Obituaries
Jeremy Magrette
Feb 1, 2006
Mr. Jeremy Magrette, 31, of D'Iberville, MS, died Wednesday, February 1, 2006, in D'Iberville. Mr. Magrette was a native and lifelong resident of the coast. He was a 1993 graduate of Biloxi High School and a member of the Biloxi High Baseball Team where he was an all-star baseball player for several years. Mr. Magrette was an avid fisherman and...
Verna Mae Riley
Feb 1, 2006
Mrs. Verna Mae Riley, age 79, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Wednesday, February 1, 2006, in Ocean Springs. Mrs. Riley was a resident of the community for 41 years. She was a wonderful and loving mother, grandmother, and an excellent cook. She was preceded in death by her husband of 42 years, Roy D. Riley, and her parents, Christopher and...
Col. Wickliff Hooper Horne
Jan 31, 2006
Col. Wickliff Hooper Horne, age 88, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Tuesday, January 31, 2006, in Biloxi, MS. Col. Horne was a resident of the community for 29 years. He retired from the U.S. Air Force as a pilot with more than 30 years. He was a Protestant. He was preceded in death by a son, Wickliff Steven Horne, his...
Glenda Ann Elliott
Jan 30, 2006
Glenda Ann McCoy Price Elliott, entered this life on May 8, 1945, in Pensacola, Florida, and died January 30, 2006, in Ocean Springs Hospital after a lengthy illness. She was a member of Northside Assembly of God Church. She is survived by her loving and faithful husband, Donald Elliott, two daughters, Deborah Bethany of Pascagoula and Tracie Hicks of Ocean...
Linda L. Dykes LeMay
Jan 30, 2006
Linda L. Dykes LeMay, 61, of Saucier died Monday, January 30, 2006 in Gulfport. Mrs. LeMay was born in Poplarville and had been a resident of the Gulf Coast for most of her life. She was a member of the Baptist Faith. She was preceded in death by her parents Esther Mae and Theodore Garland Blackwell. Mrs. LeMay is survived...
Madeliene Carol Shaw Bizub
Jan 30, 2006
Mrs. Madeliene Carol Shaw Bizub, age 56, of Ocean Springs, MS., died on Monday, January 30, 2006, in Ocean Springs. Madeliene was born on October 7, 1949, to the late Lura Adel Hall Shaw and Cimmie D. Shaw of Atlanta, Georgia. She led a varied and interesting life. She was a nurse by vocation and had served in the Air...
Jean Haman
Jan 29, 2006
Mrs. Jean Haman, 75, of Biloxi, MS, died Sunday, January 29, 2006, in Ocean Springs. Mrs. Haman was a native of Oxford, MS and had been a resident of the coast since 1974. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. She was a beloved wife and mother. Mrs. Haman is survived by her husband of 50 years, Arthur...
Agnes Hedges
Jan 29, 2006
Mrs. Agnes L. Hedges, age 87, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Sunday, January 29, 2006, in Kiln, MS, Mrs. Hedges was born on November 12, 1918. She was very interested in voluntary work and worked as a voluntary auxiliary worker for the Ocean Springs Hospital for over twenty years. Mrs. Hedges won many awards there. She had over 2000 volunteer...
Jesse L. Canon, Jr.
Jan 29, 2006
Jesse L. Canon, Jr. age 79, left this earth for Heaven, Sunday morning on January 29, 2006. Jesse was born in Vaiden, MS on November 28, 1926, to the late Jesse Lee Canon, Sr. and Marilla Vail Canon of Vaiden, MS (Carroll County). He is survived by his wife Rosa Lee McCoy Canon of Batesville, MS, one daughter Gwendolyn Canon...
Samuel Smolcich
Jan 29, 2006
Mr. Sam Smolcich, 71, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Sunday, January 29, 2006, at his home in Ocean Springs. Sam was born on December 16, 1934, in Biloxi, MS., to the late Joseph and Francis Cvitanovich Smolcich. He was a member of the Slavic Benevolent Association (Slavonian Lodge) which he dearly loved, where he shared good times with good friends....
