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:abeth Hillery Sullivan, a poet, it her home in Bay St. Louis on lesday, Oct. 12, 1988. She was
rs. Sullivan was a poet in the d tradition, or, as she liked to ?making music with words.? i hearing her reading of her ;ron Speaks? to the Poetry Soci-of New Orleans, American poet ?incoln biographer Carl Sandburg irked: ?It is good to know that eone can still write a ballad.? mong her published books are ging on the Seawall: Poems of the : South,? ?Louisiana Lullaby: Po-- of Old New Orleans? and ?The olar and the Sage.? he Biloxi Little Theatre once pre-:ed readings from ?Singing on the wall,? recollections of her child-d summers spent in Biloxi away n the stifling heat of New Orleans, n 1983, Sun Herald Arts Editor ry Kinser wrote that she could ?d beauty and joy in the mundane tine of life that most of us unfortu-ely take for granted. And she nslates her special vision into po-s covering every conceivable ige of subjects ? the sea, flowers, iividuals, children, sports, Mardi 3S balls, travel, philosophy, devo-n, sunsets and, above all, the good-ss of God.?
Mrs. Sullivan was bom in Mem-is, Tenn. She was educated in New leans and was a graduate of the ademy of the Sacred Heart. She jdied writing at Tulane and Loyola liversities and at H. Sophie New-mb College. She was a longtime sident of Bay St. Louis.
She was a member of the Missis-opi Poetry Society, the National riters Club, the American Poetry
Elizabeth Hillery Sullivan
Society, the Bay St. Louis-Waveland	^
Garden Club and Our Lady of the Gulf	jj
Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis.	f
When her husband, Col. Edmund s C. Sullivan, died in 1973, she traveled to South America, Europe, Canada	S
and Asia, jotting down her impres-	?
sions for poems to be written upon return to Bay St. Louis.
She is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth S. Holleman of Bay St. Lou- < is and Marie-Louise A. Kavanagh of Baton Rouge, La.; a son, Dr. Ed- i mund H. Sullivan of Baton Rouge; eight grandchildren; and four great- , grandchildren. She was the last surviving child of the late Marie-Louise Rouse Hillery and John A. Hillery. i Visitation will be at 1 p. m. Saturday < at The House of Bultman funeral home in New Orleans; services will ^ be at 1:30 p.m., and burial will be in i Metairie Cemetery.	v.i


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