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OLEAH DELPH
Mrs. Oleah Delph died Sunday, May 4th, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was 94. She was born Julia Oleah Mauffray on July 1,1908, at 210 Main Street in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. She was one of eight children of Euphrasine	(Dora)
Thompson of Biloxi and Joseph Oliver Mauffray of Fenton, Mississippi.
She was educated at St. Joseph Academy in Bay St. I Louis, where she was salu- 1 tatorian of the Class of 1926. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1929 from the University of Mississippi, where she was elected, the first president of the Associated Women Students.
She taught Civics and History at Bay High School from 1929 to 1934. After traveling in Europe, she attended the Tulane University Graduate School j of Social Work in New Orleans. During the Great Depression, she was a professional social worker for Catholic Charities in New Orleans from 1935 to 1936 and? for the State of Louisiana in Crowley, Louisiana, from 1936 to 1938.
On August 25, 1938, she married Octave Waring Delph, a native of New Orleans. For almost 40 years, the couple owned and operated	Delph's
Department Store, previously named Mauffray's Dry Goods.
Mrs. Delph was executive secretary of the Hancock County Red Cross from 1958 to 1960. She resumed her teaching career at Bay High School and taught there until she retired in 1969.
She was a member of the Altar Society of Our Lady of the Gulf Church. She and her husband Octave also were charter members of the Bay Waveland Yacht Club.
She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband and seven brothers and sisters. She is survived by four children: Joseph Mauffray Delph of Las Vegas, Nevada; Emilie Ellen Delph Pressley of St. Louis, Missouri; Fred Kevin Delph of Austin, Texas; and Julie Theresa I Delph Hendrickson of Naples, Italy. She also is survived by five grandchildren and eight great-grand-children.
Internment will be at the Garden of Memories in Bay.
St. Louis.