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JONES, JOSEPH P. JR.
06/04/02
Joseph P. Jones Jr., a retired maintenance supervisor at Tulane University Medical School, died May 28 at Lutheran Nursing Home. He was 87. Mr. Jones was a lifelong resident of New Orleans. He was an Army veteran of World War II serving in the European Theater, and he received the EAMETO Medal. He was a member of St. James Methodist Church of Louisiana. Survivors include four sons, David and Joseph P. Jones III and Milton and Grant Armstead; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. A funeral will be Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at St. James Methodist Church of Louisiana, 1925 Ursulines Ave. Visitation will begin at 8 a.m. Burial will be in Biloxi National Cemetery in Biloxi, Miss. Tilly's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
MACALUSO, TONI ANN
06/04/02
Toni Ann Macaluso, a pharmacist for Rite Aide, died Saturday of lung cancer at Touro Infirmary. She was 50. Ms. Macaluso was born in Marrero and lived in Westwego for the past 17 years. Survivors include her companion, Mike Runyon Sr.; a son, Mike Runyon Jr.; a daughter, Cassie Vining; two brothers, Tommy Molaison and Paul Macaluso Jr.; and a sister, Cheryl M. Forquer. A Mass will be said today at 9 a.m. at Mothe Funeral Home, 2100 West Bank Expressway in Harvey. Visitation will begin at 8:30 a.m. Burial will be in Hook and Ladder Cemetery.
OCHELLO, DOMINICK ‘NICK' SR.
06/06/02
Dominick ‘Nick' Ochello Sr., owner of Dominick Ochello Builders, died Monday in a motorcycle accident in East Baton Rouge. He was 66. Mr. Ochello was born in New Orleans and lived in Lafitte. He was an Army veteran. Survivors include his wife, Charlotte Burgess Ochello; two sons, Vincent and Dominick Ochello Jr.; two daughters, Karry Degruise and Vicki Genna; a brother, Tommy Ochello; two sisters, Liz Caraway and Phyllis Nicosia; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A Mass will be said today at 11 a.m. at Mothe Funeral Home, 7040 Lapalco Blvd., Marrero. Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. Burial will be in St. Pius X Cemetery in Crown Point.
STEVENS, ALBERT JOSEPH 羨.J.'
06/12/02
Albert Joseph "A.J." Stevens, a retired employee of BellSouth, died Monday of congestive heart failure. He was 73. Mr. Stevens was a lifelong resident of New Orleans. He attended St. Aloysius High School. He was a Navy and Louisiana Air National Guard veteran. He was a former employee of Telephone Pioneers of America. He was a member of the Henry Thomas Ross American Legion Post, the Association of Senior Citizens and the Louisiana Air National Guard Retirement Association. Survivors include his wife, Betty Jean Stevens; a son, Ronnie James Stevens; and a sister, Rita Stevens Sambola. A Mass will be said Friday at noon at All Faiths Funeral Home, 5200 Canal Blvd. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Burial will be in Garden of Memories.
TUSA, DR. JOSEPH A.
06/15/02
Dr. Joseph A. Tusa, a dentist, died Wednesday of a stroke at East Jefferson General Hospital. He was 62. Mr. Tusa was born in New Orleans and lived in Metairie for the past 22 years. He was a graduate of St. Aloysius High School and Loyola Dental School. He was a fellow and a master of the American Academy of General Dentistry, and a former president and member of the Academy of General Dentistry. He was a coach of the Special Olympics powerlifting competition. He was an Army veteran. Survivors include his wife, Jung Lan Tusa; a son, Mark Anthony Kang Tusa; two daughters, Heather Marie Lan Tusa and Claudia Anna Lupo Tusa; his mother, Marie Lupo Tusa; a brother, Salvador Thomas Tusa; and a sister, Mary Ann Tusa. A Mass will be said today at 11 a.m. at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Burial will be in Lake Lawn Park Mausoleum.
