Ruby "Wilma" was actually the seventh child & fourth daughter of twelve children born to Charles Wesley & Minnie Sisson Randall. She was reared in the Randall homeplace on 10th Avenue in Laurel.
She was the last remaining sibling when she passed away at 100 years of age.
The following article was written by her long time neighbor & friend, Mary Perez who worked for the newspaper and she published it in the Biloxi Sun Herald on December 25, 2007:
GREEN 'WAS ALWAYS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY'
Wilma Green did a lot with her 100 years.
She worked out in the garden of her west Biloxi home until she was 99. She had a poem published, traveled the South Seas, owned her own business and made lots of memories with her family.
"Energetic, exuberant, positive attitude," is how her nephew, Ron LaVigne of Fairhope, Ala., described her. "Lots of fun," said his sister and Green's niece, Virginia Kirkpatrick of Hattiesburg. "She was Auntie Mame," he said. "She was always the life of the party," and at family reunions always the center of attention.
Miss Wilma was born in 1907, one of 12 children in a family of seven boys and five girls. "She was the fifth born," said LaVigne "She was the last one." She died Dec. 21 and was laid to rest Christmas Eve in Laurel, where the family lived when she was a child. Interment was in Hickory Grove Cemetery in Laurel, next to her mother, Minnie Randall, "which is what she always wanted," LaVigne said.
Longevity ran in the family. Green died two months shy of her 101st birthday and her sister, Pearl LaVigne, died in 2005 at almost 103.
"She didn't have any children so she mentally adopted her nieces and nephews as her own children," LaVigne said of Green. "My sister and I used to spend summers with her when her home was on the harbor in Pass Christian. We used to crab off he seawall right in her backyard."
After attending Spencer Beauty Academy in Texas and working at the Cinderella Beauty Shop, where millionaire H. L. Hunt was among her clients, she moved back to Mississippi. In the 1940s she opened Cottage by the Sea beauty salon in Pass Christian and operated it until she was about 75 years old. Green lost her home in a 1940s storm and again to Hurricane Camille. ""She would rebuild each time," said LaVigne.
She and her husband, Wesley Green, loved to travel and took cruises to the South Pacific, Alaska and Hawaii. They spent summers in South Fork, Colorado. "There was just a beautiful campground on the river," said LaVigne. While her husband would fish with the men for trout," she would entertain the other ladies with her recipes," said LaVigne. She was a groumet cook, said Kirkpatrick. "Her shrimp and crabmeat gumbo was absolutely wonderful."
"She loved the Lord," and was very devout, said LaVigne. She traveled all over the country to see evangelist Jimmy Swagart. She also loved to shop and to play poker with the family but always just for fun.
The community might remember her appreciation for the bees who pollinated her flowers and fruit trees. She let them keep their hive in her back porch ceiling for three years until the dripping honey became a problem. The bees were removed and transported to another hive to live on.
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She was the last remaining sibling when she passed away at 100 years of age.
The following article was written by her long time neighbor & friend, Mary Perez who worked for the newspaper and she published it in the Biloxi Sun Herald on December 25, 2007:
GREEN 'WAS ALWAYS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY'
Wilma Green did a lot with her 100 years.
She worked out in the garden of her west Biloxi home until she was 99. She had a poem published, traveled the South Seas, owned her own business and made lots of memories with her family.
"Energetic, exuberant, positive attitude," is how her nephew, Ron LaVigne of Fairhope, Ala., described her. "Lots of fun," said his sister and Green's niece, Virginia Kirkpatrick of Hattiesburg. "She was Auntie Mame," he said. "She was always the life of the party," and at family reunions always the center of attention.
Miss Wilma was born in 1907, one of 12 children in a family of seven boys and five girls. "She was the fifth born," said LaVigne "She was the last one." She died Dec. 21 and was laid to rest Christmas Eve in Laurel, where the family lived when she was a child. Interment was in Hickory Grove Cemetery in Laurel, next to her mother, Minnie Randall, "which is what she always wanted," LaVigne said.
