Steve Marinovich was a fisherman and net maker from Biloxi, Mississippi. Within the incorporation of his business Marinovich Trawl Co. in...

Lessaint “Blue” Broussard was born Youngsville, Louisiana in 1898, and despite being the shortest in a family of tall men, he would one...

A lifetime resident of the Gulf Coast as well as a pillar of the value of hard work, Biloxi resident Peter J Pitalo is remembered for his...

Remembered for his unrelenting work ethic and his rather unique nickname, Steve “Gramps” Barhanovich was an industry tradesman and boat...

Lucy Comeaux Lemmler was a factory workers and store owner from Biloxi Mississippi. Born in New Iberia, Louisiana on July 8, 1905, she...

Margaret “Mishee” Misko Marinovich Guich was a seafood worker of Slavonian descent who made her life in Biloxi Mississippi in the early...

Walter Eley Ross, III was a boat owner and captain who called Biloxi home. Born on January 21, 1969, Walter was the son of Walter...

Christopher Mark Ross was a boat owner, captain, and commercial fisherman along the Gulf Coast. His ancestry on both sides of his family...

Evelyn Barras Hollier was a seafood worker who lived in Biloxi, Mississippi. Evelyn was born on November 12, 1907 in Evangeline Parish,...

Born on February 20, 1904, George H. Bellais was a lifelong resident of Biloxi, Mississippi who lived out his life as an industry...

Velma Dujmov Misko was a seafood worker from Biloxi Mississippi. Born in 1922, Velma was a member of what many would come to call “the...

Born in Ocean Springs Mississippi in 1930, Captain Clarence A. Hamilton Jr. was both an industry tradesman and a boat captain. He was...

Armindo Oliveria Soares, known as “Herman,” was a European immigrant who settled in Biloxi, Mississippi and establish both a trade and a...

Nicholas “Nick” Augustine Misko was a master shipbuilder from Biloxi, Mississippi. Like many Biloxi natives, Misko was of Slavic...

Born in Louisiana and arriving in Biloxi at the age of fifteen, Bernice Broussard Songe spent her entire working life devoted to the...

Harry L. Wheeler Sr. was an industry tradesman known for his carpentry skills from Biloxi, Mississippi. His parents were J. W. Wheeler, a...

Paul M. Skrmetti was an industry tradesman who is remembered for his patents for the floating trawl and floating trawling fish seine. He...

John “Tommy” Thomas Munro was a businessman and president of Munro Petroleum and Terminal from 1972 to 2009. Born in New Orleans,...

Joseph Rocco Misko Sr. was an industry tradesman and boat builder from Biloxi Mississippi. For much of his life, he resided on Wisteria...

Lucien “Blanc” Hollier was an industry tradesman and boat builder who made his career in Biloxi, Mississippi. He was known to be very...