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Funeral services were held Saturday in New New Orleans for Bay St. Louis poet Elizabeth Hillerv Sullivan, who died at her Beach Boulevard home on Wednesday, October 12, 1988.
She was 86 years of age, a native of Xew Orleans, and a longtime resident of Bay St. Louis.
She was a well known author and poet. Among her published works are the following books: Singing on the Seawall; Poems of the Gulf South, Louisiana Lullaby; Poems of Old New Orleans; and the Scholar and the Sage.
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Mrs. Sullivan was a member of the Mississippi Poetry Society, the National Writers Club, the American Poetry Society, the Retired Officers Association, and the Bay-Waveland Garden Club.
She was a member of Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church, Bay St. Louis.
Mrs. Sullivan was born in Memphis, Tenn. She was educated in New Orleans and was a graduate of the Academy of the Sacred Heart. She studied writing at Tulane and Loyola Universities and H. Sophie Newcomb College.
In 1984, in The Sea Coast Echo, in a book review of The Scholar And The Sage?, Joe Pilet wrote, ?The book reflects the ever-growing spirituality of its author whose zenith many felt had been reached in her poems entitled Singing on the Seawall which came out in 1981.
The beautiful prose-poetry in Scholar and the Sage brings an awareness of some Greater Force using the pen of Elizabeth to reveal peaceful truths? truth to ponder, truth to trust, truth to guide the reader toward higher places of attitude.?
The Biloxi Little Theatre once presented readings from Singing on the Seawall, recollections of her childhood summers spent in Biloxi away from the stifling heat of New Orleans.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Col. Edmund C. Sullivan. When her husband died in 1973, she traveled to South America, Europe, Canada, and Asia, jotting down her
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