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After retiring from the Corps, he went to work for Coastal Environmental, Inc. whose office is in Bay St. Louis. The company does cultural resource surveys, looking at archeological sites, wetlands, and ground water studies for companies and individuals. The business also has a contract with the Department of Marine Resources to work on a comprehensive coastal resource management plan for Hancock and Harrison counties.
In Louisiana, the company monitors the marshes where three-dimen-sional seismic companies run lines and drill. They make certain that the marshes are restored to their original state. Burton travels at least once a week to New Orleans, Jackson and other areas.
About Kathleen
Kathleen was bom in New Orleans but was raised in Pass Christian. Her parents were Hudson and Kathleen Flaspoller Wolfe II. Her father worked for Mississippi Power Company. When Bay St. Louis was still Shieldsboro, during the War Between the States, her great-grandfather, Robert Eager, met with his troops at the Catholic Church before they went off to battle.
Kathleen has two sisters and a brother. Hudson Wolfe II is retired from teaching special education at D?Iberville and is now band director at Mercy Cross High School and music director for Beauvoir United Methodist Church. He lives in Biloxi. He has two children, Hudson IV and Christin.
Kathleen?s sister, Peggy Carter, lives in Greenville and has four children. Hodding Carter IV, Catherine Sullivan, Finn Woodward and Margaret Lorraine Joseph. Sister Augusta Love lives in Muncie, Ind., with husband Russell and daughter, Shelby.
Adelle Bielenbery taught Kathleen in fourth grade and was her Girl Scout leader. Kathleen was sent to New Orleans to attend Louise S. Magee Private School for Girls when she started high school and later to St. Martin High School. It was there that her future husband peeked through the windows to watch her during ballet classes.
She went to LSU for a year and then came back home to go to a junior college and got an associate?s degree in business. Then she went for her early childhood education degree at Dominican College through the Jewish Community Center. She taught at the center for 10 vears.
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Her work with the Hancock Coun- I ty Schools began when her friend Alecia Ellis asked her to volunteer with the Mississippi Coast Crime Commission and teach a class in the ?Too Good for Drugs Program? to I one class at the Bay Middle School. It turned out to be six classes but when she saw how bad the kids needed it, she got excited and has been in the ? program for 12 years.
While there, she helped Geraldine Lang with the NAACP?s program ?Save The Children.? Then Alecia asked her to go to Hancock Elementary on a temporary basis but Kathleen found the teachers, students and faculty so delightful to work with that she stayed. When teacher Billy Rae Dedeaux moved to the middle school and asked her to also come there, she not only went but included the eight grade. (Billy Rae Dedeaux is the teacher that Brett Favre said had the most impact on him).
She also teaches the program at St. Stanislaus sixth graders and at Diamondhead Academy. She also teaches religion at the Diamond Academy and went back to school for a degree from the School of Theology in the University of the South. But it was the Hancock Junior High School teachers and faculty who nominated her as the county's Parent of the Year and she was given that award. They have forwarded the nomination on to the state level.
Other activities
Kathleen is also active in the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the United Daughters of Confederate Granddaughters, the National Society of Sons and Daughters of Pilgrims and the First Families of Mississippi.
She is in the Magnolia Chapter of the DAR and meets four times a year in Columbia. She also meets with the DAR in Biloxi and is a member of the Biloxi Beauvoir Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She is part of the Sarah Darsey lineage that gave Beauvoir to Jefferson Davis. She and her brother help with the reenactments at Beauvoir. She will be attending the DAR Continental Congress in Washington, D.C. in April.
She and Burton live in North Beach in Bay St. Louis and their property is 420 feet deep. In the rear of the property, they have a wildlife sanctuary where they protect birds such as owls, herons, duck and a hawk. She volunteers with the Wildlife Rehabilitation and Nature Preservation Sod-


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