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Former sheriff buried Saturday
By EIJ.IS CUEVAS _
Funeral services were Saturday for Horace L. Kergosien, 77, of Bay St Louis who died Thursday, August 23,
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He was president of the Bay St. Louis Rotary Club in 1944 and 1945 and a longtime member.
A visitation was held Friday at Edmond Fahey Funeral Home in Bay St Louis, where a rosary was recited.
A requiem Mass was celebrated Saturday at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church with burial in St Mary?s Cemetery.
Kergosien was the son of the late Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Kergosien. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Karen Kergosien Treutel.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mathilde Gaines Kergosien of Bay St Louis; two sons, Gregory Gaines Kergosien of Atlanta and Phil Kergosien of Bay St. Louis; two daughters, Mrs. Helene Kergosien Vernon of Greenwood, Miss., and Mrs. Peggy Kergosien Rawley of St. Petersburg, Fla.; a brother, Charles Kergosien of Hazelhurst; three sisters, Miss Clara Kergosien, Mrs. Murhl Morlan and Mrs. Hazel Blaize, all of Bay St. Louis; 25 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Pall bearers were Dr. Robert Akers, W. L. Argus, George D. Bensabat, Ulysses Cuevas, Dr. T. A. Quigley and Ernest Spence.
Honorary pall bearers were Omer DeBever, James Hailey, T. T. Robin, Carroll Gordon, Sidney Prague and Joseph Viguerie.
1979, at his home at 122 Carroll Avenue.
Kergosien serv.ed as sheriff of Hancock county from 1940 to 1944. A retired realtor, he was born in the - Fenton Community'of Hancock County and had been a lifelong resident.
He was a 1920 graduate of St Stanislaus and served three years on the school?s Hall of Fame selection committee.
Kergosien was past president of the < Mississippi Peace Officers Association, a past member of the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce, a member of Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, and a charter member of KERGOSIEN-Page 8A
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