Obituaries

John Michael Schaefer

John Michael Schaefer

Dec 19, 2018

Mr. John Michael Schaefer, Jr., age 85, of Biloxi, MS passed away on Wednesday, December 19, 2018. Mr. Schaefer was born on December 31, 1932 in Pittsburgh, PA. He was a resident of the MS Gulf Coast since 1954. He was retired from the U.S. Air Force and was a former member of St. Michael Catholic Church. Mr. Schaefer was...

Peter  "Pete" Kandrat

Peter "Pete" Kandrat

Dec 18, 2018

Peter Kandrat, 69, of Biloxi, MS passed away Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans, LA. Peter was born in Newark, NJ on May 1, 1949. He graduated in 1967 from Summit High School in Summit, NJ and retired in 2004 from the United States Postal Service after 35 years of dedicated service. Peter’s favorite...

Carey B. Cox, Sr.

Carey B. Cox, Sr.

Dec 17, 2018

Carey B. Cox, Sr., age 65, passed away Monday, December 17, 2018 in Ocean Springs. He was a native and lifelong resident of the Gulf Coast. He also was a U.S. Navy Veteran and commercial fisherman. He enjoyed hunting. Carey is preceded in death by his parents, Louis Elwood Cox and Lois Extine; grandson, Aaron Cox; and sister, Kimberly Mapp....

Phyllis Day Waltman

Phyllis Day Waltman

Dec 16, 2018

Mrs. Phyllis Day Waltman, age 62 of Biloxi, MS passed away on Sunday, December 16, 2018. Mrs. Waltman was born on October 30, 1956 in Long Beach, CA. She was a loving wife and mother. She enjoyed fishing in her spare time. She is preceded in death by her parents, Jimmie P. Hampton, Sr. and Annie Mae Smith. Survivors include...

Laurie "LaLa" Marie Lees-Cavalier

Laurie "LaLa" Marie Lees-Cavalier

Dec 16, 2018

Laurie “LaLa” Marie Lees-Cavalier, age 58, of Biloxi, passed away peacefully in her home on Sunday, December 16, 2018. Laurie was born on September 22, 1960 in Waukegan, IL. She attended Pearl River Junior College where she obtained her LPN. She was the President/CEO of Nursing Management, Inc., which opened in 1988. Laurie was extremely generous with charitable organizations such...

Charlotte Ella Poteete Layosa

Charlotte Ella Poteete Layosa

Dec 16, 2018

Charlotte Ella Poteete Layosa, age 96, of Perkinston, MS passed away Sunday, December 16, 2018 in Pascagoula. Mrs. Layosa was born on October 28, 1922 in Crowder, MS. She was employed as a hostess and event planner for Gus Stevens. Mrs. Layosa was a well-known artist on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She was preceded in death by her husband, Samuel...

Patrick Anthony Thornton

Patrick Anthony Thornton

Dec 16, 2018

Mr. Patrick Anthony Thornton, Sr., age 75, of Biloxi passed away on Sunday, December 16, 2018. Mr. Thornton was born in Biloxi on July 30, 1943. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and was employed with the Biloxi Police Department for 13 years. He played music up and down the Coast touching many folks with his...

Phyllis Lou Cole

Phyllis Lou Cole

Dec 15, 2018

Phyllis L. “Momma” Cole, age 80, of Gulfport, died Saturday, December 15, 2018, in Gulfport, MS. Mrs. Cole was born in Memphis, TN, on February 14, 1938. She was a homemaker who enjoyed crossword puzzles and her grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents, Laveral and Maggie Pryor Beaty, her husband, Thomas L. Cole, children Michael Cole and...

Sarah "Louise" Chism

Sarah "Louise" Chism

Dec 13, 2018

Sarah “Louise” Chism, age 91, passed away on Thursday, December 13, 2018. She was a native of Tupelo, MS and a resident of the coast for over 35 years. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Ocean Springs. Louise was preceded in death by her husband, James V. Chism. Survivors include her daughters, Donna (Charles) Mercier and Sherry...

Edward D Clolinger

Edward D Clolinger

Dec 13, 2018

Mr. Edward Clolinger, age 82, passed away Thursday December 13, 2018 at his residence in Oakland, MS Mr. Clolinger was retired from the Navy with 31 years of service, loving husband of twenty-seven years to Patricia Slate Clolinger and also her best friend. Those left to cherish his memory other than his wife include one daughter Jennifer Boyd of Houston,...

