Blaise Butirich, Christopher J. Butirich and David and Baron Spahr. She leaves behind one sister, Zorka Miljak and many nieces and nephews in Croatia and Italy.&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\">Darinka was born in Trpanj, Dalmatia, Croatia on August 10, 1904 the daughter of Nikola and Kate (Bakula) Butirich. She married Martin Butirich in 1924 and returned to Gretna, Louisiana where he already had an established restaurant business. They worked together in that business for many years, putting in long hours in order to provide a future for their sons and themselves. They loved America and often told of the blessings and opportunities it gave them. Darinka loved Gretna and her many friends and neighbors and the thousands she came into contact with in their business. She took pride in her home and her garden and could be found tending to them all the time. She loved to cook and bake and there was always room \"for one more\" at the table.</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\">Darinka was a member of St. Joseph\'s Parish in Gretna. She was fond of and grateful to her pastor, Fr. Frank Carabello who brought her the Eucharist when she could no longer attend Mass and the ladies in the Parish rectory who were always so nice and attentive to her needs. We will miss her dearly but comfort in knowing that she goes to meet her savior and all of her family in Paradise. God bless and recieve you, dear mother, grandmother, sister and friend.</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\">Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend funeral services on Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 1:00 PM at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 610 6th Street, Gretna, La. Interment will follow services in Biloxi City Cemetery, Biloxi, Mississippi. Visitation, on Wednesday, 10:30-12:30 at Mothe Funeral Home, 2100 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, La. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Wynhoven Health Care Center, Marrero, La. The family wishes to express their thanks to the staff and personnel at West Jefferson Medical Center and Wynhoven Health Care Center.(The Times-Picayune, September 7, 2004, p. 6)</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>CHILDREN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"200\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Butirich%2C Marko.jpg\" width=\"99\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Marco M. Butirich </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\"><strong>Marco Martin Butirich</strong> (1927-2005) was born at Gretna, Louisiana. &nbsp;He was educated at the Gulf Coast Militray Academy, Notre Dame University,Tulane and the University Mississippi School of Pharmacy. &nbsp;He married <strong>Joan Marie Mavar</strong> (1932-2003) on June 26, 1954 at the Church of N.B.V.M. in Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; They were the parents of Christophe [Christopher] Stephen Butirich (1963-2005)&nbsp; m. Patti Bodin; Marco Martin Butirich Jr. m. Tracy Lynn Galloway; John Nikola Butirich m. Donna Faye Cunningham; Kalin Marie Butirich m. Brian Patrick Lloyd; and Stephanie Anne Butirich m. Richard George Winkler.&nbsp; Marko made his livelihood as a pharmacist and was the proprietor of the West End Pharmacy in Biloxi. &nbsp;He was served with the US Army in Koreal during the Korean Conflict.</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"200\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Butirich%2C Marko-1961.jpg\" width=\"148\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mr. Butirich at the West End Pharmacy in 1961</strong></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>West End Pharmacy</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The&nbsp;<strong>West End Pharmacy</strong>&nbsp;opened in the&nbsp;<strong>new brick building of Nick Eliopolos</strong>&nbsp;on the NW.C of Porter and Cemetery Street [Irish Hill Drive]. &nbsp;Owned by Raymond Bass, the pharmacy is managed by Ned Fremin, who was pharmacist at the Avenue Pharmacy for 13 years. The new building is 26 feet wide by 58 feet deep and made from yellow tile and brick.(The Daily Herald, January 23, 1951)&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\">Marco was named to the board of directors of the Biloxi Regional Hospital in May 1971.(The Sun Herald, May 16, 1971, p. A-10)</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\">Mr. Butirich expired on October 2, 2005, at Daphne, Alabama.&nbsp; His corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi City Cemetery with those of his parents.&nbsp; Those of Joan Mavar Butirich and Christophe Butirich were interred in the Evergreen Cemetery at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.(The Times-Picayune, May 9, 1954, p. 58, June 30, 1954, p. 42 and The Sun Herald, October 4, 2005, p. A6)&nbsp;</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>Nikola S. Butirich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Nikola Stepo Butirich </strong>(1928-1971) served in the US Marine Corps in World War II.&nbsp;&nbsp; He attended the University of Mississippi and received his B.S. degree from the University of Southwest Louisiana.&nbsp; Nikola married Catherine Goodwin Wood, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Spencer Wood on September 27, 1952 in Louisiana.&nbsp; They were the parents of three children: Catherine Ann Butirich m. Mr. Spahr; Martin Marco Butirich; and Nikola Wood Butirich (1960-1986).(The Times-Picayune, August 31, 1952, p. 41 and August 16, 1971, p. 20)</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\">Nikola made his livelihood in the petroleum industry.&nbsp; He joined Oilwell, a division of US Steel, at Harvey, Louisiana in 1955.&nbsp; At the time of his demise, Nikola was the manager of the NOLA office for Tubular Sales Company of Houston, Texas.&nbsp; He was a member of the Petroluem Club [NOLA] and Timberlane Country Club.&nbsp; Nikola died on June 19, 1971.&nbsp; His corporal remains were interred at Westlawn Memorial Park and Mauseleum at Gretna, Louisiana.(The Times-Picayune, December 23, 1956, p. 26)</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\">REFERENCES:&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\"Martin M. Butirich</strong>\", March 28, 1960, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald, <strong>\"Christopher Stephen Butirich\"</strong>, January 14, 2005.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald, “<strong>Mr. Marko M. Butirich”</strong>, October 4, 2005, p. A6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald,<strong> \"Kimberly Moreton Butirich\"</strong>, May 14, 2006.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>\"Algiers, Gretna news and notes\"</strong>, September 22, 1933, p. 19.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>\"Butirich-Wood\"</strong>, August 31, 1952, p. 41.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>\"Miss Joan Marie Mavar </strong>[photo]<strong>\"</strong>, May 9, 1954. p. 58.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>\"Society\"</strong>, June 30, 1954, p. 42.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>\"Oilwell names new area manager\"</strong>, December 23, 1956, p. 26.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>\"Ex-restaurant operator dies\"</strong>, March 28, 1960, p. 16.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>\"</strong>[Baldo] <strong>Butirich\"</strong>, June 21, 1961, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>\"NO executive</strong> [Nikola Butirich] <strong>taken by death\"</strong>,&nbsp; August 16, 1971, p. 20.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>\"</strong>[Nikola Wood] <strong>Butirich\"</strong>, December 23, 1986, p. 19.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">______________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>MARKOTICH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Dan [Donke] Markotich (1892-1964) was born at Trapanj, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia on August 20, 1892. He arrived at New Orleans in August 1907 aboard the <strong><em>SS Sofia Hohenburg</em></strong>.&nbsp; At New Orleans, Dan lived at 1006 North Rampart and made his livelihood as a fisherman.&nbsp; He became an American citizen in 1912.</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\">Dan married Alice Loper (1889-1962), a native of Laurel, Jones County, Mississippi circa 1928. They resided at Biloxi, Mississippi until 1943 when they relocated to Ocean Springs, Mississippi and were domiciled at 506 Jackson Avenue.</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>Avelez Hotel</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In October 1928, Dan Markotich took a lease from the Avalez Hotel on West Howard Avenue at Biloxi, Mississippi for a dining room and kitchen.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Land Deed Bk. 181, p. 186)</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>French Restaurant</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In mid-August 1941,&nbsp;<strong>Dan Markotich sold the French Restaurant to Joseph Baricev </strong>(1904-1999). Markotich had operated the restaurant for six years. &nbsp;It appears that he contined in the restaurant business at Ocean Springs becoming proprietor of the Big Pine Inn.(The Daily Herald, August 13, 1941, p. 6 and December 9, 1964, p. 2)</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 early December 1964 in failing health and a widower, Dan Markotich made plans to sell his home and relocate to the Biloxi VA. &nbsp;On December 9, 1964, Mrs. Eddie Brou, a neighbor, found Markotich\'s body in his Jackson Avenue residence. &nbsp;He had killed himself with a .38 caliber revolver. &nbsp;Mr. Markotich was a World War I veteran and a member of the Benevolent Association. &nbsp;He was surviived by Hugh Lulich, a nephew, at Fall Church, Virginia and two sisters in Yugoslavia [Croatia].(The Daily Herald, December 9, 1964, p. 2)</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\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>\"Mrs. Dan Markotich\"</strong>, October 2, 1962.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>\"Dan Markotich\"</strong>, December 9, 1964.</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\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2'),
('book', 0, 257, 260, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Gardener%2C Aubrey H..jpg\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 198px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>Aubrey </strong><strong>H. Gardner</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>Aubrey H. Gardner</strong> (1911-2004) was born February 10, 1911 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to George Gardner (1867-1930+) and ? . Parents divorced before 1920.&nbsp; Attended art school in Los Angeles, California.&nbsp; Came to Biloxi, Mississippi via KAFB and after discharge worked in civil service in their graphics art department.&nbsp; Began Gardner Signs on Caillavet Street south of Division Street in the 1950s.&nbsp; Gardner also designed and built stage settings for many carnival organizations prior to the Mardi Gras season.&nbsp; Aubrey married Faye Stratton on July 27, 1935.&nbsp; He and Faye resided on Iroquois Street for many years.&nbsp; No children.&nbsp; In 1969, the Gardners moved to D&rsquo;Iberville, Mississippi north of Biloxi where he continued to paint signs.&nbsp; Aubrey went to a retirement home at Ocean Springs in his old age.&nbsp; He passed on July 1, 2004 at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>305 5th Avenue</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">In October 1969, Aubrey and Faye Gardner acquired a house and lot at 305 5<sup>th</sup>Avenue in Block 38, Section 22, T7S-R9W D&rsquo;Iberville, Harrison County, Mississippi from Sadie Loudan Ables, a widow.&nbsp; The consideration for the 124 feet by 188 feet tract which included a garage and shed was $6500.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 6, p. 145 and Trust Deed Bk. 8, pp. 459-461)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">In August&nbsp; 1999,&nbsp; the Gardners sold their property&nbsp;at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">10101 5<sup>th</sup>Avenue, the address had changed, to Alice C. Jenkins.&nbsp; Mr. Gardner had acquired power-of-attorney from his spouse in June 1999.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 343, p. 522 and Bk. 342, p. 218)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Gardner_Aubrey-Azeleas.jpg\" style=\"width: 226px; height: 135px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Azaleas</span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Gardner%2C Aubrey-Picnic.jpg\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 177px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Picnic &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Gardner_A.H.-Pirates_Treasure.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 266px; \" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Pirate&#39;s Treasure</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">REFERENCES:</strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi-D&rsquo;Iberville Press, <strong>&ldquo;More Stuff&rdquo;-<em>Aubrey Gardner, Artist-Illustrator</em></strong>, October 16, 1985.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Sun-Daily Herald, <strong>&ldquo;Gardner exhibit at Depot Gallery</strong> [Pascagoula, Mississippi]<strong>&rdquo;, </strong>August 18, 1985.</span></span></p>\r\n', NULL, '2'),
('book', 0, 258, 261, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>STIGLETS LANDING</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Harrison County, Mississippi&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Stiglets Landing was a small trading post and ferry landing located on the Biloxi River in Section 32, T6S-R9W about five miles from the upper reaches of Biloxi Bay southwest of the Woolmarket community.&nbsp; It was founded by Joseph Marion Stiglets (1852-1924) on the site of the old Powell-Hester-Saffold ferry landing in November 1884, when he bought most of the SE/4 of the SW/4 and the S/2 of the NE/4 of SW/4 of Section 32 (acres) from Dr. David M. Dunlap of Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi for $900.(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Dr. Dunlap (1803-1884+) was born at South Carolina.&nbsp; He practiced medicine at Ocean Springs from the early 1870s, until about the time he sold his Biloxi River property to Stiglets.&nbsp; Dunlap was married to Mary T. Dunlap (b. 1830) of Georgia.&nbsp; They had at least three children:&nbsp; James Dunlap (1858-1884+), Mary or Matty Dunlap (b. 1864), and Edward Dunlap (1868-1884+).</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">It is interesting to note that Dr. Dunlap had purchased the river property from Thomas W. Grayson (1825-1904) and his wife, Anne Hyde (1832-1906), in January 1882 for $2500.(2)&nbsp; At the same time, Dr. Dunlap sold Thomas W. Grayson a tract of land comprising over three acres in the heart of Ocean Springs bounded by Washington Avenue and Jackson Avenue between Porter and Desoto (Lots 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8 of Block 27-Culmseig Map of 1854).&nbsp; Here the Dunlaps had erected a large edifice.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Thomas W. Grayson is believed to have operated a mercantile store on his Biloxi River landing site before moving to Jackson County.&nbsp; At Ocean Springs, Grayson became a Justice of the Peace and also served the citizens there as mayor from 1897 to 1898.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Joseph M. Stiglets was the son of Austrian immigrant (Trieste, Italy), Vincent Stiglets (1805-1893), and Felicite Ladner (1824-1896).&nbsp; Vincent Stiglets had immigrated to the United States before 1850.&nbsp; He made his livelihood as a ship carpenter.&nbsp; Vincent Stiglets built trading schooners at his boatyard located at Stonewall, Mississippi.&nbsp; Some of his vessels were the:&nbsp; ?? check with Rusty Barnes.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The other eleven children of Vincent and Felicite Stiglets were: Thomas A. Stiglets (1842-1880+), Christian (b. 1843), Ellen S. Richard (1846-1914), Vincent Stiglets, Jr. (1850), Moses Stiglets (1853-1947), John A. Stiglets (1855-1930), Ursan Stiglets (1857-1887), Felicite S.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Bennett (1859-1930), Mary S. Peterson (1862-1907), Nora S. Kahler (1865-1943), and Anna Taltavull (1867-1941).&nbsp; Most of this family is interred at the Coalville Cemetery at Woolmarket.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Joseph M. Stiglets married Melissa H. Stewart (1857-1926) on February 5, 1879.&nbsp; Their children were: Margaret Olivia Stiglets (1881-1976), Marion Stiglets (b. 1883), Elizabeth Caralyn Stiglets (1885-1971), Elva Stiglets Kimball (1888-1980), infant boy Stigletts (1890-1890), Winnie Stiglets (1892-1910), Maud Stiglets (b. 1893), and Lu Rovena Stiglets Martin (1897-1997).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Anectdotal stories relate that Captain Stiglets deepened the lagoon in front of his home to the Biloxi River.&nbsp; Here he constructed docking facilities and a warehouse for his five coastal trading schooners.&nbsp; At the peak of the lumber and wool industry in the Woolmarket area, Stiglets employed more than five-hundred men in logging and shipping.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Stiglets Landing site remained in the family for many years.&nbsp; As late as 1957, two of Captain Stiglet&#39;s daughters lived in the old homeplace on the Biloxi River.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Joseph Marion Stiglets (1852-1924) married Melissa H. Stewart (1857-1926) on February 5, 1879.&nbsp; He was the son of Vincent Stiglets and Felicite Ladner.&nbsp; Captain Stiglets bought the Thomas W. Grayson house and landing site on the Biloxi River at Woolmarket after the Civil War.&nbsp; Here he deepened the lagoon to the river as a landing for his five trading schooners.&nbsp; Stiglets at the height of the lumber and wool boom in the area employed over 500 men in logging and shipping.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Their children were:&nbsp; Clara S. Cox , Margaret Olivia Stiglets (1881-1976), Marion S. Beasely (1883-1961), Elizabeth Caralyn Stiglets (1885-1971), Elva S. Kimball (1888-1980), infant boy (1890-1890), Winnie (1892-1910), Maud (1893), and Lula Martin (1895-1997).</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>JOHN A. STIGLETS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">John Alva Stiglets (1855-1930) married Victoria Richards (1866-1947) on February 26, 1885.