Paul Mack, Jr.
Jan 29, 2006
Mr. Paul C. Mack, Jr., age 59, of Vancleave, MS., died Sunday, January 29, 2006, in Biloxi, MS. Mr. Mack was a lifelong resident of the community. He was the Master Chef at L.B.'s in the Biloxi Grand Casino, the Biloxi Belle Casino and Sea and Sirloin Restaurant. He was of the Lutheran faith. He was preceded in death by...
Mr. Ralph Mattina
Jan 28, 2006
Mr. Ralph "Country" Mattina, 82, of Biloxi, MS died Saturday, January 28, 2006 in Houston, TX. He was a lifelong resident of Biloxi and a veteran of WW II serving in the U.S. Navy. Country was a well known mixologist for many different lounges, nightclubs and hotels. He worked at The Fiesta at the Fiesta, Top of the Sheraton Supper...
Ralph Ernest Mattina
Jan 28, 2006
Mr. Ralph "Country" Mattina, 82, of Biloxi, MS died Saturday, January 28, 2006 in Houston, TX. He was a lifelong resident of Biloxi and a veteran of WW II serving in the U.S. Navy. Country was a well known mixologist for many different lounges, nightclubs and hotels. He worked at The Fiesta at the Fiesta, Top of the Sheraton Supper...
Robert Leon Gay,M/Sgt. USAF Retired
Jan 28, 2006
Robert Leon Gay, M/Sgt. USAF, Retired, age 70, of D'Iberville, MS., died Saturday, January 28, 2006, at the Wilson Medical Center in Wilson, N.C. Mr. Gay was a resident of D'Iberville since 1963. He was a US Air Force Retired M/Sgt. after 20 years. He was preceded in death by his wife, Louise Ladner Gay, and his father, George Oran...
Leon v. Richie, Sr.
Jan 26, 2006
Mr. Leon V. Richie, Sr., died January 26, 2006, at home after a short battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his family and plenty of love. He will be sadly missed, for his was the backbone of our family. He was born November 3, 1924 in Tibbie, Alabama to Edward and Eula Taylor Richie. As a boy he worked...
Doris Lawrence
Jan 26, 2006
Mrs. Doris J. Lawrence, age 72, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Thursday, January 26, 2006, in Ocean Springs. Mrs. Lawrence was a member of the community for 30 years. She attended the University of Southern Mississippi and received her BS degree in nursing. She was a sorority member of Beta Sigma Phi, a member of the Elks Lodge #5109 in...
Mary Louise Evans Key
Jan 25, 2006
Mary Louise Evans Key, 94, of Biloxi, passed away on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 in Biloxi. Mrs. Key was born January 4, 1912, in Clarke County, Mississippi, to the late James John Evans, Sr. and Siddie Inez Dunnam Evans of Bay Springs. She was a graduate of Meridian High School and resided most of her life in Meridian where she...
Nora Holland
Jan 24, 2006
Mrs. Nora Mae Royce Holland, age 75, of Ocean Springs, MS., passed away on Tuesday, January 24, 2006, in Vancleave, MS., from colon cancer. Mrs. Holland was born in Linton, Indiana and later moved to Brewton, AL. The Air Force brought her and her family to Mississippi. She and her late husband traveled the world over through their military assignments....
Evelyn Van Court
Jan 23, 2006
Evelyn M. Van Court of Ocean Springs, MS., died peacefully on Monday, January 23, 2006, in Ocean Springs. She was a lifelong resident of the community, a graduate of Ocean Springs High School, and was active in the yearly reunions until her health failed. She was a charter member of the Tullis-Toledano Foundation and was active in the Ocean Springs...
Norma Isabelle Gale
Jan 23, 2006
Norma Isabelle Gale, 93, of Gulfport, died peacefully at her home on Monday, January 23, 2006. Mrs. Gale was born in Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana on May 25, 1912. She was a former longtime resident of California, moving to Gulfport in November, 2001. Mrs. Gale was a graduate of Sacramento High School, where she graduated with an accounting honor. While...
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