Longevity ran in the family. Green died two months shy of her 101st birthday and her sister, Pearl LaVigne, died in 2005 at almost 103.
"She didn't have any children so she mentally adopted her nieces and nephews as her own children," LaVigne said of Green. "My sister and I used to spend summers with her when her home was on the harbor in Pass Christian. We used to crab off he seawall right in her backyard."
After attending Spencer Beauty Academy in Texas and working at the Cinderella Beauty Shop, where millionaire H. L. Hunt was among her clients, she moved back to Mississippi. In the 1940s she opened Cottage by the Sea beauty salon in Pass Christian and operated it until she was about 75 years old. Green lost her home in a 1940s storm and again to Hurricane Camille. ""She would rebuild each time," said LaVigne.
She and her husband, Wesley Green, loved to travel and took cruises to the South Pacific, Alaska and Hawaii. They spent summers in South Fork, Colorado. "There was just a beautiful campground on the river," said LaVigne. While her husband would fish with the men for trout," she would entertain the other ladies with her recipes," said LaVigne. She was a groumet cook, said Kirkpatrick. "Her shrimp and crabmeat gumbo was absolutely wonderful."
"She loved the Lord," and was very devout, said LaVigne. She traveled all over the country to see evangelist Jimmy Swagart. She also loved to shop and to play poker with the family but always just for fun.
The community might remember her appreciation for the bees who pollinated her flowers and fruit trees. She let them keep their hive in her back porch ceiling for three years until the dripping honey became a problem. The bees were removed and transported to another hive to live on.
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Ruby "Wilma" was actually the seventh child & fourth daughter of twelve children born to Charles Wesley & Minnie Sisson Randall. She was reared in the Randall homeplace on 10th Avenue in Laurel.
She was the last remaining sibling when she passed away at 100 years of age.
The following article was written by her long time neighbor & friend, Mary Perez who worked for the newspaper and she published it in the Biloxi Sun Herald on December 25, 2007:
GREEN 'WAS ALWAYS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY'
Wilma Green did a lot with her 100 years.
She worked out in the garden of her west Biloxi home until she was 99. She had a poem published, traveled the South Seas, owned her own business and made lots of memories with her family.
"Energetic, exuberant, positive attitude," is how her nephew, Ron LaVigne of Fairhope, Ala., described her. "Lots of fun," said his sister and Green's niece, Virginia Kirkpatrick of Hattiesburg. "She was Auntie Mame," he said. "She was always the life of the party," and at family reunions always the center of attention.
Miss Wilma was born in 1907, one of 12 children in a family of seven boys and five girls. "She was the fifth born," said LaVigne "She was the last one." She died Dec. 21 and was laid to rest Christmas Eve in Laurel, where the family lived when she was a child. Interment was in Hickory Grove Cemetery in Laurel, next to her mother, Minnie Randall, "which is what she always wanted," LaVigne said.
Longevity ran in the family. Green died two months shy of her 101st birthday and her sister, Pearl LaVigne, died in 2005 at almost 103.
"She didn't have any children so she mentally adopted her nieces and nephews as her own children," LaVigne said of Green. "My sister and I used to spend summers with her when her home was on the harbor in Pass Christian. We used to crab off he seawall right in her backyard."
After attending Spencer Beauty Academy in Texas and working at the Cinderella Beauty Shop, where millionaire H. L. Hunt was among her clients, she moved back to Mississippi. In the 1940s she opened Cottage by the Sea beauty salon in Pass Christian and operated it until she was about 75 years old. Green lost her home in a 1940s storm and again to Hurricane Camille. ""She would rebuild each time," said LaVigne.