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Moses Victor Richards (1837-1925) and Martha Annie Bennett Fayard (1841-1917), the widow of David Fayard.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Their children:&nbsp; Rose Ida Krebs (1886-1929), Isabella Pugh (1888-1960), John Alva (1890-1969), Leone Pearl Bass (1892-1968), Mathilda Gladys Henderson (1895-), and Althea Agnes Arnold (1897-1987).</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Rose Ida Stiglets married Ray Flechas Krebs (1892-1972) of Pascagoula on November 12, 1913.&nbsp; Children:&nbsp; Victor Ray Krebs and John Edward Krebs (1916-1973).</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">In 1900, John Stiglets was a day laborer.&nbsp; John Stiglets died December 3, 1930.&nbsp; Victoria Stiglets died July 26, 1947.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>BRISCOE STIGLETS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Vincent Stiglets, Jr. may have been called Briscoe Stiglets (1864).&nbsp; He married Caldonia Watson in October 1891.&nbsp; He married Mary Deveraux (1872) in August 1898.&nbsp; A schooner captain in 1900.&nbsp; Children:&nbsp; Missouri Stiglets (1893), and Harry Jason Stiglets (1896-1976), and James Stiglets (1900).</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>MOSES STIGLETS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Moses Stiglets (1868-1947) married Emily Watson.&nbsp; He was a schooner captain in 1900.&nbsp; Children:&nbsp; Eddie (b. 1889), Wiley Stiglets (1891-1935), Jesse Stiglets (1891-1932), Andrew Stiglets (1894-1963), and Ola Stiglets (1896-1982).</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>MATTHEW STIGLETTS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Matthew Stiglets (1815-1860+) was born at Austria.&nbsp; Probably brother of Vincent Stiglets (1810-1880+).&nbsp; Wife, Antonia Getzon (1815), also Austrian born.&nbsp; Children:&nbsp; Matthew, Jr. (1842), Johanna (1848), and Catherine (1860).&nbsp; Came to U.S. after 1848.</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<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES</strong>:</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">1. Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Book 20, p. 231.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">2. ------------------------------ Book 18, pp. 350-351.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><u>Mississippi Gulf Coast: Yesterday and Today (1699-1937),</u></strong>(Gulport Printing Company: Gulfport, Mississippi-1937), pp. 136-137.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><u>The History of Jackson County, Mississippi</u></strong>, &quot;John Edward Krebs&quot;, (Jackson County Genealogical Society: Pascagoula-1989), pp. 250-251.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">John A. Stiglets Family Collection-Biloxi Public Library, History and Genealogy Archives, Murella H. Powell, curator.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>&quot;Coastlore&quot;</strong>, August 1, 1976.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Mobile Press Register</em>, <strong>&quot;Stiglet&#39;s Landing Was Active Scene Of Much Trading&quot;</strong>, May 19, 1957.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record</em>, &quot;Sous Les Chenes&quot;, November 10, 1994.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record</em>, &quot;Sous Les Chenes&quot;, May 18, 1995, p. 22.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald</em>, <strong>&quot;Lu Rovena Stiglets Martin&quot;</strong>, February 5, 1997, p. C-2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">US CENSUS-Harrison County, Mississippi (1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">U.S. CENSUS-Jackson County, Mississippi (1900)</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<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>ROSWELL S. KIMBALL</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">(1886-1948)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Roswell Sidney Kimball (1886-1948) was born at Scriven County, Georgia.&nbsp; He married <strong>Elva Stiglets </strong>(1888-1980) circa 1917.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Joseph M. Stiglets (1853-1924) and Melissa H. Stewart (1857-1926) of Woolmarket who married February 5, 1879.&nbsp; Mrs. Kimball&#39;s siblings were:&nbsp; Margaret Olivia Stiglets (1881-1976), Marion Stiglets (b. 1883), Elizabeth Caralyn Stiglets (1885-1976), infant son (1890-1890), Winnie Stiglets (1892-1910), Maud Stiglets (b. 1893), and Lulu Stiglets Martin (1895-1995).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Joseph M. Stiglets owned a lumber mill and schooner landing, Stiglets Landing, near Woolmarket on the Biloxi River.&nbsp; He was the son of Vincent Stiglets (1810-1893) and Felicity Ladner (1830-1896).&nbsp; His father was born at Austria, and made his livelihood as a ship carpenter.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Roswell Kimball came to the Mississippi coast in 1913.&nbsp; Before he moved to Gautier in the 1930s, Kimball operated a commissary store at a turpentine still at Hilda, Mississippi.&nbsp; Hilda, a small community west of Gautier, was the site of the Lyon Consolidated School.&nbsp; The school took students from Gautier, Martin&#39;s Bluff, and Fontainebleau.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">At Gautier, Kimball bought the general store of Horace Hinds who relocated to Gulfport.&nbsp; The R.S. Kimball Store was located near the L&amp;N depot and U.S. Post Office.&nbsp; The L&amp;N Railroad owned the land and building.&nbsp; In the early 1940s, Kimball sold the store to P.J. Ziegler.&nbsp; Later the</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">L&amp;N demolished the building.</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Kimball moved to Ocean Springs in March 1942, when Mrs. Elva Kimball purchased Lot 1 of the Iberville Subdivision from David M. Davis.(1)&nbsp; She bought Lot 2 in April 1948 from Davis.(2)&nbsp; They lived in the old W.B. Schmidt house at 227 Beach Drive.&nbsp; Kimball was a pulp wood agent for International Paper Company at Moss Point.&nbsp; Home damaged in Camille.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">One son, Roswell S. Kimball, Jr. (1921-1995).&nbsp; Graduated from Biloxi High School in 1938.&nbsp; He also worked as a pulp wood agent for IP, and owned the Kimball Timber Company of Biloxi.&nbsp; Never married.&nbsp; When his mother died in 1980, Kimball inherited the house.(3)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">R.S. kimball was a Master Mason and member of the McLeod Lodge No. 424.&nbsp; He was also a 32nd degree Mason of the Gulfport Scottish Rite Bodies.&nbsp; Member of the Joppa Temple Shrine and past chairman of the board of the Sunkist Country Club.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Roswell S. Kimball, Jr. died on April 18, 1995.&nbsp; Remains interred at Coalville Cemetery at Woolmarket.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">1.&nbsp; Jackson County, Mississippi Land Deed Book 79, pp. 406-407.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">2.&nbsp; ------------------------------------- Book 100, pp. 431-432.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">3.&nbsp; Jackson County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 40, 293<strong>, &quot;The Estate of Elva S. Kimball&quot;</strong>, (August 14, 1941).</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong><u>The History of Jackson County, Mississippi</u></strong>, &quot;Lyon Rural Consolidated Separate School District&quot;, (Jackson County Genealogical Society: Pascagoula, Mississippi-1989), p. 49-50.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Jackson County Times</em>, <strong>&quot;Roswell Kimball Obit&quot;</strong>, October 8, 1948, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record</em>, <strong>&quot;Roswell S. Kimball&quot;</strong>, April 27, 1995, p.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Personal Communication:</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">James LeBatard (Gautier, Mississippi)-August 1995.</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<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>', NULL, '2');

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('book', 0, 263, 266, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Conovich%2C Tony (1876-1918).jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:225px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi Cemetery</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>CONOVICH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Anthony \'Tony\' John Conovich (1876-1918) came to America in 1903 from Croatia. He lived at Biloxi and Handsboro. Tony sought American citizenship in 1918.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 20, 1918, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Circa 1906, Tony J. Conovich married Cora Lee (1872-1943). They were the parents of two children: <strong>Albertha Conovich</strong>&nbsp;m. Anthony S. Jelusich (1905-1949) and <strong>Anthony L. Conovich</strong> (1909-1976) m. Agnes E. Swetman (1901-1963) and Inez Borries Cavalier (1912-2008).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Tony Conovich died at Biloxi on October 31, 1918. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">Cora Lee died on January 13, 1943 and their corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi Cemetery.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>CHILDREN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Albertha Conovich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Albertha Conovich married Anthony S. Jelusich (1905-1949), the son of John Jelusich (1871-1945) and Josephine Mikeletich, on January 5, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Anthony L. Conovich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Anthony L. Conovich () married Agnes E. Swetman in Harrison County, Mississippi on December 16, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On september 30, 1963, Anthony L. Conovich married Inez B. Borries (1912-2008), the widow of Gus Cavalier Sr. (1909-1948). She was the daughter of Borries and . Her children with Mr. Cavalier were: Elwood A. Cavalier (1934-2011); Barbara \'Beno\' Cavalier (1936); and</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Servian </strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">[sic]&nbsp;</span><strong>wants to be an American”</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">, March 20, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Jelusich-Conovich”</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">, January 5, 1926.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“”</strong>, 19.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald</em>,<strong>“”</strong>,, 2011.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald</em>,<strong>“”</strong>,, 2011.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>__________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>COPAITICH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">Anthony Copaitich (d. 1902) drowned while oystering on the Pass Christian reefs in late March 1902. He was&nbsp;a hand on the </span><strong><em>Belle Casino</em></strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">, a schooner, captained by Toney Bunicich.</span><em>(The Biloxi Herald, March 29, 1902, p. 8)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">_________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>CRONCICH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John F. Croncich </strong>(1868-1927) was born in Dalmatia.&nbsp; Came to USA in 1888 and married Frances Hightower (1878-1963), daughter of George Hightower (1840-1932) and Lucinda Perry Hightower (1849-1926).&nbsp; John F. Croncich made his livelihood as an oysterman working in the Mississippi Sound.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John and Frances were the parents of: <strong>John Franklin Croncich</strong> Jr. (1896-1956) m. Ethel May Anglada (1896-1968); <strong>Teresa Croncich</strong> (1898);&nbsp; <strong>Alethia Croncich</strong> (1900-) m. Robert Cassanova;&nbsp; <strong>Lena Croncich</strong> (1902-1978) m. Henry Breal (1903-1961); <strong>Julius Croncich</strong> (1904-1923); <strong>Frances Josephine Croncich</strong> m. Frank John Kirsch; &nbsp;<strong>Esther Croncich</strong> (1911-2003) m. Robert Edward Lee (1904-1988); <strong>Earl Eugene Croncich </strong>(1914-1993)married Olive Bond (1917-1977) and Linnie Lee Hudson Roberts (1914-1984); and <strong>George Frances Croncich</strong> (1919-1925).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>JOHN F. CRONCICH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Franklin Croncich </strong>(1896-1956) married <strong>Ethel May Anglada</strong> (1896-1968) who was born in Harrison County, Mississippi to Louis Anglada (1871-1955) and Lenora Duggan (1875-1948).&nbsp; They married &nbsp;in Harrison County, Mississippi on May 18, 1916.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 29, p. 37)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">By 1920, the John F. Croncich family was domiciled at 228 Caillavet Street in Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; Two children had been born: Mildred Croncich m. Robert Joseph Howard and Harold E. Croncich.&nbsp; John made his livelihood opening oyster in a seafood factory.(1920 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal census T625_876, p. 12B, ED 42)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>CHILDREN</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Harold E. Croncich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Harold Elbert \"Mickey\" Croncich Sr. (1919-2013) was born at Biloxi on November 2, 1919. &nbsp;He married June Terrill Sullivan (1928-1988) and Joan Ryan. &nbsp;Mickey was the father of Suzanne C. Brown and Betty C. Plummer of Clermont, Florida and Harold E. Croncich Jr. of Navasota, Texas. Mickey lived at Minneola, Florida and passed at Clermont, Florida on December 27, &nbsp;2013. &nbsp;He was a US Navy veteran of WW II and a member of the Knights of Columbus and Elks Club.(The Orlando Sentinel, December 27, 2013)</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>Mildred Croncich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mildred Croncich </strong>(1919-1995) married Robert J. Howard on July 10, 1939. &nbsp;She later married Richard L. Schroeder (1922-1994). &nbsp;Mildred had lived in New Orleans since 1955. &nbsp;She passed on July 12, 1995 at NOLA and her corporal remains entombed in the Greenwood Mausoleum wit those of Richard L. Schroder who died ilate May 1994. &nbsp;Mildred was survived by stepdaughters, Rosalie Talbot Grasso and Camille Talbot; stepsons Richard Schroeder and Michael Schroeder; brother, Harold E. \'Mickey\' Croncich of Minneola, Florida; and two sisters, Thelma C. Suponic (b. 1921) of Sarasota, Florida and Doris C. Penn (1924-2004) of Biloxi.(The Sun Herald, July 16, 1995, p. C-2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Thelma A. Croncich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Thelma A. Croncich </strong>(1921-) married John M. Suponic (1919-2003), native of Cleveland, Ohio.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Doris Croncich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Doris Helen Croncich </strong>(1924-2004) married Charles F. Penn (1923-1994).</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>JULIUS CRONCICH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Julius Croncich </strong>(1904-1923) never married.&nbsp; He was born November 21, 1904 and worked in the local fishing industry.&nbsp; On November 22, 1923, Julius fell from the schooner <em>Anais</em> off Gulfport, Mississippi and drowned.&nbsp; His body was found on December 9, 1923 on the east end of Horn Island.&nbsp; After burial on the island, his corporal remains were brought to Biloxi for internment on December 14, 1923 in the Biloxi Cemetery.(The Times-Picayune, November 26, 1923, p. 6, December 12, 1923, p. 20 and December 14, 1923, p. 4 and Bradford-O’Keefe Burial Book 12, p. 266)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>EARL E. CRONCICH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Earl Eugene Croncich </strong>(1914-1993) married Olive Bond (1917-1977) on December 28, 1944.&nbsp; He married Linnie Hudson Roberts (1914-1984)</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\">The Daily Herald, ‘Suponic- Croncich’, March 8, 1943.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, ‘John F. Croncich’, January 2, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, ‘Mrs. Olive Bond Croncich’, December 7, 1977.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Orlando Sentinel, \'Harold E. Croncich Sr,\' December 27, 2013.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald, ‘Mrs. Linnie&nbsp; Croncich’, May 21, 1984.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, ‘Earl E. Croncich’, April , 1993.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, ‘Charles F. Penn’, June 21, 1994.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, ‘Mildred Croncich Schroeder’, July 16, 1995.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, ‘Doris Helen Croncich Penn’, January 2, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, ‘Mrs. Linnie Croncich’, May 21, 1984..</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, ‘Biloxi Kiwanians fight proposed river spillway’, November 26, 1923.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, ‘Body of drowned lad believed found’, December 1, 1923.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, ‘Mother identifies dead lad’s clothes’, December 14, 1923.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, ‘’,&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">____________</span></span>______________________________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Devicich%2C Toma (1882-1918)_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:150px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Toma Devcich-Biloxi Cemetery</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>DEVCICH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Toma </strong>[Thomas] <strong>Devcich</strong> (1882-1918) was born at Podlapaca, Zadar-Knin County, Croatia in 1882.&nbsp; Resided in Biloxi, Mississippi for eighteen years and lived at 138 Delaunay Street where he expired on November 30, 1918. &nbsp;Thomas was a well-known &nbsp;boatman.