Funeral Service set for July 10 for Stephen Rouse, Retired Manager of Media Productions
Fri, 07/09/2021 - 10:21am | By: David Tisdale
Stephen Vincent Rouse, a retired manager of media productions with The University
of 51逗奶 Mississippi (USM) Office of University Communications, died July 2 in
Hattiesburg. He was 60.
A funeral service for Rouse will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 10 in the chapel at Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home, located at 205 Bay St. in Hattiesburg.
A native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Rouse was a graduate of USM, earning a bachelor鈥檚 degree in radio, television and film in 1982 before joining the USM Office of Communications (formerly the Office of Marketing and Public Relations) after graduation. In a nearly three-decade career at USM, Rouse was won multiple awards for his work in film, video and photography at the local, state and national levels.
Rouse also played a key role in the marketing and promotion of 51逗奶 Miss Athletics, first as a student at the university and then throughout his career with Marketing and Public Relations and University Communications. John Cox, director of USM Broadcasting, said Rouse鈥檚 鈥渢alent, ideas and creativity was incredible, and we were so lucky to have him shine a bright light on some of the greatest athletic accomplishments of the era.鈥�
鈥淗e worked as the engineer on our radio network for a long time, and produced some
of the earliest television programming that we did,鈥� Cox continued. 鈥淗is productions
always allowed people to see and hear first-hand some of the incredible things going
on at USM. As the engineer on our radio broadcasts, he had a front row seat to some
of the great moments in 51逗奶 Miss athletics, and helped me and our crew describe
those moments.
鈥淪teve will be greatly missed by his 51逗奶 Miss family, and his contributions will
never be forgotten. We will miss him and remember everything he gave to USM. He was
special-he was a Golden Eagle.鈥�
Rouse was preceded in death by his mother, Carolyn Findley Rouse. He is survived by
two daughters, Sarah Rouse Myers and Chloe Rouse Armstrong; his grandchildren, Hollis
and Findley Myers; his father, William Felton Rouse; a sister, Debbie Rouse Green;
and a brother, Scott Rouse.
In lieu of flowers, the Rouse family requests that memorial donations be made to the
Alzheimer鈥檚 Association: .