Lottie Lynd Becomes Centenarian

OCEAN SPRINGS -- May 15 was a day of celebration for residents at Ocean Springs Nursing Home, who helped family and friends honor centenarian Lottie Lynd.

One of 10 children, Lynd was born 1910 to Newton Broadnax and Clara Cheshire Broadnax in Bastrop, La. She is the last surviving sibling.

Lynd has lived at the nursing home for three years, among the years she has lived in South Mississippi after relocating here at age 14. She married Earnest Lynd in 1926 and lived in Biloxi until 1941 when the family moved to Ocean Springs. The couple was married 69 years when Earnest Lynd passed away.

Known as Mrs. Lottie, she has a daughter and son, Louise Murphy and Jerry Lynd, five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, one great-great grandchild, and several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Lynd was born the same year that the Boy Scouts on Feb. 8 and Camp Fire Girls on Nov. 10 were founded, the year Mark Twain died on April 21, Mother Theresa was born Aug. 26 as well as Bonnie Parker on Oct. 1.

As well, Great Fire of 1910 that started near Elk City, Idaho. The fire killed 85 people, burned an estimated 1.2 million acres, destroyed several small towns and about half of Wallace, Idaho, leaving thousands without homes and businesses. The raging blaze burn Aug. 20 and Aug. 21.

Ocean Springs Nursing Home is part of the Gulf Coast Health Care.

Information for this article was obtained from www.gulflive.com/themississippipress on May 20, 2010, and other sources.

Thelma Inez Smoot

Mrs. Thelma Inez Smoot, 101, was a native of Portland, Ore., where she was born Dec. 5, 1907.  She died March 9, 2009. 

She moved to Imperial Valley, Calif., with her family in 1914, where she lived until relocating to Ocean Springs in 1997. 

Smoot's husband, John Magruder Smoot, whom she lived with 52 years, parents Frank and Vivian Nutbrown, brother Richard Nutbrown, sister Alna Simmons,  and grandson Robert John Graetz all preceded her in death.  

Survivors include daughter Phyllis Jean Luter, granddaughter Jerilyn (Wayne) Henry, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 

Smoot spent the last days of her life in a Vancleave personal care home operated by Karen Richards, Aileen Dewberry and Jessie Bang. 

Interment is at Evergreen Cemetery in Ocean Springs, where services were rendered by Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home. 

Annie A. Curtis

Discovered an obit today for Annie A. Curtis, who passed away May 6, 2007. The surprise came when learning that Jan. 26 was her birthdate.  

She was born in 1908 and was 99 at the time of her death in Ocean Springs.  

How blessed is that, to be able to honor her memory on her birthday, and the wisdom she brought to those around her. According to the obituary, Curtis was born in the Daisy Vestry community. She moved away and lived in several states before returning to South Mississippi. 

Annie Curtis, who had been married to the late Bruce Curtis, was a devoted nurse and special aunt to her many nephews and nieces. She was a longtime member of St. Paul Methodist Church in Ocean Springs. 

Preceding her own passing were her parents, Joseph and Matilda Jane Hawley, one sister and five brothers.  

Through the years Annie A. Curtis saw numerous changes in the world. Let's see what they were.

Jan. 26, 1908 -- Birthday of Stephane Grappelli, British jazz/violinist

Jan. 26, 1918 -- President Hoover calls for "wheatless" and "meatless" days for war effort 

Jan. 26, 1928 -- No information found.

Jan. 26, 1938 -- No information found.

Jan. 26, 1948 --Executive Order 9981, end segregation in U.S. Armed Forces signed; Ignaz Friedman, composer, dies at 65 

Jan. 26, 1958 --H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense; Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It": Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational 

Jan. 26, 1968 --Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die; Death of Weegee and Arthur Fellig, both American photographers, and Kenneth Scott Latourette, American historian. 

Jan. 26, 1978 --Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40; Mario Soares forms Portuguese government; International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit; Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void"; Leo Genn, actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry V), dies at 72 

Jan. 26, 1988 --Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor; "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 4,000+ performances; Death of Raymond Williams, Welsh novelist.

Jan. 26, 1998 -- Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip; President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"; 25th American Music Award: Spice Girls and Babyface win; Music educator Shinichi Suzuki "developed the ""Suzuki Method"" which taught violin to children", dies at 98; Walter Edmonds, writer (Drums Along the Mohawk), dies at 93 

May 06, 2007 -- 11 U.S. soldiers and a Russian journalist were in Iraq, six of them in Diyala when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle; Pro-American conservative Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president of France; a massive tornado obliterated most of Greensburg, Kansas, killing eight. Two others died elsewhere during weekend weather across the Plain states.

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