(The Daily Herald, November 30, 1918)</span></span></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,</em><strong>“Thomas Devicich </strong>[sic]&nbsp;<strong>is dead”</strong>, November 30, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">______________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Jelusich%2C John (1871-1945).jpg\" style=\"height:239px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi Cemetery</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Jelusich </strong>(1871-1945) was an 1895 Croatian immigrant probably coming from Starigrad, Hvar.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\'Collier-Jelusich\'</strong>, January 13, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\'John Jelusich dies\'</strong>, July 3, 1945.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, <strong>\'Rita Gill\'</strong>, December 22, 1999.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>\'Car-bus crash claims two lives</strong> [Anthony Jelusich and George Hough]<strong>\'</strong>, January 18, 1949.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">_________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>KASOVICH</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;[KEZOVICH and KESCOVICH]</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Kezovich (Kasovich).jpg\" style=\"height:144px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">6th Addition-Biloxi Cemetery</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Alexander Kasovich</strong>(1860-1929), the son of Gabriel Kasovich and Mary Brazevich, and <strong>Sophia Otherlovich</strong> (1870-1950), the daughter of Joseph Otherlovich and Jeanette Otherlovich, were both Croatian immigrants to America and Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; They were the parents of: <strong>Mary Kasovich</strong> m. Peter Lesso (1893-1920+); <strong>Lena Kasovich </strong>(1905-1920+); and <strong>Gabriel Kasovich</strong> (1909-1975) m. Doris M. Ferguson (1913-1999).&nbsp; In 1920, Alexander Kasovich made his livelihood at Biloxi as a rigger in a shipyard. The family was domiciled at 412 Copp Street. He died at Biloxi, Mississippi on March 6, 1929.(1920 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T625_</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>MARY KASOVICH</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mary Kasovich</strong>(1899-1920+) married <strong>Peter Lesso</strong> (1893-1920+), probably the brother of Sam Lesso (1887-1966), a native of the village of Kukljica on the Island of Ugljan in the Zadar Archipelago off the Croatia coast.&nbsp; Peter Lesso arrived at Biloxi, Mississippi before November 1914, as at this time, he contributed money for the relief of ill and disabled Austrian soldiers and their families.&nbsp; Their nuptials occurred on January 5, 1919 at N.B.V.M. Catholic Church at Biloxi, Mississippi.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 30, p. 483 and The Daily Herald, January 13, 1919, p. 3)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Circa 1905, Peter Lesso came to America on the <strong><em><u>Eugenia</u></em></strong>, an Austro-American passenger ship that landed at New Orleans.&nbsp; He planned to file a petition for American citizenship before June 1, 1920.(The Daily Herald, November 17, 1914, p. 9 and March 4, 1920, p. 4)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lena Kasovich</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Gabriel Kasovich</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Gabriel Kasovich </strong>(1909-1975) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on May 10, 1909.&nbsp; He married Doris M. Ferguson (1913-1999), the daughter of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ferguson and ,&nbsp; on March 20, 1938 in the Catholic Church at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; They were the parents of three children: Gabriel Kasovich (b. 1941); Gerald Alex Kasovich (b. 1944) &nbsp;m. Mary Jo Marinovich and Margaret Suzanne Hankins; and Darlene Maggie Kasovich m. Melvin J. Landry II.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 48, p. 483; MRB 137, p. 222 and 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Circuit Court MRB 11, p. 344; and 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Circuit Court MRB 4, p. 597)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>“Relief Fund for Austrians grows”</strong>, November 17, 1914.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>“Marriage Licenses”</strong>, January 13, 1919.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>“Americans from troubled Dalmatia”</strong>, March 4, 1920.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>“Alex Kasovich”</strong>, March 6, 1929</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>“Sophie Kasovich”</strong>, March 12, 1950.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>“Gerald C. Kasovich”</strong>, March 1975.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald,</em><strong>“Doris Kasovich”</strong>, February 25, 1997.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald,</em><strong>“”</strong>,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><em>__________________________________________________</em>____________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">LESSO</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Lesso%2C Sam FOUNDER STONE.jpg\" style=\"font-size:12px; height:197px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Sam Lesso</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Sam Lesso </strong>(1887-1966) was born March&nbsp;&nbsp; 1887 in the village of Kukljica on the island of Ugljan in the Zadar Archipelago, Croatia.&nbsp; In late April 1905, he arrived at New Orleans from Trieste aboard the <strong><em>Caroline</em></strong>.&nbsp; In January 1918, Sam Lesso filed his Declaration of Intention to become an American citizen.&nbsp; He was described as being: 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighing 170 pounds, with light brown hair and blue eyes.&nbsp; He was domiciled at 322 Elmer Street and married.(Southern District Court-Mississippi, Declaration of Intention, No. 389, January 16, 1918)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;In January 1917, Sam Lesso had married in Harrison County, Mississippi to Jeanette Philomena Gabrich</strong>(1897-1957), the daughter of Ivan ‘John’ Gabrich and Aeoline Pavolinni.&nbsp; They were the parents of six children: <strong>John S. Lesso</strong> (1917-1919); <strong>Mary ‘May’ L. Lesso</strong> (b. 1920) m. Morris C. Arguelles Sr. (1920-2005); <strong>Rudolph Anthony Lesso</strong> (1921-1990) m. Gloria Melba Wilson (1925-2007); <strong>Sam August ‘Polly’ Lesso</strong> (1923-1995); <strong>Joseph Berblin Lesso</strong> (1924-2010) m. Lucille Adams and Barbara Ann Middleton (1938-2006); <strong>Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Lesso</strong> (1927-2004) m. Edwin L. King Sr. (1922-1981); and <strong>Shirley R. Lesso</strong> (1927-2003).(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 29, p. 213)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Beirut, Lebanon</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In May 1956, two vessels, <strong><em>Jackson Creek </em></strong>and <strong><em>Red Creek</em></strong>, owned by Dantzler &amp; Herring Inc. of Pascagoula, Mississippi were seized by the American Embassy at Beirut during the rioting that was occuring. &nbsp;The boats were chartered to Western Geophysical and doing seismic oil exploration work in the Persian Gulf and had come to Lebanon for supplies. &nbsp;They were used to evacuate American citizens from the dangerous situation at Beirrut. Among the crews were locals: Sam Lesso, Joe Lesso (1924-2010), George S. Trochesett, Nelo Koskela; Peter Barhonovich, and Joe Scholtes.(The Daily Herald, May 15, 1958, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Peter Lesso</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Peter Lesso (1893-1920+) arrived at Biloxi, Mississippi before November 1914 as at this time, he contributed money for the relief of ill and disabled Austrian soldiers and their families.&nbsp; Peter Lesso came to America on the <strong><em><u>Eugenia</u></em></strong>, an Austro-American passenger ship that landed at New Orleans.&nbsp; He planned to file a petition for American citizenship before June 1, 1920.(The Daily Herald, November 17, 1914, p. 9 and March 4, 1920, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Peter Lesso married Mary Kasovich (1899-1920+), the daughter of Alexander Kasovich (1860-1929) and Sophia Kasovich (1870-1920+), at N.B.V.M. on January 5, 1919.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 30, p. 483)</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</em>, <strong>“Relief Fund for Austrians grows”</strong>, November 17, 1914.</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>“Marriage Licenses for week”</strong>, February 3, 1917.</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>“Marriage Licenses”</strong>, January 13, 1919.</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>“Americans from troubled Dalmatia”</strong>, March 4, 1920.</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>“Sam A. ‘Polly’ Lesso”</strong>, October 22, 1995.</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>“Betty Lesso King”</strong>, September 13, 2004.</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>“Morris C. Arguelles Sr.”</strong>, August 20, 2005.</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>“Barbara Ann Middleton Lesso”</strong>, June 28, 2006.</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>“Gloria Melba Lesso”</strong>, November 8, 2007.</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>“Joseph B. Lesso T.C.”</strong>, May 25, 2010.</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>“Rudolph A. Lesso III”</strong>, August 12, 2013.</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>“”</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>“”</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>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em>, <strong>“Fishing-law suit heard by Court”</strong>, </span>August 4, 1951.</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>“Mississippi vessel is held in Beirut”</strong>, May 15, 1958.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">______________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">LUXICH</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John J. Luxich (1809-1884) and Mary Catherine Johnston (1824-1910) were the progenitors of the large Luxich family at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Children</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John J. Luxich</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John J. Luxich </strong>(1852-1911), a carpenter, married <strong>Armance Favre</strong> (1859-1908). &nbsp;Children: Teresa Luxich (b. 1879); Alfred Luxich (b. 1884); Rodney Luxich (1886); Henry Luxich (b. 1888); Willis Luxich (b. 1891); and Lillian Luxich (1898-1942).[1900 Hancock Co., Mississippi Federal Census R808, p. 1A-ED 28)</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\">____________________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">MOZARO-M</span></strong><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">AZARA</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Mozaro%2C Lucas and Annie_0.jpg\" style=\"height:212px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[\'Old\' Biloxi Cemetery-Section H. Image made July 2013]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>LUCAS MOZARO</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lucas </strong>[Luka] <strong>Mozaro </strong>(1861-1910) was born at Lopud, County Dubrovnik, Croatia in 1861. &nbsp;</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:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He married Annie Zelz (1864-1945), also a Croatian immigrant, possibly on Lopud.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Children: <strong>Mary A. Mozaro</strong> (1889-1956) m. Charles D. Medanich&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(1881-1934)</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">; </span><strong>Anthony M. Mozaro </strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(1892-1971); </span><strong>Helena Margarite Mozara</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"> (1895-1954) m. Marco G. Glavan (188-1957); </span><strong>Romana Frances Mozaro</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"> (1897-1921); </span><strong>Annie L. Mozara</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"> (1901-1979) m. Anthony M. Kuluz (1892-1956); </span><strong>Herbert Mozaro </strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(1903-1995); </span><strong>Walter J. Mozaro </strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(1904-1957) m. </span><strong>Eva M. Talianicich </strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(1912-1990);&nbsp; and Volta Mozara (b. 1905).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Children </strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[from Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi (1991)-p. 216, p. 233, and p. 234]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mary Antonia Mozarra </strong>born October 12, 1889&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; f. Luck m. Anna</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Samuel Lukas Mozara </strong>born May 28, 1892&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; f. Lukas&nbsp;&nbsp; m. Annie Zitz</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>?sa Marguerite Mozara </strong>born February 5, 1895&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; f. Lukas&nbsp; m. Annie Zetz</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Samuel Lukas Mozara </strong>born May 28, 1892&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; f. Lukas&nbsp;&nbsp; m. Annie Zitz</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Helena Margarite Mazerat </strong>born April 16, 1896&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; f. Luke&nbsp; m. Annie Zelz</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Romana Gabrielle Mozara </strong>born March 24, 1899&nbsp; f. Lucas&nbsp;&nbsp; m. Annie Zitz</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>Children</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[from 1900 Harrison County, Mississippi Federal Census]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary Mozarra&nbsp;&nbsp; born October 1889</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Tony Mozarra born May 1892</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Elina Mozarra born April 1896</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Romana born March 1899</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10px\"><strong>Mozaro Children Biographies</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Mary Antonia Mozaro</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mary Antonia Mozaro </strong>(1889-1956) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on October 12, 1889.&nbsp; On April 4, 1907 at Biloxi, Mississippi, she married <strong>Charles D. Medanich</strong> (1881-1934), the son of John Medanich and a native of Pula, Istria County, Croatia.&nbsp; Pula is a large winemaking and shipbuilding center in the Istrian region of northern Croatia.&nbsp; Charles was employed in New Orleans at the time of their nuptials.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, April 4, 1907, p. 2 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB&nbsp; 19, p. 51)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Charles D. Medanich was born on November 4, 1880.&nbsp; He left Glascow, Scotland aboard the </span><strong><em>SS Aina</em></strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"> and arrived at New York City on June 16, 1899.&nbsp; When Charles submitted his application to become an American citizen in April 1911, he related that he lived at 3222 Oak Street in Biloxi, Mississippi and made his livelihood as a ship carpenter.&nbsp; His height was given as 5 feet 2 inches.(Declaration of Intention No. 93-Southern District Court of Mississippi-April 1911)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Charles D. and AnnieM.&nbsp; Medanich were the parents of: <strong>Nicholas A. Medanich </strong>(1908-1987) m. Dessa Leona Medanich (1904-1962); <strong>Margaret Medanich</strong> (b. 1912); <strong>Elizabeth Medanich</strong> (b. 1914); <strong>Charles Paul Medanich</strong> (1917-1984); <strong>Frank J. Medanich</strong> (1921-2009) m. Jean King; and <strong>John Medanich</strong> (1928-1983).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Anthony M.&nbsp; Mozara</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Anthony \'Tony\' M. Mozaro</strong>&nbsp;(1892-1971) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on May 28, 1892. &nbsp;He made his livelihood as a commercial fisherman and resided at 329 Pine Street on Point Cadet. &nbsp;In late December 1919, <em>The Daily Herald</em> reported that <strong><em>\"Tony</em></strong> <strong><em>Mozaro became violent for the third time Tuesday morning and it was necessary fo</em></strong>r [Police] <strong><em>Chief Bills to take charge of him until transportation can be secured to carry him to Jackson where he will receive treatment.\" &nbsp;</em></strong>(The Daily Herald, December 24, 1919, p. 3)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Tony Mozaro may have been the family member that <strong>changed the spelling of the family name to Mazara\' from \'Mozaro\'</strong>. Tony died on October 26, 1971 in the Howard Memorial Hospital at Biloxi where he had been a patient for 36 days. &nbsp;His corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi Cemetery.(The Daily Herald,&nbsp;October 26, 1971, p. 2)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Ella M.&nbsp; Mozara</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ella Marguerite Mozaro</strong> was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on February 5, 1895.&nbsp; She married Marko George Glavan&nbsp;(1885-1957). &nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Marko G. Glavan was born March 25, 1885, in Privlaka, a fishing village on the Dalmatian Coast about twelve miles northwest of Zadar, Croatia. It was from Zadar that Marco G. Glavan immigrated to America landing at New Orleans, Louisiana.&nbsp; On January 20, 1915 he applied for naturalization papers at the U.S. District Court in Biloxi.&nbsp; Mr. Glavan resided at 118 Jackson Street.(</span><em>The Daily Herald, January 21, 1915, p. 2)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Marco and Ella M. Glavan settled at 199 Oak Street in Biloxi.