Jimmy Buffett. Photo courtesy of Jimmy Buffett website.
Singer/songwriter, businessman and raconteur Jimmy Buffett, who launched his career in New Orleans, passed away at his home in Sag Harbor, Long Island on Friday September 1, 2023. Buffett had been fighting Merkel cell skin cancer for four years. A statement from Buffet’s website said: “Jimmy passed away peacefully … surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs. He lived his life like a song ’till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many.”
Born on December 25, 1946, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Buffett spent part of his childhood in Mobile and Fairhope, Alabama. Buffett attended schools in Mobile— St. Ignatius and McGill Toolin. “I was still an altar boy ’till I was 17 years old. I didn’t get into a lot of trouble. I was just kind of bouncing along. What I fall back to is my Jesuit…
