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Thomas E. Simmons has flown West

Thomas E. Simmons

Thomas E. Simmons took his last flight west in the company of his family on March 16, 2022.

Award winning author, aviation enthusiast, sailor, aerobatic pilot, holder of the Wright Brothers Aviation Medal and home town raconteur, Tom Simmons lived life to the fullest. Tom was a former member of the Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, Pass Christian Investment Club, Gulfport Yacht Club, and the Quiet Birdmen Aviation Club. He will be missed.

Tom is survived by his wife of 64 years and love of his life, Katherine (Kay) Bounds Simmons; sons, Thomas Scott Simmons and John Edward Simmons; grandchildren, Mary Katherine Simmons, Thomas Clayton Simmons, Katherine Elizabeth Simmons, Anne Caroline Simmons; daughter-in-law, Jill Simmons; brother-in-law, C.E. Bounds, Jr. (Carol); nieces, nephews, cousins, and many dear friends.

A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, March 25, 2022 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Gulfport where friends may visit beginning at 10:00 a.m. A private interment will follow at Southern Memorial Park. Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home, 15th Street, Gulfport is honored to serve the Simmons family.

In lieu of flowers, the family prefers memorials to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 11322 E. Taylor Road, Gulfport, MS 39503, Humane Society of South MS, 2615 25th Avenue, Gulfport, MS 39501, or one’s favorite charity.

To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Thomas E. Simmons, please visit our flower store.

Loiacono Literary Agency takes on Kris Condi’s debut novel, Because of You!

Loiacono Literary Agency takes on Kris Condi’s debut novel, Because of You!

Because of You (available for acquisition)

It is the 1970s. The United States engages in the Vietnam war. Cultural influences spill from the 1960s. Space exploration continues. The Supreme Court focuses on Roe VS Wade. Women’s rights are challenging while skirts get shorter, and hair grows longer.

The note found on the kitchen counter indicates her mother would be gone a while. For thirteen-year-old Miami Barker “a while” means longer than an hour. Brenda Barker is no stranger to leaving her children for a day or two to search for some get rich quick scheme. Days become weeks and weeks become months and Brenda Barker is still not home.

Miami and her older brother Warren realize they are on their own in the double-wide community where adults have no sense of responsibility. Warren and Miami experience the tumultuous 1970s without guidance, without money.

Miami continues to pursue her hunt into adulthood where she learns the truth about her mother’s mysterious yet warranted absence.

Kris Condi is a tax professional and a former college professor. She is from Chicago, Illinois and divides her time between living in her home in rural Illinois, her condominium in the south, and her lake house in Michigan. Kris Condi Twitter  Blog Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency 

Bracha Goetz Zoom School Tour

Bracha Goetz Zoom Book Tour

Author Bracha Goetz is Going on a School Zoom Tour!

We are very excited to announce Mrs. Bracha Goetz’s very first School Zoom Tour! Mrs. Goetz, a Harvard graduate, is the author of 40 children’s books which help children’s souls shine brighter, including the best sellers Talking About Personal Privacy and Let’s Stay Safe. She will be “travelling” all around the country, giving Zoom presentations to schools about the process of writing a book, sharing her newest book, Let’s Stay Healthy (or teacher’s choice of a favorite Bracha Goetz book), plus enjoying a Q & A with your students. In addition to having Mrs. Goetz Zoom into your class, each school will receive a personalized 10% discount code to be used for a specified period towards Let’s Stay Healthy at  www.goetzbookshop.com.

 

Special Tour Pricing:

Preschool 20 minute sessions: $50/session (Usually $100)

Elementary School 45 minute sessions: $100/session (Usually $200)

Space is limited so secure your spot soon if you would like your school to be included in her itinerary! Click the Book Now button to choose a time slot that works for you. Once you choose a time, we will contact you to finalize and collect payment.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions. Our email is [email protected].

Sincerely,

The Goetz Bookshop Family

Loiacono Literary Agency takes on the next in Daniel C. Lorti’s Jean Termonde Novels The Neptune Project!

Loiacono Literary Agency takes on the next in Daniel C. Lorti’s Jean Termonde Novels The Neptune Project!

 Four audacious men join together in a venture for risk and reward.

The accomplishment is fraught with unforeseen perils.

The outcome depends on their ability to counter with ingenuity and luck.

Four adventurous men undertake the challenge of building of an armed, merchant ship, the Neptune, three times larger than any to compete with powerful Venice for the prized trade in the East. The mighty sea power of Venice will attempt to capture or sink the Neptune, no matter the cost, but the ambitious Spanish navy wants the ship for its own and is prepared to field a squadron of warships to intercept and take possession of the ship. They must find a way to even the odds in the battle to overcome the treachery and greed of these formidable threats.

 

A writer of mainly factual and historical fiction, Daniel C. Lorti is the author of the Jean Termonde Novels: The Avignon Legacy, Knights of Honor, and Knights in Action, the Jim Factor Novels: The Missing F_ctor and The Business End, which embody Lorti’s professional background as an arms broker in outstanding suspense thrillers, The Mulligan, a parody on do-overs/second chances, and The Writer’s Tool Box, a clear, concise, and inclusive guide for aspiring, beginning, or accomplished writers in all facets of creating, sustaining, and completing a first draft. It provides a step-by-step description with examples of the major phases right up to the finished manuscript. Suggestions and recommendations concerning the next phase include external review, finding an agent, and promoting your accomplishment. — all published by W&B Publishing. His latest is another in the Jean Termonde Novels, The Neptune Project (available for acquisition).

An aerospace engineer with sensors, weapons, and intelligence background, he was the Chief Radar Engineer for the Northrop Grumman Corporation and was on President Clinton’s twenty-member committee for Trade and Investment in Northern Ireland. A former international arms broker, he conducted business in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. During his career, he, with partners, sold a successful aerospace company to the Northrop Grumman Corporation. A member of Mystery Writers of America, the Historical Writers of America, and the International Thriller Writers, he currently resides in Newport Coast, California. Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency.

 

 

 

Immunity

God created the body to fight off killer germs. Common sense tells you to do or not to do certain things, i.e. eating rotten food, drinking contaminated water, casual sex, TO wash your hands frequently but not in an OCD way (this causes terrible dryness, chaffing, and those chemicals do get in through your skin), catch your sneezes and coughs in your elbow, stay home if you are sick and research your symptoms so you can treat yourself and not go to the doctor or clinic and have a swab with nanoparticles and graphene shoved in to your blood brain barrier, and educate others by sharing just like this.
God bless you all!
Jeanie

A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds more good news for unvaccinated people who have already had and recovered from Covid.
The study provides evidence at the cellular level supporting the epidemiological data showing that people who have recovered from Covid have far better protection from future infection than vaccinated people.