OCEAN SPRINGS - Catherine Seymour Webb, 91, died Wednesday, March 27, 2002, in Biloxi.
Mrs. Webb was a native and lifelong resident of Ocean Springs. She was a homemaker and a Catholic.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy P. Webb; and a son, Roy P. Webb Jr.
Survivors include, two granddaughters; and three great-grandchildren.
Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. at the Martin-Ryan Cemetery, directed by the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi.
(By July 1918, several months before his demise in November 1918, Emile Domning possessed five houses on Bowen Avenue between Russell Avenue and General Pershing described as being in parts of Lot 3; all of Lot 4; Lot 7; and Lot 12 all in Block 32 of the 1854 Culmseig Map of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He declared in his last will and testament that Christina, his spouse of thirty-eight years, would inherit his real property. (JXCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 4433-April 1924)
In April 1924, Christina S. Domning conveyed to her daughter, Amelia D. Ryan, "my homestead". Amelia had married Fredrick J. Ryan (1886-1969) in January 1911. (JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 53, pp. 624-625)
in 1934, on the south side of Bowen Avenue in the front of their house Fred J. Ryan and Henry J. Endt (1910-1989) opened a neighborhood bar on Bowen Avenue. It was called the F & H Bar for their first names, Fred and Henry. This establishment soon evolved into a seafood restaurant and dancehall, which in June 1941 gained national notoriety when Mr. and Mrs. Ryan hosted William Meyers Colmer (1890-1980), Mississippi's US Representative and Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965), vice-president of the United States. Their entourage included several leading Senators and Representatives from North Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Rhode Island, Virginia, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. (The Jackson County Times, May 5, 1934 and The Jackson County Times, June 8, 1941, p. 4)
The Fred Ryan home and businesses were demolished in the 1960s by their daughter, Esther Ryan Lyons Bradford (1919-1973), to build a new home. Her son, Fred R. Bradford, resides here today.(Credit for above to :Ray Bellande!
Hearing this story about the VP eating Stuffed Crabs here, I asked Cat, what she knew about it.
As told to Daniel Seymour by: Catherine Genevieve (Seymour) Webb who at that time, lived at 29 Bowen Avenue, directly across Bowen from the Ryan's.
Cat was hired by the Ryan's as a waitress at some point.
Most of the patrons were decent people, but some treated the help shoddy. Cat told the Ryans, folks, weren't going to treat her that way and they cautioned her (in order to keep-em coming back), to be nice, however she was treated.
One night she got a couple who were a-holes, old farts (her words). Nothing seemed to satisfy these people, water tasted bad, linen & silverware was dirty, service was slow, any and everything was wrong, and she (Cat) shouldn't expect any tip. Finally Cat had enough, & tol-em; loudly, where everyone in the dining room could hear "You Old
'NASTY BAS-DIDS', I may not have the money you do, and my nose isn't as high in the air as ya'lls, but I expect ya'll sit down to crap the same way we all do, I would throw any tip you left, back in your face". (Cat said that's when she first realized people pay attention as to what goes on around them!). When she had finished telling them off, everyone in the dining room clapped & yelled. They (the Old Farts) left $5.00 (lotsa $ in those days) on the table and sneaked out without finishing their meal. The Ryan's gave her a raise.
Mrs. Webb was a native and lifelong resident of Ocean Springs. She was a homemaker and a Catholic.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy P. Webb; and a son, Roy P. Webb Jr.
Survivors include, two granddaughters; and three great-grandchildren.
Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. at the Martin-Ryan Cemetery, directed by the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi.
