Gloria Evans Hester

Gloria Evans Hester, age 86, of Ocean Springs, passed away on April 24, 2025.

Gloria was a wonderful mother and nana. She was a fun-loving, eccentric intellectual who enjoyed a wide range of activities including classical music, golf, reading, and fishing. She went to medical school at a time when few women entered medicine and became a pediatrician. Subsequently, she joined the Holy Rosary Sisters Convent and went to Zambia, Africa where she helped countless people. Upon leaving the convent, she joined the Air Force as a physician and lived in Turkey. She then returned to the States, got married, and had a daughter, Jane Marie Poulopoulos Albrecht. The travel bug never left her. She took her daughter and her friends on countless more adventures through Europe, Asia, South America and Africa.

She is preceded in death by her father, Guy Wilson Hester, Sr. (known as “Slick”); her mother, Marie Hester; and her beloved younger brother, Guy Wilson Hester, Jr.

She is survived by her daughter, Jane Marie Albrecht; and her grandsons, Jack Guy Albrecht and Joshua (J.J.) Albrecht, Jr.

A gathering in celebration of her life will be held on the lawn facing the bayou at 6829 Shore Drive, Ocean Springs, on Saturday, May 17, 2025, from 12pm-1:45pm. Due to limited street parking, parking will be at the Gulf Hills Hotel and there will be shuttle service from the hotel to the house. Shuttle times leaving the hotel will be at 11:30am and 11:45am. A shuttle will then begin to return all to the hotel at 1:30pm for a reception in Gloria's honor at Italy Terrace beginning at 2:00pm.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary, https://www.mshr.org/donations/donation-form/ .

Riemann Family Funeral Home, Lemoyne Blvd, is honored to serve the Hester family, and memories may be shared at www.riemannfamily.com .