{"id":503413,"date":"2026-10-21T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503413\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:18:08","slug":"ira-christine-hathaway-obituary-oct-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503413\/","title":{"rendered":"Ira Christine Hathaway Obituary Oct 4, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pasted=\"true\">Ira Christine Hathaway, age 91, of Long Beach, Mississippi, passed away on October 4, 2026 in Clearwater, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>She was preceded in death by her husband, Don Sherwood Hathaway, Sr.; parents, Hammett and Ethel Langston; brothers, Eugene Langston, Walter and Janice Langston, and sisters, Thelma and Virgil Prather, Dorothy and Reed Hileson, Lois and Bill Kelly and Louise and Penson Ramsay.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her son, Donnie Hathaway Jr. (Jeanne); brother, Carl Langston (Carol); grandsons, Donnie (Leah) and Stephen; great granddaughters, Diem and Reese; and numerous nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>Christine loved nature and frequently enjoyed walking, gardening, and feeding the birds. She was also a member of Long Beach Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial contributions may be made in her memory to Shriners Hospitals for Children or St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A graveside service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 7th, 2026 at Gulf Pines Memorial Gardens, 19361 28th St, Long Beach, MS 39560.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An online obituary may be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.RiemannFamily.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.RiemannFamily.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ira Christine Hathaway, age 91, of Long Beach, Mississippi, passed away on October 4, 2026 in Clearwater, Florida.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-503413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}