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?d. iby?s e at Inap-rime ? en-d to H.T. De-dis-sday baby ipia?s nity. le it iner cou-Po-sent De-t the )ort. bout kept trol-? the bor- anc for her hei ; t< the fte? it; Jnj-s . th'. )n in 0! t( ':n >n .^wuiiamg app that is a very good reaso: ? for Mike Dukakis on the 8 nber. ? Bork?s controve ?.ation was defeated by the' I5!?ak oct. 14. 1988 lizabeth Sullivan, jet, dies on Coast :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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