Charles L. "Charlie" Higginbotham^[1]

Abt 1917 - 2002  (~ 85 years)

• Name	Charles L. "Charlie" Higginbotham
  Born	Abt 1917	LaFollete, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Died	4 Jul 2002	Long Beach, Mississippi   [2]
  Buried	Gulf Pines Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum, Long Beach, Mississippi
  Person ID	I258861	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2013

  
  

  Father	William Addison Higginbotham,   b. Abt 1872, Kentucky ,   d. Bef 4 Jul 2002  (Age ~ 130 years)
  Mother	Exie Anna Farmer,   b. Abt 1889, Kentucky ,   d. Bef 4 Jul 2002  (Age ~ 113 years)
  Family ID	F99994	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Mabel Gentry,   d. Bef 4 Jul 2002
  Children	1. Paul Higginbotham,   d. Bef 4 Jul 2002   2. Candy Higginbotham
  Family ID	F99999	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Madge Sessums,   d. Bef 4 Jul 2002
  Family ID	F100000	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee), 13 Dec 2002. William F. Higginbotham, Sr. obituary [S142] Newspaper Article, The Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS), 7 Jul 2002. LONG BEACH --- Charles L. "Charlie" Higginbotham, 85, died Thursday, July 4, 2002, in Long Beach. Mr. Higginbotham was born in LaFollete, Tenn., and was a resident of Pascagoula for 36 years prior to moving to Long Beach. He was a graduate of Morehead State University in Kentucky, which he attended on a basketball scholarship. He served in World War II in Special Services. He retired as a cost engineer in the cost accounting department of Ingalls Shipbuilding. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Pascagoula, a former member of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Jazz Society, and in the past member of VFW and American Legion in Pascagoula. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mabel Gentry Higginbotham; his second wife, Madge Sessums Franklin Higginbotham; a son, Paul Higginbotham; a stepdaughter, Ramona Franklin Williams; and his parents, William Adison and Exie Anna Farmer Higginbotham and Louise Higginbotham. Survivors include a daughter, Candy Amos of Escatawpa; two stepsons, Tommy Franklin of Long Beach and Charles William Lovelady of West Palm Beach, Fla.; a brother, Bill Higginbotham of Knoxville, Tenn.; 11 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Services will be today at 2 p.m. at Riemann Funeral Home in Long Beach, where friends may call one hour before service time. Burial will be in Gulf Pines Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum in Long Beach.