&nbsp; Here they reared their five children: Eurylda Glavin aka <strong>Sister Joseph Frances Glavan</strong> (1915-2002); <strong>Sylvia Rita Glavan</strong> (1918-2004); <strong>Mary Ann Glavan</strong> (1921-1997) m. John Konish; <strong>Herbert Anthony Glavan</strong> m. Toni Darlene Ellis (1944-1970); and <strong>Marco G. Glavan II</strong> (1923-1986) m. Fern McCaleb (1930-1994).(<em>The Daily Herald, March 12, 1954, p. 12)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Annie L. Mozaro</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>Annie Lukrecia Mozaro </strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(1901-1979) was born at Biloxi on October 18, 1901.&nbsp; Annie married Anthony ‘Tony’ Kuluz (1892-1956) in Harrison County, Mississippi on January 30, 1922. &nbsp;In 1930, Tony Kuluz and his two brothers organized the Kuluz Brothers Packing Company on Point Cadet.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Walter J. Mazara</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Walter J. Mazara</strong>(1904-1957) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi December 12, 1904.&nbsp; He married <strong>Eva Marie Talianicich</strong> (1912-1990) in Harrison County, Mississippi on December 19, 1939.&nbsp; Children: Brenda Joyce Mazara (1941-1941); Sherry Mazara (b. 1942) m. James A. Vollmuth; and Anthony Michael Mazara (1944-1989) m. Carol Rene Porterfield m. Paul Edward Vaughn.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Mozaro_Steve_Biloxi.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:150px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>STEVONO [STEPHEN] MOZARO</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[Tombstone with wrong death date in \'Old\' Biloxi Cemetery-Section H]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Stevono Mozaro </strong>(1862-1899) was born circa 1862.&nbsp; He died in on September 6, 1899 at Biloxi, Mississippi after an illness of several months. &nbsp;His funeral and internment in the Biloxi Cemetery was under the auspices of the Spanish Benevolent Association from the residence of L. Mozaro on Jackson Street.(The Biloxi Herald, September 7, 1899, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Mozaro_John.jpg\" style=\"height:301px; width:250px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[Biloxi Cemetery 7th Addition-Block 41-Lot 10]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>JOHN MOZARRO</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Mozarro </strong>(1883-1951) married Viola ‘Katie’ Kasovich (1893-1929) on May 13, 1912 in Harrison County, Mississippi.&nbsp; Children: Mary A. Mozaro (1915-1942) m. Delbert \'Country\' J. Franklin (1914-1987) and Stephen A. Mozara (1915-1998) m. Clarice Elizabeth Fountain (1918-2005). &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary A. Mozaro</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Mary A. Mozaro (1915-1942) married Delbert J. Franklin (1914-1987) in Harrison County, Mississippi on September 20, 1935. &nbsp;They were the parents of John L. Franklin (1937-1999) m. Rita Mae Krieger (19-2003) and Patricia Franklin m. Mr. Lambert.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Mozaro%2C Stephen A. (1915-1998) and Clarice Fountain (1918-2005).jpg\" style=\"font-size:12px; height:300px; width:225px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Stephen A. Mozaro and Clarice E. Fountain</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[courtesy of Ronnie Fountain-August 2013]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Stephen A. Mozaro </strong>(1915-1998)<strong>&nbsp;</strong>married Clarice Elizabeth Fountain (1918-2005), the daughter of Walter Fountain and Winnie Diaz Fountain, in Harrison County, Mississippi on December 26, 1937.&nbsp; In 1938, Stephen and Clarice F. Mozaro relocated from Biloxi to Galveston, Texas where he was the captain of a yacht.&nbsp; Here he and Clarice reared their four children: John Stephen Mozaro (1938-1938); Carol Ann Mozaro (b. 1941) m.&nbsp; Mr. Case; Professor Stephen A. Mozaro Jr. (b. 1942) m. Karen M. Kovacevich (b. 1951); and Captain Ronald Gregory Mozaro (b. 1952) m. Mildred R. Simon (b. 1961).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, </span><strong>“”</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, <strong>“Local and Personal”</strong>, September 7, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>\"A New Order\"</strong>, October 12, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald,<strong>\"Medanich-Mazzarra&nbsp;</strong></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[sic]<strong>\"</strong></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, April 4, 1907.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\"Luca Mozarra</strong> [sic] <strong>commits suicide\"</strong></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, May 10, 1910.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"Naturalization Papers\"</strong>, January 21, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>“Died </strong>[Romana Mozaro]<strong> Friday morning”</strong>, March 21, 1921.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>“Son to Mazaros”</strong>, December 30, 1938.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\"Mrs. Mozzara </strong>[sic]<strong> dies\"</strong></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, January 22, 1945.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\"Mozara death\"</strong></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, February 19, 1951.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald,<strong> \"Mrs. Glavan</strong></span><strong>&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[Ella Mazaro]&nbsp;</span><strong>expires\"</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, March 12, 1954.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, </span><strong>“Anthony M. Kuluz”</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, January 25, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>“Walter Mozaro”</strong>, September 10, 1957.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"Marco Glavan death\"</strong>, December&nbsp;26, 1957.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, </span><strong>“Anthony Mazara”</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, October 27, 1971.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, </span><strong>“Annie L. Kuluz”</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, February 13, 1979.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Dallas Morning News, </span><strong>“Frank J. Medanich”</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, April 7, 2009.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Dallas Morning News, <strong>“Frank J. Medaich, TCU halfback used bond career to aid students”</strong>, April 8, 2009.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, <strong>\"Delbert \'Country\' Franklin\"</strong>, May 24, 1987.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Texas City Sun<span style=\"font-size:10px\">,</span></span><span style=\"font-size:10px\"><strong>“Clarice E. Fountain Mozara”</strong></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:10px\">, S</span>eptember 17, 2005.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">_______________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">NICOVICH</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Nicovich%2C Rose.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:225px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Rose G. Nicovich</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">St. James Catholic Cemetery-2012</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:12px\">Marco Joseph Nicovich (? to October 1, 1893) and Rose Gondroun (1859-1952) were the progenitors of this Mississippi Coast family. Marco J. Nicovich, an 1859 Austrian immigrant, died in the Cheniere Caminada Hurricane of October 1, 1893. He had become an American citizen at New Orleans on June 16, 1885.&nbsp; Mr. Nicovich’s body was found on Johnson\'s Island with that of Charles Gondreau [Gondroun?] and Captain Louis Romero and interred there. These men had been fishing in the Chandeleurs aboard the </span><strong><em>Rosalie</em></strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:12px\">, a schooner, sailing from Mississippi City.</span><em>(The Biloxi Herald, October 7, 1893, p. 1, The Sunday Daily Herald, July 19, 1908, p. 5 and </em><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:12px\">Declaration of Intent No. 391-Eastern District of Louisiana-New Orleans-June 1885)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Following the 1893 Hurricane, <em>The Biloxi Herald</em> related the condition of the Nicovich family of Mississippi City as follows:&nbsp; <strong><em>‘The most heartfelt sympathies of the community is with Mrs. Marco Nicovich whose husband perished in the gale at Chandeleur.&nbsp; He was the whole support of the family, consisting of his wife and several little children.&nbsp; With husband gone and several little children and schooner destroyed the lot of the widow and orphans is a hard one, but the warm hearts of the countrymen of the deceased will not allow them to suffer while their own countrymen hold out and it is hoped that on the general movement for relief that theses isolated cases will not be forgotten.’ </em></strong><em>(The Biloxi Herald, October 21, 1893, p. 8)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By 1910, Rosa G. Nicovich, a Louisiana native, was widowed and a resident of Mississippi City, Harrison County, Mississippi. She was the mother of at least five sons: <strong>Joseph M. Nicovich</strong> (1883-1961) m. Camilia Rosa Anglada (1892-1977); <strong>August S. Nicovich</strong> (1887-1960) m. Louise Josephine Frichter (1887-1948); <strong>Rose C. Nicovich</strong> m. Leo J. Lizana (1881-1940); <strong>Philip Nicovich</strong> (1891-1968) m. Adriana Henrietta Toso (1895-1975); <strong>Charles S. Nicovich (1892-1918</strong>); and <strong>Marco J. Nicovich</strong> (1894-1944) m. Marguerite Elizabeth Barthes (1897-1958).(1910 Harrison Co. Ms. Federal Census T624_744, p. 3B, ED 36)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>CHILDREN</strong></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>Joseph &nbsp;M. Nicovich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph Marco&nbsp;Nicovich (1883-1961) was born in Louisiana, probably NOLA. Circa 1915, he married Camelia Rose Anglada (1892-1977), the daughter of William Anglada (1869-1945) and Laura Bosarge (1875-1937). In 1910, he and August Nicovich, his brother, were fish dealers and residents of Mississippi City. In 1918, Joseph Nicovich worked as a machinist for the Gulfport Packing Company and resided at 944 Division Street in Biloxi.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By 1920, the family had moved to Reynoir Street and Joseph M. Nicovich worked as a fisherman. Their children were: <strong>Marco W. \'Buck\' Nicovich</strong> (1916-2002); <strong>Emma Jeanette Nicovich</strong> (1919-2008); <strong>Althea Nicovich Harbison Gleason</strong> (1921-1996) m. Ora Reynold Harbison (1917-1988); <strong>Dorrell D. Nicovich</strong> (1925-1996) m. Jeffie Faye Ladner (1930-2004); <strong>Dora E. Nicovich Auerbach</strong> (1925-1983) m. Herman L. Auerbach; <strong>Annie Mae Nicovich</strong> (1926-1926); <strong>Mildred Justine Nicovich </strong>&nbsp;m. Billy J. Edwards; ; and <strong>Marguerite L. Nicovich</strong>&nbsp; (1928-1993) m. Leo U. Renaud (1932-2007).(1910 and 1920 Harrison Co. Ms. Federal Census T624_744, p. 3B, ED 36 and T625_876, p. 17A, ED and <em>The Sun Herald, February 4, 2008, p. A4)</em></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\">Children</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Nicovich%2C Marguerite-March 1945.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:94px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Marguerite Laura Nicovich</span></strong> [March 1945]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207)\"><strong>Marguerite Laura Nicovich</strong> (1928-1933) married Leo U. Renaud (1932-2007) in Harrison County, Mississippi on June 6, 1954. They were the parents of: Robert Michael Renaud m. Nancy Lou Feese Kennedy; Laura Leigh Renaud m. Jerry Wayne Atkinson; Marco Francis Renaud m. Susan Marie Allen; Janet Maria Renaud m. Eugene Patrick O\'Grady Sr.; and Carol Ann Renaud m. James Lee Demourelle Jr.; all of Biloxi.(Harrison Co., Mississippi, Circuit Court MRB 98, p. 17)</span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Nicovich%2C Marguerite-tombstone-Biloxi.jpg\" style=\"height:107px; width:250px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi Cemetery</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>August &nbsp;S. &nbsp;Nicovich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">August Samuel Nicovich (1887-1960) married Louise Josephine Frichter (1887-1948) on July 7, 1915 in Harrison County, Mississippi. They were the parents of three children:<strong>Dorothy Nicovich (1916-1996) m. Mr. Adkins</strong>; <strong>Charles Augusta &nbsp;Nicovich m. Alvin Rene Mitchell</strong>; and <strong>Claire E. Nicovich&nbsp; </strong>(1922-1962) m. Albert Layman (1914-1968).</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>Rose C. Nicovich</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>Philip Nicovich</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/u4/Nicovich%2C Charles S. (1892-1918)2.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:237px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">St. James Catholic Cemetery-2012</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Charles S. Nicovich</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Charles Stephen Nicovich (1892-1918) was born September 28, 1892 at Mississippi City, Harrison Co., Mississippi to Marco Nicovich, an Austrian immigrant, and Rosa Gondroun (1859-1952), a native of Louisiana. He was a single man and an employee of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Algiers, Louisiana and a resident of 5077 Dauphine Street in New Orleans when he registered for the military draft in 1917. Charles S. Nicovich passed on October 8, 1918 at Camp Merit, New Jersey, a victim of the Spanish influenza. His corporal remains were interred in the St. James Cemetery at Handsboro, Mississippi.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 9, 1918, p. 3, October 14, 1918, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Sergeant Nicovich was lauded by Major J.I. Sloat, his commander, as follows: <strong><em>“Sergeant Nicovich was an excellent soldier who was universally liked his officers and fellow soldiers, and his untimely death is a source of genuine sorrow to all. His death occurred in the line of duty, and is no less honorable that had it occurred on the field of battle.”</em></strong><em>(The Daily Herald, October 15, 1918, p. 3)</em></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>Marco J. Nicovich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Herald, </em><strong>“The recent Great Storm”</strong>, October 7, 1893.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Herald, </em><strong>“Mississippi City”</strong>, October 21, 1893.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Nicovich body arrives tonight”</strong>, October 12, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Mrs. Leo Lizana dies”</strong>, February 5, 1940.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Mrs. </strong>[Rose Gondraun]<strong>Nicovich dies”</strong>, December 24, 1952.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“August Nicovich rites”</strong>, September 19, 1960.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em><strong>“Ocean Springs Local News”</strong>, October 19, 1924.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em><strong>“Ocean Springs Locals”</strong>, May 18, 1900.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Progress, </em><strong>“Special-Shoe: Sale!”, </strong>January 16, 1904.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Progress, </em><strong>“Card of Thanks”, </strong>January 16, 1904.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>\"Emma Jeanette Nicovich\", </strong>February 4, 2008, p. A4.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald</em>, <strong>“Leo U. Renaud”</strong>, June 13, 2007.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em><strong>, “Nicovich”, </strong>September 17, 1960.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">__________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>RADOVICH</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 in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, John Radovich, born Austria, married Ella Lingoni (1874-1959), a native of Daisy, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana and the daughter of Jack Lingoni (1837-1900+), an 1854 Italian immigrant, and Louisiana Mason (1849-1900+), a native of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. John Radovich died before 1900. Ella L. Radovich then married very likely in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, to James Spencer (1877-1946), a native of Homeplace, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. He was the son of Louis Spencer (1839-1915) and Mary Spencer (1844-1919). Two Radovich children had been born in Louisiana: Anna F. Radovich (1893-1920+) and Marco Radovich (1895-1927) m. Loretta Ross.(1900 Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T623_576, p. 4A, ED 40)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, the Lingoni and Spencer families lived at Grand Prairie, a fishing village on the east bank of the Mississippi River, opposite Port Sulphur. Circa 1902, James Spencer and Ella L. Radovich Spencer relocated to Biloxi, Mississippi were their children were born: Louis J. Spence (1903-1903); Vernette Spencer (1904-1984) m. Royal Hevenor (1903-1976); Sadie Ellen Spencer (1906-1908); Clement C. Spencer (1909-1979) m. Louise J. Darsse; and James Spencer (1913-1913). They Spencer family was domiciled on Dorries Street and Claiborne Street at Biloxi, Mississippi.(Harrison County, Mississippi T624_470, p. 13B, Ed 33)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Marco Radovich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Marco Radovich married Loretta Ross (1904-1983), the daughter of Denney Ross (1875-1907) and Delia Lamey Ross Walker (1880-1920+), at Biloxi, Mississippi in November 1922. They were the parents of: Doris Helen Radovich m. Patrick Wallace Franko (1923-1994); James Radovich m. Rita Hormanski (1925-2002); and Betty Radovich m. Clinton Tapper. Marco Radovich died in auto accident on June 5, 1927, at Biloxi<em>. (The Daily Herald, November 22, 1922, p. 3, June 6, 1927, p. 1 and </em>Harrison Co., Mississippi MRB 34, p. 347)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">After Marco’s demise in June 1927, Loretta Ross married John Paul Harbison at Biloxi in August 1930.