She and her husband, Wesley Green, loved to travel and took cruises to the South Pacific, Alaska and Hawaii. They spent summers in South Fork, Colorado. "There was just a beautiful campground on the river," said LaVigne. While her husband would fish with the men for trout," she would entertain the other ladies with her recipes," said LaVigne. She was a groumet cook, said Kirkpatrick. "Her shrimp and crabmeat gumbo was absolutely wonderful."
"She loved the Lord," and was very devout, said LaVigne. She traveled all over the country to see evangelist Jimmy Swagart. She also loved to shop and to play poker with the family but always just for fun.
The community might remember her appreciation for the bees who pollinated her flowers and fruit trees. She let them keep their hive in her back porch ceiling for three years until the dripping honey became a problem. The bees were removed and transported to another hive to live on.
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She was the last remaining sibling when she passed away at 100 years of age.
The following article was written by her long time neighbor & friend, Mary Perez who worked for the newspaper and she published it in the Biloxi Sun Herald on December 25, 2007:
GREEN 'WAS ALWAYS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY'
Wilma Green did a lot with her 100 years.
She worked out in the garden of her west Biloxi home until she was 99. She had a poem published, traveled the South Seas, owned her own business and made lots of memories with her family.
"Energetic, exuberant, positive attitude," is how her nephew, Ron LaVigne of Fairhope, Ala., described her. "Lots of fun," said his sister and Green's niece, Virginia Kirkpatrick of Hattiesburg. "She was Auntie Mame," he said. "She was always the life of the party," and at family reunions always the center of attention.
Miss Wilma was born in 1907, one of 12 children in a family of seven boys and five girls. "She was the fifth born," said LaVigne "She was the last one." She died Dec. 21 and was laid to rest Christmas Eve in Laurel, where the family lived when she was a child. Interment was in Hickory Grove Cemetery in Laurel, next to her mother, Minnie Randall, "which is what she always wanted," LaVigne said.
Longevity ran in the family. Green died two months shy of her 101st birthday and her sister, Pearl LaVigne, died in 2005 at almost 103.
"She didn't have any children so she mentally adopted her nieces and nephews as her own children," LaVigne said of Green. "My sister and I used to spend summers with her when her home was on the harbor in Pass Christian. We used to crab off he seawall right in her backyard."
After attending Spencer Beauty Academy in Texas and working at the Cinderella Beauty Shop, where millionaire H. L. Hunt was among her clients, she moved back to Mississippi. In the 1940s she opened Cottage by the Sea beauty salon in Pass Christian and operated it until she was about 75 years old. Green lost her home in a 1940s storm and again to Hurricane Camille. ""She would rebuild each time," said LaVigne.
She and her husband, Wesley Green, loved to travel and took cruises to the South Pacific, Alaska and Hawaii. They spent summers in South Fork, Colorado. "There was just a beautiful campground on the river," said LaVigne. While her husband would fish with the men for trout," she would entertain the other ladies with her recipes," said LaVigne. She was a groumet cook, said Kirkpatrick. "Her shrimp and crabmeat gumbo was absolutely wonderful."
"She loved the Lord," and was very devout, said LaVigne. She traveled all over the country to see evangelist Jimmy Swagart. She also loved to shop and to play poker with the family but always just for fun.
The community might remember her appreciation for the bees who pollinated her flowers and fruit trees. She let them keep their hive in her back porch ceiling for three years until the dripping honey became a problem. The bees were removed and transported to another hive to live on.
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Family Members
Siblings
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Ethel Vain Randall McKee
1894–1969
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Clarence Edgar Randall
1895–1980
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Maggie Miller Randall Bryant
1898–1974
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Loy H Randall
1901–1970
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Pearl Randall LaVigne
1903–2006
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Wesley Vernon Randall
1905–1936
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Lamar Shelton "Speck" Randall
1908–1963
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Luke V. Randall
1911–1974
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Jewel Randall
1912–1912
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Joseph Randall
1913–2001
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Homer Lee Randall
1915–2001
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