From left:
Jessie Edith Travirca (1915-2003)
Jamie Travirca (1956-1956)
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The following information thanks to Findagrave Contributor Dawna Westbrook (47076696)
BAY ST. LOUIS --- "She wanted to be involved in everything," Gail Carr said of her mother-in-law, Jesse Edith Spotorno Travirca, who died Friday and was buried Monday.
"Easter Sunday? She knew her condition. She was thin and frail, but we had to put her in a wheelchair and take her to the Easter party. She just had to go."
Travirca was a force to be reckoned with around Hancock County for many of her 87 years, having worked, in her younger days, as a hairdresser "in her 20s, maybe early 30s," son Bart (for Bartholomew) said through his wife.
"Then she started having children," Carr said, seven children, of whom six are living, "but she also worked at Ramsey's Department Store."
The name will mean little or nothing to newcomers, but those whose memories go back to the middle of the last century will remember Ramsey's as the closest thing to posh that Bay St. Louis had at the time and probably the only place in town where a woman could buy name-brand cosmetics "and beautiful underwear," Carr said. "We always bought that pretty underwear there."
She described Travirca as a woman who always had some project going or something to do.
"She was a seamstress, and she also made dolls to sell," Carr said, "but she ended up giving most of them away." And she and her former husband, James Travirca, were instrumental in the early years of The Sidelines Club, an alumni group at St. Stanislaus High School. Always active in the community, she also was a charter member of the Krewe of Nereids Carnival organization and was crowned Queen Doris VI in 1972.
In recent years she had moved away from the Coast, first to South Florida and then to Metairie, La., living with a daughter because of her medical condition.
"She was a strong Catholic lady," Carr said. "She would tell us, 'I'm not signing on to go right now, but I know where I'm going, and I'm not afraid.' "
Friends and family gathered Monday night at Edmond Fahey Funeral Home in Bay St. Louis for a memorial service and the recitation of the rosary.
Sun Herald, The (Biloxi, MS) - Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Jessie Edith Travirca (1915-2003)
Jamie Travirca (1956-1956)
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The following information thanks to Findagrave Contributor Dawna Westbrook (47076696)
BAY ST. LOUIS --- "She wanted to be involved in everything," Gail Carr said of her mother-in-law, Jesse Edith Spotorno Travirca, who died Friday and was buried Monday.
"Easter Sunday? She knew her condition. She was thin and frail, but we had to put her in a wheelchair and take her to the Easter party. She just had to go."
Travirca was a force to be reckoned with around Hancock County for many of her 87 years, having worked, in her younger days, as a hairdresser "in her 20s, maybe early 30s," son Bart (for Bartholomew) said through his wife.
"Then she started having children," Carr said, seven children, of whom six are living, "but she also worked at Ramsey's Department Store."
The name will mean little or nothing to newcomers, but those whose memories go back to the middle of the last century will remember Ramsey's as the closest thing to posh that Bay St. Louis had at the time and probably the only place in town where a woman could buy name-brand cosmetics "and beautiful underwear," Carr said. "We always bought that pretty underwear there."
She described Travirca as a woman who always had some project going or something to do.
"She was a seamstress, and she also made dolls to sell," Carr said, "but she ended up giving most of them away." And she and her former husband, James Travirca, were instrumental in the early years of The Sidelines Club, an alumni group at St. Stanislaus High School. Always active in the community, she also was a charter member of the Krewe of Nereids Carnival organization and was crowned Queen Doris VI in 1972.
In recent years she had moved away from the Coast, first to South Florida and then to Metairie, La., living with a daughter because of her medical condition.
"She was a strong Catholic lady," Carr said. "She would tell us, 'I'm not signing on to go right now, but I know where I'm going, and I'm not afraid.' "
Friends and family gathered Monday night at Edmond Fahey Funeral Home in Bay St. Louis for a memorial service and the recitation of the rosary.
