Funeral services for John T. Minton Sr. of Biloxi were Saturday, June 25, 2016, at Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home, 2511 Pass Road, Biloxi. Interment was Monday, June 27, 2016, at Biloxi National Cemetery with military honors.

Mr. Minton, 93, died Tuesday, June 21, 2016, in Biloxi. He was born Aug. 27, 1922, in Baldwin, Louisiana to Willis E. and Norma Ann Minton.

He was a resident of the Coast since 1947 and attended Trinity Baptist Church. Mr. Minton joined the Army during WW II and served in food services at Camp Shelby. He later joined the Air Force and served at Kemp during the Korean Conflict. He retired in 1965 at Keesler AFB. Mr. Minton worked as a machinist with the municipal transportation on the Coast until Hurricane Camille. He also worked at Ingalls and in civil service at Keesler from 1974 to 1988. Mr. Minton took care of his wife of 62 years. He loved to garden and fish.

Preceding him in death were his parents; wife, Gena Marie Minton; brother, Eugene Minton, of Gulfport; and daughter-in-law, Donna Minton.

Survivors are his three sons, John T. Minton Jr. and wife, Margaret; Kenith Minton and wife, Stephanie, both of Biloxi, and Stephen Minton and wife, Elaine, of Houston, Texas; brother, Norman Minton; sister, Katherine Minton of Clinton; five grandchildren, Evelyn Sacks and Gena Parlin of Biloxi, Manning Minton of Cleveland, Georgia, Stephen Minton Jr. of Cedar Park, Texas and Stacey Minton of Houston, Texas; and nine great-grandchildren.