(Harrison Co., Mississippi MRB, 42. P. 408)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Spencer child dead”</strong>, October 22, 1913.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mr. and Mrs. Spencer return”</strong>, May 24, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Old </strong><strong>[D</strong><strong>ominick Radevi</strong><strong>ch] </strong><strong>Austrian dies”</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14.399999618530273px\">, May 10, 1922.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Radovich-Ross”</strong>, June 6, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi automobile accident kills one and injures four”</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">, June 6, 1927.</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,&nbsp;</em><strong>“James Spencer dies”</strong>, February 26, 1946.</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>“Mrs Ella Sprncer”</strong>, March 25, 1959.</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">____________________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>RERECICH</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Rerecich%2C casimir (1857-1918) and Antonia (1867-1952)_1.jpg\" style=\"height:188px; width:250px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi Cemetery</strong> [August 2012]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Casimir Rerecich</strong> (1857-1918) and Antonia Rerecich (1867-1952), both ‘Austrians’, were the progenitors of the Rerecich family of Biloxi. Federal Census data indicate that they both immigrated to America in 1892 and arrived at Biloxi, Mississippi circa 1896 from Louisiana. Their children were: <strong>Catherine Rerecich</strong> (1893-1914+) m. Frederick LaMarque; <strong>John Rerecich</strong> (1894-1963) m. Margaret Duggan (1896-1981); <strong>Albert R. Rerecich</strong> (1897-1975) m. Stella Garlotte (1907-1998); <strong>Mary A. Rerecich</strong> (1900-1957) m. William E. Lund (1896-1954); <strong>Louis Rerecich</strong> (1903-1962) m. Mae ‘Gee’ Rerecich (1898-2002) m. Arthur A. Christiansen (1904-1972).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:13.63636302947998px\">The Daily Herald, \'Rerecich-Duggan\', November 18, 1913.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, \'Lamarque-Rerecich\', December 28, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, \'Casimero Rerecich dead\", February 8, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:13.63636302947998px\">The Daily Herald, \'John A. Rerecich\", January 8, 1963.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald, \'Mrs. Irene Rerecich\", August 13, 1964.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:13.63636302947998px\">The Sun Herald, \'Stella Rerecich\', October 6, 1998.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:13.63636302947998px\">The Sun Herald, \'Mae Rerecich Christiansen, March 26, 2002.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">___________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">SUBAT</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Frank Mateo Subat</strong> (1876-1944) was born October 26, 1876 at Kostrena, Zagreb, Croatia. &nbsp;He left Trieste and arrived at New York City. &nbsp;</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\">Frank M. Subat married Anna Polovich, a native of New Orleans. &nbsp;Children: <strong>Ralph Frank Subat</strong> m. Venita Post, Marion Seeling and Irene A. Patterson; <strong>Olga Subat</strong>; <strong>Gladys Subat </strong>(1908); <strong>Julius Joseph Subat</strong> (1911-1944); <strong>Wilda Louise Subat </strong>(1915-1976); and <strong>Albert P. Subat</strong> m. Jacqueline Vignes (1927-2002).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Frank M. Subat was committed to the East Louisiana Mental Hospital at Jackson, Louisiana between 1930 and 1940. &nbsp;he expired here on April 3, 1944.(The Times-Picayune, April 4, 1944</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">CHILDREN</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Julius J. Subat</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Julius Joseph Subat (1911-1944) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi. &nbsp;Before he enlisted in the US Army at Camp Livingston, Louisiana on May&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">REFERENCES:</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, \'Subat\', .</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, \'Subat\', .</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, \'Records of the Day\', April 17, 1941.</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, \'Subat\', .</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, \'[Julius Joseph] Subat\', November 28, 1948.</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, \'[Anna Polovich] Subat\', February 11, 1967.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, \'[Wilda Louise] Subat\', April 4, 1976.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, \'Subat\', .</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, \'Subat\', .</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:12px\">The Times-Picayune, \'[Jacqueline Vignes] Subat\', February 7, 2002.</span></div>\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 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">_______________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>SURDICH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The progenitors of the Surdich family at Biloxi, Mississippi were <strong>Steffano O. Surdich</strong> (1847-1912), an 1874 Austrian immigrant to Louisiana and <strong>Wilhelmina Emilia Konzelmann</strong> (1857-1929), a native of NOLA and of German parents. They were married in the Crescent City in April 1876. Steffano and Emilia K. Surdich were the parents of twelve children: Wilhelmina Antonette Surdich (1877-1878); Frederick E. Surdich (1880-1880); John Surdich (b. 1880); Steffano O. Surdich Jr. (1881-1883); <strong>George Surdich </strong>(1884-1971); <strong>Matteo Surdich</strong> (1886-1973) m. Anna Lou Brown (1886-1953); Lea Antonette Surdich (1889-1890); Conrad Emile Surdich (1892-1893); <strong>Albert Joseph Surdich</strong> (1894-1965) m. Marilla Clara Fryou and Lottie Giadrosich; and <strong>Irby Surdich</strong> (1896-1970).(1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T623_572, p. 4B, ED 50)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">From New Orleans, Steffano O. Surdich relocated his wife and four sons to Biloxi, Mississippi before 1910. They settled on West Water Street. In the Crescent City he had been a ship captain.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>George Surdich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">George Surdich was born at New Orleans</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Matteo Surdich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Matteo \'Mat\' Surdich (1886-1973) was born at New Orleans on October 5, 1886. He married Ann Lou Brown (1886-1953), a native of Framingham, Massachusetts, in Harrison County, Mississippi on September 10, 1913. At Biloxi. Mat Surdich worked in the fishing industry and in 1913 he was master of the <strong><em><u>Ida May H.</u></em></strong>, a Biloxi schooner.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 25, p. 416 and <em>The Daily Herald, September 11, 1913, p. 8</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Albert J. Surdich</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>Irby Surdich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Irby Surdich married Mrs. Bessie Stauter in Jackson County, Mississippi on April 16, 1927.(jackson Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB Bk. 17, p. 466)</span></span></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,</em><strong>“Stephen Surdich”</strong>, August 21, 1912.</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>“Surdich-Brown”</strong>, September 11, 1913.</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>“Woman departs in mysterious way to parts unknown”</strong>, November 17, 1915.</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>“Acme Pressing Club”</strong>, June 17, 1916.</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>“Boys will join aviation service”</strong>, December 18, 1917.</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>“Albert Surdich goes up”</strong>, September 16, 1918.</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>“Resigns his position”</strong>, September 22, 1919.</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>“Palace of Sweets makes improvements”</strong>, April 13, 1920.</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>“Surdich\'s pralines”</strong>, April 17, 1920.</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>“Notice to Public”</strong>, September 21, 1920.</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>“Arrested for fighting”</strong>, May 11, 1921.</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>“Bound over to grand jury”</strong>, May 12, 1921.</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>“Surdich tells of injuries”</strong>, May 13, 1921.</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>“Circuit Court is keeping busy”</strong>, May 26, 1921.</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>“Surdich-Giadrosich”</strong>, March 7, 1922.</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>,</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>\"Deaths</strong> [Emilia Konzelmann Surdich]<strong>\"</strong>, February 22, 1929.</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>\"Miller Restaurany Supply Company, Inc.\"</strong>, September 18, 1949.</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>\"Deaths </strong>[Albert J. Surdich]<strong>\"</strong>, November 27, 1965.</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>\"A. DiMarco rites today\"</strong>, March 2, 1981.</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>\"Edna Surdich DiMarco\"</strong>, December 19, 2000.</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>\"\"</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 264, 267, 'en', 0, '<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>PRINGLE FAMILY</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Lee V. Pringle</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Lee Vernon Pringle (1866-1938) was a native of Semmes Chapel, Mobile County, Alabama.&nbsp; He was born February 28, 1866, the son of Frank M. Pringle and Corinia Yonge (1845-1920).&nbsp; L.V. Pringle came to Biloxi in 1908, probably from Latonia, Jackson County, Mississippi where he was associated with the Latonia Turpentine Company and Union Naval Stores of Mobile.&nbsp; These organizations were naval stores manufacturers and dealers in general merchandise.&nbsp; In 1901, Pringle served as postmaster at Latonia, which is about 12 miles northwest of Semmes Chapel, Alabama.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Mr. Pringle invented a turpentine cup, which was manufactured by the Pringle Cup Company in Daisy, Tennessee.&nbsp; In 1902, the Chattanooga Pottery Company of Daisy, Tennessee was formed by the&nbsp;<strong>Consolidated Naval Stores Company</strong>, to manufacture clay cups.&nbsp; Consolidated Naval Stores was formed by the merger of seven Florida and Georgia factorage houses also in 1902.&nbsp; They had offices in Savannah, Jacksonville, and Pensacola.&nbsp; It is very probable that the Pringle Cup Company was a name only and that the clay cups were manufactured by the Chattanooga Pottery Company.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">It is interesting to note that in October 1912,&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em>reported that D.G. Zeigler, proprietor of the&nbsp;<strong>Petrous Manufacturing Company</strong>, was erecting factory on Lee Street in Biloxi near the L&amp;N Railroad tracks.&nbsp; Zeigler planned to make turpentine cups at his plant.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 16, 1912, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">L.V. Pringle was elected president of the Turpentine and Resin Association of New Orleans in January 1918.<em>(The Daily Herald, January 26, 1918, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In addition to his naval stores operations in Mississippi, Mr. Pringle had turpentine and rosin operations in Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana.&nbsp; He was vice-president of the Gillican-Chipley Company of New Orleans for fifteen years and held the same position with the Pringle-Gay Turpentine Company.&nbsp; L.V. Pringle also had his own real estate company and held large personal land holdings.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Lee V. Pringle married Victoria Voltz (1885-1935).&nbsp; She was born at Perdido, Florida, the daughter of Robert M. Voltz and Elizabeth King of Selma and Montgomery, Alabama respectively.&nbsp; The Pringles had six children<strong>: Lee Vernon Pringle Jr.</strong> (1902-1974) m. Harriet Kistner (1903-1994); <strong>Robert H. Pringle</strong> (1904-1981) m. Gladys A.&nbsp; (19-1970); <strong>Thomas N. Pringle</strong> (1906-1970) m. Elizabeth Murphy Moorman (1917-1982) m. C. Ashmead Biddulph (1907-1992); <strong>Victor Boyd &nbsp;Pringle</strong> (1909-1977) m. Margaret Woodley (1911-1997); <strong>Vivian Pringle</strong> &nbsp;(1912-1992) m. Archibald Clinton Hewes (1904-1978); <strong>James W. Pringle </strong>(1914-1971)m. Jane Kempe Wood (1917-1977); and &nbsp;<strong>Jackson Pringle</strong> (1919-1920). (<em>(The Daily Herald, may 6, 1935, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Lee V. Pringle expired on October 8, 1938.&nbsp; He and many family members are interred at the Biloxi Cemetery.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 9, 1938, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Ford Agency</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Pringle-Reagan Ford Agency</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In 1932, Robert H. Holmes (1869-1949) and Sons acquired the Ford motorcar agency at Biloxi. They incorporated as the Holmes Motor Company in April 1932.&nbsp; Their Ford Agency was relocated from Lameuse Street and the L&amp;N Railroad to the northeast corner of West Howard Avenue and Caillavet Street.&nbsp; In October 1933, the Holmes Motor Company had a curious demonstration in their Lameuse Street showroom to demonstrate the chassis and springs strength of their automobiles.&nbsp; One Ford had 3400 pounds of lumber placed on its top.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 10, 1933, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Mr. Holmes sold the business to the Pringle-Reagan Motor Company.&nbsp; This organization was led by the Pringle brothers, L.V. Pringle Jr. (1902-1974), Robert H. Pringle (1904-1981), Thomas N. Pringle (1906-1970), and Victor B. Pringle (1909-1977).&nbsp; Their other partners were a cousin, Frank E. &nbsp;Pringle Jr. &nbsp;(1909-1957), and Dewey R. Reagan.<em>(Harrison Co., Ms. Charter Bk. 52, p. 123</em><em>and The Daily Herald, June 2, 1935, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">On formal opening day in late June 1935, the public was invited to observe that the building had been renovated and cleaned thoroughly and the entire plant elevated to first class conditions.&nbsp; The large workshop in the north section of the structure was made into a temporary auditorium and a five reel motion picture of the Ford plant in Michigan, Ford cars climbing Pike&rsquo;s Peak and other promotional features of the Ford automobile were shown during the afternoon.&nbsp; Some of the employees of the organization at this time were: L.V. Pringle Jr.; Dewey Reagan; Frank Pringle; E. Jacquot; John Stojcich; T.N. Lightsey, salesman; J.W. Watts, salesman; and the garage force: George Wilson; Robert Illsley; Dudley Powell; and H. Campbell.<em>(</em><em>The Daily Herald, July 1, 1935, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">On their 5<sup>th</sup> anniversary celebrated in late May 1940, the Pringle-Reagan Motor Company announced that had 18 employees and a $19,224 annual payroll.(The Daily Herald, May 31, 1940, p. 6)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Children</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Lee V. Pringle Jr.</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Born on October 23, 1902, at Latonia, Jackson County, Mississippi, Lee Vernon Pringle Jr. (1902-1974) was the son of L.V. Pringle (1866-1938) and Victoria Voltz (1885-1935).&nbsp; The Pringle family had its roots at Semmes Chapel, Mobile County, Alabama.&nbsp; Circa 1908, they arrived in Biloxi, probably relocating from Latonia, a small turpentine camp situated in northeast Jackson County.&nbsp; At this sylvan village, Mr. L.V. Pringle, Sr. was associated with the Latonia Turpentine Company and Union Naval Stores of Mobile.&nbsp; In 1901, he was postmaster at Latonia.&nbsp; The other L.V. Pringle, Sr. children were:&nbsp; Robert H. Pringle, Thomas N. Pringle, Victor Pringle, Vivian P. Hewes, and Jackson Pringle (1919-1920).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Circa 1934, Lee Vernon Pringle, Jr.came to Ocean Springs from Biloxi to commence The Ocean Springs Feed Store in the Wieder building on Government Street.&nbsp; He resided with his wife, Harriet Kistner Pringle (1903-1994), and sons, Lee V. Pringle III (1927-1996) and Charles K. Pringle, at 50 General Pershing Avenue in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Pringle had been employed in Biloxi at the Pringle-Reagan Motor Company on Howard Avenue.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Pringle feed business at Ocean Springs lasted about seven years.&nbsp; In 1942, L.V. Pringle, Jr. returned to Biloxi and became president of the Pringle-Reagan Motor Company.&nbsp; At Biloxi, the family resided at 1077 Howard Avenue.</span></span></p>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<b style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif;\">Victor B. Pringle</b></p>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Pringle%2C Victor Jr..jpg\" style=\"width: 93px; height: 150px;\" /></div>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><b>Victor B. Pringle Jr.