George Dulin was an accomplished attorney and a devoted family man who was also passionate about the Mississippi State University Bulldogs.
“I was Daddy’s girl,” said his daughter, Martha “Marti” Dulin of Ridgeland. “We watched every sport together. It was the biggest thing. During football season, he would ask, ‘How many days until kickoff?’”
Mr. Dulin, 91, a longtime Greenwood attorney, died Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at Hospice Ministries of Ridgeland.
Visitation will be from noon until 2 p.m. Saturday at Wilson & Knight Funeral Home.
Graveside services will follow at Itta Bena Cemetery.
A native of Greenwood, Mr. Dulin and his wife, the former Martha Magruder, moved to Sunnybrook Estates in Madison from Itta Bena in 2008.
A 1943 graduate of Greenwood High School, Mr. Dulin enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17.
He served as a quartermaster in the Pacific Theater and participated in the Battle of Okinawa.
Upon returning to the states, Mr. Dulin enrolled at Mississippi State University under the G.I. Bill.
He graduated with a degree in business in 1950. He worked for Barnwell & Flower cotton factors of Greenwood and in personnel for Ludlow Industries of Indianola before entering the University of Mississippi’s School of Law. He graduated from the law school in 1962.
He initially served as a clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Sidney Mize in Gulfport and then in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oxford before returning to Itta Bena.
Mr. Dulin joined the law firm of Bell & McBee, which over time became McBee, Dulin & Carpenter, said Mr. Dulin’s other daughter, Adele Johnson of Madison.
The firm later became McBee & Dulin law firm and then simply the Dulin law firm.
He was a longtime member of the Greenwood Kiwanis Club.
Mr. Dulin served as city attorney for Itta Bena and as attorney for the Itta Bena Housing Authority. For 20 years he was the attorney for Greenwood Leflore Hospital.
When Mr. Dulin was terminated in 2006 from the hospital position — a decision that he claimed was based solely on his race — he successfully sued the hospital and was awarded an $82,000 verdict in 2012.
Marti Dulin said her father’s character was impeccable.
“One of the things that always stuck out for me was his high integrity. Honesty was of primary importance,” she said.
She said she was able to share some of the last moments with her father at his bedside Monday night, watching Mississippi State’s baseball team beat Southern Mississippi in an NCAA regional championship game.
When her father died, she said, “I was at such peace. I know he’s going to be with me at every Mississippi State game.”
Mr. Dulin is also survived by two grandchildren.
•Contact Bob Darden at 581-7239 or bdarden@gwcommonwealth.com.