(By July 1918, several months before his demise in November 1918, Emile Domning possessed five houses on Bowen Avenue between Russell Avenue and General Pershing described as being in parts of Lot 3; all of Lot 4; Lot 7; and Lot 12 all in Block 32 of the 1854 Culmseig Map of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He declared in his last will and testament that Christina, his spouse of thirty-eight years, would inherit his real property. (JXCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 4433-April 1924)
In April 1924, Christina S. Domning conveyed to her daughter, Amelia D. Ryan, "my homestead". Amelia had married Fredrick J. Ryan (1886-1969) in January 1911. (JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 53, pp. 624-625)
in 1934, on the south side of Bowen Avenue in the front of their house Fred J. Ryan and Henry J. Endt (1910-1989) opened a neighborhood bar on Bowen Avenue. It was called the F & H Bar for their first names, Fred and Henry. This establishment soon evolved into a seafood restaurant and dancehall, which in June 1941 gained national notoriety when Mr. and Mrs. Ryan hosted William Meyers Colmer (1890-1980), Mississippi's US Representative and Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965), vice-president of the United States. Their entourage included several leading Senators and Representatives from North Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Rhode Island, Virginia, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. (The Jackson County Times, May 5, 1934 and The Jackson County Times, June 8, 1941, p. 4)
The Fred Ryan home and businesses were demolished in the 1960s by their daughter, Esther Ryan Lyons Bradford (1919-1973), to build a new home. Her son, Fred R. Bradford, resides here today.(Credit for above to :Ray Bellande!
Hearing this story about the VP eating Stuffed Crabs here, I asked Cat, what she knew about it.
As told to Daniel Seymour by: Catherine Genevieve (Seymour) Webb who at that time, lived at 29 Bowen Avenue, directly across Bowen from the Ryan's.
Cat was hired by the Ryan's as a waitress at some point.
Most of the patrons were decent people, but some treated the help shoddy. Cat told the Ryans, folks, weren't going to treat her that way and they cautioned her (in order to keep-em coming back), to be nice, however she was treated.
One night she got a couple who were a-holes, old farts (her words). Nothing seemed to satisfy these people, water tasted bad, linen & silverware was dirty, service was slow, any and everything was wrong, and she (Cat) shouldn't expect any tip. Finally Cat had enough, & tol-em; loudly, where everyone in the dining room could hear "You Old
'NASTY BAS-DIDS', I may not have the money you do, and my nose isn't as high in the air as ya'lls, but I expect ya'll sit down to crap the same way we all do, I would throw any tip you left, back in your face". (Cat said that's when she first realized people pay attention as to what goes on around them!). When she had finished telling them off, everyone in the dining room clapped & yelled. They (the Old Farts) left $5.00 (lotsa $ in those days) on the table and sneaked out without finishing their meal. The Ryan's gave her a raise.
OCEAN SPRINGS - Catherine Seymour Webb, 91, died Wednesday, March 27, 2002, in Biloxi.
Mrs. Webb was a native and lifelong resident of Ocean Springs. She was a homemaker and a Catholic.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy P. Webb; and a son, Roy P. Webb Jr.
Survivors include, two granddaughters; and three great-grandchildren.
Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. at the Martin-Ryan Cemetery, directed by the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi.
(By July 1918, several months before his demise in November 1918, Emile Domning possessed five houses on Bowen Avenue between Russell Avenue and General Pershing described as being in parts of Lot 3; all of Lot 4; Lot 7; and Lot 12 all in Block 32 of the 1854 Culmseig Map of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He declared in his last will and testament that Christina, his spouse of thirty-eight years, would inherit his real property. (JXCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 4433-April 1924)
In April 1924, Christina S. Domning conveyed to her daughter, Amelia D. Ryan, "my homestead". Amelia had married Fredrick J. Ryan (1886-1969) in January 1911. (JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 53, pp. 624-625)
in 1934, on the south side of Bowen Avenue in the front of their house Fred J. Ryan and Henry J. Endt (1910-1989) opened a neighborhood bar on Bowen Avenue. It was called the F & H Bar for their first names, Fred and Henry. This establishment soon evolved into a seafood restaurant and dancehall, which in June 1941 gained national notoriety when Mr. and Mrs. Ryan hosted William Meyers Colmer (1890-1980), Mississippi's US Representative and Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965), vice-president of the United States. Their entourage included several leading Senators and Representatives from North Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Rhode Island, Virginia, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. (The Jackson County Times, May 5, 1934 and The Jackson County Times, June 8, 1941, p. 4)
The Fred Ryan home and businesses were demolished in the 1960s by their daughter, Esther Ryan Lyons Bradford (1919-1973), to build a new home. Her son, Fred R. Bradford, resides here today.(Credit for above to :Ray Bellande!
Hearing this story about the VP eating Stuffed Crabs here, I asked Cat, what she knew about it.