</b></span></span></p>\r\n<div>\r\n	<div class=\"article\" style=\"margin: 1.5em 0px; max-width: 50em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\r\n		Victor Boyd Pringle Jr. (1938-2009), age 70 years, of Biloxi died Sunday, May 24, 2009 in Ocean Springs. Victor was born on June 12, 1938 to Victor and Margaret Pringle. During his childhood and early adulthood, Victor enjoyed sailing the Biloxi Bay. After graduating from Biloxi High School in 1956, he attended Washington &amp; Lee University. After two years, he transferred to the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi and graduated in May 1963 with his Bachelors in Business and his Juris Doctorate. He was admitted by the Mississippi Bar to practice law in 1963. During his time at the University of Mississippi he was an active member of Phi Delta Theta. After graduating, Victor worked with the Internal Revenue Service - Estate Department and later with the Mississippi Bank and Trust Company - where he was Vice President, Senior Trust Officer and Trust Department Head. During the years 1966-1969, Victor served in the Air National Guard, 173rd Air Base Squadron where he attained the rank of S/SGT. (E-5). In 1972, Victor moved back to Biloxi and took over his father&#39;s law practice where he practiced until his death. He was one of the founding organizers of the Jefferson Bank in Biloxi, and served on the Advisory Board for Jefferson Bank, Southtrust Bank, Wachovia Bank and now Wells Fargo and was past Secretary to the Board. Victor was an active member of several professional organizations which include American Bar Association, Mississippi State Bar Association, Harrison County Bar Association (Past President), Biloxi Bar Association, Board of Director with South Trust Bank of South Mississippi, Mississippi Bar Foundation, Board of Directors with South Mississippi Legal Services and Board of Directors with Mississippi Legal Services. Victor was a member and past chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board in Biloxi, a member and past President of Biloxi Businessmen&#39;s Club, Past Board Member of the Chamber of Commerce in Biloxi. He was also the past King of Les Masques, member of Mithras, Master Barrister of American Inns Court, an avid sailor at the Biloxi Yacht Club, and past City of Biloxi Court Judge. Victor is preceded in death by his parents, Victor and Margaret Pringle, and his sister, Margaret Flowers. Survivors include his longtime friend and confidant, Catherine Carroll, his aunt, Madlyn Woodley of Greatbridge, Virginia, a niece, Vivian Martin of Atlanta, Georgia, and nephews, Victor Flowers of San Francisco, California, and Walter Flowers III of Tuscaloosa, Alabama and a host of cousins. &nbsp;The family would like to thank Hospice of Light for their support. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to The Salvation Army of Biloxi, Mississippi. &nbsp;Memorial Service will be Thursday, May 28, 2009, 6:00 p.m. at the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O&#39;Keefe Funeral Homes.(The Sun Herald, May 27, 2009)</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Frank E. Pringle</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Frank Ernest Pringle (1872-1925) was born at Semmes Chapel, Mobile County, Alabama on August 18, 1872.&nbsp; His parents were Frank M. Pringle and Corinia Yonge (1845-1920).&nbsp; He came to Biloxi in 1908.&nbsp; F.E. Pringle was in the turpentine business in Harrison and Jackson Counties.&nbsp; He was president of the Jackson Naval Stores Company.&nbsp; In 1913, they were headquartered in the Bolton Building at Biloxi.&nbsp; George F. Mason served the organization as vice-president while A. Hadley was secretary-treasurer.(Biloxi City Directory 1913-1914, p. 154)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">F.E. Pringle was highly lauded in May 1916, for the celerity in which he rebuilt the Jackson Naval Stores still at Florala.&nbsp; The fire still, located near the Florala Post Office, had been completely destroyed in a conflagration.&nbsp; Pringle brought in equipment and supplies from other company operations as well as sending damaged machinery to Mobile for repair.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald</em>&nbsp;of Biloxi said of Mr. Pringle&#39;s efforts,&nbsp;<em><strong>&quot;this is the quickest work of its kind ever seen among turpentine producers in this section&quot;</strong></em>&nbsp;(<em>The Daily Herald</em>, May 30, 1916, p. 8).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">F.E. Pringle developed the Pringle Subdivison at North Biloxi, now D&#39;Iberville, which he acquired in February 1913.&nbsp; In 1922, he sold 2.12 acres at North Biloxi for the Methodist Church on Race Track Road.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 106, p. 285 and Bk. 130, p. 181).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">F.E. Pringle married Dellie M. Orso (1881-1927), the daughter of Joseph A. Orso and Mittie Williams of Alabama.&nbsp; Mrs. Pringle was a native of Malcolm, Alabama.&nbsp; The F.E. Pringles had eight children: <strong>Esther Lucille Pringle</strong> (1902-1926); <strong>Mattie Corrine</strong> <strong>Pringle</strong> (1902-1982) m. Thomas Colson ; <strong>Ernestine Pringle</strong> (1907-1981) m. Wallace Drew jr. (1901-1971); <strong>Cora &#39;Coca&#39; Mittey</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Pringle</strong> m. &nbsp;Gill Chinn ? and Mack H. Griffin (1912-2000); &nbsp;<strong>Mittie May Pringle</strong> m. Grady A. Horton; <strong>Frank Ernest Pringle Jr.</strong> (1909-1957) m. Edna Grueling (1908-1941) and Bertha Marie Egan (19-1983); <strong>Woodrow W. Pringle</strong> (1914-1963) m. Evelyn Burdine; and <strong>Roland Ward Pringle</strong> (1919-1972).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">F.E. Pringle expired on November 26, 1925.&nbsp; His corporal remains are interred in the Biloxi Cemetery.&nbsp; Dellie Pringle passed on March 19, 1927 at her domicile at 520 Seal Avenue.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 27, 1925, p. 1 and March 19, 1927, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</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	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 8549, <strong>&#39;The Estate of F.E. Pringle&#39;</strong>-August 1925.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Journals</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&quot;L.V. instead of F.E. Pringle&quot;</strong>, January 26, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi youth </strong>[Victor B. Pringle]<strong>accidentally shot&rdquo;</strong>, November 28, 1909, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Victor Boyd Pringle improved&rdquo;</strong>, November 29, 1909, p. 4.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&quot;Death Takes F.E. Pringle&quot;</strong>, November 27, 1925.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Miss </strong>[Esther]<strong>Pringle dies&rdquo;</strong>, February 26, 1926,</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&quot;Mrs. F.E. Pringle taken by death&quot;</strong>, March 19, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&quot;J.F. Payne goes to his reward&quot;</strong>, October 18, 1929, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Victor Pringle now lawyer&rdquo;</strong>, June7, 1933, p. 5.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&quot;Mrs. Pringle dies at Biloxi&quot;</strong>, May 6, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Pringle-Reagan Co. buy Ford Agency&rdquo;</strong>, June 2, 1935, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Ford Dealers Entertain&rdquo;</strong>, July 1, 1935, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Now it is turpentine&rdquo;</strong>, July 31, 1936, p. 7.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&quot;L.V. Pringle, Sr. dies at Biloxi home after long illness&quot;</strong>, October 9, 1938, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Ford Dealers entertain&rdquo;</strong>, Jul 1, 1935, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;L.V. Pringle, Sr. dies at Biloxi home&rdquo;, </strong>October 9, 1938, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi Ford Company has anniversary&rdquo;</strong>, May 31, 1940, p. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Tom Pringle Sr. dies, funeral rites Tuesday&rdquo;</strong>, October 5, 1970.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;James W. Pringle&rdquo;</strong>, May 31, 1971, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Victor Pringle Sr. dies&rdquo;</strong>, October 31, 1977, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Harriet K. Pringle&rdquo;</strong>, November 15, 1994, p. A2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Margret Woodley Pringle&rdquo;</strong>, April 3, 1997, p. C2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Mack H. Griffin&rdquo;</strong>, November &nbsp;2000.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Sun Herald,</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Victor Boyd Pringle Jr.&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, May 27, 2009.</span></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	&nbsp;</p>', NULL, '2'),
('book', 0, 265, 268, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>WALTER T. BOLTON</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Walter Thetford Bolton</strong>(1859-1923) was born September 9, 1859 in or near Hickory, Newton County, Mississippi to Judge Isaac Langston Bolton (1827-1900+), an Alabaman, and Martha Thetford Bolton (1843-1870+), also from Alabama.&nbsp; Walter came as a single man to Biloxi, Mississippi in 1892 from Perkinston, Harrison County, Mississippi.&nbsp; At Perkinston, Dr. Bolton was also the US Postmaster.&nbsp; During his tenure here, he was lauded for improving the mail service from Perkinston to the outside world.(The Biloxi Herald, January 18, 1890, 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\">Dr. W.T. Bolton was a graduate of Louisville College and attended Tulane University of Louisiana.&nbsp; Circa 1893, he married <strong>Olivia Hill Sones</strong>, a native of Brookhaven, Mississippi.&nbsp; They were the parents of four children: <strong>Walter T. Bolton II</strong> (1894-1964) m. Mrs. Tullos and Charlsie Hayes (1909-1982); <strong>Cornelia Justina Bolton</strong> (1898-1994) m. Mark L. Miller (1901-1933), Dewey R. Reagan (1897-1969), and Nathan O. Berry (1897-2001); <strong>Olivia Sones Bolton</strong> (1902-1933) m. Edgar N. Taylor; and <strong>Eldon L. Bolton</strong> (1910-1990) m. Carolyn Howard McKellar (1913-1996).</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\">Olivia S. Bolton was a graduate of Whitworth College at Brookhaven.&nbsp; She worked diligently for her family, church and Biloxi.&nbsp; Mrs. Bolton was recognized by the Biloxi Lions Club and awarded a loving cup, as she was chosen by its membership in 1943, as Biloxi’s &nbsp;Citizen of the Year.&nbsp; She was well known for her efforts to support the First Methodist Church of Biloxi, formerly the Main Street Methodist Church, through its fund raising campaigns.&nbsp; Mrs. Bolton’s last monetary project resulted in the completion of the church steeple. &nbsp;&nbsp;She was a member of the Red Cross executive committee, American Legion auxiliary, former State and local president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, past president of the Cleophan Club, chairman of the local Christmas Seal and Tuberculosis sales, active in the Girl Scouts and a Sunday school teacher.&nbsp; During WW II, Olivia worked with USO Traveler’s Aid.&nbsp; She was a charter member of the Howard I Mother’s Club and a former member of the Eastern Star and Civic Club.(The Daily Herald, June 25, 1952, 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>Bolton Homes and Lands</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">It is known that the W.T. Bolton family was domiciled on Fayard Street as early as 1896.&nbsp; Their house was situated behind the Catholic Convent on Reynoir Street. In November 1896, its roof caught fire due to a defective flue.&nbsp; The small fire was extinguished without sending out an alarm.(The Biloxi herald, November 14, 1896, 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>1902-Bolton Building-West Howard Avenue</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By late November 1901, the iron front for the new Bolton Building had arrived and was immediately put in place by P.J. Gillen and Bert C. Gillen, contractors, from Birmingham.&nbsp; They had been in Biloxi since October 1901 erecting the&nbsp;Bolton Building at 138 West Howard Avenue for Dr. Walter T. Bolton. &nbsp;Dr. Bolton had his offices and residence here until about 1920 when the family relocated to West Beach and Porter Avenue.&nbsp; By May 1902 the Bolton Building was completed and the Gillens left for Alabama.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 28, 1901, p. 8, March 20, 1902, p. 8 and May 9, 1902, p. 8)&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>1118 West Beach</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">According to Walter T. Bolton IV, the family resided in a house in the rear of the Bolton Building until about 1920 when the handsome family at 1118 West Beach Boulevard was completed.(W.T. Bolton IV-July 2013)</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\">Dr. Walter T. Bolton began acquiring land on the Mississippi Sound at Biloxi in February 1900.&nbsp; At this time, he acquired from Origen G. Williams for $750 a large lot on the southwest corner of Porter Avenue fronting 180 feet on the Beach Road and running north on Porter Avenue for 600 feet.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 43, p. 518)</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 February 1910, Dr. W.T. Bolton had bought two contiguous tracts to his initial acquisition from E.G. Bousquet and H.E. Walker and Onie Sapp Walker for $275 and $700 respectively.&nbsp; These tracts had 290 feet on West Suter Street.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 69, p. 472 and Bk. 92, p. 429)</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\">Dr. Bolton is known to have had a sugar patch in the rear of the house.&nbsp; In 1918, he reported that a stalk of his cane had reached 18 feet in height and had 26 joints.&nbsp; Occasionally young adventurers would make off with some of his prized sugar cane.(The Daily Herald, November 23, 1918, p.3)</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 December 1938, Mrs. W.T. Bolton signed a five-year lease with Standard oil of Kentucky for a tract measuring 75 feet by 100 feet on the SE/C of the Bolton land.&nbsp; The rent was $75 per month and the land was used as a gasoline filling station for many years. (Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 223, p. 323)</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>Bolton Building</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>In October 1901, P. J. Gillen and Bert C. Gillen, contractors, from Birmingham, Alabama began erecting the Bolton Building at 138 West Howard Avenue for Dr. Walter T. Bolton. </strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Dr. Bolton had his offices and residence here until about 1920 when the family relocated to West Beach and Porter Avenue.&nbsp; By May 1902, the Gillens had returned to Alabama.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 28, 1901, p. 8, March 20, 1902, p. 8 and May 9, 1902, p. 8)&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 original facade of the Bolton building has long disappeared from the streetscape of West Howard Avenue.&nbsp; Mrs. W.T. Bolton, after she became a widow, sold the structure to Phillip W. Levine (1890-1940), a Russian Jewish immigrant, in January 1924 for $15,000.&nbsp; Through the years, the building has been utilized a Woolsworth variety store, a hardware store, &nbsp;and other commercial enterprises.(The Daily Herald, February 16, 1940, p. 1 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Trust Deed Bk. 35, p. 187 and&nbsp; Bk. 55, p. 445)</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 May 1981, the Bolton Building, known as 759 Vieux Marche at this, was acquired by Biloxi attorneys, Lyle M. Page [30%], Fred Manino [30%], Ronald G. Peresich [30%] and Paul J. Delcambre Jr. [10%] from Nathaniel B. Rosenberg and A. Charles Rosenberg.&nbsp; Mr. Delcambre sold his 10% interest to the other principals in January 1989.( 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 114, 235, and 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 205, p. 483)</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>CHILDREN</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>Walter T. Bolton II</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Walter Thetford Bolton II&nbsp;</strong>(1894-1964) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on October 17, 1894.&nbsp; In May 1911, he graduated as valedictorian of the Class of 1911 from Biloxi High School.&nbsp; Walter went on to earn a Civil Engineering degree in 1914 from Mississippi A&amp;M College at Starkville.&nbsp; By late 1916, he was employed at Lansing, Michigan with the Michigan State Highway Commission as a civil engineer. &nbsp;&nbsp;In 1917, Bolton had taken a job as a civil engineer with the Illinois Central Railroad at Memphis, Tennessee.(The Daily Herald, May 23, 1911, p. 1, June 4, 1914, p. 2 and December 19, 1916)</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\">During World War I. W.T. Bolton II served in the Engineer Corps of the A.E.F and was sent to England and France.&nbsp; He sailed for Europe in late May 1918.&nbsp; He was in England until and was preparing to leave for France in October 1918.(The Daily Herald, May 27, 1918, p. 3 and October 7, 1918, p. 3)</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 the Great War, W.T. Bolton II took a job in Orange, Texas and was employed constructing highways.&nbsp; He would visit Biloxi as often as time allowed.(The Daily Herald, October 16, 1922, 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\">Circa 1923, Mr. Bolton married <strong>Mae Hagan Tullos </strong>(1893-1930), a widow or divorcee and native of Louisiana.&nbsp; She brought two sons, Robert Tullos (b. 1910) and Frank N. Tullos (1914-2000), into the marriage. &nbsp;Mae Hagan Bolton died at Kirbyville, Texas on March 4, 1930 after giving birth to <strong>Jessie Mae Bolton</strong> (1930-1930) who passed the next day. &nbsp;In 1930, Walter was the proprietor of a café and Frank Tullos, his step-son, was vending sign post advertising.(The Daily Herald, March 10, 1930, p. 2 and 1930 Jasper Co., Texas Federal Census R2361, p. 15A. ED 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\">By 1935, W.T. Bolton II was domiciled at Lubbock, Texas.&nbsp; Circa 1938, he had married <strong>Charlsie Hayes </strong>(1909-1982), a native of Rotan, Fisher County, Texas.&nbsp; By 1940, the Boltons relocated to Kirbyville, Jasper County, Texas.&nbsp; Here Mr. Bolton was involved with outdoor advertising, i.e. billboards etc.&nbsp; At Kirbyville, they reared their five children: Walter T. Bolton III (1939-2011); Olivia Bolton (b. 1940-1982+); Hayes Bolton (1940-2008); Charles Bolton; and Dewey Bolton.