Sun Herald, The (Biloxi, MS) - Tuesday, April 29, 2003
From left:
Jessie Edith Travirca (1915-2003)
Jamie Travirca (1956-1956)
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The following information thanks to Findagrave Contributor Dawna Westbrook (47076696)
BAY ST. LOUIS --- "She wanted to be involved in everything," Gail Carr said of her mother-in-law, Jesse Edith Spotorno Travirca, who died Friday and was buried Monday.
"Easter Sunday? She knew her condition. She was thin and frail, but we had to put her in a wheelchair and take her to the Easter party. She just had to go."
Travirca was a force to be reckoned with around Hancock County for many of her 87 years, having worked, in her younger days, as a hairdresser "in her 20s, maybe early 30s," son Bart (for Bartholomew) said through his wife.
"Then she started having children," Carr said, seven children, of whom six are living, "but she also worked at Ramsey's Department Store."
The name will mean little or nothing to newcomers, but those whose memories go back to the middle of the last century will remember Ramsey's as the closest thing to posh that Bay St. Louis had at the time and probably the only place in town where a woman could buy name-brand cosmetics "and beautiful underwear," Carr said. "We always bought that pretty underwear there."
She described Travirca as a woman who always had some project going or something to do.
"She was a seamstress, and she also made dolls to sell," Carr said, "but she ended up giving most of them away." And she and her former husband, James Travirca, were instrumental in the early years of The Sidelines Club, an alumni group at St. Stanislaus High School. Always active in the community, she also was a charter member of the Krewe of Nereids Carnival organization and was crowned Queen Doris VI in 1972.
In recent years she had moved away from the Coast, first to South Florida and then to Metairie, La., living with a daughter because of her medical condition.
"She was a strong Catholic lady," Carr said. "She would tell us, 'I'm not signing on to go right now, but I know where I'm going, and I'm not afraid.' "
Friends and family gathered Monday night at Edmond Fahey Funeral Home in Bay St. Louis for a memorial service and the recitation of the rosary.
Sun Herald, The (Biloxi, MS) - Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Jessie Edith Travirca (1915-2003)
Jamie Travirca (1956-1956)
--------------------------------------------
The following information thanks to Findagrave Contributor Dawna Westbrook (47076696)
BAY ST. LOUIS --- "She wanted to be involved in everything," Gail Carr said of her mother-in-law, Jesse Edith Spotorno Travirca, who died Friday and was buried Monday.
"Easter Sunday? She knew her condition. She was thin and frail, but we had to put her in a wheelchair and take her to the Easter party. She just had to go."
Travirca was a force to be reckoned with around Hancock County for many of her 87 years, having worked, in her younger days, as a hairdresser "in her 20s, maybe early 30s," son Bart (for Bartholomew) said through his wife.
"Then she started having children," Carr said, seven children, of whom six are living, "but she also worked at Ramsey's Department Store."
The name will mean little or nothing to newcomers, but those whose memories go back to the middle of the last century will remember Ramsey's as the closest thing to posh that Bay St. Louis had at the time and probably the only place in town where a woman could buy name-brand cosmetics "and beautiful underwear," Carr said. "We always bought that pretty underwear there."
She described Travirca as a woman who always had some project going or something to do.
"She was a seamstress, and she also made dolls to sell," Carr said, "but she ended up giving most of them away." And she and her former husband, James Travirca, were instrumental in the early years of The Sidelines Club, an alumni group at St. Stanislaus High School. Always active in the community, she also was a charter member of the Krewe of Nereids Carnival organization and was crowned Queen Doris VI in 1972.
In recent years she had moved away from the Coast, first to South Florida and then to Metairie, La., living with a daughter because of her medical condition.
"She was a strong Catholic lady," Carr said. "She would tell us, 'I'm not signing on to go right now, but I know where I'm going, and I'm not afraid.' "
Friends and family gathered Monday night at Edmond Fahey Funeral Home in Bay St. Louis for a memorial service and the recitation of the rosary.
Sun Herald, The (Biloxi, MS) - Tuesday, April 29, 2003
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