As told to Daniel Seymour by: Catherine Genevieve (Seymour) Webb who at that time, lived at 29 Bowen Avenue, directly across Bowen from the Ryan's.
Cat was hired by the Ryan's as a waitress at some point.
Most of the patrons were decent people, but some treated the help shoddy. Cat told the Ryans, folks, weren't going to treat her that way and they cautioned her (in order to keep-em coming back), to be nice, however she was treated.
One night she got a couple who were a-holes, old farts (her words). Nothing seemed to satisfy these people, water tasted bad, linen & silverware was dirty, service was slow, any and everything was wrong, and she (Cat) shouldn't expect any tip. Finally Cat had enough, & tol-em; loudly, where everyone in the dining room could hear "You Old
'NASTY BAS-DIDS', I may not have the money you do, and my nose isn't as high in the air as ya'lls, but I expect ya'll sit down to crap the same way we all do, I would throw any tip you left, back in your face". (Cat said that's when she first realized people pay attention as to what goes on around them!). When she had finished telling them off, everyone in the dining room clapped & yelled. They (the Old Farts) left $5.00 (lotsa $ in those days) on the table and sneaked out without finishing their meal. The Ryan's gave her a raise.
Mrs. Webb was a native and lifelong resident of Ocean Springs. She was a homemaker and a Catholic.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy P. Webb; and a son, Roy P. Webb Jr.
Survivors include, two granddaughters; and three great-grandchildren.
Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. at the Martin-Ryan Cemetery, directed by the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi.
(By July 1918, several months before his demise in November 1918, Emile Domning possessed five houses on Bowen Avenue between Russell Avenue and General Pershing described as being in parts of Lot 3; all of Lot 4; Lot 7; and Lot 12 all in Block 32 of the 1854 Culmseig Map of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He declared in his last will and testament that Christina, his spouse of thirty-eight years, would inherit his real property. (JXCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 4433-April 1924)
In April 1924, Christina S. Domning conveyed to her daughter, Amelia D. Ryan, "my homestead". Amelia had married Fredrick J. Ryan (1886-1969) in January 1911. (JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 53, pp. 624-625)
in 1934, on the south side of Bowen Avenue in the front of their house Fred J. Ryan and Henry J. Endt (1910-1989) opened a neighborhood bar on Bowen Avenue. It was called the F & H Bar for their first names, Fred and Henry. This establishment soon evolved into a seafood restaurant and dancehall, which in June 1941 gained national notoriety when Mr. and Mrs. Ryan hosted William Meyers Colmer (1890-1980), Mississippi's US Representative and Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965), vice-president of the United States. Their entourage included several leading Senators and Representatives from North Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Rhode Island, Virginia, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. (The Jackson County Times, May 5, 1934 and The Jackson County Times, June 8, 1941, p. 4)
The Fred Ryan home and businesses were demolished in the 1960s by their daughter, Esther Ryan Lyons Bradford (1919-1973), to build a new home. Her son, Fred R. Bradford, resides here today.(Credit for above to :Ray Bellande!
Hearing this story about the VP eating Stuffed Crabs here, I asked Cat, what she knew about it.
As told to Daniel Seymour by: Catherine Genevieve (Seymour) Webb who at that time, lived at 29 Bowen Avenue, directly across Bowen from the Ryan's.
Cat was hired by the Ryan's as a waitress at some point.
Most of the patrons were decent people, but some treated the help shoddy. Cat told the Ryans, folks, weren't going to treat her that way and they cautioned her (in order to keep-em coming back), to be nice, however she was treated.
One night she got a couple who were a-holes, old farts (her words). Nothing seemed to satisfy these people, water tasted bad, linen & silverware was dirty, service was slow, any and everything was wrong, and she (Cat) shouldn't expect any tip. Finally Cat had enough, & tol-em; loudly, where everyone in the dining room could hear "You Old
'NASTY BAS-DIDS', I may not have the money you do, and my nose isn't as high in the air as ya'lls, but I expect ya'll sit down to crap the same way we all do, I would throw any tip you left, back in your face". (Cat said that's when she first realized people pay attention as to what goes on around them!). When she had finished telling them off, everyone in the dining room clapped & yelled. They (the Old Farts) left $5.00 (lotsa $ in those days) on the table and sneaked out without finishing their meal. The Ryan's gave her a raise.
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