(1940 Jasper Co., Texas T627_4075, p. 8A, ED 121-11)</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\">Walter T. Bolton II died in November 1964 at Kirbyville, Texas.&nbsp; Charlsie lived to February 28, 1982.&nbsp; She and W.T. Bolton III are confirmed buried in the Kirbyville Cemetery at Kirbyville, Texas.</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>Cornelia J. Bolton</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Cornelia Justina Bolton</strong>(1898-1994) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on September 7, 1898.&nbsp; She married Mark Lewis Miller (1901-1931) in Yazoo City, Mississippi on November 7, 1920.&nbsp; At this time, Cornelia taught English in the public school at Yazoo City.&nbsp; She was a graduate of the Mississippi Woman’s College [MSCW] at Columbus, Mississippi.&nbsp; Cornelia would later marry <strong>Dewey Richard Reagan</strong> (1897-1969) in Harrison County, Mississippi on November 8, 1934 and Nathan O. Berry (1897-2001) on May 1, 1976, also in Harrison County, Mississippi.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 45 p. 454 and 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Circuit Court MRB &nbsp;13, p. 137)</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>Ford Agency</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1932, Robert H. Holmes (1869-1949) and Sons acquired the Ford motorcar agency at Biloxi. They incorporated as the Holmes Motor Company in April 1932.&nbsp; Their Ford Agency was relocated from Lameuse Street and the L&amp;N Railroad to the northeast corner of West Howard Avenue and Caillavet Street.&nbsp; In October 1933, the Holmes Motor Company had a curious demonstration in their Lameuse Street showroom to demonstrate the chassis and springs strength of their automobiles.&nbsp; One Ford had 3400 pounds of lumber placed on its top.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 10, 1933, p. 3)</em></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/u4/Reagan%2C Dewey R. (1897-1969).jpg\" width=\"119\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Dewey R. Reagan</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mr. Holmes sold the business to the Pringle-Reagan Motor Company.&nbsp; This organization was led by the Pringle brothers, L.V. Pringle Jr. (1902-1974), Robert H. Pringle (1904-1981), Thomas N. Pringle (1906-1970), and Victor B. Pringle (1909-1977).&nbsp; Their other partners were a cousin, Frank Pringle (1909-1957), and Dewey R. Reagan.<em>(Harrison Co., Ms. Charter Bk. 52, p. 123 and The Daily Herald, June 2, 1935, 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\"><em>On formal opening day in late June 1935, the public was invited to observe that the building had been renovated and cleaned thoroughly and the entire plant elevated to first class conditions.&nbsp; The large workshop in the north section of the structure was made into a temporary auditorium and a five reel motion picture of the Ford plant in Michigan, Ford cars climbing Pike’s Peak and other promotional features of the Ford automobile were shown during the afternoon.&nbsp; Some of the employees of the organization at this time were: L.V. Pringle Jr.; Dewey Reagan; Frank Pringle; E. Jacquot; John Stojcich; T.N. Lightsey, salesman; J.W. Watts, salesman; and the garage force: George Wilson; Robert Illsley; Dudley Powell; and H. Campbell.(</em><em>The Daily Herald, July 1, 1935, 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>On their 5<sup>th</sup> anniversary celebrated in late May 1940, the Pringle-Reagan Motor Company announced that had 18 employees and a $19,224 annual payroll.(The Daily Herald, May 31, 1940, p. 6)</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\">Cornelia Bolton Berry died at Biloxi on December 12, 1994.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi Cemetery<em>.(The Sun Herald, December 14, 1994, p. A2)</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>Olivia S. Bolton</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Olivia Sones Bolton</strong>(1903-1933) graduated from Biloxi High School and Mississippi State College for Women (MSCW).&nbsp; Olivia became a school teacher and taught at Biloxi, Shaw, Mississippi in the Delta and at Atlanta, Georgia.&nbsp; She married <strong>Edgar N. Taylor</strong> in Harrison County, Mississippi on September 20, 1927.&nbsp; Edgar was born at Union City, Pennsylvania and made his livelihood at Atlanta, Georgia as an insurance underwriter and district manager for the Aetna insurance Company.(The Daily Herald, June 5, 1927, p. 2 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB&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\">Olivia S. Bolton Taylor expired at Atlanta, Georgia on March 20, 1933.&nbsp; She had been ill for more than a year and her mother had come from Biloxi to care for her during her illness.&nbsp; Mrs. Taylor’s corporal remains were sent to Biloxi for internment in the Biloxi Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, March 21, 1933, 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>Eldon L. Bolton</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Eldon Langston Bolton </strong>(1910-1990) was born January 11, 1910 at Biloxi.&nbsp; In Harrison County, Mississippi on May 23, 1936, he married Carolyn Howard McKellar (1913-1996), a native of Memphis, Tennessee and the daughter of H. Clinton McKellar and Mrs. McKellar.&nbsp; Eldon and Mama ‘B’, as Mrs. Bolton was known, were the parents of four children:&nbsp; Eldon L. Bolton Jr. m. Priscilla Ann Ober in July 1958; Carolyn McKellar Bolton m. Robert Lee Cox in June 1960; Clinton McKellar Bolton (1944-1997) m. Sharon E. Robinson in August 1966 and Karen Joyce DeGeorge in November 1975; Walter T. Bolton m. Patricia Ann Tynes in September 1969 and Laura Ann Ederer in July 1981.</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\">Like his father, Eldon L.&nbsp; Bolton practiced medicine at Biloxi.&nbsp; For fifty-six years, he devoted his life to the health and welfare of the denizens of Biloxi.&nbsp; Dr. Bolton worked with Dr. Eugene A. Trudeau (1897-1970) and Dr. Middleton and operated his clinic on the southwest corner of Lameuse Street and Washington, now M.L. King Jr.</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\">Dr. Bolton expired at Biloxi on Christmas Day 1990.&nbsp; Mrs. Bolton passed here on December 26, 1996.&nbsp; Their corporal remains were interred at Southern Memorial Park in west 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\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Beaumont Enterprise, “Walter Bolton”, June 15, 2011.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, “Perkinston Points”, January 18, 1890.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, \"The unexpected happens again\", November 11, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, “Local Happenings”, January 9, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, “To whom it may concern”, January 30, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, “W.T. Bolton-Physician&nbsp; &amp; Surgeon [advertisement]”, August 6, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, “Otto Pharmacy [advertisement]”, October 14, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, “Latest City News”, November 14, 1896.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, “City Officials”, February 7, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, “City News”, November 28, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, “City News”, March 20, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, “Personals”, May 9, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “All in readiness for Commencement in Biloxi school”, May 23, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Young Biloxian graduates”, June 4, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Walter Bolton returns to Biloxi”, December 19, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Sterilizer Demonstration”, August 15, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Walter Bolton sails”, May 27, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Biloxi News Paragraphs”, October 7, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Jack in the Cane Stalk”, November 23, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Cows tested yesterday”, July 4, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Boys clean out cane patch”, September 29, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Miller-Bolton wedding in Yazoo City”, November 12, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Biloxi News Paragraphs”, December 9, 1921.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Biloxi Items”, October 16, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Biloxi loses prominent man [W.T. Bolton]”, August 28, 1923.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Bolton-Taylor engagement announced”, June 5, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald, “Mrs. Bolton [Mae Hagan Tullos] buried”, March 10, 1930</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald, “[Phillip W.] Levine succumbs to short illness”, February 16, 1940.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Mrs. W.T. Bolton is outstanding Biloxi Citizen”, December 29, 1943.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, “Longtime Biloxi physician Bolton, 80, dies Tuesday”, December 26, 1990.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, “Eldon L. Bolton”, December 26, 1990.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, “Cornelia Bolton Berry”, December 14, 1994.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, “Carolyn M. Bolton”, December&nbsp;27, 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, “Clinton M. Bolton”, January 28, 1997.</span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 266, 269, 'en', 0, '<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>PABLO</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Joseph Pablo&nbsp;</strong>(1833-1905) was a native of Spain and an 1848 immigrant.&nbsp; Circa 1864, he married <strong>Anna Sanz</strong> (1850-1911), an 1851 Spanish immigrant.&nbsp; It appears that this couple married at New Orleans circa 1864 and had eight children born at New Orleans before 1900 of which six were living at this time: <strong>Josephine Pablo</strong> (1868-1938); <strong>Joseph Pablo</strong> (1869-1932?) m. Amelia Campos (1877-1919); <strong>Michael Pablo</strong> (1872-1904); <strong>Richard Pablo</strong> (1882-1902); <strong>John Pablo</strong> (1884-1947); <strong>Angel or Agnes</strong> (1888-1902); and <strong>Clarence Joseph Pablo</strong> (1904-1908).</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Children</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Josephine Pablo</strong>(1868-1938) was born at New Orleans on December 5, 1868.&nbsp; She never married and expired at 418 Copp Street, her residence in Biloxi, on March 11, 1938.</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Joseph Pablo</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Joseph Pablo </strong>(1869-1932?) was born at New Orleans on August 20, 1869.&nbsp; He married <strong>Amelia Campos</strong> (1877-1919), the daughter of Bernardo Campos (1842-1892) and Marie L. Morano (1851-1917).&nbsp; Their children were <strong>Noreta Lucile Pablo</strong> (1901-1994) m. Philip P. Dellinger and <strong>Earl &lsquo;Blackie&rsquo; Pablo</strong> (1910-1985) m. Madeline Borries (1912-1999).</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Noreta Lucile Pablo </strong>(1901-1994) married Philip Paul Dellenger (1899-1979) in Harrison County, Mississippi on July 27, 1921. Their children were: <strong>Noreta L. Dellenger</strong> (1922-2009) m. Jack V. Besst; <strong>Philip P. Dellenger Jr</strong>. (1924-2009) m. Edith Jane Kennedy (1924-2012); <strong>Leonard Dellenger</strong> (b. 1927); <strong>Kenneth M. Dellenger Sr.</strong> (1929-2009) m. Joy Wyndham (1930-1993); <strong>Stanley C. Dellenger</strong> (b. 1932) m. Mary Evelyn Anglada.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Joseph Pablo may have become ill, as there is a &#39;Joe Pablo&#39; in the 1930 Federal Census similar to Joseph Pablo of Biloxi domiciled as a patient and orderly at the US Marine Hospital in Carville, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. &nbsp;He died here on December 29, 1932.(1930 Iberville Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R795, p. 1B, ED 15)</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Michael Pablo</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Michael &#39;Mike&#39; Pablo</strong>(1872-1904) was born at New Orleans in January 1872. &nbsp;He came to Biloxi with his family circa 1889. &nbsp; Mike Pablo after an illness of several weeks died on October 20, 1904 at the age of 32 years and 9 months. &nbsp;His funeral was from the family home at 435 East Howard Avenue.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 21, 1904, p. 5)</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Richard Pablo</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Richard Pablo </strong>(1882-1902)&nbsp;was born at New Orleans on July 14, 1882. &nbsp;On August 19, 1902, he was found dead at his home on Howard Avenue. &nbsp;Richard passed from heart failure believed to have been cuased by a bout with typhoid fever.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, August 19, 1902, p. 6)</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Pablo%2C John.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px;\" /></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:10px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">John Pablo</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">John Pablo</strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">John Pablo&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">(1884-1947) was born at New Orleans on September 19, 1884. &nbsp;He made his livelihood in Biloxi as a sign painter and artist. &nbsp;John never married and lived with Josephine Pablo, his spinster sister, at 418 Copp Street. &nbsp;Mr. Pablo passed on February 25, 1947 and his corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi Cemetery by the O&#39;Keefe Parlors after services at Nativity B.V.M Catholic Church. &nbsp;John was a member of the Woodmen of the World and was survived by Noreta L. Dellinger, a niece, and Earl Pablo, a nephew.(The Daily Herald, February 26, 1947, p. 5)</span></p>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: -webkit-center;\">Angel Pablo</strong></div>\r\n<div>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Angel or Agnes Pablo (1888-1902) was born at New Orleans in August 1888. She was the youngest daughter of Joseph Pablo (1833-1905) and Anna Sanz (1850-1911). &nbsp;Angel expired at Biloxi on &nbsp;July 16, 1902.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, July 18, 1902 and July 19, 1902, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Pablo%2C Clarence J. (1904-1908)_0.jpg\" style=\"width: 188px; height: 250px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:11px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Clarence J. Pablo</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><strong>Clarence Joseph Pablo&nbsp;</strong>(1904-1908) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi in 1904.&nbsp; He expired in his childhood on November 21, 1908. &nbsp;The funeral was held at the residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pablo, at 407 West Water Street.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 21, 1908)</span></p>\r\n<div>\r\n	&nbsp;</div>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, &ldquo;City News&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, April 26, 1900.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, &ldquo;City News&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, July 18, 1902.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald<strong>, &ldquo;City News&rdquo;</strong>, July 19, 1902.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, &ldquo;Found dead&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, August 19, 1902.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, &ldquo;Necrology-Joseph Pablo Sr.&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, March 28, 1905.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald<strong>, &ldquo;Generous Officers&rdquo;</strong>, June 24, 1905.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald<strong>, &ldquo;Clarence Joseph Pablo&rdquo;</strong>, November 21, 1908.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald<strong>, &ldquo;Mrs. Anna Pablo&rdquo;</strong>, December 23, 1911.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Daily Herald</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, &ldquo;Emily Compas [sic]&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, January 6, 1919.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Daily Herald</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, &ldquo;Miss Pablo dies&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, March 11, 1938.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald<strong>, &ldquo;John Pablo dies&rdquo;</strong>, February 26, 1947.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Sun Herald</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, &ldquo;Noreta Lucile Dellenger&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, October 14, 1994.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Sun Herald</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, &ldquo;Philip Paul Dellenger&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, June 29, 2009.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Sun Herald</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, &ldquo;Kenneth M. Dellenger Sr.&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, July 12, 2009.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald<strong>, &ldquo;Edith K. Dellenger&rdquo;</strong>, November 26, 2012.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The Sun Herald</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">, &ldquo;&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">,</span></p>\r\n', NULL, '2'),
