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SIMMONS, MARY MOZELLA RICHARDSON
09/06/02
Mary Mozella Richardson Simmons, a retired nursing assistant for Dependable Nursing Service, died Thursday at Chalmette Life Care Center. She was 77. Mrs. Simmons was born in Frost and lived in New Orleans for the past 52 years. She received a nursing assistant certification from McCarty Night School. She was a formal member of Queen Vashti Grand Chapter, Order of Eastern Star. Survivors include four sons, Willie, Louis, Nathaniel and the Rev. Edward C. Simmons Jr.; two daughters, Gladys and Audrey Whittington; 39 grandchildren; and 43 great-grandchildren. A funeral will be held Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at Greater New Home Baptist Church, Family and Activity Center, 1735 Delery St. in New Orleans. Visitation will begin at 8:30 a.m. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park. Cooper Glapion Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
BUTLER, CALVIN JOSEPH
09/05/02
Calvin Joseph Butler, a retired tank tester with Avondale shipyard, died Monday of cancer at Metropolitan Hospice. He was 74. Mr. Butler was a lifelong resident of New Orleans. Survivors include his wife, Anna Baham Butler; a son, Terence Butler; two daughters, Deidre Coleman and Tana Butler; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. A Mass will be said today at 11 a.m. at St. Augustine Catholic Church, 1210 Gov. Nicholls St. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Tharp-Sontheimer-Laudumiey Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
ZELLER, WILLIAM A.
09/05/02
William A. Zeller, owner of Zeller Manufacturing, died Tuesday at East Jefferson General Hospital of complications from a stroke. He was 61. Mr. Zeller was born in New Orleans and lived in Mandeville for the past three years. Survivors include five daughters, Tahmi Garaud, Billie, Kim and Peggy Zeller and Beth Bulger; three brothers, Francis, Sidney and Bobby Zeller; four sisters, Earline Mancl , Lorena Bonnaffons, Paulette Heartwell and Patsy Vinson; and four grandchildren. A Mass will be said today at 11 a.m. at Leitz-Eagan Funeral Home, 4747 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Burial will be in Metairie Cemetery.
GUIDRY, HORACE LAWRENCE JR.
09/07/02
Horace Lawrence Guidry Jr., a retired operator for the Harvey Volunteer Fire Department, died Thursday of cancer at his home in Marrero. He was 70. Mr. Guidry was born in New Orleans and lived in Folsom for the past four years. He was a member of the Covington Lions Club and was named 2002 Lion of the Year. He was an Air Force veteran. Survivors include his wife, Barbara Landry Guidry; a son, Larry M. Guidry; three stepsons, Walter, Daniel and Eugene Landry; a stepdaughter, Gwen Hattier; two sisters, Patricia Berggren and Hazel Fohmer; four grandchildren; six step grandchildren; and three step great-grandchildren. A funeral will be held today at 1 p.m. at Mothe Funeral Home, 2100 West Bank Expressway, Harvey. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Burial will be in Restlawn Park in Avondale.
HARRIS, ALICE ‘MOTHER' KENNEDY
09/05/02
Alice "Mother" Kennedy Harris, a homemaker, died Friday at her home. She was 85. Ms. Harris was born in Napoleonville and lived in Marrero for the past 31 years. She was a member of New Zion Baptist Church. Survivors include four sons, Clarence Harris, Thomas Kennedy, Jerald Harris and Lionell Harris Sr.; three daughters, Geraldine Batiste, Nellie H. Hill and Barbara Harris; 36 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren. A funeral will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at New Zion Baptist Church, 1131 Garden Road, Marrero. Visitation will begin at 8 a.m. Burial will be in Restlawn Park. D.W. Rhodes Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
THOMAS, JABON JABIN ASANTI
09/05/02
Jabon Jabin Asanti Thomas, an Air Force serviceman, died Sept. 1 at Charity Hospital of injuries received in an auto accident. He was 22. Mr. Thomas was born in New Orleans and was stationed in Okinawa, Japan. He had been a member of St. Paul Baptist Church in Dallas and Turner Chapel Church in Roseland. Survivors include his mother, Beverly Colar of Dallas; a brother, Benjamin Thomas of Harvey; and five sisters, Tenč and Shalin Taylor of Amite, Shyra Taylor Hornsby of Charlotte, N.C., Gailyn Thomas of Chicago and Lurdria Brown of Marrero. A funeral will be held today at 1 p.m. at Church of God in Christ in Amite. A service will be held Friday at noon at St. Stephen Baptist Church, 1724 Whitney Ave. Burial will be in McDonoghville Cemetery in Gretna. Richardson Funeral Home in Amite is in charge of arrangements.
KNIGHT, GILBERT SR.
