Mrs. Jamie Waddell Hengen, a true Southern Lady of Biloxi, MS, died Sunday, November 26, 2006, in Biloxi.
Mrs. Hengen was born May 1, 1919, in Erwin, Tennessee, and had been a resident of Louisville, Kentucky. She spent most of her childhood growing up Fairhope, Alabama before moving to Biloxi. She was a 1939 graduate of Biloxi High School and employed with the First National Bank of Biloxi (now Bancorp South). She and Louis Hengen were married December 15, 1948 at The Episcopal Church of The Redeemer by Rev. E.A. DeMiller.
Mrs. Hengen was preceded in death by her husband, Louis Hengen, in 1989; parents, James H. and Mollie C. Waddell. Survivors include her daughters, Sheri H. Nelson and her husband, Steve, of Iuka, MS, and Jamie Lynn H. Swan and her husband, George, of Baton Rouge, LA; son, Wayne L. Hengen of Biloxi, and grandchildren, Heather Hengen of Cordova, TN, Louis Hengen of Washington, D.C., David Nelson, Stacey Nelson and Mollie Nelson all of Iuka, MS.
Visitation is Tuesday, November 28, 2006, from 6 until 8 p.m. at the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the funeral home chapel. Interment will follow in Southern Memorial Park. The family requests that memorials be made to one's favorite charity.
View and sign register book at www.bradfordokeefe.com.
Published in The Sun Herald on 11/28/2006.
Guest Book • Funeral home info
Wayne Louis Hengen Born: 27 Feb 1951
Place: Biloxi, MS
Lived: 2006
Place: Biloxi, MS
Married: Gigi Gould
Born: 3 Mar 1952
Place: Biloxi, MS
Lived: 2006
Place: Cordova, TH
Date Married: circa 1978 - Divorced circa 2003
Sharon Kay Hengen
Born: 12 Dec 1953
Place: Biloxi, MS
Lived: 2006
Place: Iuka, MS
Married: Stephen Merle Nelson
Born: circa 1958
Place: Biloxi, MS
Lived: 2006
Place: Iuka, MS
Date Married: 29 Nov 1974(?)
Jamie Lynn Hengen
Born: 25 Apr 1955
Place: Biloxi, MS
Lived: 2006
Place: Baton Rouge, LA
Married: George A. Swan
Born:
Place: Biloxi, MS
Lived: 2006
Place: Baton Rouge, LA
Date Married: circa 1976
Information and data presented in these pages is based on research documented by John George Hengen III in 1991
Updated by Bill Stillman in Jan 2006
Data and information have been obtained from ancestry.com
