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THE SUN HERALD	SUNDAY,	JUNE
SENIOR LIFESTYLES
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Barbara and Paul Pursley relax on the deck at their home.
The story of how Paul A. Pursley became a transplanted Mississippian is unique. He graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa in 1949. His first practice was located in Savannah, 111., and during that first year, the winter was bitter cold. To make matters worse, there was a coal strike in mid-winter. That proved to be the last straw for Dr. Pursley.
He took out a map, drew a line straight south from Savannah until it reached the Mississippi Coast. The next week he moved to Bay St. Louis. That was in 1950. He crossed the Bay of St. Louis on the old wooden bridge on Highway 90 that came to the foot of Ulman Avenue. A sign at the city limits read ?Bay St. Louis ? Home of 4,000 Good People and a Couple of Stinkers.?
According to Dr. Pursley, maybe a few stinkers passed through Bay St Louis, but he has never met any who lived there. Thus began 45 years of service to his adopted community.
After practicing briefly at Soule Manor, which stood south of where Merchants Bank is now located on Beach Boulevard, he lived with his family and practiced for five years in the shotgun house that still stands at 220 North Beach. The living quarters were in the back of the house.
Traffic detours and construction work after the 1947 hurricane forced him to move his family to Bayou Phillips for a farm
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SLANT ON SENIORS
By Ada Reid
dusted it off and said, ?Sorry, Sir.? The Admiral said ?It?s all right, but next time, you go first.?
The Admiral would not leave any of his men behind. When one of his crew was trapped on an island, he sent a submarine in for frogmen to take a rubber boat and rescue him. A second rescue was of a young pilot named George Bush.
When he returned from overseas, Paul was in Florida. He saved his gas stamps to have enough gas to drive home from Florida for a leave. He was en-route to Iowa in August when he heard about the first atomic bomb being dropped and a few days later about the second one. Then the Japanese surrendered, and V.J. Day was celebrated.
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School followed and the story continues. In 1950, when he began providing chiropractic care for Coast residents, an adjustment cost $2, but he was often paid with a mess of turnips, dozens of eggs and once received a live pig in exchange for long term care.
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mouth. He adjusted a stray cat?s sacroiliac because it couldn?t walk. The adjustment helped so much that he was off chasing other cats. When he?d get lame again, he?d end up standing at their back door for more treatment.
Dr. Pursley had nine children. Six are by his first marriage.
Paul Jr. works with a younger brother, Herbie, at Court Street Antiques and Tortilla Bay Restaurant in Bay St. Louis, refinishing and repairing antiques and furniture. He is married and has two children.
James is a towboat captain, and in fact was the youngest licensed captain on the Mississippi when he received his license. He is married with five children.
Johnnie works for Edmund Fahey Funeral Home in Bay St.
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