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North Second Street where the downtown post office now stands. In 1962, he moved to his present location for his office and home.
Early life
Paul Pursley was bom in Oklahoma City but grew up in Maquoketa, Iowa. He enlisted in the Navy after Pearl Harbor but was allowed to stay in high school until graduation. He entered boot camp at Great Lakes, 111., on July 4, 1942 and received training to become a radio operator at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Then he was sent to the USS Independence, a small aircraft carrier, and went to Philadelphia, Pa., and on to the Pacific. He was transferred to the flagship of Admiral Pownell, and this Admiral was soon replaced by Admiral Mark Mitcher.
Last December, Dr. Pursley received a special invitation to attend the commissioning and christening of a cruiser named after Admiral Mitcher. The ceremony was held in Pensacola, Fla. He was the only one who had served under the Admiral who could be present. Admiral Mitcher?s niece, Elizabeth Ferguson, christened the ship.
Paul remembers his service under the Admiral with great respect. They were in the Pacific at the Marshall Islands, Leyte, Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the Mariana Islands. They were with the carrier Task Force 58. He was on the flag bridge near the Admiral, and they were watching planes when they saw a Japanese plane coming in. They headed for the hatch to go below, the Admiral going first. The ladder went straight down and they were going so fast that the Admiral flattened out on the floor below. Paul picked him up and brushed him off and then realized that he didn?t have his hat. When he looked around, his foot was in the hat, so he reached down and picked it up,
out in Bayou Phillips at the time. They named the pig Jenny, and she became such a pet that she didn?t know she was a pig. She would chase the kids and they would run inside and leave her outside and she felt discriminated against. Jenny had a litter of 12 piglets one time.
Over the years, Dr. Pursley?s practice expanded to patients from Mobile to New Orleans and north to Poplarville and Wiggins. His deep concern for his patients, his loving humor and unbeatable wit, bought the respect and loyalty of his many patients over the 45 years. He had such a rapport with his patients that they often came to him for wise counsel as well as for their ailments.	4
He knew that he had arrived when he overheard some of his patients discussing where he was bom and one saiof, ?He was born right here on Bayou Phillips.?
Chiropractic care was pretty well accepted when Dr. Pursley moved here. He also made house calls. His primary treatment was for backaches, headaches, neuritis, arthritis and sinusitis. In fact, it was because of migraine headaches that he sought chiropractic care and decided to pursue his career.
After 15 years, Dr. Pursley increased his cost to $3 per adjustment and much later increased it to $4. He laughs when he recalls overhearing this increase discussed by a family whom he had treated for years at no charge. One of them said, ?If he?s going to go up on his price, he needs to get some new chairs. ?
But if patients didn?t pay, he seldom sent bills. He said that they knew they owed it.
Dr. Pursley has been versatile, treating a Great Dane for a stiff neck but finding it had been snakebit. He treated the bite. He has also adjusted the back of a leopard, with, he says, the owner holding the head and
children.
Michael is a supervisor at Port Sulphur, La., Waterworks and is married with one child.
Susan is married to Bill Little. They live in Slidell where she teaches at ?The Ranch,? a school for emotionally disturbed children, and where Bill teaches vo-tech. They have two girls.
Billy died of a brain tumor in the late 1970s at the age of 23.
Son Herbie is the oldest of Dr. Pursley's second family of three children. He is a partner in the Court Street Antiques and Tortilla Bay Restaurant in Bay St. Louis and Blue Rose Restaurant and Antiques in Pass Christian. It was at this very spot, at a service station in 1950, that his dad stopped and asked for directions when he first arrived in Bay St. Louis.
Amrita ?Rita? Blaize is a beautician and husband, Gary, is a football and basketball coach. They have two children.
Jiil Lee Stiglet works for her brother at Blue Rose. Her husband, Buddy, works for Crown Equipment in Bay St. Louis. They have one child.
Dr. Pursley also has seven great grandchildren.
Wife, Barbara
He has been married for 15 years to his present wife, Barbara. They met and became friends when he was treating her for back trouble. Her yoga teacher in New Orleans referred her to him for chiropractic care. Barbara grew up in Star City, Ark., and went to undergraduate school there. She taught in Arkansas for two years before deciding to attend New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in New Orleans and become a missionary.
After graduation, she began rethinking her life and went to Delgado College in New Orleans to become head of the Secretarial Studies Department. She became an administrator and professor there before retiring with
inner svarcn
His 40-year pursuit am search has resulted in his a book on Buddhism title Bodhisatyas ? Keys to ening,? documenting hi personal experience and ening. The book should this fall. He has spent the ends of the last four year ing this book and calls it seeds,? explaining that th of anything is in its seed book is a result of his owr ening to Western Buddh
For the last five years, Barbara have held me* classes on Wednesday and weekend silent re They have formed the < Buddhist Association, Inc translated, means, ?He v ties the knots. ? The retre classes are held at their i 345 Ulman Avenue in I Louis. They also held a I of Goodwill on June lltl
Interested individuals r 1-601-467-0213 or write Pursleys at the above ai You do not have to be a ] ing Buddhist to attend treats or meditations.
Even though, Dr. Purs a stroke in January of th and is recovering nicely fected the use of his enough that he retired fi active chiropractic pract past spring. The Pursleys practic Clinic still thrive! the care of William B D.C., who previously pi in the New Orleans ar< Borland has vowed to Dr. Pursley?s tradition sonal care as nearly possible.
While Dr. Pursley?s \ realize that he has ean retirement, they will m very much.
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