Obituaries
Bradford Charles "Brad" Smith
Mar 2, 2017
Bradford Charles “Brad” Smith, age 43, passed away in the early morning hours of March 2, 2017. Brad was a lifelong member of Ocean Springs, MS leaving behind many friends, family and people who loved him. He graduated from Mercy Cross High School and MS Gulf Coast Jr College. Brad attended The University of MS and spent four years active...
Elizabeth "Betty" Mall
Mar 2, 2017
Elizabeth “Betty” Mall, age 80, of Biloxi, MS passed away Thursday, March 2, 2017 in Biloxi. Betty was born in Bronx, NY and had been a longtime resident of the coast. She was a longtime member of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church and devoted her entire life to her church, her beloved husband, Henry, and her family. She was...
James Alvah Shaw
Mar 2, 2017
Mr. James Alvah Shaw, age 74, of Ocean Springs, MS, passed away on Thursday, March 2, 2017, in Ocean Springs. Visitation will be on Wednesday, March 8, from 11am until 12 noon, with a 12 noon church service, all at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ocean Springs. The Ocean Springs Chapel of Bradford O'Keefe Funeral Home is in charge of...
Betty Jean Buff Hudson
Mar 1, 2017
Betty Jean Buff Hudson, a long-time resident of Perryville, MO, Pensacola, FL, and Gulfport, MS, went home to be with her God and her husband on March 1, 2017. Born on August 25, 1939, Betty was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She married the late Roger Leo Hudson, Sr. on February 27, 1958, in Perryville, MO, where...
William Truman Payne
Mar 1, 2017
William Truman Payne of Gulfport passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, at the age of 76. Mr. Payne of Youngstown, OH, was a longtime resident of the MS Gulf Coast. He was an Air Force veteran and retired from the Federal government where he worked as a Training Manager for the Department of the...
Laura Juanico
Mar 1, 2017
Laura Juanico, 80, of Biloxi,Ms. Passed away peacefully in her sleep at home on Wednesday, March 1,2017. Laura was raised in Columbia, Ms. and moved to Biloxi in 1955. She was the owner of J&L Quikstop from 1979-1989 where she was known as “Mama Lar”. She worked at the Palace Casino from the time they opened till her retirement in...
Braydon "Brady" Hester
Feb 28, 2017
Mr. Braydon Lynn "Brady" Hester, age 20, of Ocean Springs, MS, passed away on Tuesday, February 28, 2017. Braydon was a longtime resident of the coast. He was born in Gulfport, MS, attended St. Martin High School and MGCCC, Jackson County Campus. He was of the Assembly of God Church faith Survivors include his mother, Lisa McFarland Husley, father, Lynton...
Hedwig Marie May Moyer
Feb 28, 2017
Hedwig Marie May Moyer, age 92, passed away Tuesday, February 28, 2017. She was a native of Wiesbaden, Germany and resident of Biloxi, Mississippi since 1986. She was a loving wife and mother. Hedwig is preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Dominick Moyer. Hedwig's survivors include her daughters, Barbara (Gabriel) Tillson and Susan (David) LaMarca; four grandchildren,...
Lelia Theresa Sonnier
Feb 28, 2017
Mrs. Lelia Theresa Sonnier, age 89, of Biloxi passed away on Tuesday, February 28, 2017. Mrs. Sonnier was born in Louisiana to Odile and Lenes Ransonet. They moved to the Gulf Coast when she was very young. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend. She always put her family before herself. She worked in the factories as...
Gene Deason
Feb 28, 2017
Gene passed away peacefully and went to his heavenly home with his loving family and friends by his side on February 28, 2017. He was born on August 26, 1947 in Biloxi, MS to his parents, Roy and Adele Deason. He attended and graduated from St. Martin High School in 1965. He went to college at Northeast Louisiana University where...
Malcolm J. Arceneaux,
Feb 27, 2017
Malcolm J. Arceneaux, Sr. age 85, of Biloxi, Mississippi, passed away Monday, February 27, 2017, with his loving family by his side. He was born November 17, 1931. He graduated from Long Beach High School and attended the University of Southern Mississppi. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War. He was a real estate broker for...
Margaret Jemison Ramsey
Feb 27, 2017
Margaret Jemison Ramsey, 54, resident of Biloxi, MS, passed away, Monday, February 27, 2017. She was born in Biloxi, MS, on March 23, 1962, the youngest (6th) child of the late Alfred and Vera Mae Jemison. Margaret attended St. Johns Elementary and graduated from Sacred Heart Catholic Girls High School (Biloxi) & Perkinston Junior College. Margaret met and was married...
Gladys Baxter Schmidt
Feb 27, 2017
Ms. Gladys Baxter Schmidt, 80, died on February 27, 2017, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Ms. Schmidt was born in Zachary, Louisiana, and had been a long-time resident of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Robert J Schmidt, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baxter, of Zachary, Louisiana, and her sister Jean Rhodus of...
May Beatrice Fountain
Feb 27, 2017
Mrs. May Beatrice Fountain (née Spitz) passed away peacefully on Monday, February 27, 2017 at St. Joseph Hospice in Gulfport, Mississippi. May was born on January 25, 1933 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and spent much of her childhood there in the German Protestant Children's Orphanage. As a teenager, she lived with some of her older siblings in Houston, Texas. She...
Paul Richard Kent, Sr.
Feb 26, 2017
Paul Richard Kent, Sr of Fredericksburg, passed away Sunday, February 26, 2017, at the age of 96. Born in Linton, Indiana December 16, 1920, the son of Edward E. & Hazel M. Beaman Kent. He resided in Bloomington, IN from the age of 2 until his military service in WWII. After the war he resided in Biloxi, MS with his...
John Robert Purvis
Feb 25, 2017
Mr. John Robert Purvis, age 69, of D’Iberville, MS, passed away on Saturday, February 25, 2017 in Gulfport, MS. John was born on June 22, 1947 in Wesson, MS. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and the Air National Guard. He was a Vietnam Veteran who received a Purple Heart and was a devoted VA employee for 32 years....
Melvin M Sinquefield
Feb 25, 2017
Melvin M Sinquefield, 88, died Saturday, February 25, 2017 in Baton Rouge. Graveside service is Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. at Evergreen Cemetery, Gulfport. Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home, 15th Street, Gulfport is in charge of arrangements.
Thomas Hunter Cook
Feb 23, 2017
Thomas Hunter Cook, 91, passed away Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, at Canon Hospice in Gulfport, Ms. He is survived by his dearly loved wife, Maria Oliva Cook from Chiapas, Mexico, his son Thomas Anthony Cook, and daughters, Rosana Maria Tyson, Amelia Oliva (Dolly) Martin, Diana Maria Foroughi, Maria Aurora Mock, Mary Alice Martin, and Lucy Linda Russell, 25 grandchildren, and...
Camille Johnston Manella
Feb 22, 2017
Camille Johnston Manella, of Sarasota, Florida and formerly of Albion, New York and Biloxi, Mississippi, passed away suddenly on February 22, 2017. She was born in Biloxi on October 6, 1937 to Albert Sidney and Shirley Johnston. She was preceded in death by her parents; her sister, Margaret Mary Gicewicz; and her brother Noel Johnston. She is survived by her...
Mary "Lanette" Selke
Feb 22, 2017
Mary “Lanette” Selke, 49, of Biloxi, MS gained her heavenly wings on February 22, 2017, in Gulfport, MS after a very short and courageous fight with cancer. Lanette was born to Ronnie and Joan Good on April 8, 1967. She was raised in the St. Martin community where she attended St. Martin High School and graduated with the Class of...
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