Jean F Galloway

Jean Price Galloway was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1926 and died in Atlanta, Georgia surrounded by her three surviving adult children on April 1, 2016. She lived her youth in the South. As a young woman, she married Ben F. Galloway and raised four children in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Gulfport, Mississippi. She later moved with Ben Galloway and her youngest child, Richard, to Beaumont, Texas, but living on the beach in Gulfport was her favorite time in life and place in the world. In her late forties, she relocated to New York City where she worked at the Chase Manhattan Bank on Park Avenue for many years. Upon retiring in her seventies she returned to Gulfport. She was a lifelong artist and gardener and raised West Highland Terriers. Jean is survived by three of her four children and her five grandchildren, Judy Galloway Totaro, a marketing researcher, in New York City and her son Price Totaro; Ben F. Galloway III, an attorney in Gulfport, and his wife Denise Pitre Galloway and their daughters Laura Galloway Carlisle, of Tupelo, MS and Hannah Galloway of New Orleans, LA, Dr. Richard Wm. Galloway, a physician in Atlanta, and her son Casey’s widow Kathleen Galloway of Beaumont, Texas and Casey’s sons Jamie Galloway of Beaumont, TX and Jeremy Galloway of Austin, TX. Casey died in 1998 at an age much too early. Jean adored and was very proud of her five grandchildren. In her day, Jean was a great beauty; her Mother, Francis Price Feehan, would tell tales of always having young soldier suitors at the dinner table during the years surrounding World War II. She never lost her ability to look beautiful and turn on her authentic Southern charm. Her family will conduct a memorial service and celebration of her life in Gulfport, MS on Mother’s Day weekend May 8, 2016.