09/05/02
Gilbert Knight Sr., an operator for Colonial Sugar Refinery, died Monday of pneumonia at Tulane Medical Center. He was 81. Mr. Knight was a lifelong resident of Mount Airy. He was a member of St. Mark Baptist Church. He served in the Army for three years as a private first class and received a World War II victory medal. Survivors include his wife, Marjorie J. Knight; four sons, Felton Knight and Gilbert Knight Jr. of New Orleans, Vernett Knight of LaPlace and Alton Knight of Anderson, Ind.; four daughters, Terry Bell of Folsom, Marlene Knight of New Orleans, Darlene Knight and Betty Charles of Los Angeles, Calif.; a brother, Claude Knight Sr.; 17 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. A funeral will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at St. Mark Baptist Church, 132 Marquez St. in Mount Airy. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Burial will be in St. Peter Cemetery in Reserve. Bardell's Mortuary is in charge of the arrangements.
BOVIE, LOUISE ‘PIE' YOUNG
09/06/02
Louise "Pie" Young Bovie, a retired cosmetologist, died Sept. 2 of undetermined causes at her home. She was 67. Mrs. Bovie was born in Edgard and lived in Marrero. She was a former employee of Belle Chasse State School. Survivors include her mother, Ophelia Y. Lumar; six daughters, Cheryl B. Armstead, Wanda B. and Toni B. Mays, Myrna B. Potter, Trudy A. Bovie and Marilyn B. Pearley; two sons, Gerald Bovie and Esler Bovie Jr.; three sisters, Lorenza Y. Simmons, Yolanda Lumar Miller and Joyce Marquez; three brothers, Charles and Vernon Lumar and Otis Lumar Jr.; 18 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. A funeral will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Greater New St. Peter Baptist Church on West Third Street in Edgard. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Burial will be in Restlawn Park in Avondale. The Baloney Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
MARTIN, DAVID YOUNG 'DAVE' JR
09/18/02
Dave Martin, owner of Martin Wine Cellar
David Young "Dave" Martin Jr., who turned a small Uptown shop into one of New Orleans' most successful wine and food businesses, died Saturday of complications from Parkinson's disease at Touro Infirmary. He was 82.
Mr. Martin, known in his TV commercials as "the steely eyed wine merchant," was born in Birmingham, Ala., and lived in New Orleans for the past 57 years.
He opened Martin Wine Cellar in 1946 at Baronne and Gen. Taylor streets.
"It was a great location," Mr. Martin recalled many years later. "There was Henry's barbershop across the street, the Fine Arts Theater a block away on Constantinople, the best bakery in town on Baronne, the grocery that was later Louvier's, Weide's pharmacy, the White Star meat market, a Chinese laundry."
But it took a while for Mr. Martin's business to thrive.
"The day we opened, I didn't have a cash register. I had a cigar box," he said in a 1992 interview. On that first day, May 24, 1946, he took in $29.51.
"No running water, no toilet," Mr. Martin recalled. "I'd go over to Mr. Henry's to use the bathroom. We also had a warehouse -- 3 feet by 15 feet -- but all we had in there was one case of Canada Dry soda. Everything else was out front."
The young wine merchant came up with ingenious measures to help make ends meet.
"Money was so tight that I would sit on the stoop and, when someone came along, I would run inside to turn on the lights so they wouldn't think I didn't have any customers," Mr. Martin said.
"My grandparents, who lived at Prytania and Marengo, were in the wine business, and I knew the trade I wanted -- the Uptown, money people. I didn't want to sell to the guy who drinks muscatel.
"I succeeded because I had a strong back and a weak mind. Anybody who'd go to work seven days a week has got to be crazy. And we were so far ahead of the rest of the country going into the wine business; wine was cheap, cheap, cheap then."
The business soon began growing. Mr. Martin started a wholesale wine and spirits business in 1953, added "fancy groceries" to his shelves, expanded the Baronne Street store significantly in 1968, and opened a delicatessen in the store in 1977, because "I always wanted to be in the food business, and this way no one has to go out to lunch."
In 1981, he bought the old Fine Arts theater to house his thriving holiday wine-and-cheese gift basket operation.
Another former movie house, the Sena Mall Theatre, became the site of the family-owned business's Metairie store, which opened in 1989.
"My father educated people about wine," said Mr. Martin's son, Cedric. "He started wine tastings. He insisted on the best for his customers."
Mr. Martin attended the University of Alabama. He was an Army veteran of World War II and was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in campaigns in France, Belgium and Germany.
He was a member of the Wines and Spirits Guild of America and was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1985 by Market Watch, a publication of the wine, spirits and beer industry.
Survivors include his wife, Margot H. Martin; a son, Cedric David Martin; a daughter, Monique Martin Duncan; and four grandchildren.
Services will be private. Bultman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
CATALANO, MARIE CURRERA
09/22/02
Marie Currera Catalano, a homemaker, died Friday at Chateau De Notre Dame. She was 89. Mrs. Catalano was a lifelong resident of New Orleans. She was a past president of the Pontchartrain Garden Club and a member of La Petite Art Guild. Survivors include two sons, Gerald and Roy Catalano; a daughter, Diane Newman; a brother, Charles Currera; four sisters, Antoinette Scherick, Lena Held, Joyce LeBlanc and Rose Centanni; and six grandchildren. A Mass will be said Monday at noon at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. Burial will be in Greenwood Mausoleum.