Louis Whitson Smith

Louis Whitson Smith

Dec 11, 2018

Louis W. Smith, Man of Steel with a Heart of Gold, age 75, of Gulfport passed away peacefully at his home on December 11, 2018 after a brief illness. He was a lifelong resident of Harrison County. He was born in Gulfport to Allen Smith Sr. and Annie Pearl Mercer Smith on March 20, 1943. He attended school in Orange...

Margareta T. Carter

Margareta T. Carter

Dec 10, 2018

Margareta T. Carter, 82, of Waynesboro, PA, passed away on December 10, 2018, while at her winter home in Biloxi, MS. She moved on to a beautiful and heavenly new home that is now ready as it was being prepared this past year by her husband, Joseph Carter, aged 80 when he passed away last year on May 1, 2017....

Barbara Catherine Barich McCarthy

Barbara Catherine Barich McCarthy

Dec 9, 2018

Barbara Catherine Barich McCarthy, age 75, passed away Sunday, December 9, 2018 in Ocean Springs. She was born September 9, 1943 in Biloxi to Mary R. and Julius Barich. She graduated from Ocean Springs High School and Perkinston Junior College. She participatedin her high school's varsity basketball, lettering her Junior and Senior year, and was also the Queen of Billikins...

Luevinnia "Deater" Massey Fortenberry

Luevinnia "Deater" Massey Fortenberry

Dec 8, 2018

Luevinnia "Deater" Massey Fortenberry, age 81, of Biloxi, MS passed away Saturday, December 8, 2018 in Moss Point. Mrs. Fortenberry was born in Lowndes County, AL on September 2, 1937 to Flora Robinson Massey and Isreal Massey. She attended Calhoun High School. Mrs. Fortenberry enjoyed cooking and loved animals. She was a member of First Baptist Missionary Church in Biloxi....

Judy Ann Catchot

Judy Ann Catchot

Dec 8, 2018

Judy Ann Catchot, age 70, of Ocean Springs, passed away Saturday, December 8, 2018. Mrs. Catchot, a long-time resident of Ocean Springs, was an active member of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church. She was a loving mother of three and grandmother of six and will be missed by all that knew her. She was preceded in death by her...

Carl Elizabeth "Betty" Neville  Gibson

Carl Elizabeth "Betty" Neville Gibson

Dec 8, 2018

Carl Elizabeth “Betty” Neville was born on July 6, 1936 in Anniston, Alabama and was received into glory on December 8, 2018. Betty‘s father was an Army officer so she grew up on military bases in the southeast. Betty attended the all girls Tubman high school in Augusta, Georgia and graduated in May, 1953. Following graduation, she moved to Washington...

Ted  Louis Hebert

Ted Louis Hebert

Dec 7, 2018

Ted Louis Hebert, age 75 passed away peacefully on Friday, December 7, 2018. Ted was born in Biloxi on May 20, 1943 to the late Louis and Bertha Hebert. He is survived by wife, Sharon Schultz Hebert; sister, Charlotte Clarke (Freeman) of Laguna Hills, CA; brothers, Harry Hebert (Peggy) and Mark Anthony Hebert; nephews, Eric Clark and Jim Clark (Pam);...

Ted Alan Stringfellow, Jr.

Ted Alan Stringfellow, Jr.

Dec 7, 2018

Ted Alan Stringfellow, Jr., age 37, passed away December 7, 2018 in Gautier. He was born in Sumter, SC on December 30, 1980 and was a resident of the Gulf Coast since 1992. He loved to cook, entertain, and play his guitar. He especially loved spending time with his boys. He was Assistant Manager at Subway in Ocean Springs and...

William Alfred "Bill" Darnell

William Alfred "Bill" Darnell

Dec 6, 2018

William Alfred “Bill” Darnell, 74, of Ocean Springs passed away Thursday, December 6, 2018. Bill was born August 31, 1944 at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia. He was a longtime resident of Batesville, Mississippi and after retirement moved to Ocean Springs to be closer to family. Bill graduated from Lowndes County High School in Valdosta, Georgia and went...

June  Ford

June Ford

Dec 6, 2018

June Bonck Ford, age 83, of Biloxi, MS, passed away on Thursday, December 6, 2018 in Ocean Springs, MS. June was born on May 23, 1935 in New Orleans, LA. She was a loving wife, mother, and a devoted parishioner of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Biloxi, MS. June received a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics from Southeastern...