Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, on Tuesday, said the city needs to find a way to honor the late singer-songwriter who grew up in the Alabama Port City. Buffett died on Friday at age 76 following a battle with cancer.
Stimpson said his “one regret” is that Mobile was never able to secure a Margaritaville restaurant or something similar while Buffett was alive.
“The economics just didn’t work out,” Stimpson said. “There are a lot of ‘Parrotheads’ in Mobile and we need to claim him and recognize his life.”Buffett was a Mississippi native, born in Pascagoula in 1946.. His parents, Mary Loraine Peets Buffett and James Delaney Buffett Jr., were employees of the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company. Buffett’s grandfather, James Delaney Buffett, was a steamship captain and his father J.D. had traveled to India and Africa with the Army Corps of Engineers.
“For young Jimmy, the Gulf of Mexico was the doorway to a world of adventure where the characters he heard about in his grandfather’s stories were waiting to be discovered,” Buffett’s website says. “The siren call of exotic ports was in contrast to his days as a parochial school student and an altar boy, and it only took a guitar to take him off course from the life his parents had imagined for him.
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