POCHÉ, JOSEPH PAUL
06/06/02
Joseph Paul Poché, a lawyer, died Monday of cancer at East Jefferson General Hospital. He was 49. Mr. Poché was born in New Orleans and lived in Metairie for the past 12 years. He graduated from Jesuit High School, Loyola University and Loyola School of Law. He was employed at 1st Parish Court as an indigent attorney and had his own practice. Survivors include his wife, Linda Surdek Poché; his father, Oscar L. Poché; his mother, Anne McGill Poché; a brother, James P. Poché Sr.; and a sister, Sandra P. Heine. A Mass will be said Saturday at 1 p.m. at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 4640 Canal St.
BARROW, EARL J. SR.
05/30/02
Earl J. Barrow Sr., a sheet metal mechanic with Sheet Metal Local No. 11, died Tuesday of complications from stomach cancer at Chalmette Medical Center. He was 66. Mr. Barrow was born in New Orleans and lived in Meraux for the past 40 years. He was a member of the St. Bernard Sheriff's Posse. Survivors include his wife, Dora Lee Barthelemy Barrow; three sons, Gary V., Harry V. and Earl J. Barrow Jr.; six sisters, Peggy Chauppetta Hammons, Christine Chauppetta Boudin, Shirley Chauppetta Blackledge, Margaret Barrow Sercey, Augustine Barrow Bear and Florastine Barrow; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. A funeral will be today at 1 p.m. at St. Bernard Memorial Funeral Home, 701 W. Virtue St. in Chalmette. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Burial will be in St. Bernard Memorial Gardens.
FONTANILLE, MARY DAIGLE
05/20/02
Mary Daigle Fontanille, a retired teacher, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at Meadowcrest Hospital. She was 69. Ms. Fontanille was born in New Orleans and lived in Gretna for the past 40 years. Survivors include a son, William Fontanille; a daughter, Cheryl DeForest; and two grandchildren. A Mass will be said today at 1 p.m. at Leitz-Eagan Funeral Home Chapel, 4747 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery.
GIBSON, EDWARD FREDERICK SR.
05/19/02
Edward Frederick Gibson Sr., a sanitation worker for the city of New Orleans, died Wednesday at St. Claude Medical Center. He was 81. Mr. Gibson was a lifelong resident of New Orleans. He was a cook first class in the Navy during World War II, receiving the Asiatic Pacific Ribbon with five stars, and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with two stars. He was a member of Bethel A.M.E. Church. Survivors include his wife, Elyse Harrell Gibson; two sons, Michael and Fredrick Gibson; a stepson, Landry Duchane; a stepdaughter, Marilyn Ellis; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. A funeral will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at Bethel A.M.E. Church, 1437 Caffin Ave. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Burial will be in Providence Memorial Park. Tilly's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Rev. Hugh McKee Jr., St. Martin's rector
06/14/02
The Rev. Hugh Crockett McKee Jr., a journalist turned minister who was rector of St. Martin's Episcopal Church for a quarter-century, died Thursday at Lambeth House in New Orleans. He was 91.
He was born in Frankfort, Ky., and was a writer for The Louisville Times for 10 years before joining the Army in 1942. He was a lieutenant in the Army's "Fighting 69th" Division.
After World War II, he enrolled at the University of the South's School of Theology, and graduated in 1948. He served two churches in Kentucky, at Bowling Green and Russellville until 1951 when he moved to Metairie to become St. Martin's rector.
He retired in 1976.
Father McKee was a founding member of St. Martin's Episcopal School's Board of Trustees, and he wrote a history of the school in 1995. An avid genealogist and amateur historian, Father McKee was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, the Society of Colonial Wars and the National Huguenot Society.
Survivors include his wife, Mary-Frances McKee.
A funeral will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at St. Martin's Episcopal Church, 2216 Metairie Road. Visitation will start at 12:30 p.m.
Burial will be in Metairie Cemetery.
Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
O'KEEFE, JAMES BERNARD
06/02/02
James Bernard O'Keefe, a retired sales representative with L.H. Hayward Co., died May 15 at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Alexandria. He was 81. Mr. O'Keefe was born in New Orleans and lived in Metairie for the past 39 years. He graduated from Jesuit High School. He served in the Army Air Force during World War II as a flight engineer on the China, Burma and India route. He was a pilot, a founding member of the St. Charles Aviation Association in Ama and a former member of the Civil Air Patrol. Survivors include his wife, Alice Bradfield O'Keefe. A graveside service was held May 23 at Mount Zion Private Cemetery in Longwood. Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Shreveport handled the arrangements.