('book', 0, 267, 270, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>ARGUELLES</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\"><strong>Francisco Arguelles </strong>married Bridgett McNerney (1830-1917).&nbsp; Children:&nbsp;<strong>Augustine Arguelles </strong>(1858-1888) m. Dudley H. Lang (1856-1885); <strong>Mary Arguelles </strong>(1860-1926); <strong>Francis Arguelles</strong> (b. 1861); <strong>Bridgett Arguelles</strong> (1863-1877); <strong>Joseph P. Arguelles</strong> (1865-1944) m. Louise Eva Bellman&nbsp; (1867-1958); <strong>Jane Arguelles</strong> (b. 1869); <strong>John Arguelles</strong> (1870-1892) m. Alphonsine Roux m. Julius S. Sablich; <strong>Rose Ida Arguelles </strong>(1874-1941) m. Andrew J. Whelan (1868-1933).</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>Augustine Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Augustine Arguelles</strong>(1858-1888) was born in Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; She married <strong>Dudley Hubbard Lang </strong>(1856-1885) April 28, 1880 at Nativity B.V.M. Catholic Church in Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; Their children were: Robert D. Lang (1881-1885); Nettie Eugenie Lang (1882-1971) m. Charles M. Wilkes (1880-1946); and Warren Joseph Lang (1884-1977) m. Katherine Hecht (1885-1978).</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>Mary Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mary Arguelles </strong>(1859-1926) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on September 24, 1859.</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>Francis Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Francis Arguelles</strong> was born October 11, 1861.</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>Bridgett Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Bridgett Arguelles (1863-1877) was born December 11, 1863 to Francisco Arguelles and Bridget McNerney. &nbsp;&nbsp;She was baptized January 23, 1864 at Nativity B.V.M. Catholic Church in Biloxi, Mississippi.(Lepre, 1991, p. 9)</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\">Bridget expired on May 18, 1877. Her corporal remains were interred in the Old Biloxi Cemetery, Section C-Lot 5.(Lepre, 1991, p. 8 and City of Biloxi Cemetery Records-Annette Melancon Barhonovich-September 2013)</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-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"250\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Arguelles%2C%20Joseph%20F.%20%281866-1944%29.jpg\" width=\"164\" /><img alt=\"\" height=\"250\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Arguelles%2C%20Louise%20Almina%20Bellman%20-%20Version%202.jpg\" width=\"230\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Joseph P. Arguelles and Louise Eva Bellman</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">[Courtesy of Mike Arguelles-January 2016]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"399\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Arguelles%20Family-2-Mike%20Arguelles.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Joseph P. Arguelles Family </strong>circa 1905</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\">[L-R standing: <strong>Albert Arguelles</strong> (1892-1943); <strong>Warren Arguelles</strong> (1893-1973); and <strong>Frank Charles Arguelles</strong> (1894-1943); L-R seated: <strong>George H. Arguelles</strong> (1896-1934); <strong>Lillian Arguelles</strong> (1902-2000); <strong>Joseph P. Arguelles</strong> (1866-1944); <strong>Florence Arguelles</strong> (1899-1979); <strong>Louise Eva</strong> Bellman <strong>Arguelles </strong>(1867-1958); <strong>Bernadine Arguelles</strong> (1904-1989); and <strong>Ethel \"Tina\" Arguelles</strong> (1897-1938). &nbsp;Courtesy of Mike Arguelles.</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\"><strong>Joseph Peter Arguelles </strong>(1865-1944) was born January 25, 1866.&nbsp; He married <strong>Louise ‘Lou’ Eva Bellman</strong> (1867-1958), the daughter of Charles W. Bellman (1841-1885), a native of Biloxi, Mississippi &nbsp;and Almina Eagan (1851- 1881), a native of Hanover, Germany, on February 4, 1891 at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. &nbsp;They were the parents eleven children of which nine were living when they celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in February 1941 : <strong>Warren P. Arguelles </strong>(1891-1972) m. Fay Husley (1896-1984); <strong>Albert J. Arguelles</strong> (1892-1943) m. Elenore Frederick; <strong>Francis \'Frank\' Charles Arguelles</strong> (1894-1943) m.&nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size:14px\">Alice Rayburn (1898-1969); <strong>George</strong></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><strong> </strong>H. Arguelles </strong>(1896-1934) m. Winnie C. Morris (1900-1980) m. Frederick D. O’Brien (1895-1958); <strong>Ethel A. Arguelles </strong>(1897-1938);&nbsp;<strong>Florence T. Arguelles </strong>(1899-1979);&nbsp;<strong>Lillian M. Arguelles </strong>(1902-2000);&nbsp;<strong>Bernadine W. Arguelles </strong>(1904-1989);&nbsp;<strong>Donald W. Arguelles </strong>(1906-1969) m. Margaret Reta Webster, Maisie Olivia Kelly King &nbsp;(1911-1986) m. Hugh E. Kirkland (1912-1992) and Abbie I. Anderson (1904-2002);&nbsp;<strong>Cecile A. Arguelles </strong>(1908-1994) m. &nbsp;George Pavlov (1910-1963); and <strong>Louise Arguelles </strong>(1910-1983).</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>Warren P. Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Warren Phillip Arguelles</strong> (1891-1972) was born November 12, 1891, the son of Joseph Peter Arguelles (1865-1944) and Louise E. Bellman (1867-1958). He married <strong>Fay Husley</strong> (1896-1984). Warren and Fay resided at 611 Kuhn Street in Biloxi, Mississippi. Warren had made his livelihood as a transit operator. He commenced his transportation career with the Mississippi Coast Traction Company as a street car operator. When it was acquired by Mississippi Power Company he continued in the industry and retired after fifty-three years when he worked for the Municipal Transit Lines.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Arguelles was survived by his wife; Dorothy \'Dot\' Arguelles (1916-1978) m. Harold M. Seitz, his daughter, and five sisters: Florence T. Arguelles (1899-1979); Bernadine W. Arguelles (1904-1989); Lillian M. Arguelles (1902-2000); Louise Arguelles (1910-1983); and Cecile A. Pavlov (1908-1994) m. George Pavlov (1910-1963).(The Daily Herald, August 13, 1972)</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\">Warren P. Arguelles expired on August 1, 1972.</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>Albert J. Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Albert Joseph Arguelles </strong>(1892-1943) was born December 11, 1892. &nbsp;He married <strong>Elenore Frederick</strong>.&nbsp; Children: Ruth Bernadine Arguelles (1919-1922);</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Francis C. Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Francis Charles Arguelles&nbsp;</strong>(1894-1943) was born June 26, 1894.&nbsp; He married <strong>Alice Rayburn</strong> (1898-1969), a native of New Orleans.&nbsp; Children: <strong>Douglas J. Arguelles</strong> (1917-1921); Lytle Arguelles; <strong>Frank C. ‘Mullett’ Arguelles Jr</strong>. (1923-2003); <strong>Rayburn Arguelles</strong>; <strong>Melonie “Betty’ Arguelles</strong> (1928-1975) m. Joseph Marine Rosetti (1927-2007) and John L. King.</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>Death of Alice R. Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alice Rayburn Arguelles, widow of Frank C. Arguelles of Biloxi, who was burned in an accident on June 4, 1969, died Friday night, June&nbsp;&nbsp; 1969, at Howard Memorial Hospital in Biloxi where she had been a patient since the accident.&nbsp; Mrs. Arguelles was 71 years of age.<img alt=\"http://www.findagrave.com/icons2/trans.gif\" height=\"13\" src=\"file:///C:/Users/ray-PC/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.png\" width=\"3\" />&nbsp; She was burned in an explosion at 3921 Atkinson Road, the residence of Frank ‘Mullet ‘ C. &nbsp;Arguelles Jr., her son.&nbsp; Alice was severely injured when she spilled some of the contents of the bucket of gasoline that she was carrying and it was ignited and exploded when contacting the water heater in her son’s home.&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mrs. Arguelles was born in New Orleans and had been a resident of Biloxi since 1909.&nbsp; She married Frank C. Arguelles in Harrison County, Mississippi on June 14, 1917.&nbsp; In addition to Mullet Arguelles, she was the mother of: Peter Arguelles; Mrs. Paul Martin of Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Mrs. John L. King of Gulfport, Mississippi.&nbsp; Alice was survived by her children; a sister, Mrs. Charles Harvey of Los Angeles, California; and fourteen grandchildren.&nbsp; She was preceded in death by a son, Douglas Joseph Arguelles (1917-1921).&nbsp; Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home of Biloxi directed the funeral of mrs. Arguelles, which included a Requiem Mass at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church follwed by interment in the Biloxi Cemetery.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 29, p. 328 and The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; June 1969, p. 2)</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>George H. Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>George Henry Arguelles&nbsp;</strong>(1896-1934) was born June 30, 1896.&nbsp; He married <strong>Winnie C. Morris</strong> in Harrison County, Mississippi on April 2, 1918.&nbsp; Children:&nbsp;<strong>Joseph Arguelles</strong>, <strong>John ‘Jack’ R. Arguelles </strong>m. Dorothy Cobb; <strong>Ivon Anthony Arguelles</strong> (1925-2005) m. Lou Ella McMath (1928-1992); and <strong>Morris Charles Arguelles</strong> (2005) m. Mary Louise Lesso (19-2013). &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\">George H. Arguelles died on July 26, 1934. &nbsp;On December 23, 1935, Winnie married Frederick Damon O’Brien (1895-1958). &nbsp;Their daughter, Patricia Ann O’Brien (1943-2004) m. William&nbsp; Ford.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 46, p. 445)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"200\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Arguelles%2C Commander Joseph.jpg\" width=\"109\" /></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\"><strong>Lt. Commander John \'Jack\' R. Arguelles</strong>, USN, was promoted to Commander on July 1, 1962. &nbsp;Jack was a graduate of the US Naval Academy and had served aboard the USS Macon and USS Essex. &nbsp;at the time of his promotion to Commander, he was commanding officer of the USS Walworth County (LST-1164) with the US Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea.(The Daily Herald, July 16, 1962, p. 10)</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\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Ethel A. Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Ethel Augustine Arguelles&nbsp;</strong>(1897-1938) was born December 23, 1897.&nbsp; She died July 28, 1938 at the Biloxi Hospital following emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix.&nbsp; Miss Arguelles was a 1916 Biloxi High School graduate.(The Daily Herald, July 28, 1938, p. 1)</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\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Florence T. Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Florence Theresa Arguelles </strong>(1891-1979) was born June 10, 1899.</span></span><br />\r\n&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>Bernadine W. Arguelles</strong></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\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Lillian M. Arguelles</strong></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\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Louise Arguelles</strong></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\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Cecile A. Arguelles</strong></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\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Johanna Arguelles</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Johanna Arguelles </strong>(1869-1946) was born on February 2, 1869* and baptized <strong>“Jane”</strong> on March 9, 1869 at Nativity B.V.M. Catholic Church in Biloxi.&nbsp; She married <strong>Lars</strong> <strong>Peter Eskald </strong>(1856-1944), a Danish immigrant, on October 23, 1901 in the rectory of Nativity B.V.M.(Lepre, 1991, p. 8 and The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 24, 1901, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Johanna and Lars Peter Eskald were the parents of two children: Robert P. Eskald (1902-1995) m. Ethel E. Jones (1906-1975) and Dorothy B. Eskald (1908-2000).</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\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>John Arguelles</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Rosa Ida Arguelles</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\"><strong>Rosa Ida Arguelles </strong>(1875-1941) was born on August 31, 1875 in Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; She married <strong>Andrew Joseph Whelan</strong> (1868-1933), a native of New Orleans and the son of Andrew Whelan (1832-1883) and Catherine Sullivan (1844-1917), both Irish immigrants, on January 16, 1898, at Nativity B.V.M. Catholic Church. (Lepre, 1991, p. 8)</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 1900, the Whelan family resided at 517 Derbigny Street in the Crescent City and their first son, <strong>Father</strong> <strong>James F. Whelan</strong> (1899-1968), had been born.&nbsp; Andrew like many of Irish ancestry made his livelihood as a drayman at this time.(1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R571, p. 18B, ED 27)</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\">Rose Arguelles and Andrew J. Whelan had two other sons: <strong>Andrew J. Whelan Jr</strong>. (1904-1980) m. Bernice Kettenring (1919- 1967) and <strong>Daniel J. Whelan</strong> (1906-1969) m. Beatrice Muldoon (1917-1995).</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 James F. Whelan chose to become a Catholic priest, it probably came as no surprise to the family, as <strong>Father James F. Whelan</strong> (1881-1919), his uncle and namesake, was ordained in June 1908 as a Lazarist Father of St. Joseph.&nbsp; Father Whelan drowned while swimming in the New Basin Canal in June 1919.&nbsp; At the time he was rector at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and chaplain of the Orleans Parish Prison.(The New Orleans Item, June 27, 1919, p. 11)</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\"><strong>Father James F. Whelan SJ</strong> (1899-1968) became a Jesuit priest and was ordained at Woodstock, Maryland in 1928.&nbsp; He taught at Loyola&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Father Whelan expired in December 1968 and his corporal remains sent to the Jesuit Fathers Cemetery at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.(The Times-Picayune, December 17, 1968, p. 18)</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\">Rosa Arguelles Whelan expired in Hotel Dieu in the Crescent City on February 3, 1941.&nbsp; Internment in St. Patrick Cemetery No. 2.(The Times-Picayune, February 4, 1941, p. 2)</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\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Jerome Lepre,&nbsp;</span><u>Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi</u><span style=\"font-size:14px\">, Volume I, (Catholic Dioceses of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1991).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>“Death of Mrs. Lang”</strong>, December 1, 1888.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald,<strong>“City News</strong> [Eskald-Arguelles]”, October 24, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald,<strong>“Arguelles child </strong>[Joseph Douglas Arguelles] <strong>died this morning”</strong>, September 21, 1921.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald,<strong>“School Principal </strong>[Ethel Arguelles]<strong>dies at Biloxi”</strong>, July 28, 1938.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald,<strong>“Arguelles to have Golden Anniversary”</strong>, February 2, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald,<strong>“Albert J. Arguelles dies”</strong>, December 17, 1943.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald,<strong>“</strong>[John R.] <strong>Arguelles promoted to Commander </strong>[USN]<strong>”</strong>, July 16, 1962.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald,<strong>“Burns fatal to Biloxian”</strong>, June 19, 1969.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald,<strong>“Warren Arguelles”</strong>, August 13, 1972.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald,<strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Picayune,</span><strong>“Father </strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">[James F.] </span><strong>Whelan ordained”</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">, June 12, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The New Orleans Item, </span><strong>“Spirit of play fatal to priest</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"> [Father James F. Whelan]</span><strong>”</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">, June 27, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Press-Register [Mobile], </span><strong>“Margie Arguelles-St. Martin woman dies in wreck”</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">, May 23, 2010.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald,</span><strong>“Peter Eskald”</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">, September 2, 1995.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald,<strong>“Dorothy Eskald”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;The Sun Herald,<strong>“Abbie I. Arguelles”</strong>, May 21, 2002, p. A5.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald,<strong>“Frank ‘Mullet’ Arguelles”</strong>, May 15, 2003, p. A7.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald,<strong>“Rayburn ‘Pete’ Arguelles”</strong>, June 3, 2004.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald,<strong>“Mary Louise </strong>[Lesso]<strong>Arguelles”</strong>, June 9, 2013.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald,<strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald,<strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald,<strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sun Herald,<strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>“</strong>[Andrew Joseph]<strong>Whelan”</strong>, March 8, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>“</strong>[Rose Arguelles] <strong>Whelan”</strong>, February 4, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>“”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>“Rites planned for Father </strong>[James&nbsp; F.] <strong>Whelan”</strong>, December 17, 1968.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>“Whelan”</strong>, December 17, 1968.</span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2');
