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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><strong>BILANCICH [BJELANCICH]</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><strong>Baldo Nikolas Bilancich </strong>(1896-1967) was born December 4, 1896 at Ston, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia.&nbsp; He left Bremen Germany in February 1910 and arrived at Galveston, Texas in March 1910 and proceeded to Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; Here he met and married Leona Gabrich (1904-1969).&nbsp; Their nuptials occurred on Harrison County, Mississippi on October 6, 1920.&nbsp; Baldo was naturalized at Biloxi, Mississippi on February 23, 1928 with Certificate No. 2439014.&nbsp;&nbsp; The family settled at 422 Delauney Street.(Petition for Naturalization No. 399-Southern District Court-South Mississippi-September 1927 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 32, p. 381)</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Baldo N. Bilancich and Leona Gabrich divorced and circa 1940, he relocated to Harris County, Texas.&nbsp; Baldo married Patricia Ann Seliner and had three more children born in Texas: Donnie Brent Bilancich (1942-1992) m. Shirley Margaret Bailey; Elva Deana Bilancich (b. 1945) and Joseph Anthony Bilancich (b. 1950) m. Peggy Jane Ross.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><strong>Robert J. Bilancich</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><strong>Robert John Bilancich </strong>(1921-1973) was born April 24, 1921 at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; He married Theresa Dora Saujon (1921-2008), the daughter of Leo Saujon and Bernadette Sandoz, in Harrison County, Mississippi on April 7, 1943.&nbsp; They were the parents of three children: Claudia Bilancich m. Ernest &lsquo;Butch&rsquo; Henley; Broderick Bilancich m.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ; and infant daughter Bilancich (1947-1947).</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Robert J. Bilancich and Theresa Saujon Bilancich divorced.&nbsp; She married Ramon D. Tauscher (1929-2007).</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><strong>Julius A. Bilancich</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><strong>Julius Anthony Bilancich (1922-1994) </strong>was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on July 23, 1922.&nbsp; He married Shirley Ann Richard.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><strong>Dorothy M. Bilancich</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><strong>Dorothy Bilancich Eleuterius</strong>(1924-2000) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on June 29, 1924.&nbsp; She married Shannon Eleuterius in Harrison County, Mississippi on July 28, 1944.&nbsp; They were the parents of five children: Frederick Eleuterius, Rocky Eleuterius, Scott Eleuterius.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><strong>Obituary</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><strong>Dorothy Bilancich Eleuterius</strong>(1924-2000), age 76 years, of Biloxi, died Wednesday, July 19, 2000, in Biloxi.&nbsp; Mrs. Eleuterius was a lifelong resident of Biloxi and was retired from Kroger in the deli department.&nbsp; She was preceded in death by her husband, Shannon Eleuterius; a son, Frederick Eleuterius; and two brothers, Robert Bilancich and Julius Bilancich.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Dorothy was survived by two daughters, Dr. Lorraine Magrath of Troy, Alabama, and Rhanda Hertling of Biloxi; two sons, Rocky Eleuterius and Scott Eleuterius, both of Biloxi; and five grandchildren, Michelle Magrath and Christi Magrath, both of Troy, Alabama, and Kimberly Myers, Mia Eleuterius and Angela Hancock, all of Biloxi.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">The funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O&#39;Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi where friends may call from 1 p.m. until service time. Burial will be in Biloxi Cemetery.</span></span></p>
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