HATFIELD, CHARLES J.
06/15/02
Charles J. Hatfield, civil rights pioneer
Charles J. Hatfield, who inadvertently helped create Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge when he sued in 1946 to integrate Louisiana State University's law school, died Friday of complications from pancreatic cancer at Memorial Medical Center's Mercy campus. He was 87.
In response to Mr. Hatfield's litigation, the state appropriated $40,000 to establish Southern's law school, the first in the state for African-Americans. His attorneys, including A.P. Tureaud of New Orleans and Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP, had earned their degrees at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
But Mr. Hatfield, a Xavier University graduate, wound up not studying law at all. Before Southern's center opened in 1947, he moved to Atlanta because Tureaud feared for his client's safety. He earned a master's degree in sociology at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University) in 1948 and returned to New Orleans, his hometown, to acquire a master's degree in education at Xavier in 1950.
Mr. Hatfield, who spent his career teaching in two New Orleans high schools, was a founding member of United Teachers of New Orleans, the teachers' union.
Southern honored him twice: on the law center's 50th anniversary in 1997 and at its commencement last month, when it gave him its first-ever honorary law degree.
The university hailed him "for exhibiting courage, foresight and determination in securing for African-Americans the right to study law in the state of Louisiana."
Mr. Hatfield was humble about such praise. "Although I never anticipated great acclaim for the things I have done to further the cause of our people, it does make one feel warm inside to be reminded of some benefits mankind has derived," he said in an interview in The Louisiana Education Association Journal.
Mr. Hatfield sued LSU because its law dean, Paul M. Hebert, told him in a letter that "Louisiana State University does not accept colored students."
Similar petitions were filed in 1946 in Oklahoma, Texas and South Carolina. Mr. Hatfield's suit was unique because he filed on his own without being recruited to do so, said Evelyn Wilson, a professor at Southern University Law Center who is writing a history of Mr. Hatfield and his family.
Defendants were Hebert, LSU President William Bass Hatcher and LSU's Board of Supervisors. Before they could respond to Mr. Hatfield's suit, the state Board of Education in December 1946 started the process of establishing a law school at Southern that would be open for the 1947-48 term. A month later, the Board of Liquidation of State Debt appropriated $40,000 for that purpose.
Even though Mr. Hatfield never enrolled there, his litigation was hardly in vain, Wilson said.
"Because of the suit, Southern University has a law center," she said. "If nobody had brought any litigation, there probably wouldn't have been a law center."
Mr. Hatfield, who also had worked as a postal clerk, taught Spanish, English and social studies at Joseph S. Clark and George Washington Carver high schools.
From 1954 to 1972, Mr. Hatfield was active in the black teachers' union and held several offices, including secretary-treasurer, vice president and lobbyist. In 1966, he helped organize the city's first teachers' strike.
When United Teachers of New Orleans was formed in 1972 with the merger of the black and white teachers' unions, Mr. Hatfield was a charter member, and he helped create its credit union. When he retired in 1979, he received UTNO's Pioneer Award in recognition of his union work.
"Charles was a strong union person," said Nat Lacour, former longtime UTNO president. "We could count on him to be straightforward. He was very interested in the union's work to improve salaries and working conditions. He was very strong in his view about teachers' having a greater voice in decision-making in the school district and their schools."
As a member of UTNO's executive board, "Charles was my strong right arm," said Lacour, executive vice president of the union's parent organization, the American Federation of Teachers.
Mr. Hatfield also was a founder of the Gentilly Heights Civic Association. A veteran of World War II, he was a member of the Louisiana Education Association and Alpha Kappa Delta, a sociology honor society.
Survivors include his wife, Beulah Ozenne Hatfield; two sons, Charles Joseph Hatfield Jr. and Elliott Jude Hatfield; a daughter, Andrea Marie Hatfield of Lake Charles; a brother, Raymond Hatfield of Philadelphia; and two grandchildren.
A Mass will be said Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 2022 St. Bernard Ave. Visitation will begin at 8:30 a.m.
Burial will be in Mount Olivet Mausoleum. Boissiere-Arceneaux-Labat Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
